Author: Tom Wolf
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
"Wolf traces Carhart's twists and turns to show a man whose voice was distinctive and contrary, who spoke from a passionate concern for the land and could not be counted on for anything else."--BOOK JACKET.
Arthur Carhart
Author: Tom Wolf
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
"Wolf traces Carhart's twists and turns to show a man whose voice was distinctive and contrary, who spoke from a passionate concern for the land and could not be counted on for anything else."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
"Wolf traces Carhart's twists and turns to show a man whose voice was distinctive and contrary, who spoke from a passionate concern for the land and could not be counted on for anything else."--BOOK JACKET.
Vicious
Author: Jon T. Coleman
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300133375
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Over a continent and three centuries, American livestock owners destroyed wolves to protect the beasts that supplied them with food, clothing, mobility, and wealth. The brutality of the campaign soon exceeded wolves’ misdeeds. Wolves menaced property, not people, but storytellers often depicted the animals as ravenous threats to human safety. Subjects of nightmares and legends, wolves fell prey not only to Americans’ thirst for land and resources but also to their deeper anxieties about the untamed frontier. Now Americans study and protect wolves and jail hunters who shoot them without authorization. Wolves have become the poster beasts of the great American wilderness, and the federal government has paid millions of dollars to reintroduce them to scenic habitats like Yellowstone National Park. Why did Americans hate wolves for centuries? And, given the ferocity of this loathing, why are Americans now so protective of the animals? In this ambitious history of wolves in America—and of the humans who have hated and then loved them—Jon Coleman investigates a fraught relationship between two species and uncovers striking similarities, deadly differences, and, all too frequently, tragic misunderstanding.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300133375
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Over a continent and three centuries, American livestock owners destroyed wolves to protect the beasts that supplied them with food, clothing, mobility, and wealth. The brutality of the campaign soon exceeded wolves’ misdeeds. Wolves menaced property, not people, but storytellers often depicted the animals as ravenous threats to human safety. Subjects of nightmares and legends, wolves fell prey not only to Americans’ thirst for land and resources but also to their deeper anxieties about the untamed frontier. Now Americans study and protect wolves and jail hunters who shoot them without authorization. Wolves have become the poster beasts of the great American wilderness, and the federal government has paid millions of dollars to reintroduce them to scenic habitats like Yellowstone National Park. Why did Americans hate wolves for centuries? And, given the ferocity of this loathing, why are Americans now so protective of the animals? In this ambitious history of wolves in America—and of the humans who have hated and then loved them—Jon Coleman investigates a fraught relationship between two species and uncovers striking similarities, deadly differences, and, all too frequently, tragic misunderstanding.
Catalog of Training
Author: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Collecting Nature
Author: Andrew G. Kirk
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Finds in the history of Denver's Conservation Library a microcosm of the growth of the environmental movement as a whole.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Finds in the history of Denver's Conservation Library a microcosm of the growth of the environmental movement as a whole.
Personal, Societal, and Ecological Values of Wilderness
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Catalog of Training
Author: National Conservation Training Center (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Human/nature
Author: John P. Herron
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826319166
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Provocative essays explore how ideas about human nature inform or shape human understanding of nature and the environment.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826319166
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Provocative essays explore how ideas about human nature inform or shape human understanding of nature and the environment.
Our National Forests
Author: Greg M. Peters
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604699639
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
A complete look at America’s National Forests—their triumphs, challenges, controversies, and vital programs—and the dedicated people who keep them alive.
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604699639
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
A complete look at America’s National Forests—their triumphs, challenges, controversies, and vital programs—and the dedicated people who keep them alive.
Visions of Paradise
Author: John Warfield Simpson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520213647
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
This book synthesizes views of America's changing environment, and the Ideal of that environment, from the time of the Founding Fathers to the present. It is an exceptionally engaging account of American attitudes toward pristine and altered landscapes which they encountered, settled in, modified, and moved westward from during the last three centuries.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520213647
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
This book synthesizes views of America's changing environment, and the Ideal of that environment, from the time of the Founding Fathers to the present. It is an exceptionally engaging account of American attitudes toward pristine and altered landscapes which they encountered, settled in, modified, and moved westward from during the last three centuries.
The Lure of the North Woods
Author: Aaron Shapiro
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816688680
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
In the late nineteenth century, the North Woods offered people little in the way of a pleasant escape. Rather, it was a hub of production supplying industrial America with vast quantities of lumber and mineral ore. This book tells the story of how northern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula became a tourist paradise, turning a scarred countryside into the playground we know today. Stripped of much of its timber and ore by the early 1900s, the North Woods experienced deindustrialization earlier than the Rust Belt cities that consumed its resources. In The Lure of the North Woods, Aaron Shapiro describes how residents and visitors reshaped the region from a landscape of exploitation to a vacationland. The rejuvenating North Woods profited in new ways by drawing on emerging connections between the urban and the rural, including improved transportation, promotion, recreational land use, and conservation initiatives. Shapiro demonstrates how this transformation helps explain the interwar origins of modern American environmentalism, when both the consumption of nature for pleasure and the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the North Woods and elsewhere led many Americans to cultivate a fresh perspective on the outdoors. At a time when travel and recreation are considered major economic forces, The Lure of the North Woods reveals how leisure—and tourism in particular—has shaped modern America.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816688680
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
In the late nineteenth century, the North Woods offered people little in the way of a pleasant escape. Rather, it was a hub of production supplying industrial America with vast quantities of lumber and mineral ore. This book tells the story of how northern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula became a tourist paradise, turning a scarred countryside into the playground we know today. Stripped of much of its timber and ore by the early 1900s, the North Woods experienced deindustrialization earlier than the Rust Belt cities that consumed its resources. In The Lure of the North Woods, Aaron Shapiro describes how residents and visitors reshaped the region from a landscape of exploitation to a vacationland. The rejuvenating North Woods profited in new ways by drawing on emerging connections between the urban and the rural, including improved transportation, promotion, recreational land use, and conservation initiatives. Shapiro demonstrates how this transformation helps explain the interwar origins of modern American environmentalism, when both the consumption of nature for pleasure and the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the North Woods and elsewhere led many Americans to cultivate a fresh perspective on the outdoors. At a time when travel and recreation are considered major economic forces, The Lure of the North Woods reveals how leisure—and tourism in particular—has shaped modern America.