Wild Forest Lands Kate Swaffer Charting paths literal and figurative

Charting paths literal and figurative to earlier trade routes

a sailing history going back to 1945

a streamlined format

all kinds of new developments are introduced and assessed

and up-to-date coverage of laws

Wild Forest Lands Kate Swaffer Charting paths literal and figurativeThe Adirondack Forest Preserve, which the New York Constitution guarantees "shall be forever kept as wild forest lands," is the largest publicly owned natural area in the eastern United States. But, just what does "wilderness" mean today and how can the concept be untangled from the colonial implications of the term as it first applied to the Adirondacks? Part memoir, part New York history, and part meditation, Wild Forest Lands ponders the rhetorical