Discovering the Unknown Landscape A History of America's Wetlands

Name: Discovering the Unknown Landscape A History of America's Wetlands
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ISBN: 9781559633154

ISBN-10: 1559633158

ISBN-13: 9781559633154

Edition: 2nd 1997

Authors: Ann Vileisis

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The rapidly disappearing wetlands that once spread so abundantly across the American continent serve an essential and irreplaceable ecological function. Yet for centuries, Americans have viewed them with disdain. Beginning with the first European settlers, we have thought of them as sinkholes of disease and death, as landscapes that were worse than useless unless they could be drained, filled, paved or otherwise "improved." As neither dry land, which can be owned and controlled by individuals, nor bodies of water, which are considered a public resource, wetlands have in recent years been at the center of controversy over issues of environmental protection and property rights.The confusion…

Book details

List price: $47.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Island Press
Publication date: 9/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 445
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Preface



A Landscape on the Periphery



A Mosaic of Native Swamps. Bogs, and Marshes



A Nation Founded on Wetlands



Exploring the Unknown Landscape



The Drainage Imperative Codified



Wetlands Portrayed and Envisioned



Machines in the Wetland Gardens



New Voices for the Wetlands



The Double Agenda



In the Path of the Boom



Citizens and Lawmakers Enlist in the Wetlands Cause



Federal Bulldozers and Draglines



With New Tools in Hand



The Reagan Agenda Challenges Wetland Gains



Making and Breaking the Farm Connection



A Contentious Era for Wetlands



The Promise of Restoration



The Lessons of History


Notes



Some Common and Scientific Names of Wetland Plants


Acknowledgments


Index