The Great Experiment in Conservation: Voices from the Adirondack Park
William Porter
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Description for The Great Experiment in Conservation: Voices from the Adirondack Park
Hardcover. The Adirondack region of New York State is, in many respects, America's cauldron of conservation. This title explores the ecological, cultural, and economic aspects of the region, drawing lessons from successes and failures as they struggle to find the right balance of private interests and public controls. Editor(s): Porter, William F.; Erickson, Jon D.; Whaley, Ross S. Num Pages: 400 pages, 6 black-&-white illustrations, 13 tables, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 43. Weight in Grams: 975.
The Adirondack region of New York State is, in many respects, America's cauldron of conservation. It was there, more than a century ago, that wanton exploitation of forests first aroused concern about human impact on the environment. It was there that Americans first began to set aside lands proclaimed as 'forever wild'. The establishment of the Adirondack Park created an immense landscape of 6 million acres composed of a mixture of public and private lands in nearly equal proportion. This unprecedented blend of human communities within wild lands makes the Adirondack Park perhaps one of the greatest case studies in ... Read more
The Adirondack region of New York State is, in many respects, America's cauldron of conservation. It was there, more than a century ago, that wanton exploitation of forests first aroused concern about human impact on the environment. It was there that Americans first began to set aside lands proclaimed as 'forever wild'. The establishment of the Adirondack Park created an immense landscape of 6 million acres composed of a mixture of public and private lands in nearly equal proportion. This unprecedented blend of human communities within wild lands makes the Adirondack Park perhaps one of the greatest case studies in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
606
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815632313
SKU
V9780815632313
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About William Porter
William F. Porter is professor of wildlife ecology and director of the Adirondack Ecological Center at SUNY ESF. Jon D. Erickson is associate professor of ecological economics at the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, faculty of the Environmental Program, and fellow of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont. Ross S. Whaley is emeritus ... Read more
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