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INDEX 332 Abbey, Edward, 238, 243 Ackerman, Frederick, 160 Addams, Jane, 151, 159 Adirondack Mountain Club, 200–201, 207 Adirondacks, 196–202, 203, 207, 212 Adirondack State Park, 196–99 The Adirondacks; Or, Life in the Woods (Headley), 197 Adler, Felix, 196 Adventures in the Wilderness; Or, Camp-Life in the Adirondacks (Murray ), 197 Ahern, George, 212–13 Airstream Company, 33 Alaska: and Bob Marshall, 202, 211–12, 218–21, 229, 255 Albright, Horace, 108, 110, 115, 123–24, 131, 256; conflicts with Yard, 104–5, 118–19, 127–29, 137–40 Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce, 67, 75 Allee, W. C., 73 Allin, Craig, 55 American Automobile Association (AAA), 38, 111, 233 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 190, 211, 254 American Forestry Association (AFA), 3–5, 43, 118, 191, 233 American Legion, 44, 46 Americans at Play (Steiner), 19 Anderson, Harold: as Wilderness Society founder, 5–6, 17, 190, 241; correspondence with MacKaye, 168, 180, 183–85, 189; concerns about automobiles and roads, 177–78, 232; correspondence with Marshall, 218, 231 Angeles National Forest, 60 Apache National Forest, 57 Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC), 159 Appalachian Trail, ix, 142–43, 168, 192, 251–52; article proposing, 3, 155–59; organization and construction , 3, 159, 167, 251; MacKaye’s early conceptualization of, 147, 153–55; and regional planning, 165, 173, 176; MacKaye’s trail philosophy , 169–71; politics and threats to, 178–80, 184–85, 187–90 “An Appalachian Trail: A Project in Regional Planning” (MacKaye), 155–59 “The Appalachian Trail: A Guide to the Study of Nature” (MacKaye), 179 Appalachian Trail Committee of Charlottesville, 159 Appalachian Trail Committee of Washington, 159 Appalachian Trail Conference (ATC), 5, 167, 178, 189, 192, 232, 251 Arctic Village (Marshall), 219–21 Autocamping, 30–41, 107 Automobiles: as threat to wilderness, 4, 10, 16, 239, 247; and interwar outdoor recreation, 24, 30–41, 51–52, 222; Leopold’s concerns about, 70–72, 76–84, 98–99; admission to national parks, 106–7; Yard’s concerns about, 126–29, 136, 140–41; MacKaye’s concerns about, 159–60, 171, 178–80, 193; and MacKaye’s planning thought, 162–64, 172–74, 176–77; Anderson ’s concerns about, 177–78; Marshall ’s concerns about, 205–8, 216–18, 228–29; and postwar wilderness politics, 256–57 Avery, Myron, 180, 184–85, 189, 251 Babbitt, George, 78, 166 Backus, Edward, 230 Baldwin, Donald, 54, 64 Baldwin, Roger, 190, 211, 254 Bauer, Catherine, 160, 235 Belasco, Warren, 31, 38 Benedict, Ruth, 219–20 Berger, Victor, 152 Bing, Alexander, 160 Blue Ridge Parkway, 187, 190, 232, 251 Boas, Franz, 219 Bob Marshall Wilderness Area, 253 The Book of the National Parks (Yard), 113, 129 Boundary Waters Canoe Area, vii, 6, 17. See also Quetico-Superior region; Superior National Forest Brimmer, Frederick, 34 Bronx River Parkway, 177 Brooks, Van Wyck, 166 Broome, Harvey, 178, 183, 187, 189, 190, 232, 235; as Wilderness Society founder, 3–4, 6, 17, 233, 241 Brougham, Herbert, 151–52 Brower, David, 260 Bruere, Robert, 160 Bureau of Indian Affairs, 6; and Marshall , ix, 3, 227–30, 231; and MacKaye, 182–83 Bureau of Land Management, 51 Bureau of Reclamation, 260 Burleson, Albert S., 152 Burlington, Iowa, 56, 57 Burroughs, John, 21 Butcher, Devereux, 250 “A Call from the Wilds” (Thompson), 86 Cammerer, Arno, 49, 50, 123, 138, 139; and skyline roads, 184–85, 189–90, 232–33 Carhart, Arthur, 54, 63–70, 72, 230, 247 Carnegie Institution, 6, 121 Carr, Ethan, 110 Carson, Russell, 200–201, 207 Carson National Forest, 57 Catton, Theodore, 229 Chamberlain, Allen, 159 Chase, Stuart, 145, 151, 160, 161, 168, 191, 210 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), 3, 48–50, 95, 137, 181–82, 251 Clapp, Earle, 221 Clark, Herb, 199, 255 Clark, Irving, 233–34 Clearwater National Forest, 205–6 Clements, Frederick, 13, 73 Coe, Ernest, 131 Cold War: and postwar resource conservation , 259, 260 Coleman Lamp Company, 33 Collier, John, 5–6, 182–83, 190, 227–28, 231, 233 Colonization: MacKaye’s thoughts on, 145–51, 154, 156, 158, 177, 192, 193 Colorado River Storage Project, 260 Colvin, Verplanck, 199 Committee on Community Planning (CCP), 154, 159, 160 Committee on the Preservation of Natural Conditions, 73–75, 87, 132 Coney Island: as epithet, 168, 181, 183, 235 333 Index Conservation. See New Deal conservation ; Progressive conservation; Utilitarian conservation “Conservation Esthetic” (Leopold), 98–99 “The Conservation Ethic” (Leopold), 93–94 “Conserving the Covered Wagon” (Leopold), 79–80 Consumerism: Wilderness Society founders’ critique of, xi–xii, 241–43, 263; and wilderness criticism , 12; and...

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