Wilderness Forever
Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act
Winner of the Forest History Society's 2006 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book AwardAs 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, wo…
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- ISBN: 978-0-295-98982-2
- EAN: 9780295989822
- Produktnummer: 20514561
- Verlag: University of Washington Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'560 KB
- Abbildungen: 22 photos
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Mark W. T. Harvey. Foreword by William Cronon
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