| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.4

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Andrew Glenn Kirk. Collecting Nature: The American Environmental Movement and the Conservation Library. (Development of Western Resources.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2001. Pp. xix, 243. $35.00.

Andrew Glenn Kirk has skillfully crafted an intriguing book from a seemingly prosaic topic. First and foremost, it is a history of the Conservation Library Center in Denver, Colorado. Created as a museum for Progressive-style conservation in 1960, the library was designed to house historical manuscripts, photos, and artifacts that might serve to inform contemporary environmentalists. Gradually that vision metamorphosed, in the 1970s, under federal government sponsorship, into a test site and information clearinghouse for alternative technologies and a center of social and political advocacy. The library's creation and transformation, Kirk argues, illustrates in microcosm the changing nature of the environmental movement between 1960 and 1975. The library's demise and closure in 1982, during the "Reagan revolution," is similarly illustrative of an altered political and environmental landscape. A brief epilogue provides a postscript about how Conservation Library Center materials became the Denver Public Library's Conservation Collection in the 1990s.

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