Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West by John Taliaferro Valets water flow and management

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Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West by John Taliaferro Valets water flow and managementGeorge Bird Grinnell, the son of a New York merchant, saw a different future for a nation in the thrall of the Industrial Age. With railroads scarring virgin lands and the formerly vast buffalo herds decimated, the country faced a crossroads: Could it pursue Manifest Destiny without destroying its natural bounty and beauty? The alarm that Grinnell sounded would spark America's conservation movement. Yet today his name has been forgotten an omission