Article ID: CBB000932187

“Salvaging the Man Power of America”: Conservation, Manhood, and Disabled Veterans during World War I (2009)

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Progressive-era conservationists envisioned the physical energy exerted by male bodies as a natural resource. As a result, foresters and rehabilitationists attempted to simultaneously conserve trees and manpower by using wooden prosthetics and vocational training in forestry to reconstruct the bodies of disabled World War I veterans and place them in forest work. Though they mostly failed, their efforts suggest the need for reconsidering the make-up of the conservation movement, the objects of its labors, and potential intersections for environmental and gender history.

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Authors & Contributors
Edwards, Ryan Christopher
Beattie, James
Bixler, R. Patrick
Sample, V. Alaric
Mario Jimenez Sifuentez
Andrés, Benny J.
Concepts
Forests and forestry
Conservation of natural resources
Environmental sciences
Agriculture
Natural resource management
Labor and laborers
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
18th century
21st century
Places
United States
Argentina
New Zealand
Mexico
Ushuaia (Argentina)
Pacific Northwest (North America)
Institutions
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)
United States. National Park Service
United States. Forest Service
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