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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Melanie Louise Simo |
ISBN: | 0813921597 9780813921594 |
OCLC Number: | 50124416 |
Description: | xix, 302 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Desert: land of little rain, great beauty -- Prairie and plains: myth, symbol, cultural independence -- Forested mountains: Sierra Nevada, Rockies, Appalachian Trail -- San Francisco Bay Area: "Nature controlled by art" -- Around New York and Boston: traces of wildness, lost and found -- Park makers and forest managers: crossing professional lines in the early years -- Layers of human habitation and wildness -- Ecology along the roadside, by the water, and in the garden -- Spirit of the landscape, humanized and wild -- A land ethic for a plundered planet. |
Other Titles: | Forest and garden |
Responsibility: | Melanie L. Simo. |
Abstract:
How wild and managed or artificially arranged environments coexist has long been a matter of intense debate among foresters and landscape professionals. In this study, Simo considers the developments of half a century, 1897-1949, when the contours of the debate were formed.
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Simo gives us a graceful and detailed review of the mixture of wildness and control in the American environment and the men and women who cared passionately about the balance between the two conditions. - Roderick Frasier Nash, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of Wilderness and the American Mind Read more...
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