Mira Lloyd Dock and the Progressive Era conservation movement / Susan Rimby.

ISBN:

9780271061504

9780271059228

9780271061511

Title:

Mira Lloyd Dock and the Progressive Era conservation movement / Susan Rimby.

Author:

Rimby, Susan.

Personal Author:

Rimby, Susan.

Publication Information:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2012]

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 208 pages) : illustrations

Contents:

Introduction: Dock, Progressive Era Conservation, and Why It Matters -- A Reformer Grows in Dauphin County -- From Harrisburg to Uhlingen -- The City Beautiful -- "More for Forests" -- "Better Housekeeping Out of Doors" -- "This Has Driven Women into Suffrage" -- An Active Retirement -- Conclusion: Dock's Legacy and Significance -- Epilogue: From Pine Grove Furnace to Wildwood Lake; And Beyond.

Local Note:

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Personal Subject:

Dock, Mira Lloyd, 1853-1945.

Dock, Mira Lloyd, 1853-1945. (OCoLC)fst00362969

Subject Term:

Women conservationists -- Pennsylvania -- Biography.

Conservationists -- Pennsylvania -- Biography.

Nature conservation -- Pennsylvania -- History.

Forest conservation -- Pennsylvania -- History.

Progressivism (United States politics)

Social reformers -- Pennsylvania -- Biography.

Civic improvement -- Pennsylvania -- History.

Public health -- Pennsylvania -- History.

Women -- Suffrage -- Pennsylvania -- History.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.

POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.

SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.

Civic improvement. (OCoLC)fst00862325

Conservationists. (OCoLC)fst00875578

Forest conservation. (OCoLC)fst00932069

Nature conservation. (OCoLC)fst01034632

Progressivism (United States politics) (OCoLC)fst01078751

Public health. (OCoLC)fst01082238

Social reformers. (OCoLC)fst01122841

Women conservationists. (OCoLC)fst01177526

Women -- Suffrage. (OCoLC)fst01176996

Geographic Term:

Pennsylvania. (OCoLC)fst01204598

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

http://ezproxy.angliss.edu.au/login?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=572593

Publication Date:

2012

Publication Information:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2012]

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Summary

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 official--the 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.

Author Notes

Rimby Susan :

Susan Rimby is Professor of History at Shippensburg University.

Reviews (1)

Choice Review

Rimby (Shippensburg Univ.) thoroughly examines Dock's pivotal role at the intersection of women's rights, the conservation movement, and the Progressive Era. The author explores Dock's family background and trips to the western US, which inspired her love of the outdoors, as well as her early experiences as a public lecturer on botany. After a revelatory tour of the Black Forest in Germany, Dock (1853-1945) focused her considerable energy on forest conservation, eventually becoming the first woman to serve on a public forestry commission. The latter half of Rimby's work describes Dock's role on the Pennsylvania Forest Commission and the way in which she drew in women's clubs to the larger conservation movement. The civic improvements she championed as a part of the City Beautiful movement illustrate how she sought to connect women and children to what she saw as the value of nature. In addition, Dock advocated for women's suffrage as well as women's education and a more visible role for professional women in their communities. An extensive section of notes supports the text. Summing Up: Recommended. All academic and professional library collections. J. J. Arnold Central Piedmont Community College