John Muir and His Legacy: The American Conservation Movement

Chapter 9 focuses on contexts of positive engagement in the domain of the wider society among emerging adults. The authors examine the growing research literature on civic engagement and volunteering, covering patterns of development and change during emerging to young adulthood, describing how this development is linked to the three personality levels of the McAdams and Pals model. They also describe work on one salient contemporary type of civic engagement, environmentalism, and review what is known on this particular topic in youth. The authors cover the evidence on both of these domains from their Futures Study sample, using both questionnaire and narrative material to expand these findings. As a way of illuminating the key points, the chapter ends with a case study of the early life story of John Muir, an important founder of the environmental and conservation movement in the United States.

John Muir and His Legacy: The American Conservation Movement

Journal of American History ◽

10.2307/1899792 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 70 (4) ◽

pp. 900

Author(s):

Roderick Nash ◽

Stephen Fox

Keyword(s):

John Muir ◽

Conservation Movement

Stephen Fox.John Muir and His Legacy: The American Conservation Movement. Boston: Little, Brown. 1981. Pp. xii, 436. $17.50

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/89.1.223 ◽

1984 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

John Muir ◽

Conservation Movement

Introduction: A Long Way from Earth Day

Journal of Policy History ◽

10.1353/jph.2000.0004 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 1-16 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Otis L. Graham

Keyword(s):

National Parks ◽

Soil Conservation ◽

Historical Memory ◽

John Muir ◽

Santa Barbara ◽

Theodore Roosevelt ◽

Conservation Movement ◽

Silent Spring ◽

Earth Day ◽

Gifford Pinchot

The third Conservation movement was summoned to life between Rachel Carson's The Silent Spring (1962) and the Santa Barbara Oil Spill at the end of the movement-spawning Sixties, and would be called by a more nature-evoking term—environmentalism. Looking back from there, those of us with some historical memory were struck by how far we had come from the first Conservation crusade led by John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, and Gifford Pinchot, or the second led by FDR in the 1930s. In those early days they thought the problem was loss of forests, soil erosion, water and air pollution, and that the solutions were National Parks and National Forests watched over by civil servants in their gray or tan-brown uniforms, along with a Soil Conservation Service for farmers.