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The Promise of Wilderness

Author : James Morton Turner
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 029580422X
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book The Promise of Wilderness written by James Morton Turner and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Denali's majestic slopes to the Great Swamp of central New Jersey, protected wilderness areas make up nearly twenty percent of the parks, forests, wildlife refuges, and other public lands that cover a full fourth of the nation's territory. But wilderness is not only a place. It is also one of the most powerful and troublesome ideas in American environmental thought, representing everything from sublime beauty and patriotic inspiration to a countercultural ideal and an overextension of government authority. The Promise of Wilderness examines how the idea of wilderness has shaped the management of public lands since the passage of the Wilderness Act in 1964. Wilderness preservation has engaged diverse groups of citizens, from hunters and ranchers to wildlife enthusiasts and hikers, as political advocates who have leveraged the resources of local and national groups toward a common goal. Turner demonstrates how these efforts have contributed to major shifts in modern American environmental politics, which have emerged not just in reaction to a new generation of environmental concerns, such as environmental justice and climate change, but also in response to changed debates over old conservation issues, such as public lands management. He also shows how battles over wilderness protection have influenced American politics more broadly, fueling disputes over the proper role of government, individual rights, and the interests of rural communities; giving rise to radical environmentalism; and playing an important role in the resurgence of the conservative movement, especially in the American West. Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsq-6LAeYKk

Driven Wild

Author : Paul S. Sutter
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295989904
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 download)

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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 384 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.

Wired Wilderness

Author : Etienne Benson
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801899281
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Wired Wilderness written by Etienne Benson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American wildlife biologists first began fitting animals with radio transmitters in the 1950s. By the 1980s the practice had proven so useful to scientists and nonscientists alike that it became global. Wired Wilderness is the first book-length study of the origin, evolution, use, and impact of these now-commonplace tracking technologies. Combining approaches from environmental history, the history of science and technology, animal studies, and the cultural and political history of the United States, Etienne Benson traces the radio tracking of wild animals across a wide range of institutions, regions, and species and in a variety of contexts. He explains how hunters, animal-rights activists, and other conservation-minded groups gradually turned tagging from a tool for control into a conduit for connection with wildlife. Drawing on extensive archival research, interviews with wildlife biologists and engineers, and in-depth case studies of specific conservation issues—such as the management of deer, grouse, and other game animals in the upper Midwest and the conservation of tigers and rhinoceroses in Nepal—Benson illuminates telemetry's context-dependent uses and meanings as well as commonalities among tagging practices. Wired Wilderness traces the evolution of the modern wildlife biologist’s field practices and shows how the intense interest of nonscientists at once constrained and benefited the field. Scholars of and researchers involved in wildlife management will find this history both fascinating and revealing.

The Great New Wilderness Debate

Author : J. Baird Callicott
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820319848
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Great New Wilderness Debate written by J. Baird Callicott and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great New Wilderness Debate is an expansive, wide-ranging collection that addresses the pivotal environmental issues of the modern era. This eclectic volume on the varied constructions of “wilderness” reveals the recent controversies that surround those conceptions, and the gulf between those who argue for wilderness "preservation" and those who argue for "wise use." J. Baird Callicott and Michael P. Nelson have selected thirty-nine essays that provide historical context, range broadly across the issues, and set forth the positions of the debate. Beginning with such well-known authors as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and Aldo Leopold, the collection moves forward to the contemporary debate and presents seminal works by a number of the most distinguished scholars in environmental history and environmental philosophy. The Great New Wilderness Debate also includes essays by conservation biologists, cultural geographers, environmental activists, and contemporary writers on the environment.

Wilderness Forever

Author : Mark W. T. Harvey
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295985329
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Wilderness Forever written by Mark W. T. Harvey and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2005-09-30 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Modern Wilderness

Author : R. Weldon Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781425977313
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book A Modern Wilderness written by R. Weldon Smith and published by . This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tag along with 22-year-old Emily Smith as she leaves the United States and immerses herself completely in the Latin American culture. Sent as an ambassador of goodwill, Emily is determined to break negative American stereotypes and live like the locals she meets in Venezuela, Colombia and Argentina. She enrolls in graduate school at La Universidad Central de Venezuela, where she's the school's first foreign student ever to pursue a Master's in International Relations. A series of emails written to friends and family in the U.S. reflect her determination to succeed academically in a new country and a new language. They also recount other experiences: learning to salsa dance, getting robbed, speaking to Rotary Clubs and exploring the Andes Mountains and the Caribbean Sea. The backdrop of Emily's experiences is the administration of Hugo Chávez, the popular and controversial Venezuelan President who brings sweeping changes to the country's political, social and economic systems. Emily watches first hand and tries to stay neutral throughout the polarizing and often violent debate. Though she's traveled before, Emily is not quite prepared for some of the obstacles she faces: disorganized university procedures, rampant crime and nagging loneliness. She learns to make the best of the difficult circumstances and to appreciate the good ones: ideal weather, unprecedented popularity and budding friendships.

Modern Wilderness

Author : William Arthur Babson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Modern Wilderness written by William Arthur Babson and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wilderness Watercolor Landscapes

Author : Kolbie Blume
Publisher : Page Street Publishing
ISBN 13 : 164567097X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Wilderness Watercolor Landscapes written by Kolbie Blume and published by Page Street Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practice the Art of Watercolor with this Beginner’s Guide to Picturesque Mountains, Lakes, Sunrises and More From a striking Desert Sunset Silhouette to a majestic Icelandic Waterfall to an eye-catching Magical Snowy Forest, watercolor artist Kolbie Blume’s wilderness scenes are the perfect introduction to watercolor painting. Kolbie’s step-by-step instructions make it easy to paint stunning landscapes featuring all of the key elements of wilderness painting and teach you beginner-friendly techniques for colorful skies, mountains, trees, wildflowers, oceans, lakes, and more. Each chapter teaches progressively more advanced elements, allowing you to build upon your skills as you work through the projects. And the final chapter combines all of the elements in breathtaking scenes—like a Glassy Milky Way and an Aurora Glacier Lagoon—that you’ll be proud to hang on your wall or gift to a friend or family member. With all the tips, tricks, and techniques you need to master the basics of watercolor painting and instructions on how to paint every element of nature, this collection of wilderness landscapes is the go-to guide for both beginner painters and more experienced artists looking for new subjects to paint.

A Symbol of Wilderness

Author : Mark W. T. Harvey
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295803533
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book A Symbol of Wilderness written by Mark W. T. Harvey and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harvey details the first major clash between conservationists and developers after World War II, the successful fight to prevent the building of Echo Park Dam. The dam on the Green River was intended to create a recreational lake in northwest Colorado and generate hydroelectric power, but would have flooded picturesque Echo Park Valley and threatened Dinosaur National Monument, straddling the Utah-Colorado border near Wyoming.

Exile

Author : Randall Cumley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948153003
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Exile written by Randall Cumley and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I feel like I have been lied to" said Nathan. These were not the words you would expect to hear from a successful businessman when asked about his plans for retirement. Through twenty five years as the owner of a small business, Nathan had achieved the modern definition of a successful life. His home and business shared space on a ten acre Colorado property. He owns a second home on the coast of Florida where he keeps an expensive boat and all the gear to support his love of fishing. "They told me 'he who owns the most toys wins," he said, "but I don't feel like I've won anything." Nathan had collided with the reality that the version of success presented by modern society is smoke and mirrors designed to distract us all from the true purpose of life. The definition of success being sold to our society is a lie. Like Nathan, I had once been a business owner with cash flow, assets and opportunity yet I found myself looking beyond all of that, longing for a deeper meaning from life. What should have been the pinnacle of my personal success became instead a pivot point that turned my life to a new direction. Through a small prayer, asking for understanding, I unknowingly opened a door that allowed God to move me off of a Caribbean beach and into a modern wilderness where He changed both my definition of success, and my understanding of life. In order to save me from myself, God took me to exile.

Roman Military Medicine

Author : Valentine J. Belfiglio
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527532119
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Roman Military Medicine written by Valentine J. Belfiglio and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work sheds light on the mostly obscure topic of medicine and its use in the Roman military. It explores the workings of the ancient healthcare system, the methods of care by physicians, and the treatments for different ailments and injuries. The contributions utilise historical writings, archeological artifacts, and more recent research on the United States military in order to discuss the past with an eye on the future of military and wildlife survival.

Beyond Wilderness

Author : John O'Brian
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773575588
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Wilderness written by John O'Brian and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2007-09-30 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The great purpose of landscape art is to make us at home in our own country" was the nationalist maxim motivating the Group of Seven's artistic project. The empty landscape paintings of the Group played a significant role in the nationalization of nature in Canada, particularly in the development of ideas about northernness, wilderness, and identity. In this book, John O'Brian and Peter White pick up where the Group of Seven left off. They demonstrate that since the 1960s a growing body of both art and critical writing has looked "beyond wilderness" to re-imagine landscape in a world of vastly altered political, technological, and environmental circumstances. By emphasizing social relationships, changing identity politics, and issues of colonial power and dispossession contemporary artists have produced landscape art that explores what was absent in the work of their predecessors. Beyond Wilderness expands the public understanding of Canadian landscape representation, tracing debates about the place of landscape in Canadian art and the national imagination through the twentieth century to the present. Critical writings from both contemporary and historically significant curators, historians, feminists, media theorists, and cultural critics and exactingly reproduced artworks by contemporary and historical artists are brought together in productive dialogue. Beyond Wilderness explains why landscape art in Canada had to be reinvented, and what forms the reinvention took. Contributors include Benedict Anderson (Cornell), Grant Arnold (Vancouver Art Gallery). Rebecca Belmore, Jody Berland (York), Eleanor Bond (Concordia), Jonathan Bordo (Trent), Douglas Cole, Marlene Creates, Marcia Crosby (Malaspina), Greg Curnoe, Ann Davis (Nickle Arts Museum), Leslie Dawn (Lethbridge), Shawna Dempsey, Christos Dikeakos, Peter Doig, Rosemary Donegan (OCAD), Stan Douglas, Paterson Ewen, Robert Fones, Northrop Frye, Robert Fulford, General Idea, Rodney Graham, Reesa Greenberg, Gu Xiong (British Columbia), Cole Harris (British Columbia), Richard William Hill (Middlesex), Robert Houle, Andrew Hunter (Waterloo), Lynda Jessup (Queen's), Zacharias Kunuk (Igloolik Isuma Productions), Johanne Lamoureux (Montreal), Robert Linsley (Waterloo), Barry Lord (Lord Cultural Resources), Marshall McLuhan, Mike MacDonald, Liz Magor (ECIAD), Lorri Millan, Gerta Moray (Guelph), Roald Nasgaard (Florida State), N.E. Thing Company, Carol Payne (Carleton), Edward Poitras, Dennis Reid (Art Gallery of Ontario), Michel Saulnier, Nancy Shaw (Simon Fraser), Johanne Sloan (Concordia), Michael Snow, Robert Stacey, David Thauberger, Loretta Todd, Esther Trepanier (Quebec), Dot Tuer (OCAD), Christopher Varley, Jeff Wall, Paul H. Walton (McMaster), Mel Watkins (Toronto), Scott Watson (British Columbia), Anne Whitelaw (Alberta), Joyce Wieland, Jin-me Yoon (Simon Fraser), Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, and Joyce Zemans (York).

Wild Men

Author : Douglas Cazaux Sackman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199742502
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Wild Men written by Douglas Cazaux Sackman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-19 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Ishi, "the last wild Indian," came out of hiding in August 1911, he was quickly whisked away by train to San Francisco to meet Alfred Kroeber, one of the fathers of American anthropology. When Kroeber and Ishi came face to face, it was a momentous event, not only for each man but also for the cultures they represented. Each stood on the brink--one was in danger of losing something vital while the other was in danger of disappearing altogether. Ishi was a survivor, and he viewed the bright lights of the big city with a mixture of awe and bemusement. What surprised everyone is how handily he adapted himself to the modern city while maintaining his sense of self and his culture. Kroeber was professionally trained to document Ishi's culture and his civilization. What he didn't count on was how deeply working with the man would lead him to question his own profession and his civilization--how it would rekindle a wildness of his own. Although Ishi's story has been told before in film and fiction, Wild Men is the first book to focus on the depth of Ishi and Kroeber's friendship. Exploring what their intertwined stories tell us about Indian survival in modern America and about America's fascination with the wild, this text is an ideal supplement for courses on Native American history, the U.S. West, and the history of California.

The Wilderness Cure

Author : Mo Wilde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781398508637
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Wilderness Cure written by Mo Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This special and magical book has changed the way I see the world' Dan Saladino 'Inspiration and delight sparkle from every page ... This book [is] a revelation of joy to the general reader for whom wild food is another country'John Wright, author of the River Cottage handbooks A captivating and lyrical journey into our ancestral past, through what and how we eat. Mo Wilde made a quiet but radical pledge: to live only off free, foraged food for an entire year. In a world disconnected from its roots, eating wild food is both culinary and healing, social and political. Ultimately, it is an act of love and community. Using her expert knowledge of botany and mycology, Mo follows the seasons to find nutritious food from hundreds of species of plants, fungi and seaweeds, and in the process learns not just how to survive, but how to thrive. Nourishing her body and mind deepens her connection with the earth - a connection that we have become estranged from but which we all, deep down, hunger for. This hunger is about much more than food. It is about accepting and understanding our place in a natural network that is both staggeringly complex and beautifully simple. THE WILDERNESS CURE is a diary of a wild experiment; a timely and inspiring memoir which explores a deeper relationship between humans and nature, and reminds us of the important lost lessons from our past.

American Wilderness

Author : Michael L. Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195174143
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book American Wilderness written by Michael L. Lewis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses the state of scholarship on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of American responses to wilderness, from first contact to the present.

Creating Wilderness

Author : Patrick Kupper
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782383743
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Creating Wilderness written by Patrick Kupper and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Swiss National Park, from its creation in the years before the Great War to the present, is told for the first time in this book. Unlike Yellowstone Park, which embodied close cooperation between state-supported conservation and public recreation, the Swiss park put in place an extraordinarily strong conservation program derived from a close alliance between the state and scientific research. This deliberate reinterpretation of the American idea of the national park was innovative and radical, but its consequences were not limited to Switzerland. The Swiss park became the prime example of a “scientific national park,” thereby influencing the course of national parks worldwide.

Of Wilderness and Wolves

Author : Paul L. Errington
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609383656
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Of Wilderness and Wolves written by Paul L. Errington and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I was a predator, myself, and lived close to the land.” With these words, Paul L. Errington begins this lost classic. Now in print for the first time, the book celebrates a key predator: the wolf. One of the most influential biologists of the twentieth century, Errington melds his expertise in wildlife biology with his love for natural beauty to create a visionary and often moving re-examination of humanity’s relationship with these magnificent and frequently maligned animals. Tracing his own relationship with wolves from his rural South Dakota upbringing through his formative years as a professional trapper to his landmark work as an internationally renowned wildlife biologist, Errington delves into our irrational fear of wolves. He forthrightly criticizes what he views as humanity’s prejudice against an animal that continues to serve as the very emblem of the wilderness we claim to love, but that too often falls prey to our greed and ignorance. A friend of Aldo Leopold, Errington was an important figure in the conservation efforts in the first half of the twentieth century. During his lifetime, wolves were considered vicious, wantonly destructive predators; by the mid-1900s, they had been almost completely eliminated from the lower forty-eight states. Their reintroduction to their historical range today remains controversial. Lyrical yet unsentimental, Of Wilderness and Wolves provides a strong and still-timely dose of ecological realism for the abusive mismanagement of our natural resources. It is a testament to our shortsightedness and to Errington’s vision that this book, its publication so long delayed, still speaks directly to our environmental crises.