Driven wild :: how the fight against automobiles launched the modern wilderness movement /

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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1. Verfasser: Sutter, Paul
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2005.
Ausgabe:1st pbk. ed.
Schriftenreihe:Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
"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
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xvi, 343 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-331) and index.
ISBN:9780295989907
0295989904
0295982195
9780295982199

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