Blue Ridge Commons Environmental Activism and Forest History in Western North Carolina

Name: Blue Ridge Commons Environmental Activism and Forest History in Western North Carolina
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ISBN: 9780820341255

ISBN-10: 0820341258

ISBN-13: 9780820341255

Edition: 2012

Authors: Kathryn Newfont, Paul S. Sutter

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Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 2/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Kathryn Newfont is an associate professor of history and faculty chair for the Ramsey Center for Regional Studies at Mars Hill College.



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Maps


Introduction of Forests and Commons



"The Custom of Our Country": The Appalachian Forest Commons



Response to Devastation: Organizing Forests in the Southern Appalachians



Plenty of Trouble: Creating Federal Forests in the Blue Ridge



De Jure Commons: National Forests and Blue Ridge Neighbors



Contested Forests: Commons, Clearcutting, and Wilderness



Wilderness as Commons Enclosure: Rare II Opposition



Wilderness as Commons Defense: The Southern Nantahala



Mobilizing Commons Defense: "Oil Fever" Threatens the Forests



Clearcutting Returns: Timber Enclosure Threatens the Forests



Commons Environmentalism Mobilized: Western North Carolina Alliance's Cut the Clearcutting! Campaign


Conclusion An American Commons in the Blue Ridge


Afterword A Call to Commons


Notes


Bibliography


Index