Title A wild idea : how the environmental movement tamed the Adirondacks / Brad Edmondson

Published Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 295 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps Contents Introduction: two views of the landscape -- Whose woods these are -- A three-year vacation -- Forever Northway -- Brotherly love -- Going rogue -- Order must be -- Pass the f*cking thing -- The big map -- The nature business -- The big push -- Cashing the chips -- Conclusion: convinced against their will Summary "The history of a globally significant land-use plan for New York State's six-million-acre Adirondack Park, the environmentalists who worked for decades to turn it into law, and the opponents who rose to meet them"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 30, 2021) Subject Adirondack Park Agency (N.Y.) -- History SUBJECT Adirondack Park Agency (N.Y.) fast Subject Land use -- New York (State) -- Adirondack Park -- History -- 20th century TRAVEL -- Parks & Campgrounds. Land use SUBJECT Adirondack Park (N.Y.) -- History Subject New York (State) -- Adirondack Park Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2020050824 ISBN 9781501759031 1501759035 9781501759024 1501759027

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