Range Wars: The Environmental Contest for White Sands Missile Range

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Established in south-central New Mexico on the end of World War II, White Sands Missile Range is the largest overland military reserve within the Western Hemisphere. It was once the web site of the first nuclear explosion, the birthplace of the American space program, and the principle web site for testing U.S. missile capabilities.

In this environmental history of White Sands Missile Range, Ryan H. Edgington traces the uneasy relationships between the military, the government, local ranchers, environmentalists, state game and fish staff, biologists and ecologists, state and federal political figures, hunters, and tourists after World War II—as they all struggled to define and productively use the militarized western landscape. Environmentalists, ranchers, tourists, and other groups joined together to turn out to be the meaning and uses of this region, challenging the authority of the national security state to dictate the environmental and cultural value of a rural American landscape. Consequently, White Sands became a locus of competing geographies informed not only by the far-reaching intellectual, economic, and environmental changes wrought by the cold war but additionally by regional history, culture, and traditions.

 

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