Benton MacKaye : conservationist, planner, and creator of the Appalachian Trail / Larry Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Larry, 1950-

Series:

Creating the North American landscape.

Creating the North American landscape

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

MacKaye, Benton, 1879-1975.

MacKaye, Benton.

Conservationists--United States--Biography.

Conservationists.

Regional planners--United States--Biography.

Regional planners.

Appalachian Trail--History.

Appalachian Trail.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (481 p.)

Edition:

Johns Hopkins pbk. ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book will appeal to students, scholars, and professionals in preservation, conservation, recreation, planning, and American studies, as well as general readers interested in these subjects.

Contents:

Introduction: "Expedition 9"

The MacKaye inheritance, 1879-1896

From Harvard Yard to the "primaevial forest," 1896-1903

The education of a progressive forester, 1903-1911

Raising hell, 1911-1915

Reclaiming America's wild lands for work and play, 1915-1916

Employment and natural resources, 1917-1919

Turning point, 1919-1921

First steps along the Appalachian Trail, 1921-1923

The Regional Planning Association of America and the Appalachian Trail Conference, 1923-1925

The new exploration, 1925-1928

Trailwork and the "townless highway," 1928-1931

"RP = TH + AT + HT," a formula for the New Deal, 1931-1933

The Tennessee Valley Authority, 1934-1936

The Wilderness Society, 1934-1936

"Watershed democracy," 1936-1945

Wilderness in a changing world, 1937-1950

"Geotechnics of North America," 1944-1972

Linking action with prophecy, 1953-1975

Epilogue: A "planetary feeling."

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8018-7791-1

OCLC:

559642303