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Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book) (A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book) by Dyana Z. Furmansky with a foreword by Bill McKibben and an afterword by Roland C. Clement is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Rosalie Edge (1877-1962) was the first American woman to achieve national renown as a conservationist. Dyana Z. Furmansky draws on Edge's personal papers and on interviews with family members and associates to portray an implacable, indomitable personality whose activism earned her the names "Joan of Arc" and "hellcat." A progressive New York socialite and veteran suffragist, Edge did not join the conservation movement until her early fifties. Nonetheless, her legacy of what the New Yorker called "widespread and monumental" achievements forms a crucial link between the eras defined by John Muir and Rachel Carson. An early voice against the indiscriminate use of toxins and pesticides, Edge reported evidence about the dangers of DDT fourteen years before Carson's Silent Spring was published. Today, Edge is most widely remembered for establishing Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, the world's first refuge for birds of prey. Founded in 1934 and located in eastern Pennsylvania, Hawk Mountain was cited in Silent Spring as an "especially significant" source of data. In 1930, Edge formed the militant Emergency Conservation Committee, which not only railed against the complacency of the Bureau of Bio
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Dyana Z. Furmansky with a foreword by Bill McKibben and an afterword by Roland C. Clement
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780820333410
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Nature, Biography, Biology
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