Mira Lloyd Dock and the Progressive Era Conservation Movement

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For her time, Mira Lloyd Dock was once a great woman: a university-trained botanist, lecturer, women’s club leader, activist within the City Beautiful movement, and public official—the primary woman to be appointed to Pennsylvania’s state government. In her twelve years at the Pennsylvania Forest Commission, she allied with the likes of J. T. Rothrock, Gifford Pinchot, and Dietrich Brandis to assist bring about a new era in American forestry. She was once also an integral force in founding and fostering the Pennsylvania State Forest Academy in Mont Alto, which produced generations of Pennsylvania foresters before becoming Penn State’s Mont Alto campus. Although much has been written about her male opposite numbers, Mira Lloyd Dock and the Progressive Era Conservation Movement is the primary book dedicated to Mira Lloyd Dock and her work. Susan Rimby weaves these layers of Dock’s story along with the greater historical context of the era to create a vivid and accessible picture of Progressive Era conservation within the eastern United States and Dock’s necessary role and legacy in that movement.

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