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Wilderness and Waterpower: How Banff National Park Became a Hydroelectric Storage Reservoir explores how the need for electricity at the turn of the century affected and shaped Banff National Park. Today's conservationists and energy researchers will find much to think about in this tale of Alberta's early need for electricity, entrepreneurial greed, debates over aboriginal ownership of the river, moving park boundaries to accommodate hydro-electric initiatives, the importance of water for tourism, rural electrification, and the ultimate diversion to coal-produced electricity--

Water-power --- Reservoirs --- Wilderness areas --- Electric power consumption --- History. --- Economic aspects --- Bow River Watershed (Alta.) --- Power utilization --- Consumption of electric power --- Electricity --- Electric utilities --- Energy consumption --- Demand-side management (Electric utilities) --- Artificial lakes --- Lakes, Artificial --- Lakes, Man-made --- Man-made lakes --- Tanks (Reservoirs) --- Bodies of water --- Hydraulic structures --- Hydraulic power plants --- Hydroelectric power --- Hydroelectricity --- Hydropower --- Waterpower --- Natural resources --- Power resources --- Renewable energy sources --- Water resources development --- Stream measurements --- Lands, Protected wild --- Places, Protected wild --- Protected wild lands --- Protected wild places --- Protected wildlands --- Regions, Wilderness --- Wild lands, Protected --- Wild places, Protected --- Wilderness regions --- Wildlands, Protected --- National parks and reserves --- Natural areas --- Protected areas --- Consumption --- Conservation --- Bow River Basin (Alta.)