Conservation & Environment
     
  Links to related primary sources from the Library of Congress  
     
     
  American Memory & Exhibitions
  1. The Evolution of the Conservation Movement
  2. Ecology and the American Environment
  3. Conservation & Environment Maps
  4. American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936: Images from University of Chicago
  5. American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920
  6. Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art and Forestry 1888-97
  7. Mapping the National Parks
  8. Reclaiming the Everglades: South Florida's Natural History
  9. Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia
  10. Amid Gardens and Nature
  11. Earth as Art: A Landsat Perspective
 
     
     
  America's Library
  1. First Bird Day
  2. First Earth Day
  3. Henry David Thoreau Was Born
  4. John Muir and the Sierras
  5. National Geographic President Gilbert H. Grosvenor Was Born
  6. Painter Thomas Moran Was Born
  7. Rachel Carson
  8. Timber and Forests
  9. Wyoming's Old Faithful
  10. Yosemite Land Grant Signed
 
     
     
  Spotlights, Features & Special Presentations
  1. American Conservation Movement Chronology, 1847-1920
  2. Earth Day: Science Reference Guide
  3. Ecology and Environment selected resources
  4. Ecology and the American Environment
  5. The Environment: Selected Internet Resources
  6. Environmental Sciences resources
  7. The Everglades: Exploitation and Conservation
  8. John Muir: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
  9. Mapping the National Parks
 
     
     
  Lesson Plans & Activity Ideas
  1. Conservation Movement at a Crossroads: The Hetch Hetchy Controversy
  2. Explorations in American Environmental History
  3. Collection Connections: Evolution of the Conservation Movement
  4. Collection Connections: American Environmental Photographs
  5. Collection Connections: Mapping the National Parks
 
     
     
  Thomas
  1. Search/Browse U.S. Treaties
  2. Search U.S. Legislation
 
     
     
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  Moran, Thomas. "Tower Falls and Sulphur Mountain, Yellowstone" c. 1875. The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920. Library of Congress American Memory Collection  
     
     
 
"Grosvenor, Gilbert H., Mrs." Between 1905 and 1945. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. 		 
     
     
 
Hunt, S. V. (Samuel Valentine). "Mirror Lake, Yosemite Valley." c 1872. Illus. in: Picturesque America / William Cullen Bryant. N.Y. : D. Appleton, 1874. 		 
     
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