A wild idea : how the environmental movement tamed the Adirondacks / Brad Edmondson.
"The history of a globally significant land-use plan for New York State's six-million-acre Adirondack Park, the environmentalists who worked for decades to turn it into law, and the opponents who rose to meet them"--
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Language: | English |
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Ithaca, New York :
Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press,
2021.
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Physical Description: | vi, 295 pages,16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color) ; 24 cm |
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Contents:
- Introduction: two views of the landscape
- Whose woods these are
- A three-year vacation
- Forever Northway
- Brotherly love
- Going rogue
- Order must be
- Pass the f*cking thing
- The big map
- The nature business
- The big push
- Cashing the chips
- Conclusion: convinced against their will.