Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: University of Georgia Press, 2010

0820336769 / 9780820336763

Serie: Buch 1 von 14 - Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book Ser.

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Brief gift inscription by and signed by Furmansky. One page corner has been turned. Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature From The Conservationists received a 2009 Wormsloe Foundation Nature Award and the 2010 Colorado Book Award. Dyana?s articles on environmental subjects and the culture of the American West have appeared in The New York Times, Audubon Magazine, American Heritage, High Country News, Harrowsmith Countrylife, Wilderness and many other publications. (under the byline Dyan Zaslowsky before 2004). In 1986 she was part of the High Country News reporting team that won the George Polk Award for Environmental Reporting. Rosalie Edge (1877-1962) was the first American woman to achieve national renown as a conservationist. Dyana Z. Furmansky draws on Edge?s personal papers and on interviews with family members and associates to portray an implacable, indomitable personality whose activism earned her the names Joan of Arc and hellcat. A progressive New York socialite and veteran suffragist, Edge did not join the conservation movement until her early fifties. Nonetheless, her legacy of achievements?called widespread and monumental by the New Yorker?forms a crucial link between the eras defined by John Muir and Rachel Carson. An early voice against the indiscriminate use of toxins and pesticides, Edge reported evidence about the dangers of DDT fourteen years before Carson's Silent Spring was published. Today, Edge is most widely remembered for establishing Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, the world's first refuge for birds of prey. Founded in 1934 and located in eastern Pennsylvania, Hawk Mountain was cited in Silent Spring as an especially significant source of data. In 1930, Edge formed the militant Emergency Conservation Committee, which not only railed against the complacency of the Bureau of Biological Survey, Audubon Society, U.S. Forest Service, and other stewardship organizations but also exposed the complicity of some in the squandering of our natural heritage. Edge played key roles in the establishment of Olympic and Kings Canyon National Parks and the expansion of Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks. Filled with new insights into a tumultuous period in American conservation, this is the life story of an unforgettable individual whose work influenced the first generation of environmentalists, including the founders of the Wilderness Society, Nature Conservancy, and Environmental Defense Fund.…

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Titel
Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists
Autor
Furmansky, Dyana Z, and Clement, Roland C (Afterword by), and McKibben, Bill (Foreword by)
Verlag
University of Georgia Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2010
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Trade paperback
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
0820336769
ISBN-13
9780820336763
Artikelgewicht
18 Unzen
Abmessungen
95x12x144
Serie
Buch 1 von 14: Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book Ser.
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