Breaking New Ground (association copy)
Language: English
Published by Island Press, Washington DC, 1988
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
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A significant association copy, signed by five Chiefs of the U.S. Forest Service and inscribed at length on the title page by one of them to his Deputy Chief: "To Jim Furnish, you have been perhaps the best Deputy Chief in the history of the Forest Service, because of your land ethic and loyalty. Much of what was accomplished would not have been possible had you not been in your job running the National Forest System. Mike Dombeck, Chief, Forest Service, March 2001." Terrific sentiment. Additionally, this book is signed again by Dombeck and by the previous four Chiefs of the Forest Service on the following dedication page representing 30 years of leadership: Jack Ward Thomas ('93-'96), F. Dale Robertson ('87-'93), R. Max Peterson ('79-'87), and John R. McGuire ('72-'79). Those inscriptions are dated 1997, suggesting the book was signed by the Chiefs and then saved by Dombeck or the FS for such an occasion. This edition or book in general is unheard of signed by persons of significance and here is a trove of Forest Service association. Jim Furnish served as Deputy Chief of the Forest Service from 1999-2002, during which time he helped create (with Dombeck) 60 million acres of new roadless areas via the "roadless rule." Before that he was a Forest Supervisor in Oregon and central to a push away from simple timber production to restoration during the spotted owl "wars." Mike Dombeck was the 14th Chief of the Forest Service and previous to that director of the Bureau of Land Management. He is the only person to have led the nation's two largest public land management agencies. Dombeck has been awarded the Ansel Adams Award, the Aldo Leopold Restoration Award (one can hear a clear echo of Leopold in his use of "land ethic" in the inscription), and Conservation Hero of the Year by the Wilderness Society, among many others (also speaking of Leopold, he is a member of the Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame). Breaking New Ground is the autobiography of Gifford Pinchot, founder and first chief of the Forest Service, first published in 1947 (just posthumous, as he died in '46), and here part of a series of "Conservation Classics" that Island Press reissued. That the Forest Service Chiefs would gather their signatures in this book and one of them then inscribe it to his Deputy suggests the extent to which Pinchot is revered and his influence abides still in the FS. It should also be noted that Pinchot's signature is obviously not possible in this title, so Dombeck and his fellow Chiefs, as successors, stand in. A fine book in fine jacket, as new. Included also is a signed copy of Jim Furnish's memoir Toward a Natural Forest: The Forest Service in Transition (Oregon State University Press 2015), a paperback original, uncommon signed, near fine. .…
Seller Inventory # 1093
- Title
- Breaking New Ground (association copy)
- Author
- Pinchot, Gifford [Mike Dombeck] [Jim Furnish] [Jack Ward Thomas]
- Publisher
- Island Press, Washington DC
- Publication year
- 1988
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Signed
- Signed
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0933280505
- ISBN 13
- 9780933280502
- Edition
- First thus.
- Seller catalogs
- Forests/Trees, Resource/Wildlife Management, Science/Environmental Memoirs
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Visit us at www.ruralhours.com. Rural Hours (formerly Wood River Books) specializes in ecology, natural history, nature and science writing, the environment, ecopoetics, contemporary essay, and literary journalism, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. Our name is an homage to Susan Fenimore Cooper's book Rural Hours (1850), considered the first work of environmental nonfiction by an American woman. The daughter of James Fenimore Cooper, Susan Cooper was also an accomplished watercolorist, and her birds from Rural Hours populate these pages. Her rendering of a "chimney swallow" (now known as a swift) serves as our logo and mascot: sleek and elevated, part sky and part city street. Rural Hours is mainly a project of writer and teacher Nick Neely. Along with a pair of MFA degrees in nonfiction and poetry, Nick has a Master's in Literature and Environment from the University of Nevada, Reno. He has much expertise and years of experience in the field of eco-writing. His first book, Coast Range, was a finalist for John Burroughs Medal for nature writing and his second book, Alta California--about a 12-week trek he made along the California coast--was a Los Angeles Times bestseller. Check out the "Rambles" page for eventual short essays from him on environmental lit, new books, and more. Rural Hours is a young venture, but we aspire to be among the leaders in the field of rare and interesting eco-writing. We believe, emphatically, that environmental literature and its preservation is in the service of the preservation of the world. In addition to helping serious collectors and institutions build their libraries and archives, our goal is to curate a substantial "house collection" of environmental writing for public display on this site and beyond, one that shows the evolution of the genre(s). That will be a perennial work in progress. We hope to draw a deep, explorable map of environmental writing that traces the lineage and connections between authors and artists determined to render and protect the earth, locally and globally. At the same time, we would like to challenge the usual contours of the "environmental literature" canon and promote a more diverse and inclusive array of voices; in that way, our longterm goal is to excavate the past and curate toward the future. Rural Hours also hopes to eventually have an open shop and gallery space, but for now we are only online. You've come to the right the place. Enjoy poking around, and then head out for a walk.…
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