Arthur Carhart : wilderness prophet / Tom Wolf.
"Arthur Carhart, the first biography of this Republican environmentalist and major American thinker, writer, and activist, reveals the currency of his ideas. Tom Wolf elucidates Carhart's vision of conservation as "a job for all of us," with citizens, municipal authorities, and n...
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| Format: | Government Document Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boulder, Colo. :
University Press of Colorado,
©2008.
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| Summary: | "Arthur Carhart, the first biography of this Republican environmentalist and major American thinker, writer, and activist, reveals the currency of his ideas. Tom Wolf elucidates Carhart's vision of conservation as "a job for all of us," with citizens, municipal authorities, and national leaders all responsible for the environmental effects of their decisions. Carhart loved the local and decried interest groups - from stockmen's associations to wilderness lobbies - as cliques attempting blanket control. He pressured land management agencies to base decisions on local ecology and local partnerships. A lifelong wilderness advocate who proposed the first wilderness preserve at Trappers Lake, Colorado, in 1919, Carhart chose to oppose the Wilderness Act, heartsick at its compromises with lobbies." "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. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-277) and index. Bibliography of Arthur Carhart's works: pages 279-282. |
| ISBN: | 9780870819131 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0870819135 (hardcover : alk. paper) |