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"A Retreat from Profit": Colonization, the Appalachian Trail, and the social roots of Benton MacKaye's wilderness advocacy
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In January 1935, Benton MacKaye helped to found the Wilderness Society, the first national organization dedicated to the preservation of wilderness and a group whose leadership was key to the passage of the Wilderness Act three decades later. MacKaye joined co-founders Aldo Leopold and Bob Marshall as one of this country's first and most important advocates for a system of wilderness areas. MacKaye's attachment to wilderness began in the early 1920s, with his visionary proposal for an Appalachian Trail from Mt. Washington in New Hampshire to Mt. Mitchell in North Carolina. Like the wilderness ...
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The Great New Wilderness Debate: An Expansive Collection of Writings Defining Wilderness From John Muir to Gary Snyder
; ...political melees over the efficacy of the wilderness idea. The collection is extremely useful...The arguments for and against the wilderness idea are fairly straightforward, as one...and recent historical work on the wilderness idea and its application in various settings...
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The Great New Wilderness Debate
; ...Western civilization. The book is organized into four parts: "the received wilderness idea," "third- and fourth-world views of the wilderness idea," "the wilderness idea roundly criticized and defended," and "beyond the wilderness idea." Beginning...
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American Wilderness: A New History
; ...fields have critiqued and defended the wilderness idea, creating a body of scholarship known...the misapplication of the American wilderness idea in international conservation, and...the undemocratic associations of the wilderness idea. Future wilderness scholarship-and...
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Driven Wild: How the Fight Against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wildnerness Movement
; ...written an engaging account of the origins of the "modern wilderness idea" and its role in the creation of the Wilderness Society...Society's founders: Aldo Leopold, Robert Sterling Yard, Benton MacKaye, and Bob Marshall. The "group," Sutter argues, "had...Wild effectively places the development ...
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AH, `WILDERNESS'
; ...highlight of the week's activities is the screening of Academy Award nominees Larry Hott and Diane Garey's new film, "The Wilderness Idea: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the First Great Battle for Wilderness" next Sunday in Baird Auditorium. The film examines...
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Benton MacKaye: Conservationist, Planner, and Creator of the Appalachian Trail
; Benton MacKaye: Conservationist, Planner, and Creator...As an attempted encapsulation of Benton MacKaye's varied life and work, the subtitle...of people in my division" (p. 257). Benton MacKaye (the name rhymes with "high") was...
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; ...River Runs Through It, and Whale Rider, for instance), others less so (Close to Eden, Darwin's Nightmare, Petulia, and The Wilderness Idea). A few-Foresf Smokechaser, A Fortune in Two Old Trunks, Landmarks, Thirteen Lakes, among them-are likely to have escaped...
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Enjoyment in the Open
; ...impassable for nonstop, Georgia-to- Maine "thru-hikers." Benton Mackaye, the trail's architect, sought to serve millions of two...000 or so hardy souls have walked from end-to-end. Yet for Benton Mackaye, long- distance hiking is not the trail's reason for being...
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ASK THE GLOBE
; Q. Who laid out the Appalachian Trail? J.G., Dedham A. That was forester Benton MacKaye of Shirley. As an employee of the US Forestry Service he became involved in regional planning in an effort to guard the land from...
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A WILDERNESS FOOTPATH NO MORE
; ...suburban communities." It was not always this way. When Benton MacKaye first proposed the construction of "a continuous wilderness...more than a long suburban park. Before his death in 1975, Benton MacKaye voiced a quivering note of optimism regarding the future...
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