Author: Arthur Hawthorne CarhartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Superior National Forest (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Preliminary Prospectus: an Outline Plan for the Recreational Development of the Superior National Forest
Author: Arthur Hawthorne CarhartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Superior National Forest (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Preliminary Prospectus: an Outline Plan for the Recreational Development of the Superior National Forest
Author: Arthur Hawthorne CarhartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Saving Quetico Superior
Author: R. Newell SearlePublisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 9780873511407
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Encompassing the Boundary Waters Canoe Area of Superior National Forest, Voyageurs National Park, and Grand Portage National Monument in Minnesota and Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario, the Quetico-Superior is the only region of its kind in the U.S. and Canada. This book tells the story of the long campaign to secure and preserve it for posterity and also illustrates the development of an American idea -- wilderness preservation.
Lob Trees in the Wilderness
Author: Clifford Elmer AhlgrenPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452905525
Category : Boundary Waters Canoe Area (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Nature’s Crossroads
Author: George VrtisPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822989107
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Minnesota’s Twin Cities have long been powerful engines of change. From their origins in the early nineteenth century, the Twin Cities helped drive the dispossession of the region’s Native American peoples, turned their riverfronts into bustling industrial and commercial centers, spread streets and homes outward to the horizon, and reached well beyond their urban confines, setting in motion the environmental transformation of distant hinterlands. As these processes unfolded, residents inscribed their culture into the landscape, complete with all its tensions, disagreements, contradictions, prejudices, and social inequalities. These stories lie at the heart of Nature’s Crossroads. The book features an interdisciplinary team of distinguished scholars who aim to open new conversations about the environmental history of the Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota.
The Lure of the North Woods
Author: Aaron ShapiroPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816688680
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
In the late nineteenth century, the North Woods offered people little in the way of a pleasant escape. Rather, it was a hub of production supplying industrial America with vast quantities of lumber and mineral ore. This book tells the story of how northern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula became a tourist paradise, turning a scarred countryside into the playground we know today. Stripped of much of its timber and ore by the early 1900s, the North Woods experienced deindustrialization earlier than the Rust Belt cities that consumed its resources. In The Lure of the North Woods, Aaron Shapiro describes how residents and visitors reshaped the region from a landscape of exploitation to a vacationland. The rejuvenating North Woods profited in new ways by drawing on emerging connections between the urban and the rural, including improved transportation, promotion, recreational land use, and conservation initiatives. Shapiro demonstrates how this transformation helps explain the interwar origins of modern American environmentalism, when both the consumption of nature for pleasure and the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the North Woods and elsewhere led many Americans to cultivate a fresh perspective on the outdoors. At a time when travel and recreation are considered major economic forces, The Lure of the North Woods reveals how leisure—and tourism in particular—has shaped modern America.
Wilderness and the American Mind
Author: Roderick Frazier NashPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300153503
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
DIVRoderick Nash’s classic study of changing attitudes toward wilderness during American history, as well as the origins of the environmental and conservation movements, has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine included it in a survey of “books that changed our world,” and it has been called the “Book of Genesis for environmentalists.” For the fifth edition, Nash has written a new preface and epilogue that brings Wilderness and the American Mind into dialogue with contemporary debates about wilderness. Char Miller’s foreword provides a twenty-first-century perspective on how the environmental movement has changed, including the ways in which contemporary scholars are reimagining the dynamic relationship between the natural world and the built environment./div
Hard Work and a Good Deal
Author: Barbara W. SommerPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873517350
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
CCC veterans tell compelling stories of their experiences planting trees, fighting fires, building state parks, and reclaiming pastureland in this collective history of the CCC in Minnesota.
Pamphlets on Forest Recreation
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Harvard University. Graduate School of Design. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description