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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 achievements called "widespread and
monumental" by the New Yorker 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.
This is a new release of the original 1960 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1960 edition.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
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.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
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