Keeping Oregon Green is a new history of the signature accomplishments of Oregon s environmental era: the revitalization of the polluted Willamette River, the Beach Bill that preserved public access to the entire coastline, the Bottle Bill that set the national standard for reducing roadside litter, and the nation s first comprehensive land use zoning law. To these case studies is added the largely forgotten tale of what would have been Oregon s second National Park, intended to preserve the Oregon Dunes as one of the country s first National Seashores.
Through the detailed...