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Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy - The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists (Hardcover)
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Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy - The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists (Hardcover)
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This is the first full-length biography of a remarkable woman
driven to preserve our natural heritage. Rosalie Edge (1877-1962)
was the first American woman to achieve national renown as a
conservationist. Dyana Z. Furmansky draws on Edge's personal papers
and on interviews with family members and associates to portray an
implacable, indomitable personality whose activism earned her the
names ""Joan of Arc"" and ""hellcat."" A progressive New York
socialite and veteran suffragist, Edge did not join the
conservation movement until her early fifties. Nonetheless, her
legacy of what the New Yorker called ""widespread and monumental""
achievements forms a crucial link between the eras defined by John
Muir and Rachel Carson. An early voice against the indiscriminate
use of toxins and pesticides, Edge reported evidence about the
dangers of DDT fourteen years before Carson's Silent Spring was
published. Today, Edge is most widely remembered for establishing
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, the world's first refuge for birds of
prey. Founded in 1934 and located in eastern Pennsylvania, Hawk
Mountain was cited in ""Silent Spring"" as an 'especially
significant' source of data. In 1930, Edge formed the militant
Emergency Conservation Committee, which not only railed against the
complacency of the Bureau of Biological Survey, Audubon Society,
U.S. Forest Service, and other stewardship organizations but also
exposed the complicity of some in the squandering of our natural
heritage. Edge played key roles in the establishment of Olympic and
Kings Canyon National Parks and the expansion of Yosemite and
Sequoia National Parks. Filled with new insights into a tumultuous
period in American conservation, this is the life story of an
unforgettable individual whose work influenced the first generation
of environmentalists, including the founders of the Wilderness
Society, Nature Conservancy, and Environmental Defense Fund.
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