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Book Grey Towers National Historic Site Act of 2004

Download or read book Grey Towers National Historic Site Act of 2004 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Grey Towers  1884 1890

Download or read book Grey Towers 1884 1890 written by Nancy Jean Carrs and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historic Structure Report

Download or read book Historic Structure Report written by United States. Forest Service and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Blue Ridge Commons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathryn Newfont
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0820341258
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Blue Ridge Commons written by Kathryn Newfont and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the late twentieth century, residents of the Blue Ridge mountains in western North Carolina fiercely resisted certain environmental efforts, even while launching aggressive initiatives of their own. Kathryn Newfont provides context for those events by examining the environmental history of this region over the course of three hundred years, identifying what she calls commons environmentalism--a cultural strain of conservation in American history that has gone largely unexplored. Efforts in the 1970s to expand federal wilderness areas in the Pisgah and Nantahala national forests generated strong opposition. For many mountain residents the idea of unspoiled wilderness seemed economically unsound, historically dishonest, and elitist. Newfont shows that local people's sense of commons environmentalism required access to the forests that they viewed as semipublic places for hunting, fishing, and working. Policies that removed large tracts from use were perceived as 'enclosure' and resisted. Incorporating deep archival work and years of interviews and conversations with Appalachian residents, Blue Ridge Commons reveals a tradition of people building robust forest protection movements on their own terms."--p. [4] of cover.

Book Library of Congress Subject Headings

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library of Congress Subject Headings

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Empire of Timber

Download or read book Empire of Timber written by Erik Loomis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to center labor unions as actors in American environmental policy.

Book Seeking the Greatest Good

    Book Details:
  • Author : Char Miller
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Release : 2013-09-22
  • ISBN : 0822979217
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book Seeking the Greatest Good written by Char Miller and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2013-09-22 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President John F. Kennedy officially dedicated the Pinchot Institute for Conservation Studies on September 24, 1963 to further the legacy and activism of conservationist Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946). Pinchot was the first chief of the United States Forest Service, appointed by Theodore Roosevelt in 1905. During his five-year term, he more than tripled the national forest reserves to 172 million acres. A pioneer in his field, Pinchot is widely regarded as one of the architects of American conservation and an adamant steward of natural resources for future generations. Author Char Miller highlights many of the important contributions of the Pinchot Institute through its first fifty years of operation. As a union of the United States Forest Service and the Conservation Foundation, a private New York-based think tank, the institute was created to formulate policy and develop conservation education programs. Miller chronicles the institution's founding, a donation of the Pinchot family, at its Grey Towers estate in Milford, Pennsylvania. He views the contributions of Pinchot family members, from the institute's initial conception by Pinchot's son, Gifford Bryce Pinchot, through the family's ongoing participation in current conservation programming. Miller describes the institute's unique fusion of policy makers, scientists, politicians, and activists to increase our understanding of and responses to urban and rural forestry, water quality, soil erosion, air pollution, endangered species, land management and planning, and hydraulic franking. Miller explores such innovative programs as Common Waters, which works to protect the local Delaware River Basin as a drinking water source for millions; EcoMadera, which trains the residents of Cristobal Col—n in Ecuador in conservation land management and sustainable wood processing; and the Forest Health-Human Health Initiative, which offers health-care credits to rural American landowners who maintain their carbon-capturing forestlands. Many of these individuals are age sixty-five or older and face daunting medical expenses that may force them to sell their land for timber. Through these and countless other collaborative endeavors, the Pinchot Institute has continued to advance its namesake's ambition to protect ecosystems for future generations and provide vital environmental services in an age of a burgeoning population and a disruptive climate.

Book A Carceral Ecology

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ryan C. Edwards
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2021-12-28
  • ISBN : 0520381831
  • Pages : 271 pages

Download or read book A Carceral Ecology written by Ryan C. Edwards and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Closer to Antarctica than to Buenos Aires, the port town of Ushuaia, Argentina is home to a national park as well as a museum that is housed in the world’s southernmost prison. Ushuaia’s radial panopticon operated as an experimental hybrid penal colony and penitentiary from 1902 to 1947, designed to revolutionize modern prisons globally. A Carceral Ecology offers the first comprehensive study of this notorious prison and its afterlife, documenting how the Patagonian frontier and timber economy became central to ideas about labor, rehabilitation, and resource management. Mining the records of penologists, naturalists, and inmates, Ryan C. Edwards shows how discipline was tied to forest management, but also how inmates gained situated geographical knowledge and reframed debates on the regeneration of the land and the self. Bringing a new imperative to global prison studies, Edwards asks us to rethink the role of the environment in carceral practices as well as the impact of incarceration on the natural world.

Book Budget of the United States Government

Download or read book Budget of the United States Government written by United States. Office of Management and Budget and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Federal Register

Download or read book Federal Register written by and published by . This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historic Structure Report

Download or read book Historic Structure Report written by United States. Forest Service and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Grey Towers National Historic Landmark

Download or read book Grey Towers National Historic Landmark written by Amy L. Snyder and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guide to the Homes of Famous Pennsylvanians

Download or read book Guide to the Homes of Famous Pennsylvanians written by Arthur P. Miller, Jr. and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles 39 famous Pennsylvanians. A guide to the houses and museums that memorialize their accomplishments.