From Coastal Wilderness to Fruited Plain A History of Environmental Change in Temperate North America from 1500 to the Present

Name: From Coastal Wilderness to Fruited Plain A History of Environmental Change in Temperate North America from 1500 to the Present
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ISBN: 9780521394529

ISBN-10: 052139452X

ISBN-13: 9780521394529

Edition: 1994

Authors: Gordon G. Whitney

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From Coastal Wilderness to Fruited Plain is an account of the making of the American landscape following European settlement. It starts with "virgin" forests and grasslands of the central and northeastern United States, and successively documents the clearance and fragmentation of the region's woodlands, the harvest of the forest and its game, the plowing of prairies and the draining of wetlands. The Native American, the trapper, the farmer and the lumberman all benefited from the land and its resources; the degree to which their activities altered the soil, the climate, the natural plant and animal communities, and the water cycle is examined here.

Book details

List price: $173.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/8/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 488
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English



List of figures


List of tables


Acknowledgements


Conversion of English to metric units


US state abbreviations


Common and scientific names of trees mentioned in the text


Photographic essay illustrating the character and the demise of the pre-settlement vegetation of the Northeast and the Midwest



Introduction



Reconstructing the past



Nature imposes ...



The forest primeval



Preservers of the ecological balance wheel



European precedents



Assault upon the forest, part I: the farmer



Assault upon the forest, part II: the lumber industry



Assault upon the forest, part III: fuel-wood



Predatory agriculture



Grassland agriculture



Forest influences



A transported flora



An impoverished fauna



The legislated landscape



Conclusion


References


Index