Hal K. Rothman is editor of the Environmental History Review and teaches history and public administration at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His book Devil’s Bargains, about tourism in the twentieth-century American West, received the 1999 Western Writers of America Spur Award for contemporary nonfiction. He has also written The Greening of a Nation?, “I’ll Never Fight Fire with My Bare Hands Again,” On Rims and Ridges, and Preserving Different Pasts.

A concise, balanced, and readable history of the conservation movement for the last hundred-plus years.

• Part 1 INTRODUCTION: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND ITS MANY VISIONS 3Chapter 2 From conservation to environmentalism—continuities and contradictions.Part 3 SETTING THE STAGE: THE DIVERSE CURRENTS OF THE 1890s 11Chapter 4 Industrialization and reform. John Muir, the Sierra Club, and the preservation of nature. Federal legislation.Part 5 PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATION 34Chapter 6 Theodore Roosevelt and the new approach to conservation. Addressing water pollution. Gifford Pinchot and scientific forestry. Implementing Progressive conservation. The Hetch-Hetchy controversy.Part 7 CONSERVATION AS BUSINESS AND LABOR POLICY 60Chapter 8 Jazz Age values. Water in the West. New Deal projects. Effects of the Great Depression.Part 9 THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF CONSERVATION 85Chapter 10 Post–World War II social changes. The problems of growth. Conservation revived. The Echo Park Dam battle.Part 11 THE RISE OF AESTHETIC ENVIRONMENTALISM 108Chapter 12 The mood of the 1960s. Calls to action. Perils of atomic testing. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb. Environmentalism as a new center of consensus. The Santa Barbara oil spill.Part 13 THE LIMITS OF QUALITY OF LIFE 131Chapter 14 The dangerous bargain between industry and its workers. A legal revolution. The federal response to environmental concerns. Environmental Impact Statements. The Alaska Pipeline. Earth Day. Toxic wastes.Part 15 BACKLASH: FULL STOMACHS AND EMPTY POCKETS 158Chapter 16 Impact of the oil crisis and the Vietnam War. The Sagebrush Rebellion. James Watt. Swelling ranks of environmental groups. Reagan administration policies. The Wise Use movement.Part 17 A NEW ENVIRONMENTALISM 184Chapter 18 Three Mile Island. Hazardous waste and Love Canal. New grassroots activism. Dumping in Nevada.Part 19 A Note on Sources 206Part 20 Index 210

Hal K. Rothman is editor of the Environmental History Review and teaches history and public administration at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His book Devil’s Bargains, about tourism in the twentieth-century American West, received the 1999 Western Writers of America Spur Award for contemporary nonfiction. He has also written The Greening of a Nation?, “I’ll Never Fight Fire with My Bare Hands Again,” On Rims and Ridges, and Preserving Different Pasts.

A concise, balanced, and readable history of the conservation movement for the last hundred-plus years.

• Part 1 INTRODUCTION: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND ITS MANY VISIONS 3Chapter 2 From conservation to environmentalism—continuities and contradictions.Part 3 SETTING THE STAGE: THE DIVERSE CURRENTS OF THE 1890s 11Chapter 4 Industrialization and reform. John Muir, the Sierra Club, and the preservation of nature. Federal legislation.Part 5 PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATION 34Chapter 6 Theodore Roosevelt and the new approach to conservation. Addressing water pollution. Gifford Pinchot and scientific forestry. Implementing Progressive conservation. The Hetch-Hetchy controversy.Part 7 CONSERVATION AS BUSINESS AND LABOR POLICY 60Chapter 8 Jazz Age values. Water in the West. New Deal projects. Effects of the Great Depression.Part 9 THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF CONSERVATION 85Chapter 10 Post–World War II social changes. The problems of growth. Conservation revived. The Echo Park Dam battle.Part 11 THE RISE OF AESTHETIC ENVIRONMENTALISM 108Chapter 12 The mood of the 1960s. Calls to action. Perils of atomic testing. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb. Environmentalism as a new center of consensus. The Santa Barbara oil spill.Part 13 THE LIMITS OF QUALITY OF LIFE 131Chapter 14 The dangerous bargain between industry and its workers. A legal revolution. The federal response to environmental concerns. Environmental Impact Statements. The Alaska Pipeline. Earth Day. Toxic wastes.Part 15 BACKLASH: FULL STOMACHS AND EMPTY POCKETS 158Chapter 16 Impact of the oil crisis and the Vietnam War. The Sagebrush Rebellion. James Watt. Swelling ranks of environmental groups. Reagan administration policies. The Wise Use movement.Part 17 A NEW ENVIRONMENTALISM 184Chapter 18 Three Mile Island. Hazardous waste and Love Canal. New grassroots activism. Dumping in Nevada.Part 19 A Note on Sources 206Part 20 Index 210

Hal K. Rothman is editor of the Environmental History Review and teaches history and public administration at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His book Devil’s Bargains, about tourism in the twentieth-century American West, received the 1999 Western Writers of America Spur Award for contemporary nonfiction. He has also written The Greening of a Nation?, “I’ll Never Fight Fire with My Bare Hands Again,” On Rims and Ridges, and Preserving Different Pasts.

A concise, balanced, and readable history of the conservation movement for the last hundred-plus years.

• Part 1 INTRODUCTION: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND ITS MANY VISIONS 3Chapter 2 From conservation to environmentalism—continuities and contradictions.Part 3 SETTING THE STAGE: THE DIVERSE CURRENTS OF THE 1890s 11Chapter 4 Industrialization and reform. John Muir, the Sierra Club, and the preservation of nature. Federal legislation.Part 5 PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATION 34Chapter 6 Theodore Roosevelt and the new approach to conservation. Addressing water pollution. Gifford Pinchot and scientific forestry. Implementing Progressive conservation. The Hetch-Hetchy controversy.Part 7 CONSERVATION AS BUSINESS AND LABOR POLICY 60Chapter 8 Jazz Age values. Water in the West. New Deal projects. Effects of the Great Depression.Part 9 THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF CONSERVATION 85Chapter 10 Post–World War II social changes. The problems of growth. Conservation revived. The Echo Park Dam battle.Part 11 THE RISE OF AESTHETIC ENVIRONMENTALISM 108Chapter 12 The mood of the 1960s. Calls to action. Perils of atomic testing. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb. Environmentalism as a new center of consensus. The Santa Barbara oil spill.Part 13 THE LIMITS OF QUALITY OF LIFE 131Chapter 14 The dangerous bargain between industry and its workers. A legal revolution. The federal response to environmental concerns. Environmental Impact Statements. The Alaska Pipeline. Earth Day. Toxic wastes.Part 15 BACKLASH: FULL STOMACHS AND EMPTY POCKETS 158Chapter 16 Impact of the oil crisis and the Vietnam War. The Sagebrush Rebellion. James Watt. Swelling ranks of environmental groups. Reagan administration policies. The Wise Use movement.Part 17 A NEW ENVIRONMENTALISM 184Chapter 18 Three Mile Island. Hazardous waste and Love Canal. New grassroots activism. Dumping in Nevada.Part 19 A Note on Sources 206Part 20 Index 210