| The Agony of an American Wilderness: Loggers, Environmentalists, and the Struggle for Control of a Forgotten Forest Contributor(s): MacDonald, Samuel a. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0742541584 ISBN-13: 9780742541580 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $47.52 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2005 Annotation: 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 ground. This book explains what activists are after, how the struggle differs from more familiar environmental battles and what it means for the future of the American landscape. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General - Nature | Plants - Trees - Political Science | Public Policy - Environmental Policy |
| Dewey: 333.751 |
| LCCN: 2004028127 |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 5.9" W x 8.02" (0.69 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Appalachians - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Topical - Ecology |
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| Publisher Description: The Allegheny National Forest exists on what might have been the most heavily exploited landscape in the history of civilization. Careful stewardship over the last eight decades has transformed it into a beautiful forest that contains countless wildlife species and some of the world's most valuable timber. Local communities are steeped in pride for having written that unprecedented environmental success story. Unfortunately, the Allegheny is now the focus of a caustic new timber war that will ultimately test the limits of American environmentalism. No longer satisfied with protecting the pristine old growth that captured the national imagination in the early 1990s, activists have embarked on campaign to put an end to the Allegheny timber program. Litigation and protests have shaken the region for a decade. More recently, it has become a hotbed of eco-terrorism. But restoring the Allegheny to something activists accept will be far more difficult, expensive, and explosive than setting aside a few million acres for the northern spotted owl. This book examines the communities caught in the middle of that political crossfire and forces Americans to decide if they are ready to accept the new activist agenda: In their own words, 'If we can stop logging on the Allegheny, we can stop it everywhere.' |