The ideas and practices that comprise “conservation” are often assumed to have arisen within the last two centuries. However, while conservation today has b

Neil M. Maher examines the history of one of Franklin D. Roosevelt's boldest and most successful experiments, the Civilian Conservation Corps, describing it as

The ideas and practices that comprise “conservation” are often assumed to have arisen within the last two centuries. However, while conservation today has b

“Empire forestry”—the broadly shared forest management practice that emerged in the West in the nineteenth century—may have originated in Europe, but it