Backwoods Ethics A Guide to Low-Impact Camping and Hiking

Name: Backwoods Ethics A Guide to Low-Impact Camping and Hiking
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ISBN: 9780881502572

ISBN-10: 088150257X

ISBN-13: 9780881502572

Edition: 2nd 1993 (Revised)

Authors: Guy Waterman, Laura Waterman, Bill McKibben

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List price: $24.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/17/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 282
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.90" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Wilderness Ethics was Guy Waterman's most determined and philosophical statement. He died in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

Laura Waterman is co-author of several books with her husband, Guy. She lives near their original homestead in Vermont.



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Hikers: Who Are We?



That Pack on the Back: Mae West vs. Twiggy



Backpackers' Favorite Lies



Peakbagging



The 2,000-Mile Community-on-the-Move



Winter Camping Idyll



The Greatest Walkers of Them All



The New Ethic



The Coming of the Lug-Soled Army



Cleaning Up Our Act



Low-Impact Hiking: Of Boots, Mud, and Grandmothers



Low-Impact Camping: Swinging in the Woods



Low-Impact Cooking: The Fire Goes Out



The Forty-Sixers



Toward a Sense of Stewardship



A Day in the Life of the NUTS



Trail Tending



Seven Days in April



To Save a Mountain Flower: Preserving Alpine Areas: A Three-Part Saga



The Physical Component



Education above the Trees



Making Two Blades of Grass to Grow



Rock Climbers and Their Environment, 1970



Four Unresolved Impact Issues



Low-Impact Bushwhacking



Man's Best Friend--or Menace to Wilderness?



Rock Climbers and Their Environment, 1990



Winter Camping: Tracks in More Than the Snow


Epilogue


Selected Bibliography


Index