PDF Reading Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists English 820333417 PDF

Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists

Rosalie Edge (1877-1962) was the first American woman to achieve national renown as a conservationist. Dyana Z. Furmansky draws on Edge’s personal papers and on interviews with family members and associates to portray an implacable, indomitable personality whose activism earned her the names “Joan of Arc” and “hellcat.” A progressive New York socialite and veteran suffragist, Edge did not join the conservation movement until her early fifties. Nonetheless, her legacy of achievements―called "widespread and monumental" by the New Yorker―forms a crucial link between the eras defined by John Muir and Rachel Carson. An early voice against the indiscriminate use of toxins and pesticides, Edge reported evidence about the dangers of DDT fourteen years before Carson's Silent Spring was published.Today, Edge is most widely remembered for establishing Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, the world's first refuge for birds of prey. Founded in 1934 and located in eastern Pennsylvania, Hawk Mountain was cited in Silent Spring as an "especially significant" source of data. In 1930, Edge formed the militant Emergency Conservation Committee, which not only railed against the complacency of the Bureau of Biological Survey, Audubon Society, U.S. Forest Service, and other stewardship organizations but also exposed the complicity of some in the squandering of our natural heritage. Edge played key roles in the establishment of Olympic and Kings Canyon National Parks and the expansion of Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks. Filled with new insights into a tumultuous period in American conservation, this is the life story of an unforgettable individual whose work influenced the first generation of environmentalists, including the founders of the Wilderness Society, Nature Conservancy, and Environmental Defense Fund.

Product details

• Hardcover : 199 pages


• Title : Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists


• Language : English


• ISBN-10 : 820333417

 

Download As PDF : Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists

Rosalie Edge
Edge gave speeches and wrote pro suffrage pamphlets, and later served as the secretary treasurer of the New York State Woman Suffrage Party under Carrie Chapman Catt (Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy). Birdwatching. Edge began to take a strong interest in birdwatching in the 1920s, when she joined ornithologists and amateur birdwatchers in Central Park. She was inspired to become a conservation activist after reading of the slaughter of 70,000 bald eagles in the Alaskan Territory, without any ...
Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature
Rosalie Edge (1877 1962) was the first American woman to achieve national renown as a conservationist. Dyana Z. Furmansky draws on Edge’s personal papers and on interviews with family members and associates to portray an implacable, indomitable personality whose activism earned her the names “Joan of Arc” and “hellcat.”.
Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy Georgia Press
In Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy, Dyana Furmansky restores Rosalie Edge to her proper place in the pantheon of American conservation a savvy, sharp tongued, take no prisoners activist we should thank every time we gasp in wonder at an old growth forest of sequoias or sugar pines, walk through an unsullied national park, or watch a hawk circle unmolested in the autumn sky. This biography is a tribute, long overdue, to a warrior for nature.
Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy | Dyana Z Furmansky
Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy will captivate and surprise you.” – Lynn Sweet, Washington Bureau Chief, Chicago Sun Times “Clearly relishing every moment of Edge’s remarkable life, Furmansky vividly enriches environmental history with her inspiring portrait of this indomitable champion of the wild.”
Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature
"In Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy, Dyana Furmansky restores Rosalie Edge to her proper place in the pantheon of American conservation—a savvy, sharp tongued, take no prisoners activist we should thank every time we gasp in wonder at an old growth forest of sequoias or sugar pines, walk through an unsullied national park, or watch a hawk circle ...
Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature
Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists. Dyana Z. Furmansky. University of Georgia Press, Sep 28, 2010 Nature 352 pages. 0 Reviews. Rosalie Edge (1877 1962) was the first American woman to achieve national renown as a conservationist. Dyana Z. Furmansky draws on Edge’s personal papers and on ...
Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature
"In Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy, Dyana Furmansky restores Rosalie Edge to her proper place in the pantheon of American conservation—a savvy, sharp tongued, take no prisoners activist we should thank every time we gasp in wonder at an old growth forest of sequoias or sugar pines, walk through an unsullied national park, or watch a hawk circle ...
Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature
Edge—Rosalie, as her few intimates called her—was the legend of the conservation movement. At eighty five she still ran the two organizations she had started in the 1930s: Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in Kempton, Pennsylvania, the world’s first preserve for birds of prey, and the Manhattan based Emergency Conservation mittee.
Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature
Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy. Book Description: Rosalie Edge (1877 1962) was the first American woman to achieve national renown as a conservationist. Dyana Z. Furmansky draws on Edge's personal papers and on interviews with family members and associates to portray an implacable, indomitable personality whose activism earned her the names "Joan of ...
Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature
Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy (Paperback) The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book) By Roland C. Clement (Afterword by), Dyana Z. Furmansky, Bill McKibben (Foreword by) . University of Georgia Press, 9780820336763, 312pp.

Book title: Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists
File size: 30MB

Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists Download eBook PDF and Epub, Book eBook France Download Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists Book Ebook PDF Download Book Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists in PDF format Download Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists in PDF format

Share this post