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Battle for the Wilderness by Michael Frome is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Battle for the Wilderness about?

ix, 246 pages 21 cm "Battle for the Wilderness is one of the important works of the American conservation movement. Centered on the struggle to pass the 1964 Wilderness Act, it offers a well-written, workable definition of wilderness and presents conservation as a vital thread in American history. In a completely new preface, Michael Frome ruminates on the relative treatment of the wilderness system under successive administrations, and on recent approaches to the preservation of wild lands. The full text of the Wilderness Act - the document remains at the center of continuing disputes over the definition, designation, and disposition of wilderness - is reproduced in one appendix, while another appendix lists all the wilderness areas now designated in the fifty states."--BOOK JACKET "Published in cooperation with the Wilderness Society." Includes bibliographical references Wilderness values -- What is wilderness? -- American happening -- Cultural heritage in wilderness -- Scientific resource -- Place for wild animals, wild plants -- Recreation for everyone... -- ...But not everyone at once -- Saving the wilderness -- Saving wilderness by law-ancient creed -- Saving wilderness by la

Author

Michael Frome

Publisher

New York, Praeger

Published

1974

Language

EN

Subjects

Economics, Science, Nature