Opportunity, Montana

Author: Brad Tyer
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0807003298

Opportunity, Montana: Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Burial of an American Landscape

A memoir-meets-exposA that examines our fraught relationship with the West and our attempts to clean up a toxic environmental legacy
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In 2002, Texas journalist Brad Tyer strapped a canoe on his truck and moved to Montana, a state that has long exerted a mythic pull on America's imagination as an unspoiled landscape. Download Opportunity, Montana: Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Burial of an American Landscape from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. The son of an engineer who reclaimed wastewater, Tyer was looking for a pristine river to call his own. What he found instead was a century's worth of industrial poison clotting the Clark Fork River, a decades-long engineering project to clean it up, and a forgotten town named Opportunity.
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