The first book to look at wilderness in the northeastern US, Wilderness Comes Home features a new approach based on ecological reserve design to protect biological diversity, rewilding and restoring lands to wilderness, and embedding wilderness in a landscape of sustainably managed farmland and forestland. It addresses major theoretical and practical aspects of this important issue -- whether, why, and how to reestablish wilderness areas in the Northeast. Although Western wilderness models already exist for undeveloped areas, Eastern models are still evolving. Protection and social management are being urged not for the "forest primeval" but for recovering areas, in which returning species such as moose and peregrine falcons roam over new growth softwoods and hardwoods, interspersed with the stone walls that once marked field boundaries.
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6 x 9 trim. 20 illus. 12 maps. 9 tables. 2 graphs. LC 00-012160
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Christopher McGrory Klyza is Professor of Political Science and Environmental Studies and Director of the Program in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, and co-editor of the Middlebury Bicentennial Series in Environmental Studies. He is author of Who Controls Public Lands? (1996), co-author of The Story of Vermont (UPNE, 1999), and co-editor of The Future of the Northern Forest (UPNE, 1994).
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Rewilding comes home,
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Finally, I find a book that is relevant to the east and will hopefully inspire the west to support the rewilding of the east as we did with the wolves in Yellowstone.
This book is well written, understandable and is well connected between chapters.
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How to think about rewilding the Northeast,
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This book explores how we can make the Northeast wild again - - or at least parts of the Northeast. After being beaten up for two centuries or more, the land is recovering and reforesting. Species long gone are returning.
The book reminds us that there are some big patches of nature in the region without permanent human habitation, in the Adirondacks, in Maine, and in significant parts of Vermont, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania. The book brings together a nice mix of authors--biologists, policy analysts, foresters, and public lands experts. Unfortunately, there is considerable overlap among some chapters, leading to some avoidable repetition. There are some latent differences of opinion here, between the people who think in terms of big wilderness and those who think in terms of sustainable forestry and conservation easements. It would have been helpful to make those differences more obvious, and to have these authors confront one another a bit more. Still, if you care about wilderness in a human-dominated landscape, this book will get you thinking.
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New York, New Hampshire, New England, United States, Forest Service, Adirondack Park, Northern Forest, North America, Nature Conservancy, Vermont Family Forests, Wilderness Act, Rhode Island, Northeastern System of Wild Lands, Appalachian Trail, Baxter State Park, Conservation Fund, Green Mountains, Northern Appalachians, Wildlands Project, White Mountain National Forest, Native Americans, Keeping Track, Percival Baxter, Connecticut River, Cook Forest New!
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New York, New Hampshire, New England, United States, Forest Service, Adirondack Park, Northern Forest, North America, Nature Conservancy, Vermont Family Forests, Wilderness Act, Rhode Island, Northeastern System of Wild Lands, Appalachian Trail, Baxter State Park, Conservation Fund, Green Mountains, Northern Appalachians, Wildlands Project, White Mountain National Forest, Native Americans, Keeping Track, Percival Baxter, Connecticut River, Cook Forest New!
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- Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth by Bill McKibben on 6 pages
- Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics) by George Perkins Marsh on 4 pages
- The Future of the Northern Forest by Christopher McGrory Klyza on 4 pages
- Outlines & Highlights for The Diversity of Life by Wilson (Cram101 Textbook Outlines) by Cram101 Textbook Reviews in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Big Outside by Dave Foreman on page 95, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Natural States: "The Environmental Imagination in Maine, Oregon, and the Nation" by Richard W. Judd in Back Matter
- Sightlines: The View of a Valley through the Voice of Depression (Middlebury Bicentennial Series in Environmental Studies) by Terry Osborne in Front Matter
- The Restoration Economy by Storm Cunningham in Back Matter
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