The Adirondacks : wild island of hope / Gary A. Randorf ; with a foreword by Bill McKibben.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Randorf, Gary, 1937-

Series:

Creating the North American landscape

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history.

Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)--Description and travel.

Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.).

Adirondack Park (N.Y.)--Description and travel.

Adirondack Park (N.Y.).

Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)--Pictorial works.

Adirondack Park (N.Y.)--Pictorial works.

Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)--History.

Adirondack Park (N.Y.)--History.

Natural history--New York (State)--Adirondack Mountains.

New York (State)--Adirondack Mountains.

Genre:

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

xxii, 198 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

Summary:

In The Adirondacks: Wild Island of Hope, Gary A. Randorf offers one hundred photographs to illustrate this unique, comprehensive environmental and natural history of the Adirondack Park, the first private-public partnership in the United States dedicated to the protection of a wilderness area. Situated in northeast New York, this regional park of 6 million acres represents a unique blend of public wildlands intermixed with commercial forests, farms, mines, private parks, prisons, scattered homes, dozens of villages, and a year-round population of 130,000. The ongoing attempts over the last century to make the Adirondacks a park have made this region a "striving ground" for living with the land, rather than outside or above it. Much of the strife is over finding a right relationship to the land, treating it not as a commodity to be exploited but as a community to which all living things belong and upon which all depend. Today, the Adirondacks regional park "represents a second-chance wilderness" -- as Bill McKibben writes in his foreword to this book. The concerns of this park are the same concerns that apply to all of America's parks, recreational areas, and wildernesses, with the addition of how to maintain the fragile peace between human and natural communities. How that second chance can be realized is the focus of Gary Randorf's text and stunning color photographs.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Paths in the Forest 1

Chapter 2 A Forest Forever 29

Chapter 3 A Sense of the Place 73

Chapter 4 Beside the Stilled Waters 111

Chapter 5 Will the Forest Be Unbroken? 139.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-189) and index.

ISBN:

0801869536

OCLC:

48429281