Charles Sheeler, American Landscape (1930).
" 'I'm thirty' I said. 'I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor.' "
"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."
"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther..... And one fine morning- "
Nick: "The Great Gatsby." F. Scott Fitzgerald
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- 1901 On assassination of McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt becomes President.
- 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
- 1909 White House sponsored Governor's Conference on Conservation.
- 1911 The "Hetch-Hetchy Valley Controversy" for San Francsico water supply.
- 1910 Ballinger - Pinchot controversy splits "Progressive" from mainline Republicans.
- 1912 Theodore Roosevelt (past President) runs as third party "Progressive."
- 1914 the completion of the Owens River water diversion to Los Angeles.
- 1914-1918 The Great War in Europe drives up agricultural prices, "war boom."
- 1916 President Woodrow Wilson supports the creation of National Park Service.
- 1926 The Boulder Canyon project to build Hoover Dam.
- 1933 The New Deal.
- 1934 TVA-Tennessee Valley Authority hydroelectric and reclamation project for Southeast.
- 1939 The German invasion of Poland starts World War Two.
- 1940 US Fish and Wildlife Service created.
- 1942 Manhattan project to build and atom bomb to use on the Nazis.
- 1946 creation of the Bureau of Land Management in the west to oversee the public domain.
- 1948 Federal Water Pollution Control Act.
Preservation the ideal that new world
Progressives
public domain that land in western territories controlled by Congress once largely disposed of by the the Department of the Interior became a source of contention in stopping homesteading
Three waves of conservation, 1901-10, 1933-50, 1960-74.
Ecological Society of America (1920s)
Conservation
flood control and irrigation as reclamation objectives.
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16 Grand Canyon
17 Austin, Land of little Rain
18 Pragmatism and Agrarianism
19 Urbanism & Agrarianism
20 Conservation: flood the Grand Canyon
21 Egan, Worst Hard Time
22 Egan
23 Egan
24 Egan
25 Gospel of Ecology
26 Rome, Bulldozer in the Countryside
27 Rome
28 Rome
29 Rome
30 Reisner, Rome, Egan, Merchant & Mumford
