| Book Review | Environmental History, 12.1

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Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act. By Mark Harvey. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. xviii + 325 pages. Cloth $35.00.
In July 1964, Congress adopted Public Law 88–577, establishing a national system of wilderness areas. As executive secretary of the Wilderness Society, Howard Zahniser had taken the lead in advocacy. In Wilderness Forever, author Mark Harvey presents a first-rate biography informing discussions of the development of American environmentalism.	1
Zahniser's father was a Free Methodist preacher whose ethics deeply influenced his children. Zahniser came to feel that wilderness sometimes embodied "an aspect of eternity" or a sense of "God's transcendence" (pp. 136, 148). The spiritual renewal and renewed sense of perspective Zahniser found in wilderness formed but one part of his rationale for landscape preservation. In time he incorporated biological justifications, with wilderness representing a place for "respecting the world of living things" (p. 136).	. . .

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