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An ambitious model of citizen participation known as "fishbowl planning," developed by the Army Corps of Engineers in the early 1970s, gives some indication of how various techniques can be innovatively combined to democratize a process hitherto dominated by bureaucratic interests in massive civil works construction and economic interests in development at the expense of environmental preservation. While fishbowl planning on the Snoqualmie fell just short of a final settlement, it did establish the preconditions for the first successful case of alternative dispute resolution in the environmental arena.
