Collections Spotlight: Conservation & Environment

PSN curated resource sets

• Arbor Day
• Bird Day
• Civilian Conservation Corps
• Earth Day
• Landscape Photographs
• National Park Service
• National Park primary source sets & featured images
• John James Audubon
• John Burroughs
• Rachel Carson
• George Perkins Marsh
• Thomas Moran
• John Muir
• Gifford Pinchot
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Henry David Thoreau

Online collections

• Conservation & Environment Maps
• Evolution of the Conservation Movement
• Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art and Forestry 1888-97
• Mapping the National Parks
• Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia

Online exhibitions

• Amid Gardens and Nature
• Down to Earth: Herblock and Photographers Observe the Environment
• Earth as Art: A Landsat Perspective
• Earth As Art 3: A Landsat Perspective

Primary Source Learning: Conservation & Environment

Spotlights, features & special presentation

• American Conservation Movement Chronology, 1847-1920
• Environment: Selected Internet Resources
• Environmental Sciences resources
• Environmental Law: A Beginner’s Guide

Stories from America’s Library

• First Bird Day
• First Earth Day
• Henry David Thoreau
• John Muir and the Sierras
• National Geographic President Gilbert H. Grosvenor
• Painter Thomas Moran
• Rachel Carson
• Timber and Forests
• Wyoming’s Old Faithful
• Yosemite Land Grant Signed

Resources outside the Library

• American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920 Harvard Library
• Reclaiming the Everglades: South Florida’s Natural History Everglades Digital Library