Format:
1 online resource (200 pages)
ISBN:
9781555918767
Content:
This look at how America has preserved more than 100 million acres of diverse wilderness areas in 44 states also discusses current visions of those who value wilderness and its place in our culture. The book outlines key details of the Wilderness Act and what it does, explains what protecting wilderness means and requires, and provides in-depth historical context. Published with the Campaign for America's Wilderness.
Content:
Table of Contents -- Foreword ix -- Preface xi -- Introduction 1 -- People Saving Wilderness … for People 1 -- The Impulse to Preserve Wildness 3 -- The Wilderness Act: A People's Law 4 -- Challenges Ahead 6 -- Chapter 1: Wilderness in Our Lives 9 -- The Wilderness We Have Saved 9 -- What Preserving Wilderness Requires 13 -- Chapter 2: Wilderness: From Concept to Action 19 -- PART 1: THE WILDERNESS IDEA 19 -- The Need for Wilderness 19 -- John Muir 21 -- Wilderness Vanishing 23 -- National Parks and Wilderness 24 -- PART 2: THE BEGINNINGS OF A WILDERNESS PRESERVATION POLICY 27 -- Aldo Leopold 27 -- The First Wilderness Area and the "L-20" Regulation 29 -- Bob Marshall 30 -- The Wilderness Society 31 -- Forest Wilderness or National Parks? 32 -- "Wilderness" and "Wild Areas"-The "U" Regulations 35 -- Chapter 3: Wilderness: "There Ought to be a Law" 37 -- How Permanent? 37 -- "Not by Law" 39 -- The Idea of a Comprehensive Wilderness Program 40 -- Howard Zahniser 40 -- Imagining a Wilderness Law 41 -- Building Consensus 43 -- Echo Park 44 -- The "Wilderness Bill" 47 -- The Eight-Year Legislative Odyssey 50 -- Chapter 4: Putting the New Wilderness Act to Work 57 -- The Law Changed Everything 57 -- The Ten-Year Wilderness Review Process 59 -- Stewart Brandborg 61 -- The "Great Liberating Force" 62 -- Grassroots Organizing and Citizen Wilderness Proposals 63 -- Congress Expands Agency Wilderness Proposals 65 -- Eastern Wilderness and the "Purity Theory" 66 -- The Eastern Wilderness Areas Act 68 -- National Park Service Resistance to Wilderness Designation 72 -- Wilderness in National Wildlife Refuges 73 -- Chapter 5: Expanding the Scope of Wilderness Preservation 75 -- The "60 Million-Acre Myth" 75 -- PART 1: NATIONAL FOREST "ROADLESS AREAS" 77 -- Scapegoat: The First Citizen-Initiated Wilderness Area 79 -- NEPA, Roadless Areas, and "RARE" 79.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781555915278
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781555915278
Language:
English
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