Forest & Garden
Subtitle: Traces of Wildness in a Modernizing Land, 1897-1949
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: February 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780813921594
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Environmentalist thought & ideology; Landscape art & architecture; NATURAL HISTORY, COUNTRY LIFE & PETS; Rural planning; Landscape changes; History - General; Architecture; USA; Nature; Landscape; History; Effect of human beings on; Landscape architecture; United States
First sentence: This story has been told many times, with variations in detail and coloring: A young man with a new job as "recreation engineer" in the U.S. Forest Service spent the summer of 1919 investigating national forests in Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Minnesota.
Description: "In Forest and Garden, Melanie L. Simo ranges through the underexamined period of landscape history between Olmsted and mid-twentieth-century modernism, when the contours of the wildness debate were formed and the landscape professions came of age.

Simo's book spans half a century, from the year that Charles Sprague Sargent's influential Garden and Forest magazine first ceased publication in 1897 to the appearance in 1949 of two unusual books about land and landscape - Aldo Leopold's Sand County Almanac and Jens Jensen's The Clearing - that marked the beginning of a new ecological awareness."--BOOK JACKET.