Preserving the Living Past

Download or read book Preserving the Living Past written by Steve Mark and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-03-14 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his efforts to protect California's wild lands—including the state's majestic redwoods and its dynamic coastline—to his novel ideas about the educational and inspirational value of wilderness that continue to provoke debates to this day, this first biography of John C. Merriam (1869-1945) tells the story of the prominent paleontologist who became a visionary in the American conservation movement.