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The war against the beavers / Verena Andermatt Conley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Conley, Verena Andermatt, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Country life--Minnesota--Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
- Country life.
- Log cabins--Minnesota--Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
- Log cabins.
- Natural history--Minnesota--Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
- Natural history.
- Beavers--Minnesota--Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
- Beavers.
- Boundary Waters Canoe Area (Minn.)--Description and travel.
- Boundary Waters Canoe Area (Minn.).
- Vermilion River Region (Minn.)--Description and travel.
- Vermilion River Region (Minn.).
- Boundary Waters Canoe Area (Minn.)--Biography.
- Vermilion River Region (Minn.)--Biography.
- Conley, Verena Andermatt, 1943-.
- Conley, Verena Andermatt.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (190 p.)
- Edition:
- New ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The War against the Beavers is a wry and funny account of two people's ten-year apprenticeship in backwoods living. Juxtaposing idyllic descriptions- hiking and cross-country skiing, swimming and canoeing in clear waters-with the intensive labor of maintaining a wilderness homestead, Conley draws a beguiling picture of the ups and downs of backwoods living.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue: A Cabin in the Wilderness; Part I. Babes in the Woods; Heading for the Wilderness; Home Alone at the Cabin; Summer Pleasures; Forest Paths; The Art of Ricing; Winter Pleasures; Of Mice and Men; Round-robin with the Weasels; Icy Roads; Cabin Opener; Tree-Planting Ceremony; Bruno the Bear; Blueberry Hill; Raspberry Picking; Devastation; Part II. The War against the Beavers; The War Begins; Jim Rondeau; Strange Bedfellows; Tree Nailing; Nature Attacks; The First Trapper; A New Beaver Dam; The Logging Letter; A Tour with the "Forest Coordinator"
- Amos, the Eco-TrapperEdna, the Woodswoman; More Beaver Stories; The First Victim; A Silent Spring; A New Plague; Urbanization; The Beavers Return; Joe Ahearn; Big Timber; Wolves; More Chaos; "Nature's Ways"; Back to Blueberry Hill; Epilogue
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9523-7
- OCLC:
- 476095274
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