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Nature's Army
2020
Overview
Blessings on Uncle Sam's soldiers! They have done their job
well, and every pine tree is waving its arms for joy .-John
Muir
Muir's words and this book both celebrate a crucial but largely
forgotten episode in our nation's history-how a generation prior to
the creation of a National Park Service, the US Army ran Yosemite
National Park in an unusual alliance with the fabled
preservationist John Muir and his Sierra Club. Harvey Meyerson
brings that largely forgotten episode in our nation's history to
life and uses it as a touchstone for a reconsideration of a century
of civilian-military cooperation in environmental protection and
infrastructure construction whose impact and relevance still
resonate.
Despite the worldwide renown and popularity of Yosemite National
Park, few people know that its first stewards were drawn from the
so-called Old Army. From 1890 until the establishment of the
National Park Service in 1916, these soldiers proved to be
extremely competent and farsighted wilderness managers. Meyerson
recaptures the forgotten history of these early environmentalists
and how they set significant standards for the future oversight of
our national parks.
The army, Meyerson suggests, had actually been well prepared to
assume this stewardship. During its first hundred years-and despite
the interruptions of warfare-its soldiers had crisscrossed the
American landscape, preparing maps and writing detailed reports
describing climate, weather, physical terrain, ecosystems, and the
diverse flora and fauna populating the lands they explored and
often protected during an era of wide-open exploitation of natural
resources. Such experience made the army better suited than any
other federal agency to oversee the early national parks
system.
Combining environmental, military, political, and cultural
history, Meyerson's study is especially timely in light of
Yosemite's enormous popularity (four million visitors annually) and
recent controversies pitting conservation forces against dam
builders and proponents of expanded public access.
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Subject
/ Environmental policy-United States-History
/ Environmental protection-California-Yosemite National Park-History
/ History
/ United States. Army. Cavalry
/ United States.-Army.-Cavalry-History
/ Yosemite National Park (Calif.)
/ Yosemite National Park (Calif.)-Environmental conditions
ISBN
0700629505, 9780700629503
