Mira Lloyd Dock and the Progressive Era Conservation Movement /
Rimby, Susan
Mira Lloyd Dock and the Progressive Era Conservation Movement / Susan Rimby. - 1 online resource (224 p.) : 15 illustrations
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
For her time, Mira Lloyd Dock was an exceptional woman: a university-trained botanist, lecturer, women's club leader, activist in the City Beautiful movement, and public official-the first woman to be appointed to Pennsylvania's state government. In her twelve years on the Pennsylvania Forest Commission, she allied with the likes of J. T. Rothrock, Gifford Pinchot, and Dietrich Brandis to help bring about a new era in American forestry. She was 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. Though much has been written about her male counterparts, Mira Lloyd Dock and the Progressive Era Conservation Movement is the first book dedicated to Mira Lloyd Dock and her work. Susan Rimby weaves these layers of Dock's story together with the greater historical context of the era to create a vivid and accessible picture of Progressive Era conservation in the eastern United States and Dock's important role and legacy in that movement.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780271061504
10.1515/9780271061504 doi
Civic improvement--History.--Pennsylvania
Conservationists--Pennsylvania--Biography.
Forest conservation--History.--Pennsylvania
Nature conservation--History.--Pennsylvania
Progressivism (United States politics).
Public health--History.--Pennsylvania
Social reformers--Pennsylvania--Biography.
Women conservationists--Pennsylvania--Biography.
Women--Suffrage--History.--Pennsylvania
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical.
QH31.D59 / R56 2012eb
363.70092
Mira Lloyd Dock and the Progressive Era Conservation Movement / Susan Rimby. - 1 online resource (224 p.) : 15 illustrations
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
For her time, Mira Lloyd Dock was an exceptional woman: a university-trained botanist, lecturer, women's club leader, activist in the City Beautiful movement, and public official-the first woman to be appointed to Pennsylvania's state government. In her twelve years on the Pennsylvania Forest Commission, she allied with the likes of J. T. Rothrock, Gifford Pinchot, and Dietrich Brandis to help bring about a new era in American forestry. She was 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. Though much has been written about her male counterparts, Mira Lloyd Dock and the Progressive Era Conservation Movement is the first book dedicated to Mira Lloyd Dock and her work. Susan Rimby weaves these layers of Dock's story together with the greater historical context of the era to create a vivid and accessible picture of Progressive Era conservation in the eastern United States and Dock's important role and legacy in that movement.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780271061504
10.1515/9780271061504 doi
Civic improvement--History.--Pennsylvania
Conservationists--Pennsylvania--Biography.
Forest conservation--History.--Pennsylvania
Nature conservation--History.--Pennsylvania
Progressivism (United States politics).
Public health--History.--Pennsylvania
Social reformers--Pennsylvania--Biography.
Women conservationists--Pennsylvania--Biography.
Women--Suffrage--History.--Pennsylvania
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical.
QH31.D59 / R56 2012eb
363.70092