Force of Nature: George Fell, Founder of the Natural Areas Movement

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Efforts to preserve wild places in america started with the allure of scenic grandeur: Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon. But what concerning the many significant natural sites too small or fragile to qualify as state or federal parks? George Fell was once decided to avoid wasting these places, too―prairie remnants, upland forests, sedge meadows and fens, ocean beaches, desert canyons, mountain creeks, bogs, caves and gorges, and the whole spectrum of other habitats crucial to biological diversity.

Force of Nature reveals how a failed civil servant, with few assets except his tenacity and vision, initiated the natural areas movement. Within the boom years following World War II, as undeveloped lands were being mined, drained, or bulldozed, Fell transformed a loose band of ecologists into The Nature Conservancy, drove the passage of the influential Illinois Nature Preserves Act, and helped spark allied local and national conservation organizations in america and beyond.

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