Conserving conservation: Field notes from an animal archive

Public Historian

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 145-156

  Madison, Mark ^a,b  

^a US Fish and Wildlife Service

^b National Conservation Training Center   (United States)

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EID: 60949569514     PISSN: 02723433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/tph.2004.26.1.145     Document Type: Review

References (12)

1. For two useful biographies of Spencer Fullerton Baird see Dean Allard, Spencer Fullerton Baird and the U.S. Fish Commission (New York: Arno Press, 1978)
2. and E. F. Rivinus and E. M. Youssef, Spencer Baird of the Smithsonian (Washington: Smithsonian, 1992).
3. Keir Sterling has been an important chronicler of C. Hart Merriam and the early years of the Biological Survey. See his Last of the Naturalists: The Career of C. Hart Merriam (New York: Arno Press, 1977)
4. or his article "Builders of the U.S. Biological Survey, 1885-1930," Journal of Forest History 33, no. 4 (1989): 180-87.
5. The definitive biography of Rachel Carson is Linda Lear, Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997).
6. For a good selection of some of Carson's writings while employed by FWS see Linda Lear, ed., Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson (Boston: Beacon Press, 1998).
7. Two useful general environmental history books that examine aspects of the FWS history include James Trefethen, An American Crusade for Wildlife (Alexandria: Boone and Crockett Club, 1975)
8. and Donald Worster, Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985).
9. Although quite dated, still useful for a detailed history of the Biological Survey is Jenks Cameron, The Bureau of Biological Survey: Its History, Activities and Organization (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1929).
10. A good overview of the National Wildlife Refuge System is Eric Dolin, Smithsonian Book of National Wildlife Refuges (Washington: Smithsonian, 2003).
11. Permanent records of all federal agencies go to the National Archives. Our collection consists of so-called temporary records consisting of local station records, field notes, individual's papers, and even affiliated conservation records such as the archives of the National Wildlife Federation.
12. Our archive web site is: http://training.fws.gov/history/index.html. Our best historical images are scanned and available at: http://images.fws.gov/.