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Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism

Author : Char Miller
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610910745
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism written by Char Miller and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gifford Pinchot is known primarily for his work as first chief of the U. S. Forest Service and for his argument that resources should be used to provide the "greatest good for the greatest number of people." But Pinchot was a more complicated figure than has generally been recognized, and more than half a century after his death, he continues to provoke controversy. Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism, the first new biography in more than three decades, offers a fresh interpretation of the life and work of the famed conservationist and Progressive politician. In addition to considering Gifford Pinchot's role in the environmental movement, historian Char Miller sets forth an engaging description and analysis of the man -- his character, passions, and personality -- and the larger world through which he moved. Char Miller begins by describing Pinchot's early years and the often overlooked influence of his family and their aspirations for him. He examines Gifford Pinchot's post-graduate education in France and his ensuing efforts in promoting the profession of forestry in the United States and in establishing and running the Forest Service. While Pinchot's twelve years as chief forester (1898-1910) are the ones most historians and biographers focus on, Char Miller also offers an extensive examination of Pinchot's post-federal career as head of The National Conservation Association and as two-term governor of Pennsylvania. In addition, he looks at Pinchot's marriage to feminist Cornelia Bryce and discusses her role in Pinchot's political radicalization throughout the 1920s and 1930s. An epilogue explores Gifford Pinchot's final years and writings. Char Miller offers a provocative reconsideration of key events in Pinchot's life, including his relationship with friend and mentor John Muir and their famous disagreement over damming Hetch Hetchy Valley. The author brings together insights from cultural and social history and recently discovered primary sources to support a new interpretation of Pinchot -- whose activism not only helped define environmental politics in early twentieth century America but remains strikingly relevant today.

Seeking the Greatest Good

Author : Char Miller
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822979217
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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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.

The Fight for Conservation

Author : Gifford Pinchot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fight for Conservation written by Gifford Pinchot and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gifford Pinchot

Author : Gifford Pinchot
Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271078410
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (784 download)

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Download or read book Gifford Pinchot written by Gifford Pinchot and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of essays by Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946), founding chief of the U.S. Forest Service and twice governor of Pennsylvania. The social, political, and scientific insights in these essays anticipate many contemporary environmental-policy dilemmas and the growing demand for environmental justice.

Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism

Author : Gregory Allen Barton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139434608
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism written by Gregory Allen Barton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What we now know of as environmentalism began with the establishment of the first empire forest in 1855 in British India, and during the second half of the nineteenth century, over ten per cent of the land surface of the earth became protected as a public trust. Sprawling forest reservations, many of them larger than modern nations, became revenue-producing forests that protected the whole 'household of nature', and Rudyard Kipling and Theodore Roosevelt were among those who celebrated a new class of government foresters as public heroes. Imperial foresters warned of impending catastrophe, desertification and global climate change if the reverse process of deforestation continued. The empire forestry movement spread through India, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and then the United States to other parts of the globe, and Gregory Barton's study looks at the origins of environmentalism in a global perspective.

The Conservation Diaries of Gifford Pinchot

Author : Gifford Pinchot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Conservation Diaries of Gifford Pinchot written by Gifford Pinchot and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conservationist Cifford Pinchot's diaries, from 1889 until his death in 1946, offer a view into government involvment with the conservation movement.

On the Border

Author : Char Miller
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 9780822970606
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book On the Border written by Char Miller and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2001-11-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This award winning book is an environmental history of the role of water and water management in the region surrounding San Antonio and and the San Antonio River Valley.

The Training of a Forester

Author : Gifford Pinchot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Training of a Forester written by Gifford Pinchot and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Inherit the Holy Mountain

Author : Mark Stoll
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019023086X
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Inherit the Holy Mountain written by Mark Stoll and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inherit the Holy Mountain puts religion at the center of the history of American environmentalism rather than at its margins, demonstrating how religion provided environmentalists with content, direction, and tone for the environmental causes they espoused.

Mira Lloyd Dock and the Progressive Era Conservation Movement

Author : Susan Rimby
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 027105624X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Mira Lloyd Dock and the Progressive Era Conservation Movement written by Susan Rimby and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines the life of Mira Lloyd Dock, a Pennsylvania conservationist and Progressive Era reformer. Explores a broad range of Dock's work, including forestry, municipal improvement, public health, and woman suffrage"--

Man and Nature; Or, Physical Geography

Author : George Perkins Marsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Man and Nature; Or, Physical Geography written by George Perkins Marsh and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Frederick Weyerhaeuser and the American West

Author : Judith Koll Healey
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0873518985
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis Frederick Weyerhaeuser and the American West by : Judith Koll Healey

Download or read book Frederick Weyerhaeuser and the American West written by Judith Koll Healey and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2013 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new biography of Frederick Weyerhaeuser (1834-1914), one of the great industrialists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and founder of the international timber corporation the Weyerhaeuser Company.

The Environmental Moment

Author : David Stradling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Environmental Moment written by David Stradling and published by . This book was released on 1783 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Environmental Moment is a collection of documents that reveal the significance of the years 1968-1972 to the environmental movement in the United States. With material ranging from short pieces from the Whole Earth Catalog and articles from the Village Voice to lectures, posters, and government documents, the collection describes the period through the perspective of a diversity of participants, including activists, politicians, scientists, and average citizens. Included are the words of Rachel Carson, but also the National Review, Howard Zahniser on wilderness, Nathan Hare on the Black underclass. The chronological arrangement reveals the coincidence of a multitude of issues that rushed into public consciousness during a critical time in American history.

Escaping Into Nature

Author : John F. Reiger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870717109
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Escaping Into Nature written by John F. Reiger and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It was only by escaping into nature that I could obtain the peace and harmony I sought." --from the Introduction In Escaping into Nature, prominent wildlife conservationist and environmental historian John Reiger shares his story of an angler and hunter who found a cause and a calling and combined them for his life's work. John Reiger's outdoor adventures as a young man primed him for the teachings of the great sportsmen-conservationists of the past, particularly George Bird Grinnell, Theodore Roosevelt, and Aldo Leopold. Inspired by these conservation giants, Reiger left the security of a tenured professorship to serve as executive director of the Connecticut Audubon Society where he, sometimes controversially, put his ideals into practice. Later, he resumed his academic career to illuminate the lives of early wildlife conservationists, visionaries who continue to inspire us to care deeply about the future of the natural world. Abused psychologically within his family in his early years, Reiger found solace in nature. Though he first entered the outdoors as an escape from his unpleasant circumstances, he soon found the study and pursuit of insects, fishes, and birds to be exciting ends in themselves. He came to believe that it was only by participating in the life and death of other creatures that one could learn to truly value the natural world, be a part of it, and be inspired to work for its conservation. John Reiger's autobiography is also the story of his own developing fascination with America's past, especially as it relates to human interaction with the natural world; his desire to share that passion with others; and his experiences on the road to becoming a nationally recognized scholar. The twists and turns of that journey, and his accounts of the people--and of the wild creatures--who helped him along the way, will appeal to history enthusiasts and nature lovers alike.

Wilderness Forever

Author : Mark W. T. Harvey
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295989823
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 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 2009-11-23 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Forest History Society's 2006 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award As a central figure in the American wilderness preservation movement in the mid-twentieth century, Howard Zahniser (1906-1964) was the person most responsible for the landmark Wilderness Act of 1964. While the rugged outdoorsmen of the earlyenvironmental movement, such as John Muir and Bob Marshall, gave the cause a charismatic face, Zahniser strove to bring conservation's concerns into the public eye and the preservationists' plans to fruition. In many fights to save besieged wild lands, he pulled together fractious coalitions, built grassroots support networks, wooed skittish and truculent politicians, and generated streams of eloquent prose celebrating wilderness. Zahniser worked for the Bureau of Biological Survey (a precursor to the Fish and Wildlife Service) and the Department of the Interior, wrote for Nature magazine, and eventually managed the Wilderness Society and edited its magazine, Living Wilderness. The culmination of his wilderness writing and political lobbying was the Wilderness Act of 1964. All of its drafts included his eloquent definition of wilderness, which still serves as a central tenet for the Wilderness Society: "an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain." The bill was finally signed into law shortly after his death. Pervading his tireless work was a deeply held belief in the healing powers of nature for a humanity ground down by the mechanized hustle-bustle of modern, urban life. Zahniser grew up in a family of Methodist ministers, and although he moved away from any specific denomination, a spiritual outlook informed his thinking about wilderness. His love of nature was not so much a result of scientific curiosity as a sense of wonder at its beauty and majesty, and a wish to exist in harmony with all other living things. In this deeply researched and affectionate portrait, Mark Harvey brings to life this great leader of environmental activism.

Public Lands, Public Debates

Author : Char Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870716591
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Public Lands, Public Debates written by Char Miller and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes bibliographical references and index.

On Strawberry Hill

Author : Paula I. Robbins
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817358943
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book On Strawberry Hill written by Paula I. Robbins and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Strawberry Hill: The Transcendent Love of Gifford Pinchot and Laura Houghteling is a human interest story that cuts a neat slice across nineteenth-century America by bringing into juxtaposition a wide array of topics germane to the period-the national fascination with spiritualism, the death scourge that was tuberculosis, the rise of sanitariums and tourism in the southern highlands, the expansion of railroad travel, the rage for public parklands and playgrounds, and the development of professional forestry and green preservation-all through the very personal love story of two young blue bloods. Book jacket.