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Author : Richard M. Leonard
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Richard M. Leonard--mountaineer, Lawyer, Environmentalist written by Richard M. Leonard and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard M. Leonard
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Richard M. Leonard--mountaineer, Lawyer, Environmentalist written by Richard M. Leonard and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Richard M. Leonard: Mountaineer, Lawyer, Environmentalist written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some remarks by Doris Leonard, his wife, also included. Study of law, University of California, Berkeley; service during World War II; long association with Sierra Club (serving also as secretary and president) with information on the Club's main battles (dam construction, water and power rights, and logging in national parks, recreation facilities in wilderness areas, nuclear energy and power plants, multiple use and clearcutting in national forests), on the David Brower controversy, on Club litigation with lumber companies, and on more recent Club concerns; experiences mountaineering and the formation of the Club's Committee on Rockclimbing; work with U.S. National Park and Forest Services, and as a member of the Governor's Redwood Park Commission, and with other conservation organizations; organization of the Sierra Club Foundation and the Trustees for Conservation; the Wilderness Act and its impact.
Author : Richard Manning Leonard
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mountaineer, Lawyer, Environmentalist written by Richard Manning Leonard and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan R. Schrepfer
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299088537
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Fight to Save the Redwoods written by Susan R. Schrepfer and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is not a simple or ordinary history of a conservation crusade. Schrepfer very ably traces the changes in scientific wisdom from nineteenth-century romanticism and teleological evolutionism to more current ecological dynamism—and the influence of those intellectual developments on political history. . . . The subject is important—much broader than the title suggests—and so is the book."—American Historical Review
Author : Susan R. Schrepfer
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700619445
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Nature's Altars written by Susan R. Schrepfer and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2005-05-02 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the ancient Appalachians to the high Sierra, mountains have always symbolized wilderness for Americans. Susan Schrepfer unfolds the history of our fascination with high peaks and rugged terrain to tell how mountains have played a dramatic role in shaping American ideas about wilderness and its regulation. Delving into memoirs and histories, letters and diaries, early photos and old maps, Schrepfer especially compares male and female mountaineering narratives to show the ways in which gender affected what men and women found to value in rocky heights, and how their different perceptions together defined the wilderness preservation movement for the nation. The Sierra Club in particular popularized the mystique of America's mountains, and Schrepfer uses its history to develop a sweeping interpretation of twentieth-century wilderness perceptions and national conservation politics. Schrepfer follows men like John Muir, Wilderness Society cofounder Robert Marshall, and the Sierra Club's own David Brower into the mountains-and finds them frequently in the company of women. She tells how mountaineering women shaped their lives through high adventure well before the twentieth century, participating in Appalachian mountain clubs and joining men as "Mazamas"—mountain goats—scaling Oregon's Mount Hood. From these expeditions, Schrepfer examines how women's ideas, language, and activism helped shape American environmentalism just as much as men's, parsing the "Romantic sublime" into its respective masculine and feminine components. Tracing this history to the 1964 Wilderness Act, she also shows how the feminine sublimes continue to flourish in the form of ecofeminism and in exploits like the all-woman climb of Annapurna in 1978. By explaining why both women and men risked their lives in these landscapes, how they perceived them, and why they wanted to save them, Schrepfer also reveals the ways in which religion, social class, ethnicity, and nationality shaped the experience of the natural world. Full of engaging stories that shed new light on a history many believe they already know, her book adds subtlety and nuance to the oft-told annals of the wild and gives readers a new perspective on the wilderness movement and mountaineering.
Author : Thomas Raymond Wellock
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299158545
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (585 download)
Download or read book Critical Masses written by Thomas Raymond Wellock and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The grassroots battle against nuclear power, told by a historian who did time on both sides of the issue. CRITICAL MASSES tells how the citizens of California--from the tiny town of Wasco in the Central Valley to the vast suburbs of Los Angeles--challenged the threat of nuclear power, transformed the anti-nuclear movement, and helped change the face of U.S. politics. 21 photos.
Author : Robert C. Pavlik
Publisher : Yosemite Conservancy
ISBN 13 : 1951179072
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Norman Clyde written by Robert C. Pavlik and published by Yosemite Conservancy. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This riveting account of one of the most notable personalities of the mountain climbing world reconstructs the life of legendary mountaineer Norman Clyde (1885-1972). He made his mark on history with more than one hundred and thirty first ascents throughout western North America, and many believe he knew the High Sierra better than anyone else, including John Muir. Part of his mystique comes from participating in high-profile mountain rescues and recoveries, in which he is credited with saving a number of lives. Those who had the good fortune to meet him–often with a ninety-pound pack on his back that included an anvil for boot repair, fishing rods, cooking pots, and books in Greek and Latin–never forgot the experience. Biographer Robert C. Pavlik uses Clyde’s own words, along with recollections from his family, friends, fellow climbers, and acquaintances, to capture the experiences of a remarkable man and a bygone time “between the pioneers and the rock climbers.”
Author : David Brower
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Environmental Activist, Publicist, and Prophet written by David Brower and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Michael McCloskey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Sierra Club Executive Director written by John Michael McCloskey and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen C. Sturgeon
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 081655093X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Western Water written by Stephen C. Sturgeon and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Democratic congressman from Colorado's Fourth District from 1949 to 1973, Wayne Aspinall was an advocate of natural resource development in general and reclamation projects in particular. A political loner, considered crusty and abrasive, he carved a national reputation by helping secure the passage of key water legislation—in the process clashing with colleagues and environmentalists alike. Fiercely protective of western Colorado's water supply, Aspinall sought to secure prosperity for his district by protecting its share of Colorado River water through federal reclamation projects, and he made this goal the centerpiece of his congressional career. He became chair of the House Interior Committee in 1959 and ruled it with an iron fist for more than a dozen years—a role that placed him in a key position to shape the nation's natural resource legislation at a time when the growing environmental movement was calling for a sharp change in policy. This full-length study of Aspinall's importance to reclamation in the West clarifies his role in influencing western water policy. By focusing on Aspinall's congressional career, Stephen Sturgeon provides a detailed account of the political machinations and personal foibles that shaped Aspinall's efforts to implement water reclamation legislation in support of Colorado's Western Slope, along the way shedding new light on familiar water controversies. Sturgeon meticulously traces the influences on Aspinall's thinking and the arc of his career, examining the congressman's involvement in the Colorado River Storage Project bill and his clash with conservationists over the proposed Echo Park Dam; recounting the fight over the Frying Pan-Arkansas Project and his decision to support diverting water out of his own district; and exploring the battles over the Central Arizona Project, in which Aspinall fought not only environmentalists but also other members of Congress. Finally he assesses the Aspinall legacy, including the still-disputed Animas-La Plata Project, and shows how his vision of progress shaped the history of western water development. The Politics of Western Water portrays Aspinall in human terms, not as a pork-barrel politician but as a representative who believed he was protecting his constituents' interests. It is an insightful account of the political, financial, and personal variables that affect the course by which water resource legislation is conceived, supported, and implemented—a book that is essential to understanding the history and future of water in the West.
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803291560
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Dreamers & Defenders written by and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dreamers and Defenders Douglas H. Strong relates the triumphs and defeats of twelve environmentalists from Henry David Thoreau to Barry Commoner. Their biographies form the dramatic and ongoing story of the conservationømovement in America. Beginning with Thoreau, Frederick Law Olmsted, and George Perkins Marsh, Strong shows that conservation enjoyed the support of a few writers and scientists even in the heyday of land development in the mid-nineteenth century. Later chapters are devoted to John Wesley Powell, who after the Civil War attempted to introduce enlightened land policies in the arid West; Gifford Pinchot, Theodore Roosevelt's chief forester; ]ohn Muir, who popularized the gospel of wilderness preservation; Stephen Mather, who launched the National Park Service; and Aldo Leopold, advocate of an ethical attitude toward the land. Other chapters deal with Harold Ickes, who as Franklin D. Roosevelt's secretary of the interior spurred conservation efforts and encouraged economic recovery from the Great Depression; David Brower, the controversial executive director of the Sierra Club; and Rachel Carson and Barry Commoner, who alerted Americans to the dangers of an environment increasingly polluted by toxic chemicals.
Author : David Brower
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book David R. Brower, Environmental Activist, Publicist and Prophet written by David Brower and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nathan C. Clark
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Nathan C. Clark, Sierra Club Leader, Outdoorsman, & Engineer written by Nathan C. Clark and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard C. Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780029077504
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (775 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Forest and Conservation History written by Richard C. Davis and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Pacific Historian written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Zierold
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Environmental Lobbyist in California's Capital, 1965-1984 written by John Zierold and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles his work as the Sierra Club's first state legislative lobbyist, focusing on coastal protection, forest practices legislation, water, energy, and his defense of the 1970 California Environmental Quality Act.
