This Land Is Your Land

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The foundation -- The explorers -- The settlers -- The thinkers -- The institutions -- What it meant -- The natural historians -- Bred in their bones -- What it meant -- The ecologists -- An Illinois original -- The Nebraska school of plant ecology -- The Chicago school of plant ecology -- The Chicago school of animal ecology -- The Wisconsin school of limnology -- What it meant -- The wildlife biologists -- The scattered become gathered -- What it meant -- The conservation biologists -- The conservation/preservation tension -- Wither and how to engage? -- America's best idea, expanded -- The sole Midwestern wilderness: quetico-superior boundary waters -- Agencies face tough transitions -- Bureau of Biological Survey/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service -- U.S. Forest Service -- What it meant -- The restoration biologists -- All the king's horses and all the king's men -- Indiana Jones revisited -- This land is your land