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Wilderness Forever

Wilderness Forever

Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act

By Mark W. T. Harvey. Foreword by William Cronon

Winner of the Forest History Society's 2006 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award

As a central figure in the American wilderness preservation movement in the mid-twentieth century, Howard Zahniser (1906-1964) was the person most responsible for the...

ISBN: 9780295987071

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The Wilderness Writings of Howard Zahniser

The Wilderness Writings of Howard Zahniser

By Mark W. T. Harvey, William Cronon

Howard Zahniser (1906–1964), executive secretary of The Wilderness Society and editor of The Living Wilderness from 1945 to 1964, is arguably the person most responsible for drafting and promoting the Wilderness Act in 1964. The...

ISBN: 9780295995625

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A Symbol of Wilderness

A Symbol of Wilderness

Echo Park and the American Conservation Movement

By Mark W. T. Harvey. Foreword by William Cronon

Harvey details the first major clash between conservationists and developers after World War II, the successful fight to prevent the building of Echo Park Dam. The dam on the Green River was intended to create...

ISBN: 9780295979328

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