The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness controversy remains today the most volatile, hotly debated Minnesota environmental issue in recent decades. In the 1970's, one crisis after another threatened the area -- mining, logging, motorized use -- all of which led to a major national congressional battle beginning in 1975. Troubled Waters describes the turbulent and controversial conservation history, focusing on the explosive struggle from 1975 to 1978 to pass the BWCA Wilderness Act in Congress.

Troubled Waters: The Fight for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness

Science & Math

Proescholdt, Kevin

Rapson, Rip

Heinselman, Miron L.

Earth Sciences

North Star Pr of st Cloud

Ralph Rapson is the most influential Minnesota architect of the twentieth century. Architect, artist, furniture designer, and teacher, he has played a leading role in the development and practice of modern architecture and design, both nationally and internationally. Beginning in the late 1930s, at Cranbrook under Eliel Saarinen, Rapson became famous for his rapid, exquisite renderings and his creative reexamination of traditional furniture and housing forms. He also began a career-long involvement in architectural competitions and experimental programs that helped shape the future of modernism in America. In postwar Europe, his designs for nine U.S. embassy projects established a new international model for the American embassy abroad. 
In 1954 Rapson assumed leadership of the University of Minnesota’s School of Architecture, beginning a thirty-year tenure that would transform not only the school itself but the standing of the design profession within the state. 
Over sixty years and against the tides and assaults of architectural fads and fashion, Ralph Rapson has maintained a consistency and commitment to the basic and best principles of modern architecture, unswervingly and without distraction. He has never lost sight of the larger questions of architecture—its potential for community betterment and enrichment of the human experience.

Ralph Rapson: Sixty Years of Modern Design

Biographies & Memoirs

Hession, Jane King

Wright, Bruce N.

Arts & Literature

Afton Historical Society Pr

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