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Book The Conservation Challenge of the Sixties     Berkeley  California  April 19  1963

Download or read book The Conservation Challenge of the Sixties Berkeley California April 19 1963 written by Stewart L. Udall and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Land Between the Lakes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ronald A. Foresta
  • Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
  • Release : 2013-11-01
  • ISBN : 1621900207
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book The Land Between the Lakes written by Ronald A. Foresta and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between Barkley and Kentucky Lakes—two great, artificial bodies of water in western Tennessee and western Kentucky—lies a wooded land that looks from above like the flattened thumb of a green giant. Once a land of marginal farms and small settlements, this 240-square-mile peninsula, known as the Land Between the Lakes, has been a national recreation area for the last half-century. Its rolling, wooded hills and open bottomlands give the place charm but little majesty. The place swallows up its few campgrounds and visitors they attracts, creating a vacuous tranquility. In this volume, Foresta explores how this forgotten and bypassed region became a national recreation area. He uses its history to retrieve our old attitudes toward nature, progress, and personal development. He also uses its history to retrieve a vision of the future that rallied idealists, intellectuals, and even public officials to its banner. In the early 1960s, the Tennessee Valley Authority set out to create a great park for posterity at the Land Between the Lakes. The park was to host the vast stretches of leisure that wealthy, secure, and more equal Americans of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries would have at their disposal. It would be a place where such Americans could turn that leisure into happiness, psychic well-being, and strength of character. The TVA cleared the land of its inhabitants to create the park, removing people from their homes and severing their roots, thus effacing the history of the place. It then set about reshaping the land in the image of an anticipated future. But when that future never arrived, managers struggled to fit the place to the America that actually came into being. In the end they failed, leaving the Land Between the Lakes enveloped in a haunting sense of emptiness. A deft blend of environmental history, geography, politics, and cultural history, Land Between the Lakes demonstrates both the idealism of mid-twentieth-century planners and how quickly such idealism can fall out of alignment with the flow of history. In so doing it explores a forgotten vision of the future that was in many ways more appealing than the present that came into being in its place.

Book Hearings  Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Government Operations

Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Government Operations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Preserving the Future of Long Island Sound

Download or read book Preserving the Future of Long Island Sound written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization and Government Research and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Horace M  Albright Conservation Lectureship

Download or read book The Horace M Albright Conservation Lectureship written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Preserving the Future of Long Island Sound

Download or read book Preserving the Future of Long Island Sound written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization and Government Research and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Saving Florida

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  • Author : Leslie Kemp Poole
  • Publisher : University Press of Florida
  • Release : 2015-05-12
  • ISBN : 0813059410
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book Saving Florida written by Leslie Kemp Poole and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Saving Florida, Leslie Kemp Poole casts new light on the women at the forefront of Florida’s environmental movement. From creating parks to protesting air pollution, fighting dredge-and-fill operations, and exposing the health dangers of pesticides, these women caused unprecedented changes in how the Sunshine State values its many and marvelous natural resources. At the beginning of the twentieth century women didn’t have the vote, but by the end of the century they were founding issue-specific groups, like Friends of the Everglades, and running state and federal agencies, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. They set the foundation for the next century’s environmental agenda, which came to include the idea of sustainable development, which meshes ecology and economy to enhance energy efficiency and the function of natural systems. This is an indispensable history that not only underscores the importance of women in the environmental movement but also shows how as a collective force they forever altered how others saw women’s roles in society.

Book Hearings

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1969
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1518 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Reference Shelf

Download or read book The Reference Shelf written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hearings  Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs

Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Natural Resource Administration

Download or read book Natural Resource Administration written by Donald W. Sparling and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural Resource and Wildlife Administration presents a clear perspective on natural resource administration in North America, how it developed, how it is currently structured, and where it might be heading. Intertwined areas of natural resources, including wildlife administration, fisheries, forestry, and other competitive land uses, are heavily discussed. The book covers the history of natural resource management in Europe and North America, proceeding to environmental law; agencies involved in wildlife and natural resource management; and the human dimensions of public relations and economic concerns. Natural Resource and Wildlife Administration provides solid background on the history of natural resource conservation, critical laws protecting resources, and the nature of agencies. The interconnectedness among natural resources makes this a useful text for disciplines such as wildlife, fisheries, and forestry. - Covers the development of natural resource law and the conservation agencies in North America, and also provides models for international use - Examines the roles of diverse federal, state, and non-governmental agencies, and how they cooperate as professionals to accomplish natural resources management - Leads readers to a greater understanding of the politics and interplay of priorities in professional conservation biology - Assists the certification processes of professional societies - Includes end-of-chapter questions for further thought and discussion, as well as offset boxes throughout the text to help explain more technical subjects

Book National Mining and Minerals Policy

Download or read book National Mining and Minerals Policy written by United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Mining and Minerals Policy

Download or read book National Mining and Minerals Policy written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Minerals, Materials, and Fuels and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Outer Continental Shelf

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  • Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Special Subcommittee on Outer Continental Shelf
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1970
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1562 pages

Download or read book Outer Continental Shelf written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Special Subcommittee on Outer Continental Shelf and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Recreation in America

Download or read book Recreation in America written by Pauline Madow and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of articles "on the social and economic effects of increased leisure in America and on the role of public agencies in providing recreatiional facilities. In addition, some popular American pastimes are discussed. The last section examines the developing profession of recreational managemant and reviews various private agencies offering leisure-time opportunities." Preface.