A North Country Almanac: Reflections of an Old-School Conservationist in a Modern World
A North Country Almanac: Reflections of an Old-School Conservationist in a Modern World includes the musings of an independent mind on wilderness, the conservation ethic, and the joys of loving the outdoors. Although a lifelong conservationist, Thomas C. Bailey has never unquestioningly accepted environmental dogma. The essays here often challenge familiar assumptions about stewardship of natural resources. The former National Park ranger, fishing guide, and conservancy director offers a rich variety of perspectives on an interesting array of topics, returning always to his fundamental belief that conservation pioneers such as John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, and Aldo Leopold had it right when they affirmed Walt Whitman’s observation that “the secret of making the best person . . . is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”
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A North Country Almanac: Reflections of an Old-School Conservationist in a Modern World
A North Country Almanac: Reflections of an Old-School Conservationist in a Modern World includes the musings of an independent mind on wilderness, the conservation ethic, and the joys of loving the outdoors. Although a lifelong conservationist, Thomas C. Bailey has never unquestioningly accepted environmental dogma. The essays here often challenge familiar assumptions about stewardship of natural resources. The former National Park ranger, fishing guide, and conservancy director offers a rich variety of perspectives on an interesting array of topics, returning always to his fundamental belief that conservation pioneers such as John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, and Aldo Leopold had it right when they affirmed Walt Whitman’s observation that “the secret of making the best person . . . is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”
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A North Country Almanac: Reflections of an Old-School Conservationist in a Modern World

A North Country Almanac: Reflections of an Old-School Conservationist in a Modern World

by Thomas C Bailey
A North Country Almanac: Reflections of an Old-School Conservationist in a Modern World

A North Country Almanac: Reflections of an Old-School Conservationist in a Modern World

by Thomas C Bailey

Overview

A North Country Almanac: Reflections of an Old-School Conservationist in a Modern World includes the musings of an independent mind on wilderness, the conservation ethic, and the joys of loving the outdoors. Although a lifelong conservationist, Thomas C. Bailey has never unquestioningly accepted environmental dogma. The essays here often challenge familiar assumptions about stewardship of natural resources. The former National Park ranger, fishing guide, and conservancy director offers a rich variety of perspectives on an interesting array of topics, returning always to his fundamental belief that conservation pioneers such as John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, and Aldo Leopold had it right when they affirmed Walt Whitman’s observation that “the secret of making the best person . . . is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781611862867
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Publication date: 06/01/2018
Series: Dave Dempsey Environmental Studies
Edition description: 1
Pages: 126
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 17.30(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

THOMAS C. BAILEY has been Executive Director of the Little Traverse Conservancy for more than thirty years, having previously worked for the U.S. National Park Service and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. He was appointed to the Board of Trustees of Lake Superior State University in 2016 and to the Governor’s Blue Ribbon Panel on Michigan State Parks and Outdoor Recreation in 2011. He is a cofounder of the Heart of the Lakes Center for Land Conservation Policy and the Top of Michigan Trails Council.

Table of Contents

Foreword Gloria Whelan vii

Prelude xi

Part 1 Beginnings

Inspired by Eagles 3

A Yooper Kid Goes to Washington 6

An Environmentalist Looks at Fifty 8

Part 2 Motives

Conquering Nature? 15

Why Protect Land? 17

The Biophilia Hypothesis 20

Science and Spirit 22

Dark Sky Park 25

Locking Up Land 28

Part 3 Hunting

The Hunting Issue: Some Background 33

Nature-Based People's Perspective on Hunting 37

But Is There Room for Hunters? 40

A Glimpse of How It Might Be … 43

A Glimpse of How It Was: The Elk Hunt 45

Part 4 Government

Government, Regulations, and Politics 51

Government Wetland Protection 53

Property Taxes 56

The Value of Public Land 58

Part 5 Economics

The Natural Resources Sector of the Economy 65

What Is the Economy, Anyway? 67

Unlimited Growth Can Be Sustainable 70

Elephants and Resource Economics 72

War and Resources 74

Tax Breaks 76

Part 6 Fathers and Sons

Thanks, Dad 81

Conservation and the World War II Generation 85

Another Generation 88

Enjoying the Snow 90

The Berry Patch and Food from Nature 92

On Becoming a Military Family: Reflections on Home, Land, Security 94

As the Sun Begins to Set 99

Fathers and Sons: Afterword 101

Acknowledgments 105

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