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“[This] argument will surely stir its readers to fresh consideration and ought to help greatly in rousing public attention.” -- New York Times Book Review, November 5, 1933
“should be a compulsory text in every American public school.” -- The Nation, 1933
“should be a compulsory text in every American public school.” -- The Nation, 1933
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Devoted conservationist, environmentalist, and explorer Robert Marshall (1901-1939) was chief of the Division of Recreation and Lands, U.S. Forest Service, when he died at age thirty-eight. Throughout his short but intense life. Marshall helped catalyze the preservation of millions of wilderness acres in all parts of the U.S., inspired countless wilderness advocates, and was a pioneer in the modern environmental movement: he and seven fellow conservationists founded the Wilderness Society in 1935. First published in 1933, The People's Forests made a passionate case for the public ownership and management of the nation's forests in the face of generations of devastating practices; its republication now is especially timely. Marshall describes the major values of forests as sources of raw materials, as essential resources for the conservation of soil and water, and as a "precious environment for recreation" and for "the happiness of millions of human beings." He considers the pros and cons of private and public ownership, deciding that public ownership and large-scale public acquisition are vital in order to save the nation's forests, and sets out ways to intelligently plan for and manage public ownership. The last words of this book capture Marshall's philosophy perfectly: "The time has come when we must discard the unsocial view that our woods are the lumbermen's and substitute the broader ideal that every acre of woodland in the country is rightly a part of the people's forests." Douglas Midgett, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Iowa, and Michael Dombeck, former chief of the U.S. Forest Service, enhance the republication of this significant book by providing, respectively, a biographical essay on Robert Marshall and a foreword that discusses current management issues from an ecological and economic perspective.
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