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Author Jarvis, Kimberly A., author.

Title From the mountains to the sea : protecting nature in postwar New Hampshire / Kimberly A. Jarvis.

Publication Info. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Environmental history of the northeast
Environmental history of the Northeast.
Contents Cover -- Series -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Franconia Notch Revisited -- Chapter 2. Saving Franconia Notch -- Chapter 3. Sandwich Notch -- Chapter 4. Saving the Last Notch -- Chapter 5. Saving Durham -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover
Summary "In the face of increasing pressures from business and government in the decades following World War II, New Hampshire residents banded together to preserve their most prized natural areas and defining geological features. From the Mountains to the Sea explores how history, memory, and tradition created a strong sense of place in the state that led citizen activists to protect Franconia Notch, Sandwich Notch, and the town of Durham on New Hampshire's seacoast from development in the last half of the twentieth century. These efforts led to the construction of a parkway instead of an interstate highway, prevented the building of an oil refinery, and saved Sandwich Notch from becoming a vacation community. Shaped by New Hampshire's unique conservation focus on both resource use and preservation that developed during the first years of the twentieth century, as well as on the tradition of home rule in the state, the outcome of each campaign relied on the insight into, appreciation for, and dedication to protecting the historic and aesthetic values of these three places"
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Subject Nature conservation -- New Hampshire.
Nature conservation.
New Hampshire.
Franconia Notch State Park (N.H.) -- History.
Sandwich Notch (N.H.) -- History.
Durham (N.H.) -- History.
HISTORY -- General.
New Hampshire -- Durham.
New Hampshire -- Franconia Notch State Park.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: 9781625345004 1625345003 (DLC) 2019044410 (OCoLC)1129166794
ISBN 9781613767467 (electronic book)
1613767463 (electronic book)
9781625345004
1625345003
9781625345011
1625345011