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Book Proceedings of the Second National Conference on Outdoor Recreation

Download or read book Proceedings of the Second National Conference on Outdoor Recreation written by National Conference on Outdoor Recreation (1926 : Washington, D.C.) and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Conference on Outdoor Recreation

Download or read book National Conference on Outdoor Recreation written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Conference on Outdoor Recreation

Download or read book National Conference on Outdoor Recreation written by National conference on outdoor recreation and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Conference on Outdoor Recreation

Download or read book National Conference on Outdoor Recreation written by National Conference on Outdoor Recreation (U.S.). Advisory Council and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the Second National Conference on State Parks at Bear Mountain Inn  Palisades Interstate Park  New York  May 22 23 24 25  1922

Download or read book Proceedings of the Second National Conference on State Parks at Bear Mountain Inn Palisades Interstate Park New York May 22 23 24 25 1922 written by National Conference on State Parks and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Driven Wild

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul S. Sutter
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2009-11-23
  • ISBN : 0295989904
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Driven Wild written by Paul S. Sutter and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its infancy, the movement to protect wilderness areas in the United States was motivated less by perceived threats from industrial and agricultural activities than by concern over the impacts of automobile owners seeking recreational opportunities in wild areas. Countless commercial and government purveyors vigorously promoted the mystique of travel to breathtakingly scenic places, and roads and highways were built to facilitate such travel. By the early 1930s, New Deal public works programs brought these trends to a startling crescendo. The dilemma faced by stewards of the nation's public lands was how to protect the wild qualities of those places while accommodating, and often encouraging, automobile-based tourism. By 1935, the founders of the Wilderness Society had become convinced of the impossibility of doing both. In Driven Wild, Paul Sutter 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. Each man brought a different background and perspective to the advocacy for wilderness preservation, yet each was spurred by a fear of what growing numbers of automobiles, aggressive road building, and the meteoric increase in Americans turning to nature for their leisure would do to the country�s wild places. As Sutter discovered, the founders of the Wilderness Society were "driven wild"--pushed by a rapidly changing country to construct a new preservationist ideal. Sutter demonstrates that the birth of the movement to protect wilderness areas reflected a growing belief among an important group of conservationists that the modern forces of capitalism, industrialism, urbanism, and mass consumer culture were gradually eroding not just the ecology of North America, but crucial American values as well. For them, wilderness stood for something deeply sacred that was in danger of being lost, so that the movement to protect it was about saving not just wild nature, but ourselves as well.

Book Monthly Labor Review  Index to Volume XXIII  July to December 1926

Download or read book Monthly Labor Review Index to Volume XXIII July to December 1926 written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monthly Labor Review

Download or read book Monthly Labor Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.

Book The State Park Movement in America

Download or read book The State Park Movement in America written by Ney C. Landrum and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2004-02-20 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essentially a phenomenon of the twentieth century, America’s pioneering state park movement has grown rapidly and innovatively to become one of the most important forces in the preservation of open spaces and the provision of public outdoor recreation in the country. During this time, the movement has been influenced and shaped by many factors—social, cultural, and economic—resulting in a wide variety of expressions. While everyone agrees that the state park movement has been a positive and beneficial force on the whole, there seems to be an increasing divergence of thought as to exactly what direction the movement should take in the future. In The State Park Movement in America, Ney Landrum, recipient of almost two dozen honors and awards for his service to state and national parks, places the movement for state parks in the context of the movements for urban and local parks on one side and for national parks on the other. He traces the evolution of the state park movement from its imprecise and largely unconnected origins to its present status as an essential and firmly established state government responsibility, nationwide in scope. Because the movement has taken a number of separate, but roughly parallel, paths and produced differing schools of thought concerning its purpose and direction, Landrum also analyzes the circumstances and events that have contributed to these disparate results and offers critical commentary based on his long tenure in the system. As the first study of its kind, The State Park Movement in America will fill a tremendous void in the literature on parks. Given that there are more than five thousand state parks in the United States, compared with fewer than five hundred national parks and historic sites, this history is long overdue. It will be of great interest to anyone concerned with federal, state, or local parks, as well as to land resource managers generally.

Book American Wilderness

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  • Author : Michael Lewis
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2007-03-08
  • ISBN : 9780198038825
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book American Wilderness written by Michael Lewis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collected volume of original essays proposes to address the state of scholarship on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of Americans responses to wilderness from first contact to the present. While not bringing a synthetic narrative to wilderness, the volume will gather competing interpretations of wilderness in historical context.

Book Aldo Leopold

Download or read book Aldo Leopold written by Curt D. Meine and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of Aldo Leopold follows him from his childhood as a precocious naturalist to his profoundly influential role in the development of conservation and modern environmentalism in the United States. This edition includes a new preface by author Curt Meine and an appreciation by acclaimed Kentucky writer and farmer Wendell Berry.

Book The Wilderness Debate Rages on

Download or read book The Wilderness Debate Rages on written by Michael P. Nelson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 1488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years ago, The Great New Wilderness Debate began a cross-disciplinary conversation about the varied constructions of "wilderness" and the controversies that surround them. The Wilderness Debate Rages On will reinvigorate that conversation and usher in a second decade of debate. Like its predecessor, the book gathers both critiques and defenses of the idea of wilderness from a wide variety of perspectives and voices. The Wilderness Debate Rages On includes the best explorations of the concept of the concept of wilderness from the past decade, underappreciated essays from the early twentieth century that offer an alternative vision of the concept and importance of wilderness, and writings meant to clarify or help us rethink the concept of wilderness. Narrative writers such as Wendell Berry, Scott Russell Sanders, Marilynne Robinson, Kathleen Dean Moore, and Lynn Maria Laitala are also given a voice in order to show how the wilderness debate is expanding outside the academy. The writers represented in the anthology include ecologists, environmental philosophers, conservation biologists, cultural geographers, and environmental activists. The book begins with little-known papers by early twentieth-century ecologists advocating the preservation of natural areas for scientific study, not, as did Thoreau, Muir, and the early Leopold, for purposes of outdoor recreation. The editors argue that had these writers influenced the eventual development of federal wilderness policy, our national wilderness system would better serve contemporary conservation priorities for representative ecosystems and biodiversity.

Book Research in Education

Download or read book Research in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: