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1 online resource (xvii, 330 pages). |
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Weyerhaeuser environmental books
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Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"The Apostle Islands are a solitary place of natural beauty, with red sandstone cliffs, secluded beaches, and a rich and unique forest surrounded by the cold, blue waters of Lake Superior. But this seemingly pristine wilderness has been shaped and reshaped by humans. The people who lived and worked in the Apostles built homes, cleared fields, and cut timber in the island forests. The consequences of human choices made more than a century ago can still be read in today's wild landscapes. |
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A Storied Wildernesstraces the complex history of human interaction with the Apostle Islands. In the 1930s, resource extraction made it seem like the islands' natural beauty had been lost forever. But as the island forests regenerated, The ways that people used and valued the islands changed--human and natural processes together led To The re-wilding of the Apostles. In 1970, The Apostles were included in the national park system and ultimately designated as the Gaylord Nelson Wilderness. |
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How should we understand and value wild places with human pasts? James Feldman argues convincingly that such places provide the opportunity to rethink the human place in nature.The Apostle Islands are an ideal setting for telling the national story of how we came to equate human activity with the loss of wilderness characteristics when in reality all of our cherished wild places are the products of the complicated interactions between human and natural history."--pub. desc. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Lines in the Forest -- 2. Creating a Legible Fishery -- 3. Consuming the Islands -- 4. Sand Island Stories -- 5. Tale of Two Parks: Rewilding the Islands, 1929-1970 -- 6. Rewilding and the Manager's Dilemma. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Restoration ecology -- United States -- History.
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Restoration ecology. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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National parks and reserves -- United States -- History.
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National parks and reserves. |
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National parks and reserves -- United States -- Management.
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Management. |
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Restoration ecology -- Wisconsin -- Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.
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Wisconsin -- Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. |
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Apostle Islands National Lakeshore (Wis.) -- Management.
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Apostle Islands National Lakeshore (Wis.) -- Environmental conditions.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Green Business. |
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NATURE -- Natural Resources. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) |
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Ecology. |
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National parks and reserves -- Management. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: A storied wilderness Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2011. 9780295990965 (hardback : alk. paper) (DLC) 2011010289 |
| ISBN |
9780295802978 ebook |
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0295802979 |
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9780295990965 hardback alkaline paper |
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0295990961 hardback alkaline paper |
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