Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and ForestryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
North Carolina Wilderness Areas
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and ForestryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Blue Ridge Commons
Author: Kathryn NewfontPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820341258
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
"In the late twentieth century, residents of the Blue Ridge mountains in western North Carolina fiercely resisted certain environmental efforts, even while launching aggressive initiatives of their own. Kathryn Newfont provides context for those events by examining the environmental history of this region over the course of three hundred years, identifying what she calls commons environmentalism--a cultural strain of conservation in American history that has gone largely unexplored. Efforts in the 1970s to expand federal wilderness areas in the Pisgah and Nantahala national forests generated strong opposition. For many mountain residents the idea of unspoiled wilderness seemed economically unsound, historically dishonest, and elitist. Newfont shows that local people's sense of commons environmentalism required access to the forests that they viewed as semipublic places for hunting, fishing, and working. Policies that removed large tracts from use were perceived as 'enclosure' and resisted. Incorporating deep archival work and years of interviews and conversations with Appalachian residents, Blue Ridge Commons reveals a tradition of people building robust forest protection movements on their own terms."--p. [4] of cover.
Where There Are Mountains
Author: Donald Edward DavisPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820340219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
A timely study of change in a complex environment, Where There Are Mountains explores the relationship between human inhabitants of the southern Appalachians and their environment. Incorporating a wide variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, the study draws information from several viewpoints and spans more than four hundred years of geological, ecological, anthropological, and historical development in the Appalachian region. The book begins with a description of the indigenous Mississippian culture in 1500 and ends with the destructive effects of industrial logging and dam building during the first three decades of the twentieth century. Donald Edward Davis discusses the degradation of the southern Appalachians on a number of levels, from the general effects of settlement and industry to the extinction of the American chestnut due to blight and logging in the early 1900s. This portrait of environmental destruction is echoed by the human struggle to survive in one of our nation's poorest areas. The farming, livestock raising, dam building, and pearl and logging industries that have gradually destroyed this region have also been the livelihood of the Appalachian people. The author explores the sometimes conflicting needs of humans and nature in the mountains while presenting impressive and comprehensive research on the increasingly threatened environment of the southern Appalachians.
North Carolina Waterfalls
Author: Kevin AdamsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780895876539
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
250 of the best waterfalls found in North Carolina with full descriptions, comprehensive directions, and four-color photographs.
The Great Dismal
Author: Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807847527
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Just below the Tidewater area of Virginia, straddling the North Carolina-Virginia line, lies the Great Dismal Swamp, one of America's most mysterious wilderness areas. The swamp has long drawn adventurers, runaways, and romantics, and while many have trie
Wilderness
Author: Russell A. MittermeierPublisher: Conservation International
ISBN: 9789686397697
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
Continuing the work it began in Hotspots, Conservation International identifies thirty-seven vital wilderness areas around the world, including tropical rainforests, arctic tundra, deserts, and wetlands, using more than five hundred stunning color photographs to illuminate the rich diversity of each region.
North Carolina Wilderness Areas
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and ForestryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
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