A Passion for the Land: John F. Seiberling and the Environment Movement

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The first and only biography of one of The usa’s greatest conservationists

Akron native and former U.S. Representative John F. Seiberling (1918–2008) grew up on his family’s estate overlooking Ohio’s Cuyahoga River Valley. Within his lifetime, Seiberling would grow to be a leading player in the movement to offer protection to the natural environment and help grow to be his childhood playground into the federally safe Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

A Passion for the Land begins with a fast-moving narrative of Seiberling’s early life and a vivid description of the physical environment that stimulated his lifelong interests in nature and wilderness. Creator Daniel Nelson provides a detailed examination of the congressman’s role as a dedicated environmentalist, covering Seiberling’s efforts to pass path-breaking legislation all through the 1970s and the equally important period of defensive activity all through the 1980s.

Seiberling’s successful bipartisan campaign to offer protection to the Cuyahoga Valley became a stepping-stone to other important conservation efforts. Working with like-minded legislators and activists in the expanding environmental movement, he used his increasingly more influential position in Congress as chair of the House Subcommittee on Public Lands to foster urban parks, grow to be Alaska, and make wilderness protection a hallmark of the new approach to public lands management. The result used to be the creation of 100 million acres of parks and refuges in Alaska and millions of acres of safe wilderness in national forests.

Based largely on unpublished correspondence and other up to now unused materials, A Passion for the Land concludes with a review of Seiberling’s ongoing involvement in environmental affairs following his decision to retire from Congress in 1987.


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