{"product_id":"opportunity-montana-big-copper-bad-water-and-the-burial-of-an-american-landscape-paperback","title":"Opportunity, Montana: Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Burial of an American Landscape - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrad Tyer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA memoir-meets-exposé that examines our fraught relationship with the West and our attempts to clean up a toxic environmental legacy\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e At the turn of the nineteenth century, Montana exploited the richest copper deposits in the world, fueling the electric growth of twentieth-century America and building some of the nation's most outlandish fortunes. The toxic by-product of those fortunes--what didn't spill into the river--was dumped in Opportunity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the twenty-first century, Montana's draw is no longer metal but landscape: the blue-ribbon trout streams and unspoiled wilderness of the nation's \"last best place.\" To match reality to the myth, affluent exurbanites and well-meaning environmentalists are trying to restore the Clark Fork River to its \"natural state.\" In the process, millions of tons of toxic soils are being removed and dumped--once again--in Opportunity. As Tyer investigates Opportunity's history, he wrestles with questions of environmental justice and the ethics of burdening one community with an entire region's waste. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Stalled at the intersection of a fading extractive economy and a fledgling restoration boom, Opportunity's story is a secret history of the American Dream and a key to understanding the country's--and increasingly the globe's--demand for modern convenience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As Tyer explores the degradations of the landscape, he also probes the parallel emotional geography of familial estrangement. Part personal history and part reportorial narrative, \u003ci\u003eOpportunity, Montana \u003c\/i\u003eis a story of progress and its price: of copper and water, of father and son, and of our attempts to redeem the mistakes of the past.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrad Tyer has worked as an editor at the Missoula \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e and the\u003ci\u003e Texas Observer\u003c\/i\u003e. His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eOutside\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHigh Country News\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.7 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 25, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53167320957235,"sku":"9780807033258","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/5YH9wGta2F9780807033258.webp?v=1774428653","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/opportunity-montana-big-copper-bad-water-and-the-burial-of-an-american-landscape-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}