The Environmental Debate, Third Edition

The Origins of Environmental Activism, 1840–1889 45 Traveller. I dare say you will be surprised to hear me say that the French a ...

46 The Environmental Debate Document 39: Swamp and Overflow Act (1850) The passage of the Swamp and Overflow Act–An Act to enabl ...

The Origins of Environmental Activism, 1840–1889 47 DOCUMENT 40: The Shattuck Report’s Recommendations for Sanitary Improvement ...

48 The Environmental Debate Document 41: Rebecca Harding Davis on Smoke and Soot in a Mill Town (1861) This fictional account of ...

The Origins of Environmental Activism, 1840–1889 49 upon application to the register of the land office in which he or she is ab ...

50 The Environmental Debate Document 43: George Perkins Marsh’s Man and Nature (1864) George Perkins Marsh, a lawyer and philolo ...

The Origins of Environmental Activism, 1840–1889 51 Document 44: Henry David Thoreau on the Value of Living Things (1864)....... ...

52 The Environmental Debate Document 45: Act Granting Yo-Semite Valley to California (1864) As the first large public park in th ...

The Origins of Environmental Activism, 1840–1889 53 For several days in June I had been forcing my way through woods that seemed ...

54 The Environmental Debate numbers of people, desirous of moving for recrea- tion among scenes that should be gratifying to the ...

The Origins of Environmental Activism, 1840–1889 55 and extending the original sylvan defences, secure a more decided effect of ...

56 The Environmental Debate that all these questions, as indeed is obvious in respect to most of them, must be answered in the a ...

The Origins of Environmental Activism, 1840–1889 57 to make and publish such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary or p ...

58 The Environmental Debate association, or corporation authorized to locate a claim under this act, having claimed and located ...

The Origins of Environmental Activism, 1840–1889 59 The rapidity with which this country is being stripped of its forests must a ...

60 The Environmental Debate the thickly settled parts of the United States there is enough land to maintain three or four times ...

The Origins of Environmental Activism, 1840–1889 61 the protection of the Adirondack forests by the establishment of a State Par ...

62 The Environmental Debate Sect. 2.—Any person who shall, within the state of ____________, take or needlessly destroy the nest ...

The Origins of Environmental Activism, 1840–1889 63 far as possible (1), the killing of any wild birds not used for food; (2) th ...

64 The Environmental Debate fair chase, by still-hunting or otherwise, at least one individual of one of the various kinds of Am ...