The Library of Congress' American Memory Today in History site celebrated the anniversary of Congressman George Perkins Marsh's address in 1847 to the Agricultural Society of Rutland County, which expressed a number of ideas central to the growing American conservation movement. He would later also write the influential book, Man and Nature. We don't have a copy, but you can download it from the nearby Internet Archive. If you haven't discovered it already, the Library of Congress has a fantastic presentation of historical resources related to the evolution of the conservation movement at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/conshome.html where you can learn about Marsh, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and much more.
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