Benton MacKaye

Benton MacKaye ( born March 6, 1879 in Stamford (Connecticut), † December 11, 1975 ) was an American forest scientists and environmentalists. He was born in Stamford Connecticut, the son of actor Steele MacKaye. He studied forestry at Harvard University ( BA, 1900; MA School of Forestry, 1905), where he was for some time employed as a lecturer and later at some government institutions such as the U.S. Forest Service, the Tennessee Valley Authority and the U.S. Department of Labor operates. He belonged to the Technical Alliance and participated in studies for energy supply.

He was married to Jessie Belle Hardy Stubbs MacKaye. MacKaye was an important pioneer in the protection status of the American Forestry. He coined the word " Geotechnics " and wrote two books on the subject of urban sprawl, according to The New Exploration: A Philosophy of Regional Planning and Expedition Nine: A Return to a region. Various essays can be found in From Geography to Geotechnics. As co-founder of The Wilderness Society, he became famous as the inventor of the Appalachian Trail, which he in 1921, after the death of his wife under the title An Appalachian Trail: A Project in proposed regional planning. A section of the Benton MacKaye Trail, is named after him.

Bibliography

  • Anderson, Larry. 2002nd Benton MacKaye: Conservationist, Planner, and Creator of the Appalachian Trail. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-7791-1.
  • Cevasco, G. A. and Richard P. Harmon. 2009 Modern American Environmentalists: . A Biographical Encyclopedia. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-9152-6.
  • Krueckeberg, Donald A. 1983 The American Planner:. Biographies and Recollections. New York: Methuen. ISBN 0-416-33360-5.
  • Luxenberg, Larry. 1994th Walking the Appalachian Trail. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-585-26833-0.
  • Nash, Roderick. In 1987. Wilderness and the American Mind. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-02910-9.
  • Molloy, Johnny. 2002nd Long Trails of the Southeast. Birmingham, Ala: . Menasha Ridge Press. ISBN 0-89732-530-3.
  • Ness, Erik. July / August 2003. " The Path Taken". Preservation Magazine.
  • Rubin, Robert A (ed). July 2000 " Trail Years: A History of the Appalachian Trail Conference ". . Appalachian Trailway News.
  • Sutter, Paul. October 1999 " Retreat from Profit": . Colonization, the Appalachian Trail, and the social roots of Benton MacKaye 's wilderness advocacy " Environmental History..
  • Sutter, Paul. 2002nd Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement. Seattle: University of Washington press. ISBN 0-295-98219-5.
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