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Mira Lloyd Dock and the Progressive Era Conservation Movement
About this book
For her time, Mira Lloyd Dock was an exceptional woman: a university-trained botanist, lecturer, women's club leader, activist in the City Beautiful movement, and public officialāthe first woman to be appointed to Pennsylvania's state government. In her twelve years on the Pennsylvania Forest Commission, she allied with the likes of J. T. Rothrock, Gifford Pinchot, and Dietrich Brandis to help bring about a new era in American forestry. She was also an integral force in founding and fostering the Pennsylvania State Forest Academy in Mont Alto, which produced generations of Pennsylvania foresters before becoming Penn State's Mont Alto campus. Though much has been written about her male counterparts, Mira Lloyd Dock and the Progressive Era Conservation Movement is the first book dedicated to Mira Lloyd Dock and her work. Susan Rimby weaves these layers of Dock's story together with the greater historical context of the era to create a vivid and accessible picture of Progressive Era conservation in the eastern United States and Dock's important role and legacy in that movement.
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Table of contents
- COVER Front
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Dock, Progressive Era Conservation, and Why It Matters
- Notes to Introduction
- Chapter 1: A Reformer Grows in Dauphin County
- Notes to Chapter 1
- Chapter 2: From Harrisburg to Uhlingen
- Notes to Chapter 2
- Chapter 3: The City Beautiful
- Notes to Chapter 3
- FIGURE SECTION
- Chapter 4: āMore for Forestsā
- Notes to Chapter 4
- Chapter 5: āBetter Housekeeping Out of Doorsā
- Notes to Chapter 5
- Chapter 6: āThis Has Driven Women into Suffrageā
- Notes to Chapter 6
- Chapter 7: An Active Retirement
- Notes ot Chapter 7
- Conclusion: Dockās Legacy and Significance
- Notes to Conclusion
- Epilogue: From Pine Grove Furnace to Wildwood Lakeāand Beyond
- Notes to Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- COVER Back