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DuPont Forest
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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The History Press
2020.
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| Colección: | Natural History.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Half Tile
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Cast of Major Characters
- Part I: Exploring the Forest
- Why DuPont Forest?
- Recalling a Buck Forest Childhood
- What Is in DuPont Forest Today
- Part II: Settlers and Land Barons
- Meeting the First Settlers
- Visiting the Land of the Sky
- Kingdom of the Happy Land
- Finding Cherokee Petroglyphs
- Growing Up in Cedar Mountain
- Creating Buck Forest Lodge
- Hike: Three Waterfalls in Three Miles
- Who Was Alex Guion?
- Appalachians Make Good Workers
- Part III: DuPont Corporation Goes to Work
- Immigrant Irénée Starts an Empire
- DuPont Corporation Comes to Western North Carolina
- Channing Hubbard, the First Site Employee
- Making Hyperpure Silicon
- What to Do with All This Land?
- Moving on to X-Ray Film
- Earle Johnson Remembers
- Exploring the Twists and Turns of Cascade Lake Road
- Lewis Staton Gets a Road
- Hike: Spring in DuPont Forest
- Brevard, Past and Present, with Stuart English
- The DuPont Plant Was a Good Place to Work
- Part IV: Summit Camps
- Summer Camp, the Best Part of Childhood
- Airstrip Trail
- Buck Forest Development
- Part V: End of an Era
- Growing Up DuPont
- DuPont Corporation Sells the Plant
- Hike: Midsummer Walk from Guion Farm
- Fight for the Falls
- Alan Hirsch Remembers the Fight for the Waterfalls
- Aleen Steinberg, Environmental Activist
- Fauna and Flora in the Forest
- Jeff Jennings Saves a Forest
- The X-Ray Plant Closes
- Part VI: The Forest Grows Up
- Dave Brown, First Forest Supervisor
- Hike: Bewildered on Sheep Mountain Trail
- Studying the Forest Management Plan
- Creating a Recreational Forest
- We Can All Get Along
- Speaking with Forest Supervisor Jason Guidry
- Hike: Walking Joanna Road from Both Directions
- Blockbusters in the Forest
- Visiting the Donut Hole
- Holmes Educational State Forest: DuPont Forest's Smaller Friend
- Part VII: The Future of DuPont Forest
- Pay to Play in the Forest?
- Kiwi Gelato in Brevard
- Marielle DeJong Comes Home
- Contemplations and Speculations
- DuPont Forest Continues to Grow
- Bibliography
- About the Author