A Wild Idea : How the Environmental Movement Tamed the Adirondacks / Brad Edmondson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edmondson, Brad, author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land use.

TRAVEL / Parks & Campgrounds.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [2021]

Summary:

'A Wild Idea' shares the complete story of the difficult birth of the Adirondack Park Agency (APA). The Adirondack region of New York's rural North Country forms the nation's largest State Park, with a territory as large as Vermont. Planning experts view the APA as a triumph of sustainability that balances human activity with the preservation of wild ecosystems. The truth isn't as pretty. The story of the APA, told here for the first time, is a complex, troubled tale of political dueling and communities pushed to the brink of violence. Edmondson shows how the movement's leaders persuaded a powerful Governor to recruit planners, naturalists, and advisors and assign a task that had never been attempted before.

Contents:

Introduction: two views of the landscape

Whose woods these are

A three-year vacation

Forever Northway

Brotherly love

Going rogue

Order must be

Pass the f*cking thing

The big map

The nature business

The big push

Cashing the chips

Conclusion: convinced against their will.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

"This publication has been aided by a generous subvention from Furthermore, a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 17, 2021).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501759017

1501759019

OCLC:

1221016666