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Author Newfont, Kathryn.

Title Blue Ridge commons : environmental activism and forest history in western North Carolina / Kathryn Newfont.

Publication Info. Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2012]
©2012

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 Moore Stacks  SD413.N65 N49 2012    Available  ---
Description xxi, 369 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Series Environmental history and the American South
Environmental history and the American South.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-354) and index.
Contents Foreword / Paul S. Sutter -- "The custom of our country": the Appalachian forest commons -- Response to devastation: organizing forests in the southern Appalachians -- Plenty of trouble: creating federal forests in the Blue Ridge -- De jure commons: national forests and Blue Ridge neighbors -- Contested forests: commons, clearcutting, and wilderness -- Wilderness as commons enclosure: rare II opposition -- Wilderness as commons defense: the southern Nantahala -- Mobilizing commons defense: "oil fever" threatens the forests -- Clearcutting returns: timber enclosure threatens the forests -- Commons environmentalism mobilized: Western North Carolina Alliance's Cut the clearcutting! campaign -- Conclusion: An American commons in the Blue Ridge -- Afterword: A call to commons.
Summary "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."--Page 4 of cover.
Subject Forest conservation -- North Carolina.
Forest conservation.
North Carolina.
Forest conservation -- Blue Ridge Mountains.
Natural resources, Communal -- North Carolina.
Natural resources, Communal.
Natural resources, Communal -- Blue Ridge Mountains.
Environmentalism -- North Carolina.
Environmentalism.
Environmentalism -- Blue Ridge Mountains.
North Carolina -- Environmental conditions.
Environmental conditions.
Blue Ridge Mountains -- Environmental conditions.
North Carolina -- Politics and government.
Politics and government.
Blue Ridge Mountains -- Politics and government.
Ecology.
United States -- Blue Ridge Mountains.
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