The World of Wilderness: Essays on the Power and Purpose of Wild Country
- ISBN-10
- 1570980187
- ISBN-13
- 9781570980183
- Category
- Nature conservation
- Pages
- 284
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995-01-01
- Authors
- Tom H. Watkins, Patricia Byrnes
Description
Just thirty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson took pen in hand and signed the Wilderness Act, establishing that land would be set aside for the use and enjoyment of the American people as "wilderness." Now, in the mid 1990s, more than 100 million acres of wilderness have been protected within national parks, national forests, and wildlife refuges - all made possible by the Wilderness Act. Nevertheless, an equal number of acres on the continent remain to be protected, and the essays in this book may help to explain why. All of them were published over the last thirteen years in Wilderness, the quarterly magazine of The Wilderness Society, in an attempt to illuminate the role of wilderness in American life. The essays represent, according to the editors, "the best conservation writing in recent years," and serve as a "literary primer for a new age of preservation."
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