Driven Wild
Subtitle: How the Fight Against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: March 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780295982199
Subjects: Conservation of the environment; 20th century; Nature; Environmental Studies; Wilderness areas; Nature/Ecology; USA; Nature conservation; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Environmental Science; Natural Resources; Conservationists; History; United States
First sentence: In October 1934, the American Forestry Association (AFA) held its annual meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Description: "In Driven Wild, Paul Sutter traces the intellectual and cultural roots of the modern wilderness movement from about 1910 through the 1930s, with tightly drawn portraits of four Wilderness Society founders - Aldo Leopold, Robert Sterling Yard, Benton MacKaye, and Bob Marshall.

Each man brought a different background and perspective to the advocacy for wilderness preservation, yet each was spurred by a fear of what growing numbers of automobiles, aggressive road building, and the meteoric increase in Americans turning to nature for their leisure would do to the country's wild places. As Sutter discovered, the founders of the Wilderness Society were "driven wild" - pushed by a rapidly changing country to construct a new preservationist ideal."--BOOK JACKET.