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1 Munday copyright 20061 Bound for Glory: An Environmental History of Anacaonda, Montana Pat Munday, PhD

2 Munday copyright 20062 The ACM, Superfund, Next Stop? Anaconda within national context Landscape as social construction Problems and opportunities Landscape is the story we tell ourselves about who we are.

3 Munday copyright 20063 Marcosson (1957)

4 Munday copyright 20064 Marcus Daly (1841-1900) The Alice Mine (1876) Demand for copper The ACM Butte “smoke wars” Marcosson (1957)

5 Munday copyright 20065 Anaconda, 1884 Kelly (1983)

6 Munday copyright 20066 ACM: Vertical Integration Mt Hist Soc Shay Petritz

7 Munday copyright 20067 Anaconda, 1887 MT RR History

8 Munday copyright 20068 Morris (1997) Montana Hotel c. 1900

9 Munday copyright 20069 Anaconda Brewery BeerHistory.com

10 Munday copyright 200610 Courthouse c. 1900 Morris (1997)

11 Munday copyright 200611 Morris (1997) Daly’s Racetrack

12 Munday copyright 200612 Kelly (1983) Daly’s Tammany c. 1895

13 Munday copyright 200613 The Changing Landscape, Main Street looking south 1900 Mt RR Hist 1909 Mt RR Hist

14 Munday copyright 200614 U Washington Library The Melting Pot Myth

15 Munday copyright 200615 Smoke Wars Anaconda Standard, 1911 MacMillan (2000) Washoe Reduction Works, 1903 MacMillan (2000)

16 Munday copyright 200616 Kelly (1983) The Big Stack and the bigger stack, 1918

17 Munday copyright 200617 BA&P, Durant Canyon c. 1902 Mutschler (2002)

18 Munday copyright 200618 Morris (1997) Smelter Hill Commuter c. 1906

19 Munday copyright 200619 Mutschler (2002) BA&P c. 1915

20 Munday copyright 200620 Durant Station c. 1915 Mutschler (2002)

21 Munday copyright 200621 Pouring Anodes, 1942 Murphy (2003)

22 Munday copyright 200622 Smelterwomen, 1944 Mercier (2001)

23 Munday copyright 200623 The Changing Landscape, Main Street looking south 1909 Mt RR Hist 1950s Mt RR Hist

24 Munday copyright 200624 Montana NRDP The End of an Era

25 Munday copyright 200625 Finn (1998) War in Europe (Peaked at 150,000 tons in 1916)

26 Munday copyright 200626 The Superfund Era CERCLA (EPA) CECRA (Mt NRDP) Anaconda Smelter-Community Soils (1983  1987-98) Stream Side Tailings (1983  1995) Clark Fork River (1985  2004) Natural Resource Damage suit filed (1983) Partial settlement (1998)

27 Munday copyright 200627 Mt NRDP Silver Bow Creek – Tailings Removal

28 28 Questionable Arsenic Levels Anaconda = 500 mg/kg Lingering concerns re: attic & wall dust Bi-Mart fiasco with “brownfield” Social Justice issues? Frequency Cleanup Levels (mg/kg) Davis et al (2001) X

29 Munday copyright 200629 Old Works Golf Course EPA

30 Munday copyright 200630 Natural Resource Damage Program

31 Munday copyright 200631 NRD Program

32 Munday copyright 200632 Mt NRDP Anaconda Uplands Injury

33 Munday copyright 200633 Mt NRDP Watershed Land Acquisition

34 Munday copyright 200634 Next Stop? Ecological restoration as social reconstruction Sustainable use of natural resources Recreational amenities Good schools Pleasant towns

35 35 Recreational Amenities Hans Will Dick Wright

36 Munday copyright 200636 Discovery Ski Area

37 37 Library of Congress

38 Munday copyright 200638 Questions? I. The ACM Era ACM overview Town of Anaconda Changing landscape BA&P Wartime The end of an era II. The Superfund Era CERCLA (EPA) CECRA (Mt NRDP) III. Next Stop?

39 Munday copyright 200639 Print Sources Davis, Andy et al. “Policy Analysis: An Analysis of Soil Arsenic Records of Decision” Environmental Science & Technology 35 (2001): 2401-2407. Finn, Janet L. Tracing the Veins (University of California Press, 1998). Kelly, Matt. Anaconda: Montana’s Copper City (Butte, Montana: Soroptimist Club of Anaconda/Artcraft Printing, 1983). MacMillan, Donald. Smoke Wars: Anaconda Copper, Montana Air Pollution, and the Courts, 1890-1920 (Helena, MT: Montana Historical Press). Marcosson, Isaac F. Anaconda (NY: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1957). Mercier, Laura. Anaconda: Labor, Community, and Culture in Montana’s Smelter City (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2001). Mitchell, Don. “Writing the Western: New Western History’s Encounter with Landscape.” Ecumene 5 (1998): 7-29. Morris, Patrick F. Anaconda, Montana: Copper Smelting Boom Town on the Western Frontier (Bethesda, MD: Swann Publishing, 1997). Munday, Pat. Montana’s Last Best River: The Big Hole and its People (Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2001). Murphy, Mary. Hope in Hard Times (Helena, MT: Montana Historical Press, 2003). Mutschler, Charles V. Wired for Success: The Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway, 1892-1985 (Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press, 2002).


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