North Country Almanac

Reflections of an Old-School Conservationist in a Modern World

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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A North Country Almanac: Reflections of an Old-School Conservationist in a Modern World includes the musings of an independent mind on wilderness, the conservation ethic, and the joys of loving the outdoors. Although a lifelong conservationist, Thomas C. Bailey has never unquestioningly accepted environmental dogma. The essays here often challenge familiar assumptions about stewardship of natural resources. The former National Park ranger, fishing guide, and conservancy director offers a rich variety of perspectives on an interesting array of topics, returning always to his fundamental belief that conservation pioneers such as John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, and Aldo Leopold had it right when they affirmed Walt Whitman’s observation that “the secret of making the best person . . . is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”

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Utgivningsdatum2018-06-01
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieDave Dempsey Environmental Studies
Antal sidor126
FörlagMichigan State University Press
ISBN9781611862867

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THOMAS C. BAILEY has been Executive Director of the Little Traverse Conservancy for more than thirty years, having previously worked for the U.S. National Park Service and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. He was appointed to the Board of Trustees of Lake Superior State University in 2016 and to the Governor’s Blue Ribbon Panel on Michigan State Parks and Outdoor Recreation in 2011. He is a cofounder of the Heart of the Lakes Center for Land Conservation Policy and the Top of Michigan Trails Council.

Contents Foreword Prelude PART 1: Beginnings Inspired by Eagles A Yooper Kid Goes to Washington An Environmentalist Looks at Fifty PART 2: Motives Conquering Nature? Why Protect Land? The Biophilia Hypothesis Science and Spirit Dark Sky Park Locking Up Land PART 3: Hunting The Hunting Issue: Some Background Nature-Based People’s Perspective on Hunting But Is There Room for Hunters? A Glimpse of How It Might Be . . . A Glimpse of How It Was: The Elk Hunt PART 4: Government Government, Regulations, and Politics Government Wetland Protection Property Taxes The Value of Public Land PART 5: Economics The Natural Resources Sector of the Economy What Is the Economy, Anyway? Unlimited Growth Can Be Sustainable Elephants and Resource Economics War and Resources Tax Breaks PART 6: Fathers and Sons Thanks, Dad Conservation and the World War II Generation Another Generation Enjoying the Snow The Berry Patch and Food from Nature On Becoming a Military Family: Reflections on Home, Land, Security As the Sun Begins to Set Fathers and Sons: Afterword Acknowledgments

“Bailey believes the preservation of the land is not just for the conservationist, it’s for everyone. We can’t all tramp through forests, but we should be able to. Wallace Stegner says, ‘Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed. . . . We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.’”—GLORIA WHELAN, from the Foreword