The People's Forests (American Land & Life) - Softcover

Marshall, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0877458057 ISBN 13: 9780877458050

Publisher: University Of Iowa Press, 2002

Synopsis

Devoted conservationist, environmentalist, and explorer Robert Marshall (1901-1939) was chief of the Division of Recreation and Lands, U.S. Forest Service, when he died at age thirty-eight. Throughout his short but intense life. Marshall helped catalyze the preservation of millions of wilderness acres in all parts of the U.S., inspired countless wilderness advocates, and was a pioneer in the modern environmental movement: he and seven fellow conservationists founded the Wilderness Society in 1935. First published in 1933, The People's Forests made a passionate case for the public ownership and management of the nation's forests in the face of generations of devastating practices; its republication now is especially timely. Marshall describes the major values of forests as sources of raw materials, as essential resources for the conservation of soil and water, and as a precious environment for recreation and for the happiness of millions of human beings. He considers the pros and cons of private and public ownership, deciding that public ownership and large-scale public acquisition are vital in order to save the nation's forests, and sets out ways to intelligently plan for and m

About this title

About the Author

Douglas Midgett, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Iowa, and Mike Dombeck, former chief of the U.S. Forest Service, enhance the republication of this significant book by providing, respectively, a biographical essay on Robert Marshall and a foreword that discusses current management issues from an ecological and economic perspective.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0877458057
• ISBN 13: 9780877458050
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 233