The environmental debate : a documentary history, with timeline, glossary, and appendices / edited by Peninah Neimark & Peter Rhoades Mott.

This collection of primary documents examines the evolution of concern about environmental degradation, pollution, and resource conservation in America from the colonial period the present. Documents include the writings of naturalists, conservationists, scientists, philosophers, lawyers, judges, politicians, sociologists, artists and poets, as well as from government reports, federal, state, and local legislation, and court cases. --from publisher description.