Dreamers and Defenders American Conservationists

Name: Dreamers and Defenders American Conservationists
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ISBN: 9780803291560

ISBN-10: 0803291566

ISBN-13: 9780803291560

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Authors: Douglas H. Strong, Douglas Strong

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InDreamers and DefendersDouglas H. Strong relates the triumphs and defeats of twelve environmentalists from Henry David Thoreau to Barry Commoner. Their biographies form the dramatic and ongoing story of the conservation movement in America. Beginning with Thoreau, Frederick Law Olmsted, and George Perkins Marsh, Strong shows that conservation enjoyed the support of a few writers and scientists even in the heyday of land development in the mid-nineteenth century. Later chapters are devoted to John Wesley Powell, who after the Civil War attempted to introduce enlightened land policies in the arid West; Gifford Pinchot, Theodore Roosevelt's chief forester; ]ohn Muir, who popularized the…

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List price: $17.95
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 11/1/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 295
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



the Forerunners Thoreau, Olmsted, Marsh






































Conclusion


Notes


Bibliographical Essay


Index