Force of Nature
University of Wisconsin Press (Verlag)
978-0-299-31234-3 (ISBN)
Winner of the Illinois State Historical Society Outstanding Achievement Award
Efforts to preserve wild places in the United States began with the allure of scenic grandeur: Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon. But what about the many significant natural sites too small or fragile to qualify as state or federal parks? Force of Nature reveals how George Fell initiated the natural areas movement to save those areas. Fell transformed a loose band of ecologists into The Nature Conservancy, drove the passage of the influential Illinois Nature Preserves Act, and helped spark allied local and national conservation organizations in the United States and beyond.
Arthur Melville Pearson is the form program director of the Chicago Program at the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, which helps protect and restore natural lands in the Chicago region and the Lowcountry of South Carolina. His writing has appeared frequently in the magazines Chicago Wilderness and Outdoor Illinois and in the blogs A Midewin Almanac and City Creatures.
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Peter R. Crane Acknowledgments
Chronology
Prologue
1 From the Bend of a Beautiful River to the Alcatraz of Conscientious Objector Camps
2 Threatened Lands, Living Museums
3 The Nature Conservancy: Setting Up the Necessary Structure Ourselves
4 The Illinois Nature Preserves Act: If at First You Don't Succeed . . .
5 The Illinois Nature Preserves Commission: Where Once We Were Opportunists
6 Sowing More Acorns, Fighting More Battles
Epilogue
Notes
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 05.03.2020 |
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Vorwort | Peter R. Crane |
Zusatzinfo | 14 black & white photos, 1 map |
Verlagsort | Wisconsin |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 300 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
ISBN-10 | 0-299-31234-8 / 0299312348 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-299-31234-3 / 9780299312343 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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