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Conservation in the progressive era : classic texts / edited by David Stradling ; foreword by William Cronon.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Weyerhaeuser environmental classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nature conservation--United States--History--20th century.
- Nature conservation.
- Conservation of natural resources--United States--History--20th century.
- Conservation of natural resources.
- Environmental conditions.
- History.
- United States--Environmental conditions--History--20th century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 110 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2004]
- Contents:
- Part 1 Defining and Debating Conservation 17
- "Principles of Conservation" / Gifford Pinchot 19
- "Special Message from the President of the United States" / Theodore Roosevelt 23
- "The Miracle of Irrigation" / William E. Smythe 28
- "What Is Meant by Conservation?" / Ladies' Home Journal 32
- "The Other Side of Conservation" / George L. Knapp 35
- "Another National Blunder" / H.J.M. Mattes 39
- Part 2 Perspectives on Wildlife Conservation 43
- "American Game Protection: A Sketch" / George Bird Grinnell 45
- "Keep on Pedaling!" / Mabel Osgood Wright 49
- Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation / William T. Hornaday 51
- "The Education of a Young Pioneer in the Northern Adirondacks" / David Shepard Merrill 53
- Part 3 The Utility of "Conservation" 57
- "Conservation of Our Natural Resources" / Samuel Gompers 59
- "Shall We Have Ugly Conservation?" / J. Horace McFarland 61
- "Civic Improvement" / Mary Ritter Beard 64
- "National Vitality, Its Wastes and Conservation" / Irving Fisher 66
- Conservation by Sanitation: Air and Water Supply, Disposal of Waste / Ellen H. Richards 70
- Part 4 Smoke and Conservation in the City 73
- "An Address on the Smoke Problem" / Charles A. L. Reed 75
- "Smoke Abatement in St. Louis" / Mrs. Ernest R. Kroeger 78
- "The Cure for the Smoke Evil" / Herbert M. Wilson 80
- "Smoke Abatement: A Report on Recent Investigations Made at Washington University" / Ernest L. Ohle 82
- Part 5 Conservation, Preservation, and Hetch Hetchy 85
- "Water Supply for the Cities About the Bay of San Francisco" / Warren Olney 87
- "Proposed Destruction of Hetch-Hetchy" / E. T. Parsons 91
- "Hetch Hetchy Valley" / John Muir 94.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-106) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0295983752
- OCLC:
- 53900857
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