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Show 434. CHAPTER X: FOREST RESERVES Since this book is about Muir and his career, it is neither possible nor desirable to attempt a complete history of the growth of conservation in the eighteen nineties and the first decade of the twentieth century- There is a good library of books which document the development of that period. Muir's role was significant, and far-reaching, yet is often superficially understood, or misstated. He brought to politics a consciousness quite different from that recorded in the standard histories of the period, and though he had a strong influence on major figures like Roosevelt, Pinchot, Mather, Albright - and even on minor figures like Theodore Lukens of Pasadena or Enos Mills of the Rocky Mountains - Muir's approach to conservation was more mature and more carefully considered than the dominant ones of the time. Part of the difference was Muir's own non-anthropocentric |