Author: Richard M. Leonard
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 592

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Author: Francis Peloubet Farquhar
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781017696011
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Languages : en
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
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Some remarks by Doris Leonard, his wife, also included. Study of law, University of California, Berkeley; service during World War II; long association with Sierra Club (serving also as secretary and president) with information on the Club's main battles (dam construction, water and power rights, and logging in national parks, recreation facilities in wilderness areas, nuclear energy and power plants, multiple use and clearcutting in national forests), on the David Brower controversy, on Club litigation with lumber companies, and on more recent Club concerns; experiences mountaineering and the formation of the Club's Committee on Rockclimbing; work with U.S. National Park and Forest Services, and as a member of the Governor's Redwood Park Commission, and with other conservation organizations; organization of the Sierra Club Foundation and the Trustees for Conservation; the Wilderness Act and its impact.

Author: Susan R. Schrepfer
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Category : Naturalists
Languages : en
Pages : 964

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Author: Francis Peloubet Farquhar
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021466198
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Languages : en
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This fascinating oral history offers a firsthand account of the life and work of Richard M. Leonard, a pioneering mountaineer, lawyer, and environmentalist. From his adventures on the slopes of the Sierra Nevada to his tireless advocacy for conservation and preservation, Leonard's story is a testament to the power of commitment and dedication. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: Richard Manning Leonard
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 578

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Author: Richard M. Leonard
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 578

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Author: Richard Manning Leonard
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 514

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Author: Susan R. Schrepfer
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299088537
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 363

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"This is not a simple or ordinary history of a conservation crusade. Schrepfer very ably traces the changes in scientific wisdom from nineteenth-century romanticism and teleological evolutionism to more current ecological dynamism—and the influence of those intellectual developments on political history. . . . The subject is important—much broader than the title suggests—and so is the book."—American Historical Review

Author: Susan R. Schrepfer
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700619445
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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From the ancient Appalachians to the high Sierra, mountains have always symbolized wilderness for Americans. Susan Schrepfer unfolds the history of our fascination with high peaks and rugged terrain to tell how mountains have played a dramatic role in shaping American ideas about wilderness and its regulation. Delving into memoirs and histories, letters and diaries, early photos and old maps, Schrepfer especially compares male and female mountaineering narratives to show the ways in which gender affected what men and women found to value in rocky heights, and how their different perceptions together defined the wilderness preservation movement for the nation. The Sierra Club in particular popularized the mystique of America's mountains, and Schrepfer uses its history to develop a sweeping interpretation of twentieth-century wilderness perceptions and national conservation politics. Schrepfer follows men like John Muir, Wilderness Society cofounder Robert Marshall, and the Sierra Club's own David Brower into the mountains-and finds them frequently in the company of women. She tells how mountaineering women shaped their lives through high adventure well before the twentieth century, participating in Appalachian mountain clubs and joining men as "Mazamas"—mountain goats—scaling Oregon's Mount Hood. From these expeditions, Schrepfer examines how women's ideas, language, and activism helped shape American environmentalism just as much as men's, parsing the "Romantic sublime" into its respective masculine and feminine components. Tracing this history to the 1964 Wilderness Act, she also shows how the feminine sublimes continue to flourish in the form of ecofeminism and in exploits like the all-woman climb of Annapurna in 1978. By explaining why both women and men risked their lives in these landscapes, how they perceived them, and why they wanted to save them, Schrepfer also reveals the ways in which religion, social class, ethnicity, and nationality shaped the experience of the natural world. Full of engaging stories that shed new light on a history many believe they already know, her book adds subtlety and nuance to the oft-told annals of the wild and gives readers a new perspective on the wilderness movement and mountaineering.