Wild by law / a production of Florentine Films ; a film by Lawrence Hott and Diane Garey ; writer, Ken Chowder.

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"Wild by law is the story of the Wilderness Act of 1964 and the three men responsible for its passage: forester/philosopher Aldo Leopold, author of the bestselling A Sand County Almanac and the first to bring the word 'ecology' into standard usage; Bob Marshall, millionaire socialist and founder of...

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Corporate Authors: Florentine Films
Direct Cinema Ltd
Other Authors: Hott, Lawrence R.
Garey, Diane
Chowder, Ken
Hunt, Linda, 1945-
Waite, Ralph, 1928-2014
Haydu, Peter
Shull, Richard B., 1929-1999
Language:English
Published: Santa Monica, CA : Direct Cinema, [2008], ©1991.
Subjects:
Leopold, Aldo, > 1886-1948.
Marshall, Robert, > 1901-1939.
Zahniser, Howard.
Nature conservation > United States > History.
Documentary television programs.
Genre:
Documentary television programs.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Variant Title:
American Experience.
Rise of environmentalism and the creation of the Wilderness Act.
Format: Video DVD
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Summary:
"Wild by law is the story of the Wilderness Act of 1964 and the three men responsible for its passage: forester/philosopher Aldo Leopold, author of the bestselling A Sand County Almanac and the first to bring the word 'ecology' into standard usage; Bob Marshall, millionaire socialist and founder of the Wilderness Society; and Howard Zahniser, a tireless bureaucrat with a profound love of the wild places he seldom saw. Singly and together, these three fought against the current of American thought from the 1920s through the 1950s to attain what had once seemed an unfathomable victory."--Container.
Note:Originally produced in 1991 as an episode of the television program The American experience.
"Part two of a two-part series with 'The wilderness idea: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot and the first great battle for wilderness'"--Container.
Videorecording.
Call Number:QH76 .W532 2008 VideoDVD
ISBN:9781559747837
1559747838
Credits:Cinematographer, Allen Moore ; editor, Diane Garey ; music, Richard Einhorn.
System Details:DVD-R; Dolby digital, region 1, NTSC, full screen.
Participant or Performer:
Narrator, Linda Hunt ; voices, Ralph Waite, Peter Haydu, Richard Shull.