| Book Review | Environmental History, 9.3

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Book Review

Natural States: The Environmental Imagination in Maine, Oregon, and the Nation. By Richard W. Judd and Christopher S. Beach. Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future, 2003, xv + 320 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth $32.95, paper $19.95.

By examining public activism in environmental issues in the "natural states" of Maine and Oregon in the three decades following 1945, Judd and Beach arrived at a construct they call the "environmental imagination" that fueled that activism. Proponents were searching for "a sense of freedom, authenticity, and permanence gained through communion with nature and folk in a natural setting" (p. 247). The authors suggest that today's environmentalists need to return to place-centered state and regional politics to develop leadership at the grassroots level in order to create a common vision of shared goals for the environment.

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