Peter Wild

The residents of Phoenix, Albuquerque and Tucson are no more southwesterners than the American employees of oil companies, living in Saudi Arabia in sealed compounds complete with Wataburger stands, are Saudi Arabians. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.25/download-entire-issue

John James Audubon, an amateur painter and inept storekeeper in various towns along the American frontier, made remarkable contributions to art and science that became a force for conservation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.23/download-entire-issue

By steamboat, canoe, horse and sometimes staggering fever-ridden on his own two legs, George Catlin covered thousands of miles along the Missouri River and Rocky Mountains. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.19/download-entire-issue

George Bird Grinnell, commissioned to explore the newly formed Yellowstone National Park and report on its wonders, found in the buffalo a concrete symbol to generate deep public sentiment. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.2/download-entire-issue

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt understood stewardship — understood the significance of an America overgrazed, overfarmed and carelessly logged. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.25/download-entire-issue

A look at Ralph Nader’s background lends support to a view of him as a product of America’s traditional idealism — an idealism that has generated conflicts throughout the country’s history because it is frequently at odds with political and economic realities. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.23/download-entire-issue

Barry Commoner, the ‘Paul Revere of Ecology,’ is now stepping into the political arena to shape the Citizens Party, a group that he says will address such issues as jobs, inflation, alternative energy and citizen control of natural resources in the 1980 election. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.20/download-entire-issue

Howard Zahniser, although lesser known than Bob Marshall or John Muir, was an unlikely and humble champion of wilderness who rallied the nation behind the Wilderness Act of 1964. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.18/download-entire-issue

Rarely in the history of the country has there been a relationship as close and as symbiotic — and as effective for conservation — as existed between President Teddy Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot, the first chief of the newly formed U.S. Forest Service. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.13/download-entire-issue

Benton MacKaye’s vision of regional planning and advocacy for the Appalachian Trail set in motion forces of conservation that would later affect the public lands of the West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.10/download-entire-issue

Frederick Law Olmsted offered the nation a vision of what it might be — a land of humane cities surrounded by the sweeps of national parks and forests. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.8/download-entire-issue

Uniquely talented and well connected — and known to hike 70 miles in a day — Bob Marshall became the pivot on which the country turned toward a firm wilderness commitment. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.5/download-entire-issue

A reflection on the life of Rachel Carson and the impact of her groundbreaking book, Silent Spring, on the nation’s emergent environmental consciousness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.3/download-entire-issue

John Burroughs, a student of Walt Whitman and a companion to industrialist Henry Ford, may have had a spotty record of activism, but his part in protecting the nature he loved was far greater than he himself imagined. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.25/download-entire-issue

The forerunner of the militant environmentalism of the 1960s and 1970s was William T. Hornaday, a man who had been dead and largely ignored for 30 years — a man not wholly admired for making  fellow conservation leaders blush by his overzealous and often unjust attacks. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.23/download-entire-issue

During his tenure as Secretary of the Interior Department, at a time when settlers simply took what they wanted from public lands, Carl Schurz pushed to put into practice the conservation ethic developed by George Perkins Marsh and others. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.19/download-entire-issue

George Perkins Marsh’s seminal book Man and Nature would be his lasting contribution, but it was only a sideline to his lifelong curiosity over man’s role in nature’s changes. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.16/download-entire-issue

William O. Douglas has articulated one of the most progressive environmental concepts of recent times: that the natural world should have legal rights. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.2/download-entire-issue