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The Jefferson National Forest : an Appalachian Environmental History.
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 ti...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Knoxville :
University of Tennessee Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 gove. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (381 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-343) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781572338371 1572338377 9781572338289 1572338288 9786613276469 6613276464 |