This collection of biographies describes twelve women conservationists who helped change the ways Americans interact with the natural environment. Their writing

This book highlights the unique and complex role women have played in the shaping of the American environment from pre-Columbian Native Americans to present day

In this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multifaceted U.S. conservation movement from the mid-nineteenth to the

The broad sweep of environmental and ecological history has until now been written and understood in predominantly male terms. In Made From This Earth, Vera Nor

Rosalie Edge (1877-1962) was the first American woman to achieve national renown as a conservationist. Dyana Z. Furmansky draws on Edge’s personal papers and