The Fight to Save the Redwoods : A History of Environmental Reform, 1917-1978

"This is not a simple or ordinary history of a conservation crusade. Schrepfer very ably traces the changes in scientific wisdom from nineteenth-century romanticism and teleological evolutionism to more current ecological dynamism and the influence of those intellectual developments on political history. . . . The subject is important much broader than the title suggests and so is the book." American Historical Review"