Ground work; conservation in American culture.9780890300695 Ground work; conservation in American culture. Miller, Char char: see salmon. char Any of several freshwater food and game fishes (genus Salvelinus) of the salmon family, distinguished from the similar trout by light, rather than black, spots; by a boat-shaped, rather than flat, vomer (bone) on the roof of . Forest History Society 2007 182 pages $19.95 Hardcover SD412 This collection of 13 essays, written for advanced undergraduate or graduate students in environmental and forest history, shows how Miller (history, Trinity U.) can find new things to say about magnificent people and places whose proximity have made them mundane (jargon) mundane - Someone outside some group that is implicit from the context, such as the computer industry or science fiction fandom. The implication is that those in the group are special and those outside are just ordinary. , a situation parallel to how Americans long treated their stunning landscape. He gives unvarnished portraits of early conservation leaders such as Gifford Pinchot Gifford Pinchot (August 11 1865 – October 4 1946) was the first Chief of the United States Forest Service (1905–1910) and the Republican Governor of Pennsylvania (1923–1927, 1931–1935). and Bernard Fernow Bernard Eduard Fernow (1851 – 1923) was the chief forester of the USDA in the late 1800s. He believed that forests were part of the "great economy of nature". Preceded Gifford Pinchot as the head of the Division of Forestry (predecessor to the United States Forest Service), , and shows how the Progressive era kick-started environmental conservation. He takes aim at academia and urban politics, and does not flinch flinch intr.v. flinched, flinch·ing, flinch·es 1. To start or wince involuntarily, as from surprise or pain. 2. To recoil, as from something unpleasant or difficult; shrink. n. from holding the common people responsible, at least in part, for the mess they have made of American land. He is particularly careful to let readers know about the downward cycle of America's forests and delivers the news about how little is left. He also re-reads his own work on the history of American conservation and land management and sometimes finds it wanting. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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