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The Jefferson National Forest: An Appalachian Environmental History
Will Sarvis
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Description for The Jefferson National Forest: An Appalachian Environmental History
Hardcover. Num Pages: 354 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; HBJK; RGBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 30. Weight in Grams: 456.
The highland forests of southwestern Virginia were a sacred land to Native Americans and one they relied upon for sustenance. After European contact, this beautiful country drew successive waves of settlers and visitors, and for a brief yet intense period, industrialists rapaciously exploited its timber resources, particularly in the higher elevations where the woodlands had survived the nearby valleys' generations of agricultural use. This is the story of how various peoples have regarded this land over the centuries and how, starting in the early twentieth century, the federal government acquired 700,000 acres of it to create what is now the ... Read more
The highland forests of southwestern Virginia were a sacred land to Native Americans and one they relied upon for sustenance. After European contact, this beautiful country drew successive waves of settlers and visitors, and for a brief yet intense period, industrialists rapaciously exploited its timber resources, particularly in the higher elevations where the woodlands had survived the nearby valleys' generations of agricultural use. This is the story of how various peoples have regarded this land over the centuries and how, starting in the early twentieth century, the federal government acquired 700,000 acres of it to create what is now the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Univ Tennessee Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
277
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781572338289
SKU
V9781572338289
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Ref
99-3
About Will Sarvis
WILL SARVIS is a history teacher at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon, and was the historian of the Jefferson National Forest from 1991 to 1993. He is author of Borderland Mogul: J.V. Conran, African American Influence, and Politics in Rural Missouri (forthcoming).
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