| Description |
xix, 207 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
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Weyerhaeuser environmental books
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Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The City and the Trees -- Water and Woods in Pennsylvania -- New Hampshire : Watersheds, Viewsheds, and Timber -- Packaging the Forested Farm in Vermont -- Who Owns Maine's Trees? -- Fractured Forests and the Future of Northeastern Trees. |
| Summary |
"The once denuded northeastern United States is now a region of trees. Nature Next Door argues that the growth of cities, the construction of parks, the transformation of farming, the boom in tourism, and changes in the timber industry have together brought about a return of northeastern forests. Although historians and historical actors alike have seen urban and rural areas as distinct, they are in fact intertwined, and the dichotomies of farm and forest, agriculture and industry, and nature and culture break down when the focus is on the history of Northeastern woods. Cities, trees, mills, rivers, houses, and farms are all part of a single transformed regional landscape. In an examination of the cities and forests of the northeastern United States-with particular attention to the woods of Maine, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Vermont-Ellen Stroud shows how urbanization processes there fostered a period of recovery for forests, with cities not merely consumers of nature but creators as well. Interactions between city and hinterland in the twentieth century Northeast created a new wildness of metropolitan nature: a reforested landscape intricately entangled with the region's cities and towns"--Publisher description. |
| Subject |
Trees in cities -- Northeastern States.
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Trees in cities. |
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Northeastern States. |
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Urban forestry -- Northeastern States.
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Urban forestry. |
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Urban ecology (Sociology) -- Northeastern States.
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Urban ecology (Sociology) |
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Urbanization -- Environmental aspects -- Northeastern States.
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Urbanization -- Environmental aspects. |
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Urbanization. |
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Reforestation -- Northeastern States.
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Reforestation. |
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Watersheds -- Northeastern States.
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Watersheds. |
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Northeastern States -- Environmental conditions.
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Environmental conditions. |
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Ecology. |
| ISBN |
0295992085 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0295993316 paperback |
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9780295992082 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9780295993317 paperback |
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