The American environment; readings in the history of conservation.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Themes and forces in American history seriesPublication details: Reading, Mass., Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. [1968]Description: xix, 236 p. illus. 22 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 333.7/2/0973
LOC classification:
  • S930 .N36
Contents:
An artist proposes a national park / George Catlin -- The Transcendental view / Henry David Thoreau -- Man's responsibility for the land / George Perkins Marsh -- The value and care of parks / Frederick Law Olmsted -- The beginnings of federal concern / Carl Schurz -- The reclamation idea / John Wesley Powell -- The birth of "conservation" / Gifford Pinchot -- The conservation mentality / WJ McGee -- Publicizing conservation at the White House / Theodore Roosevelt -- Reclamation underway / Frederick H. Newell -- Ends and means / Gifford Pinchot -- The public responds to conservation: opinion East and West -- Aesthetics and conservation / Robert Underwood Johnson -- A voice for wilderness / John Muir -- The historical landscape / The American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society -- Conservation as democracy / J. Leonard Bates -- Conservation as efficiency / Samuel P. Hays -- Conservation as anxiety / Roderick Nash -- The planned landscape / Benton MacKaye -- An ethic for man-land relations / Aldo Leopold -- Soil / Hugh Hammond Bennett -- Wildlife / William T. Hornaday, Aldo Leopold -- Wilderness / Robert Marshall -- The Civilian Conservation Corps / Franklin D. Roosevelt, Robert Fechner -- The Tennessee Valley Authority / David Lilienthal -- Conservation accomplishments, 1921-1933 / Donald C. Swain -- Conservation under Franklin D. Roosevelt / Anna Lou Riesch -- New directions / Joseph L. Fisher -- Uglification / Peter Blake -- Beautification / Lyndon B. Johnson -- Multiple use / Merrill K. Ridd -- The Echo Park controversy / Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Ulysses S. Grant III, David Bradley -- The meaning of wilderness in American Civilization / Wallace Stegner -- Pesticides / Rachel Carson -- Pollution / Herblock, President's Science Advisory Committee -- Prospects for the land / Stewart L. Udall.
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Bibliography: p. 223-236.

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An artist proposes a national park / George Catlin -- The Transcendental view / Henry David Thoreau -- Man's responsibility for the land / George Perkins Marsh -- The value and care of parks / Frederick Law Olmsted -- The beginnings of federal concern / Carl Schurz -- The reclamation idea / John Wesley Powell -- The birth of "conservation" / Gifford Pinchot -- The conservation mentality / WJ McGee -- Publicizing conservation at the White House / Theodore Roosevelt -- Reclamation underway / Frederick H. Newell -- Ends and means / Gifford Pinchot -- The public responds to conservation: opinion East and West -- Aesthetics and conservation / Robert Underwood Johnson -- A voice for wilderness / John Muir -- The historical landscape / The American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society -- Conservation as democracy / J. Leonard Bates -- Conservation as efficiency / Samuel P. Hays -- Conservation as anxiety / Roderick Nash -- The planned landscape / Benton MacKaye -- An ethic for man-land relations / Aldo Leopold -- Soil / Hugh Hammond Bennett -- Wildlife / William T. Hornaday, Aldo Leopold -- Wilderness / Robert Marshall -- The Civilian Conservation Corps / Franklin D. Roosevelt, Robert Fechner -- The Tennessee Valley Authority / David Lilienthal -- Conservation accomplishments, 1921-1933 / Donald C. Swain -- Conservation under Franklin D. Roosevelt / Anna Lou Riesch -- New directions / Joseph L. Fisher -- Uglification / Peter Blake -- Beautification / Lyndon B. Johnson -- Multiple use / Merrill K. Ridd -- The Echo Park controversy / Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Ulysses S. Grant III, David Bradley -- The meaning of wilderness in American Civilization / Wallace Stegner -- Pesticides / Rachel Carson -- Pollution / Herblock, President's Science Advisory Committee -- Prospects for the land / Stewart L. Udall.