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Daily Archives: December 16, 2012

Venus, Mars and Marston Bates

Textbook HistoryBy Ronald LadouceurDecember 16, 20122 Comments

Most of us think of conservation and ecology as more or less the same thing, with conservation the first step toward the restoration of an ecologically balanced state of nature. But through the first half of the twentieth century, the two words signified quite different things.

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