Planning a Wilderness: The Regenerating of the Great Lakes Cutover Region Contributor(s): Kates, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 081663579X ISBN-13: 9780816635795 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2001 Annotation: In Planning a Wilderness, we see how the technical challenges that taxed the expertise of foresters, land economists, game managers, and regional planners were only one part of the enormous task. Kates tells of the equally arduous undertaking of selling reforestation to the public, a campaign in which the experts and their allies in the mass media invoked popular myths of frontier individualism. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General - History | United States - State & Local - General - Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - Forestry |
Dewey: 634.956 |
LCCN: 00011868 |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.23" W x 9.27" (0.98 lbs) 222 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Great Lakes - Geographic Orientation - Michigan - Geographic Orientation - Minnesota - Geographic Orientation - Wisconsin - Cultural Region - Midwest - Cultural Region - Upper Midwest |