Rapid Ascent: Rocky Mountain National Park in the Great Acceleration: 1945-Present

A Master's Thesis asserting that wat-time technologies cheap fossil fuels, and a culture of techno-optimism—epitomized by the Mission 66 development program—helped foster a “Great Acceleration” of human alterations of Earth’s natural systems. Rocky Mountain National Park; Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research; Roaring River; La Poudre Pass; Left-hand Reservoir; Lake Isabelle; Mount. Ida Ridge Pond.