From the Book - [First edition].
Beginnings. William Bartram: Travels ; The Journals of Lewis and Clark ; John C. Fremont: "Expedition across the Sierra Nevadas" ; Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Nature" and "The American Scholar" ; Susan Fenimore Cooper: Rural Hours ; Homestead Act of 1862 ; George Marsh: Man and Nature ; Henry David Thoreau: The Maine Woods
The Middle Years. John Wesley Powell: Canyons of the Colorado ; An Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park ; Carl Schurz: "On the Need for Federal Forest Conservation" ; William T. Hornady: "The Extermination of the American Bison" ; John Muir: "Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park" ; Gifford Pinchot: Letters to John Muir ; Theodore Roosevelt: On the Conservation of Natural Resources ; Declaration of the Conservation Conference ; Henry Beston: The Outermost House ; Stuart Chase: Waste in the Machine Age ; Letter from a Dust Bowl Survivor ; Robert Fechner: My Hopes for the CCC ; Aldo Leopold: "Death of a Species" ; Paley Commission Report: Resources for Freedom ; Antarctic Treaty
The Modern Era. Rachel Carson: Silent Spring ; Paul Ehrlich: The Population Bomb ; Garrett Hardin: "The tragedy of the Commons" and "The Global Pothole Problem" ; Gaylord Nelson: Proposal for Earth Day ; Clean Air Act Amendments ; Richard Nixon on the Need for Environmental Regulation ; Clean Water Act ; Marine Mammal Protection Act ; Endangered Species Act ; Greenpeace: "Declaration of Interdependence" ; James Lovelock: The Gaia Hypothesis ; Jimmy Carter on the Three Mile Island Incident ; Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act ; Arne Naess: "Explaining Deep Ecology" ; James Hansen: The Case for Climate Change ; Exxon-Valdez Oil Spill: A Report to the President ; Al Gore: Address to the Kyoto Climate Change Conference ; Paula Dobriansky: "On Working Together to Build Prosperity" ; Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency ; Report on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill ; Paris Agreement on Climate Change ; Flint, Michigan: Water Crisis
Appendixes. Chronological List ; Web Resources ; Bibliography ; Index.
