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Author : Newton Bishop Drury
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Total Pages : 904 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Newton Bishop Drury, Parks and Redwoods, 1919-1971 written by Newton Bishop Drury and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steve Mark
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520931060
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Preserving the Living Past written by Steve Mark and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-03-14 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his efforts to protect California's wild lands—including the state's majestic redwoods and its dynamic coastline—to his novel ideas about the educational and inspirational value of wilderness that continue to provoke debates to this day, this first biography of John C. Merriam (1869-1945) tells the story of the prominent paleontologist who became a visionary in the American conservation movement.
Author : Mark W. T. Harvey
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295803533
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)
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.
Author : Lyndsie Bourgon
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
ISBN 13 : 0316497428
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)
Download or read book Tree Thieves written by Lyndsie Bourgon and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM J. ANTHONY LUKAS BOOK AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION FINALIST FOR THE NELLIE BY CHANTICLEER INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS FOR JOURNALISTIC NON-FICTION A gripping investigation of the billion-dollar timber black market “and a fascinating examination of the deep and troubled relationship between people and forests” (Michelle Nijhuis, author of Beloved Beasts). There's a strong chance that chair you are sitting on was made from stolen lumber. In Tree Thieves, Lyndsie Bourgon takes us deep into the underbelly of the illegal timber market. As she traces three timber poaching cases, she introduces us to tree poachers, law enforcement, forensic wood specialists, the enigmatic residents of former logging communities, environmental activists, international timber cartels, and indigenous communities along the way. Old-growth trees are invaluable and irreplaceable for both humans and wildlife, and are the oldest living things on earth. But the morality of tree poaching is not as simple as we might think: stealing trees is a form of deeply rooted protest, and a side effect of environmental preservation and protection that doesn't include communities that have been uprooted or marginalized when park boundaries are drawn. As Bourgon discovers, failing to include working class and rural communities in the preservation of these awe-inducing ecosystems can lead to catastrophic results. Featuring excellent investigative reporting, fascinating characters, logging history, political analysis, and cutting-edge tree science, Tree Thieves takes readers on a thrilling journey into the intrigue, crime, and incredible complexity sheltered under the forest canopy.
Author : Jim Newton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781594482700
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (827 download)
Download or read book Justice for All written by Jim Newton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most acclaimed and best political biographies of its time, Justice for All is a monumental work dedicated to a complicated and principled figure that will become a seminal work of twentieth-century U.S. history. In Justice for All, Jim Newton, an award-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times, brings readers the first truly comprehensive consideration of Earl Warren, the politician-turned-Chief Justice who refashioned the place of the court in American life through landmark Supreme Court cases whose names have entered the common parlance -- Brown v. Board of Education, Griswold v. Connecticut, Miranda v. Arizona, to name just a few. Drawing on unmatched access to government, academic, and private documents pertaining to Warren's life and career, Newton explores a fascinating angle of U.S. Supreme Court history while illuminating both the public and the private Warren.
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.
Author : Phoebe S.K. Young
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190093579
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Camping Grounds written by Phoebe S.K. Young and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the hidden history of camping in American life that connects a familiar recreational pastime to camps for functional needs and political purposes. Camping appears to be a simple proposition, a time-honored way of getting away from it all. Pack up the car and hit the road in search of a shady spot in the great outdoors. For a modest fee, reserve the basic infrastructure--a picnic table, a parking spot, and a place to build a fire. Pitch the tent and unroll the sleeping bags. Sit under the stars with friends or family and roast some marshmallows. This book reveals that, for all its appeal, the simplicity of camping is deceptive, its history and meanings far from obvious. Why do some Americans find pleasure in sleeping outside, particularly when so many others, past and present, have had to do so for reasons other than recreation? Never only a vacation choice, camping has been something people do out of dire necessity and as a tactic of political protest. Yet the dominant interpretation of camping as a modern recreational ideal has obscured the connections to these other roles. A closer look at the history of camping since the Civil War reveals a deeper significance of this American tradition and its links to core beliefs about nature and national belonging. Camping Grounds rediscovers unexpected and interwoven histories of sleeping outside. It uses extensive research to trace surprising links between veterans, tramps, John Muir, African American freedpeople, Indian communities, and early leisure campers in the nineteenth century; tin-can tourists, federal campground designers, Depression-era transients, family campers, backpacking enthusiasts, and political activists in the twentieth century; and the crisis of the unsheltered and the tent-based Occupy Movement in the twenty-first. These entwined stories show how Americans camp to claim a place in the American republic and why the outdoors is critical to how we relate to nature, the nation, and each other.
Author : George A. Cevasco
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313036497
Total Pages : 958 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists written by George A. Cevasco and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-12-09 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casting a wide net, this volume provides personal and professional information on some 445 American and Canadian naturalists and environmentalists, who lived from the late 15th century to the late 20th century. It includes explorers who published works on the natural history of North America, conservationists, ecologists, environmentalists, wildlife management specialists, park planners, national park administrators, zoologists, botanists, natural historians, geographers, geologists, academics, museum scientists and administrators, military personnel, travellers, government officials, political figures and writers and artists concerned with the environment. Some of the subjects are well known. The accomplishments of others are little known. Each entry contains a succinct but careful evaluation of the subject's career and contributions. Entries also include up-to-date bibliographies and information concerning manuscript sources.
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Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
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Total Pages : 616 pages
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Author : Joseph H. Engbeck
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Total Pages : 164 pages
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Download or read book By the People, for the People written by Joseph H. Engbeck and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the civilian conservation corps and the development of the California State Parks.
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Total Pages : 600 pages
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Author : John B. Dewitt
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Total Pages : 40 pages
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Download or read book California Redwood Parks and Preserves written by John B. Dewitt and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Agricultural Library (U.S.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book National Agricultural Library Catalog written by National Agricultural Library (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emanuel Fritz
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Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book California Coast Redwood (Sequoia Sempervirens (D. Don) Endl.) written by Emanuel Fritz and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Newton Bishop Drury
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Total Pages : 1546 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (231 download)
Download or read book Parks and Redwoods, 1919-1971 written by Newton Bishop Drury and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 564 pages
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