A wild idea : how the environmental movement tamed the Adirondacks

A wild idea : how the environmental movement tamed the Adirondacks /

"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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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Edmondson, Brad (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021
Subjects:
Adirondack Park Agency (N.Y.) > History.
Land use > New York (State) > Adirondack Park > History > 20th century.
Adirondack Park (N.Y.) > History.
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Table of 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.

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