I was thrilled to be invited to contribute to The Forest History Society’s “Conversations in Forest History” series. I have been fascinated by the question of “nature vs. nurture” and their impacts on the youngsters that would later become champions of conservation, which this talk explores.
This Land Was Saved for You and Me traces the path of the establishment of America’s public lands from New York’s Central Park in 1858 to the passage of The Wilderness Act in 1964 and beyond. Available now from Amazon, Books-a-Million, Barnes & Noble, and […]
Maine author and historian Jeffrey Ryan appeared on the popular Nature Revisited podcast to discuss the history of the Appalachian Trail.
In a lead up to the airing of my film about Howard Zahniser, I had a great and wide-ranging chat with Mark Madison about my projects to date.
Howard Zahniser’s son, Ed, speaks about his father’s impressive efforts to establish and protect American wilderness areas. It was a pleasure to interview him for this episode.
Ernest Oberholtzer set out to become a renowned writer and explorer. He ended up saving millions of acres of wilderness instead.
Today is the 199th birthday of the father of American landscape architecture and of such great public spaces as New York City’s Central Park, campuses such as Stanford in California and the University of Maine in Orono, and hundreds of other famous parks and grounds. […]
In 1864, George Perkins Marsh’s book, Man and Nature, placed the concepts of sustainable forestry, sustainable farming and water conservation in the public eye for the first time.
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