TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1 The First Environmental History 2 Forests, Parks, and State Forestry 3 Origins of the Conservation Movement 4 Congress Initiates Forest Study 5 First Government Forest Reserves in the Hemisphere 6 Big Game, Wildlife, and Other Conservation Causes 7 Rise of the Technocrats: Experts, Managers, and Politics 8 Early Forestry Schools: Rise of a New Profession 9 Early State Forestry Efforts 10 The Economic Legacy of Early Foresters 11 Women's Clubs and Conservation 12 Reserve Act and Congress: Passage of the 1891 Act 13 Forest Reserves and Forest Rangers 14 American Indians and Forest Management 15 Forest Transfer Act of 1905 16 The Weeks Act and Eastern Forests 17 The Forest Service and the Civilian Conservation Corps 18 First Resource Debate: Sheep in the Forests 19 Wilderness and Recreation in the National Forest System 20 Conservation and Forest Products 21 Mining and Forest Conservation 22 Wildlife Management in the Forest Service 23 Post-War Development and the Forest Service 24 Forest Service: Agency in Transition
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