Explorations in American Environmental History Study Notes on Conservation Writers

Henry David Thoreau, "The Value of Wilderness"

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George Perkins Marsh, "Human Responsibility for the Land"

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Frederick Law Olmsted, "The Value and Care of Parks"

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John F. Reiger, "The Sportsman Factor in Early Conservation"

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Carl Schurz, "The Beginnings of Federal Concern"

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John Wesley Powell, "The Reclamation Idea"

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"The Progressive Conservation Crusade"

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John Muir, "A Voice for Wilderness"

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Gifford Pinchot, "The Birth of Conservation"

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Robert Marshall, "Wilderness"

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