Force of Nature: George Fell, Founder of the Natural Areas Movement

Pearson, Arthur Melville

ISBN 10: 0299312348 / ISBN 13: 9780299312343

Published by University of Wisconsin Press, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Force of Nature: George Fell, Founder of the Natural Areas Movement
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0299312348
• ISBN 13: 9780299312343
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Winner of the Illinois State Historical Society Outstanding Achievement Award

Efforts to preserve wild places in the United States began with the allure of scenic grandeur: Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon. But what about the many significant natural sites too small or fragile to qualify as state or federal parks? Force of Nature reveals how George Fell initiated the natural areas movement to save those areas. Fell transformed a loose band of ecologists into The Nature Conservancy, drove the passage of the influential Illinois Nature Preserves Act, and helped spark allied local and national conservation organizations in the United States and beyond.

About the Author

Arthur Melville Pearson is the director of the Chicago Program at the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, which helps protect and restore natural lands in the Chicago region and the Lowcountry of South Carolina. His writing has appeared frequently in the magazines Chicago Wilderness and Outdoor Illinois and in the blogs A Midewin Almanac and City Creatures.