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Charles Lathrop Pack: Timberman, Forest Conservationist, and Pioneer in Forest Education. By Alexandra Eyle. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1994. xxiv, 320 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8156-8117-8.)
Charles Lathrop Pack was a man bent on control. The earth felt his manipulative force when he multiplied his family's already considerable fortune by investing in and clearcutting vast forests in the American South and British Columbia. The early-twentieth-century conservation movement, elements of which he financed, discovered to its chagrin just how much power his money bought, as would his children, who lived and worked along the lines their father had predetermined. Even this interesting biography, the first full treatment of Pack's life, bears his impress: underwritten by one of his grandchildren, it is part of a larger project that includes the creation of the...