Nature Next Door Cities and Trees in the American Northeast

Name: Nature Next Door Cities and Trees in the American Northeast
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ISBN: 9780295993317

ISBN-10: 0295993316

ISBN-13: 9780295993317

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Authors: Ellen Stroud, William Cronon

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New in paperbackA History News Network Best Book of 2012The once-denuded northeastern United States is now a region of trees--because of cities. Nature Next Door shows how Northeastern urbanization--along with the construction of parks, the transformation of farming, the boom in tourism, and changes in the timber industry--fostered a period of recovery for forests and created a new wildness of metropolitan nature.Ellen Stroud is an environmental historian at Bryn Mawr College."The book illuminates the web of connections between forests and the quality of human life, and documents some of the ways in which people have strengthened those ties." -Publishers Weekly"The moral of Stroud's story…

Book details

Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication date: 8/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.40" wide x 7.60" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.594



Foreword: The Once and Future Forest



Acknowledgments


A Note on the Maps


Introduction: The City and the Trees



Water and Woods in Pennsylvania



New Hampshire Watersheds, Viewsheds, and Timber



Packaging the Forested Farm in Vermont



Who Owns Maine's Trees?



Fractured Forests and the Future of Northeastern Trees


Notes


Bibliographic Essay


Index