This Land is Your Land: The American Conservation Movement

by Sylvia Whitman

The story of American conservation began nearly a hundred years before the first Earth Day in 1970.Yellowstone National Park was founded in 1872.The early conservationists wanted to preserve picturesque wilderness areas for future generations.But with soil erosion during the 1930s, the movement shifted focus.The government sponsored programs to heal the eroded landscape.Soon Americans faced new environmental problems: pesticides and water pollution,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822517299
• ISBN13: 9780822517290
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.7" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 12 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 10