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Eric Myers publishes a letter on environmentalism and conservation, 2006

Also Eric Myers environmentalist letter 2006

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TypeEvent
Date2006-01
ErasModern era
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Date
2006-01
Kind
Publication
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Modern era
Concepts
conservationenvironmentcommunitycommunication

Summary

Eric Myers’s January 2006 letter to the Beaver Beacon responded to an earlier debate about environmentalism by citing Aldo Leopold’s account of conservation as awareness of the mark people leave on the land.

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This is a published opinion and quotation, not a complete history of the local debate or an independent definition of conservation practice.

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Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, January 2006, "Letters: 'Environmentalist'."
    Eric Myers's letter responds to an earlier debate and invokes Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac definition of conservation as awareness of one's effects on the land. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2006-01_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the environmentalist letter.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2006-01_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Eric Myers publishes a letter on environmentalism and conservation, 2006”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-environmentalist-letter-2006/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 2006, "Letters: 'Environmentalist'." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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