| Edition |
1st pbk. ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 343 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Weyerhaeuser environmental books
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Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-331) and index. |
| Contents |
The problem of the wilderness -- Knowing nature through leisure: outdoor recreation during the interwar years -- A blank spot on the map: Aldo Leopold -- Advertising the wild: Robert Sterling Yard -- Wilderness as regional plan: Benton MacKaye -- The freedom of the wilderness: Bob Marshall -- Epilogue: a living wilderness. |
| Summary |
In this book, the author traces the intellectual and cultural roots of the modern wilderness movement from about 1910 through the 1930s, with tightly drawn portraits of four Wilderness Society founders- Aldo Leopold, Robert Sterling Yard, Benton MacKaye, and Bob Marshall.--Back Cover. |
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"By the 1930s, a new national organization- the Wilderness Society- had been created with the explicit mission of protecting wild places on the public lands and securing legislation that would guarantee that they remain forever wild. Although less well known by the public than it deserves to be, the Wilderness Society played an essential role in drafting and lobbying for the legislation that created the national wilderness system as we know it today. The 1964 Wilderness Act that eventually resulted from this effort remains among the most important environmental laws ever passed in the United States."--Foreword. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Wilderness Society. |
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Nature conservation -- United States -- History.
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Nature conservation. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Wilderness areas -- United States -- History.
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Wilderness areas. |
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Conservationists -- United States -- History.
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Conservationists. |
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Automobiles -- Environmental aspects -- United States -- History.
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Automobiles -- Environmental aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sutter, Paul. Driven wild. 1st pbk. ed. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2005 0295982209 (OCoLC)62934830 |
| ISBN |
9780295989907 (electronic book) |
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0295989904 (electronic book) |
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0295982195 |
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9780295982199 |
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0295982209 |
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9780295982205 |
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