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The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920

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Address delivered before the Agricultural society of Rutland County, Sept. 30, 1847. By George P. Marsh ...

Marsh, George Perkins, 1801-1882.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
Rutland, Vt., Printed at the Herald office, 1848.

SUMMARY
American Memory note: By the mid-nineteenth century, a few Americans were beginning to draw attention to the nation's destruction of its natural resources, especially its forests. None had a more powerful impact on the subsequent history of the conservation movement than George Perkins Marsh. In this speech on agricultural conditions, made while he was a Congressman from Vermont, Marsh draws attention to the human impact on climate, the problems caused by "the injudicious destruction of the woods" (p. 18), especially the effect on water and soil, and calls for replacing "improvident waste" (p. 18) with "a better economy in the management of our forest lands" (p. 17). At the time, these were radical notions, foreshadowing the pioneering synthesis of Marsh's magnum opus, Man and Nature (1864).

NOTES
Published by request of the society.

SUBJECTS
Agriculture--Addresses, essays, lectures.

MEDIUM
24 p. 22 cm.

CALL NUMBER
S523 .M36

DIGITAL ID
amrvg vg02

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