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: 9780521576581

ISBN-10: 052157658X

ISBN-13: 9780521576581

Edition: 1996

Authors: Gordon G. Whitney

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Using land surveys and early travellers' accounts, this book reconstructs the American landscape after European settlement. The degree to which the landscape was altered, as well as the sustainablity of present-day ecosystems are questioned.

Book details

List price: $88.99
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/29/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 488
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.06" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.562
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