Keeper of the Wild: The Life of Ernest Oberholtzer
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (551 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0873514092 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 340 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Selected as one of the 100 influential Minnesotans of the twentieth century by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, a friend and contemporary of both Aldo Leopold and Sigurd Olson, and one of founders of The Wilderness Society, "Ober" was best known for his pioneering work to preserve one of the last remaining wilderness areas east of the Rockies—the Quetico-Superior region of northern Minnesota and southern Ontario.The long campaign by Ober and many others to preserve this area made a significant and lasting impression on conservation and wilderness preservation efforts around the world. Keeper of the Wild is the first book to document and explore the life of the man who led the fight to save the area that eventually became Voyageurs National Park and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (today the most visited wilderness area in the United States), and the successful effort to preserve Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario as a protected wilderness area.Drawing on a lifetime of notebooks, letters, and speeches, as well as interviews
"Getting history right" according to John D. Rylander. In KEEPER OF THE WILD, Joe Paddock tells the story of an early environmental activist. When he was a very young man, Ernest Oberholtzer decided that wilderness as wilderness was valuable, and worthy of preservation. Not wilderness as property, not wilderness as real estate, not wilderness as storehouse of natural resources, not even wilderness as scenery and fishing hole. Wilderness as wilderness. This belief in the primal importance of wilderness at both the physical and the spiritual level is not a political agenda, though political agendas of various kinds can be derived from it. Oberholtzer devoted a very long lifetime to th. The Boundary Waters cannot be taken for granted! LeRoy Pomraning A very well and VERY meticulously researched book on Ernest Oberholtzer. If it weren't for Ober, the Boundary Water Canoe Area of Minnesota and the Quetico region of Ontario would not exist as we know of them today. Joe Paddock has gone through an incredible amount of Ober's papers and interviewed many many people for this book. His hard work is obvious.The book is essentially written by Ober himself. Paddock put all of Ober's words in a logical manner in print.I found myself rooting for Ober throughout the book. Whether if it was while paddling in freezing conditions in Hudson Bay, or while battling with the stubborn politician. An attempt to rewrite history robert martin I was born and grew up on Rainy Lake, a few miles distant from Ernest Oberholtzer's island. (I've modified my original review, in order to respond to some of the criticisms of Edith Rylander, a poet and environmental activist from California.)This book is an agenda-driven effort to remove the warts and character flaws in the personal life of Ernest Carl Oberholtzer, one of eight political and environmental activists involved in the founding of The Wilderness Society (TWS) in 1935. This book should have been privately published by the current officers of TWS. They might be excused for attempting to promote a politically-correct a