Published accounts of the work of J.R. Dymond, a zoology professor at the University of Toronto, director of the Royal Ontario Museum, and a significant force for conservation in Ontario emphasize his contributions to the natural history movement, and his influence on scientific research and the protection of natural areas in provincial parks. Relatively little attention has been paid to his early life and the local environments that shaped his views of nature. This article uses the concept of “place” to explain how Dymond became a conservationist. His experiences in specific locations—a product of social relations and the landscapes themselves—gave those places meaning and shaped his values. Such environments included the family farm and s...
The papers enclosed in this volume were all created with one major motivation, to contribute to the ...
Author Institution: School of Natural Resources, The Ohio State UniversityPaul B. Sears had an eclec...
This work focuses on nineteenth century private property deforestation and the clearing of vast port...
This research paper was completed and submitted at Nipissing University, and is made freely accessib...
In nineteenth century New Zealand, the process of colonisation included destruction of the native en...
In 1997, the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) came to the southwestern corner of Alberta as a comp...
This paper investigates the importance and various roles of amateur naturalists and biologists in th...
This paper a) gives an historical view of national parks and other protected areas since the 19th ce...
Exploitation of natural resources for human consumption and development has led to widespread loss o...
Earth is becoming more urban. As the human population continues the current trend of migrating towar...
In the 1990s, influenced by the deconstructionist movement in literary theory and trends toward revi...
The thesis examines the role that conservation science and scientists have played and should play in...
Author Institution: School of Natural Resources, The Ohio State UniversityPaul B. Sears made his mar...
This study delivers insight into the attitudes of Victorians towards threatened species conservation...
The early twentieth century witnessed a growing sensibility about the decline of wild animal populat...
The papers enclosed in this volume were all created with one major motivation, to contribute to the ...
Author Institution: School of Natural Resources, The Ohio State UniversityPaul B. Sears had an eclec...
This work focuses on nineteenth century private property deforestation and the clearing of vast port...
This research paper was completed and submitted at Nipissing University, and is made freely accessib...
In nineteenth century New Zealand, the process of colonisation included destruction of the native en...
In 1997, the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) came to the southwestern corner of Alberta as a comp...
This paper investigates the importance and various roles of amateur naturalists and biologists in th...
This paper a) gives an historical view of national parks and other protected areas since the 19th ce...
Exploitation of natural resources for human consumption and development has led to widespread loss o...
Earth is becoming more urban. As the human population continues the current trend of migrating towar...
In the 1990s, influenced by the deconstructionist movement in literary theory and trends toward revi...
The thesis examines the role that conservation science and scientists have played and should play in...
Author Institution: School of Natural Resources, The Ohio State UniversityPaul B. Sears made his mar...
This study delivers insight into the attitudes of Victorians towards threatened species conservation...
The early twentieth century witnessed a growing sensibility about the decline of wild animal populat...
The papers enclosed in this volume were all created with one major motivation, to contribute to the ...
Author Institution: School of Natural Resources, The Ohio State UniversityPaul B. Sears had an eclec...
This work focuses on nineteenth century private property deforestation and the clearing of vast port...