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Defining Documents in American History: Environment & Conservation

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Note




Editor’s Introduction




Contributors




BEGINNINGS




William Bartram: Travels




The Journals of Lewis and Clark




John C. Fremont: “Expedition across the Sierra Nevadas”




Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Nature” and “The American Scholar”




Susan Fenimore Cooper: Rural Hours




Homestead Act of 1862




George Marsh: Man and Nature




Henry David Thoreau: The Maine Woods




THE MIDDLE YEARS




John Wesley Powell: Canyons of the Colorado




An Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park




Carl Schurz: “On the Need for Federal Forest Conservation”




William T. Hornady: “The Extermination of the American Bison”




John Muir: “Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park”




Gifford Pinchot: Letters to John Muir




Theodore Roosevelt: On the Conservation of Natural Resources




Declaration of the Conservation Conference




Henry Beston: The Outermost House




Stuart Chase: Waste in the Machine Age




Letter from a Dust Bowl Survivor




Robert Fechner: My Hopes for the CCC




Aldo Leopold: “Death of a Species”




Paley Commission Report: Resources for Freedom




Antarctic Treaty




THE MODERN ERA




Rachel Carson: Silent Spring




Paul Ehrlich: The Population Bomb




Garrett Hardin: “The Tragedy of the Commons” and “The Global Pothole Problem”




Gaylord Nelson: Proposal for Earth Day




Clean Air Act Amendments




Richard Nixon on the Need for Environmental Regulation




Clean Water Act




Marine Mammal Protection Act




Endangered Species Act




Greenpeace: “Declaration of Interdependence”




James Lovelock: The Gaia Hypothesis




Jimmy Carter on the Three Mile Island Incident




Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act




Arne Naess: “Explaining Deep Ecology”




James Hansen: The Case for Climate Change




Exxon-Valdez Oil Spill: A Report to the President




Al Gore: Address to the Kyoto Climate Change Conference




Paula Dobriansky: “On Working Together to Build Prosperity”




Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency




Report on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill




Paris Agreement on Climate Change




Flint, Michigan: Water Crisis




APPENDIXES




Chronological List




Web Resources




Bibliography