The Fight to Save the Redwoods
A History of the Environmental Reform, 1917–1978Susan R. Schrepfer
University of Wisconsin Press, 1983
"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