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Dedication
Epigraph
PART ONE: THE EDUCATION OF A HUDSON RIVER CONSERVATIONIST, 1882–1932
CHAPTER 1 “ALL THAT IS IN ME GOES BACK TO THE HUDSON”
CHAPTER 2 “I JUST WISH I COULD BE AT HOME TO HELP MARK THE TREES”
CHAPTER 3 “HE KNEW EVERY TREE, EVERY ROCK, AND EVERY STREAM”
CHAPTER 4 “WISE USE”
CHAPTER 5 “NOTHING LIKE MOTHER NATURE”
CHAPTER 6 “A TWICE-BORN MAN”
PART TWO: NEW DEAL CONSERVATION, 1933–1936
CHAPTER 7 “THEY’VE MADE THE GOOD EARTH BETTER”
CHAPTER 8 “HE DID NOT WAIT TO ASK QUESTIONS, BUT SIMPLY SAID THAT IT SHOULD BE DONE”
CHAPTER 9 “ROOSEVELT IS MY SHEPHERD”
CHAPTER 10 “THE YEAR OF THE NATIONAL PARK”
CHAPTER 11 “A DUCK FOR EVERY PUDDLE”
CHAPTER 12 “SOONER OR LATER, YOU ARE LIKELY TO MEET THE SIGN OF THE FLYING GOOSE”
CHAPTER 13 “WE ARE GOING TO CONSERVE SOIL, CONSERVE WATER, AND CONSERVE LIFE”
PART THREE: CONSERVATION EXPANSION, 1937–1939
CHAPTER 14 “WHILE YOU’RE GITTIN’, GIT A-PLENTY”
CHAPTER 15 “I HOPE THE SON-OF-A-BITCH WHO LOGGED THAT IS ROASTING IN HELL”
CHAPTER 16 “PERPETUATED FOR POSTERITY”
CHAPTER 17 “TO BENEFIT WILDLIFE”
PART FOUR: WORLD WAR II AND GLOBAL CONSERVATION, 1940–1945
CHAPTER 18 “AN ABUNDANCE OF WILD THINGS”
CHAPTER 19 “THE ARMY MUST FIND A DIFFERENT NESTING PLACE!”
CHAPTER 20 “CONSERVATION IS A BASIS OF PERMANENT PEACE”
EPILOGUE “WHERE THE SUNDIAL STANDS”
APPENDIX A NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM AREAS AFFECTED UNDER THE REORGANIZATION OF AUGUST 10, 1933
APPENDIX B NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGES ESTABLISHED UNDER FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, 1933–1945
APPENDIX C NATIONAL PARKS AND NATIONAL MONUMENTS CREATED BY FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT FOLLOWING THE REORGANIZATION OF AUGUST 10, 1933
APPENDIX D ESTABLISHMENT AND MODIFICATION OF NATIONAL FOREST BOUNDARIES BY FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, MARCH 1933 TO APRIL 1945
APPENDIX E THE NINE CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS AREAS
APPENDIX F CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS—BASIC FACTS
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Photos Section
About the Author
Also by Douglas Brinkley
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