| Edition |
[1st edition] |
| Description |
xiii, 209 pages, 32 unnumbered pages plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Note |
Author's name at head of title. |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
The land wisdom of the Indians -- The birth of a land policy : Thomas Jefferson -- The White Indians : Daniel Boone, Jed Smith, and the mountain men -- The stir of conscience : Thoreau and the naturalists -- The raid of resources -- The beginning of wisdom : George Perkins Marsh -- The beginning of action : Carl Schurz and John Wesley Powell -- The woodlands : Pinchot and the foresters -- Wild and park lands : John Miuir -- Men must act : The Roosevelts and politics -- Individual action : organizers and philanthropists -- Cities in trouble : Frederick Law Olmsted -- Conservation and the future -- Notes on a land ethic for tomorrow. |
| Summary |
Reviews the men who explored our continent, and the greatnames of conservation history from George Perkins Marsh to Gifford Pinchot, as well reviewing the raiders and despoilers, the problems of preserving green spaces in cities as well as countrysides, and problems of water andair pollution. |
| Subject |
Conservation of natural resources -- United States -- History.
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Ecology.
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Ecology. (OCoLC)fst00901476
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Conservation of natural resources. (OCoLC)fst00875502
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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