The People's Forests (American Land & Life)
Contributors: Mike Dombeck (Foreword); Douglas K. Midgett (Contributor)
Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
Published: June 2, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780877458050
Subjects: Deforestation; Environmentalist thought & ideology; Management of land & natural resources; Nature/Ecology; Forests & Forestry; Forest Management; United States; Nature; Environmental Studies; USA; Forests and forestry; Environmental Science; Natural Resources; Science / Environmental Science; Social aspects; Forest conservation; Land tenure
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.