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"""A long-sought, unbiased, and gripping account of the ski industry's ambivalent relationship to the natural environment and its cozy relationship with the U.S. Forest Service.""--Michael J. Yochim, author of Yellowstone and the Snowmobile: Locking Horns over National Park Use ""A significant new look at the Colorado ski industry, interpreting it as a catalyst for--but also a way to understand--the increasingly volatile conflicts surrounding public land use in the American West.""--Annie Gilbert Coleman, author of Ski Style: Sport and Culture in the Rockies ""Reveals new insights about the ski industry and environmental politics in the modern American West.""--Andrew G. Kirk, author of Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism ""A provocative examination of the contentious challenges surrounding skiing in the American West, with important implications for outdoor wilderness recreation in general and America's apparently insatiable and consequential love of both.""--Western Historical Quarterly ""Childers, himself a skier, raises important questions and offers insightful, and never glib, answers. Bringing to the discussion a broad range of issues--land development, tax policy, ecological protection, jet setters--he gives a splendid account of the players in the great debate. Highly recommended.""--Choice"

""A provocative examination of the contentious challenges surrounding skiing in the American West, with important implications for outdoor wilderness recreation in general and America's apparently insatiable and consequential love of both.""--Western Historical Quarterly ""Childers, himself a skier, raises important questions and offers insightful, and never glib, answers. Bringing to the discussion a broad range of issues--land development, tax policy, ecological protection, jet setters--he gives a splendid account of the players in the great debate. Highly recommended.""--Choice ""A long-sought, unbiased, and gripping account of the ski industry's ambivalent relationship to the natural environment and its cozy relationship with the U.S. Forest Service.""--Michael J. Yochim, author of Yellowstone and the Snowmobile: Locking Horns over National Park Use ""A significant new look at the Colorado ski industry, interpreting it as a catalyst for--but also a way to understand--the increasingly volatile conflicts surrounding public land use in the American West.""--Annie Gilbert Coleman, author of Ski Style: Sport and Culture in the Rockies ""Reveals new insights about the ski industry and environmental politics in the modern American West.""--Andrew G. Kirk, author of Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism

"""A provocative examination of the contentious challenges surrounding skiing in the American West, with important implications for outdoor wilderness recreation in general and America's apparently insatiable and consequential love of both.""--Western Historical Quarterly ""Childers, himself a skier, raises important questions and offers insightful, and never glib, answers. Bringing to the discussion a broad range of issues--land development, tax policy, ecological protection, jet setters--he gives a splendid account of the players in the great debate. Highly recommended.""--Choice ""A long-sought, unbiased, and gripping account of the ski industry's ambivalent relationship to the natural environment and its cozy relationship with the U.S. Forest Service.""--Michael J. Yochim, author of Yellowstone and the Snowmobile: Locking Horns over National Park Use ""A significant new look at the Colorado ski industry, interpreting it as a catalyst for--but also a way to understand--the increasingly volatile conflicts surrounding public land use in the American West.""--Annie Gilbert Coleman, author of Ski Style: Sport and Culture in the Rockies ""Reveals new insights about the ski industry and environmental politics in the modern American West.""--Andrew G. Kirk, author of Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism"

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Colorado native Michael Childers is a lifelong skier and former ski magazine writer who now teaches history at Northern Arizona University.

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