LEADER 04961nam 2200685 450 001 9910786798003321 005 20230126213240.0 010 $a0-295-80515-3 035 $a(CKB)3710000000213520 035 $a(EBL)3444604 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001266381 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11839654 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001266381 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11249055 035 $a(PQKB)10452505 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3444604 035 $a(OCoLC)887265945 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse32910 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3444604 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10901483 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000213520 100 $a20140813h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe wilderness writings of Howard Zahniser /$fedited by Mark Harvey ; foreword by William Cronon ; designed by Barry Schwartz 210 1$aSeattle, Washington :$cUniversity of Washington Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (249 p.) 225 0 $aWeyhaeuser Environmental Classics 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-295-99391-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Evangelist for the Wilderness -- Part 1. The Makings of a Nature Writer -- Part 2. Transition to The Wilderness Society -- Part 3. Campaigning for Wilderness -- Part 4. Threats to Wild Lands -- Part 5. The Campaign for the Wilderness Bill -- Part 6. The Last Hurdle -- Part 7. Testimonies -- Excerpts from the Wilderness Act of 1964. 330 2 $a"Howard Zahniser (1906-1964), executive secretary of The Wilderness Society and editor of The Living Wilderness from 1945 to 1964, is arguably the person most responsible for drafting and promoting the Wilderness Act in 1964. The act, which created the National Wilderness Preservation System, was the culmination of Zahniser's years of tenacious lobbying and his work with conservationists across the nation. In 1964, fifty-four wilderness areas in thirteen states were part of the system; today the number has grown to 757 areas, protecting more than a hundred million acres in forty-four states and Puerto Rico. Zahniser's passion for wild places and his arguments for their preservation were communicated through radio addresses, magazine articles, speeches, and congressional testimony. An eloquent and often poetic writer, he seized every opportunity to make the case for the value of wilderness to people, communities, and the nation. Despite his unquestioned importance and the power of his prose, the best of Zahniser's wilderness writings have never before been gathered in a single volume. This indispensable collection makes available in one place essays and other writings that played a vital role in persuading Congress and the American people that wilderness in the United States deserved permanent protection. Mark Harvey, author of the standard biography of Zahniser, provides prefaces to the essays that outline the contexts in which they were written as well as a general introduction to the man whose vision, decency, and quiet passion shine from the pages of this book. Mark Harvey is professor of history at North Dakota State University and the author of Wilderness Forever : Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act and A Symbol of Wilderness : Echo Park and the American Conservation Movement; "Howard Zahniser authored the Wilderness Act of 1964 and was its most tireless advocate. A quiet, self-effacing man who felt no need to call attention to himself, he was also a graceful and eloquent writer whose essays--widely scattered in hard-to-find periodicals--deserve to be much more widely read than they have been. This first-ever anthology gathers his most important wilderness writings into a single volume to make them available to modern readers as never before"--William Cronon"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aWeyhaeuser Environmental Classics 606 $aWilderness areas$zUnited States 606 $aNature conservation$zUnited States 606 $aWilderness areas$xGovernment policy$zUnited States 606 $aNature conservation$xGovernment policy$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xEnvironmental conditions 615 0$aWilderness areas 615 0$aNature conservation 615 0$aWilderness areas$xGovernment policy 615 0$aNature conservation$xGovernment policy 676 $a333.78/20973 686 $aNAT045040$aLCO010000$aLCO002000$2bisacsh 700 $aZahniser$b Howard$01522618 702 $aHarvey$b Mark W. T$g(Mark William Thornton), 702 $aCronon$b William 702 $aSchwartz$b Barry 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786798003321 996 $aThe wilderness writings of Howard Zahniser$93762408 997 $aUNINA