"EARLY LEADERS FOR WILD LANDS tells true stories about four men and one woman who established how to work in and be in the wilderness. They were guides for protection of wilderness and for the protectors who followed them. Their lives were immersed in service -- to wild land and the American people. They worked for the U.S. Forest Service, centered in the vast Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness of Idaho and Montana. Three were active before and after the Wilderness Act of 1964. The younger two came in at the beginning of the modern wilderness era. They all adapted skills of the pioneers to the new land designation. Their stories celebrate heroes for the enduring resource of wilderness and point to the future to keep their legacies thriving"-- Provided by publisher

1900-1999, Biographies, Biography, Conservationists, Conservationists Idaho Biography, Écologistes (Défenseurs de l'environnement) Idaho Biographies, Forest rangers, Forest rangers United States Biography, Gardes forestiers États-Unis Biographies, History, Idaho, Keck, Emil, 1912-1990, Keck, Penny, Miller, Warren, 1945-2014, Moore, Bud, 1917-201

Preface: Into the wilderness End of an era Going out Builders of bridges: Emil and Penny Keck Changes: Emil and Penny Keck Mountain man and pioneer: William R. "Bud" Moore Fire returns to the wilderness Settled land and wilderness: Bud Moore Wilderness becomes policy: William A. Worf Specialist, revivalist and wilderness physicist: Warren Q. Miller Epilogue: Following the trail