HIST 2250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Wilderness Act, Totem Pole, Summer Camp
15 Sep 2015
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Turner, from woodcraft to leave no trace": wilderness, consumerism, and. Sharon wall, totem poles, teepees, and token traditions: playing indian at ontario. What were the political, cultural and class-based motivations for the creation of the national. How did the parks encourage north americans to define. From woodcraft to leave no trace" wilderness, consumerism, and. Carrying packs loaded with modern gear, backpackers prided themselves on traveling through wilderness as mere visitors. In 1991, leave no trace became the official ethic for environmentally-conscious outdoor recreation on the nation"s. Woodcraft was steeped in self-reliance, masculine rhetoric, and discomfort with the modern consumer economy. Leopold envisioned wilderness as a refuge from modernity, where a working-knowledge of nature would reconnect people public lands and the land. For environmental historians, this transition from woodcraft to leave no trace offers a tool to pry apart the modern wilderness ideal.
