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The Agony of an American Wilderness : Loggers, Environmentalists, and the Struggle for Control of a Forgotten Forest.
What is a forest? What are forests for? Who should control them? These are familiar questions, but the Allegheny casts them in a new light. The national environmental movement has become less willing to compromise since its victories in the Pacific Northwest, and the Allegheny is its newest proving...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Welcome to Pennsyltucky-A Strange New Front in the Great American Timber War; 1. The Forgotten Forest: The Allegheny Experience, from Old Growth to Brush Heap and Beyond; 2. Meet the Activists: History, Culture, and Politics Collide at the Annual Gathering; 3. Mom and Pop Go Bust: The Complex Plight of the Allegheny Sawmill; 4. I Work in the Woods: Fear and Logging on the Allegheny; 5. Restoration, Reality, and the Perils of Science: Can the Allegheny Become a Wilderness Again?
- 6. Take it to the Streets: Radical Activists Battle Pre-Teen Satirists for Control7. Third Way or Third Rail? Zero Cut Meets Resistance from Within; 8. The Anti-Activist: A Right-Wing Renaissance Man in the Land of Bulls, Bars, and ""Dinors""; 9. Legal Eagles, Underdogs, and the Fish that (Almost) Ate Pittsburgh: Half Steps and Caveats in Federal Court; 10. Wilderness Revisited: What is Pretty? and why it Matters; 11. Old Growth, New Economy, and the Tourism Promise: If you Build it, who Will Come?; 12. Epilogue: The Great Green Pendulum; Index; About the Author.