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Wilderness Comes Home: Rewilding the Northeast (Middlebury Bicentennial Series in Environmental Studies)

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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.

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.