History 138:  Science in the U.S.

Class 18 (10/4)
Conservation
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Outline The film "The Wilderness Idea" is available in the Media Resource Center (call number: Video/C 2882).  Please view it if you missed class.
Names and Terms
Primary Secondary
John Muir (1838-1914)
Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946)
conservation movement
Hetch Hetchy controversy (1906-1913)
Yosemite National Park
Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt (Pres. 1901-1909)
Frederick Jackson Turner
closing of the frontier		 Bureau of Forestry => U.S. Forest Service
single use vs. multiple use
national parks vs. national forests
James Phelan (mayor of San Francisco)
National Park Service Act (1916)
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