TY  - GEN
T1  - Saving Sterling Forest : the epic struggle to preserve New York's highlands
T2  - Book collections on Project MUSE.
A1  - Botshon, Ann, 1942-
LA  - English
PP  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
YR  - 2007
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_ocn181017225
AB  - This is the inspiring story of the twenty-five-year-long effort to preserve Sterling Forest, a tract of rugged, upland terrain encompassing twenty thousand acres within the New York-New Jersey Highlands. Barely forty miles northwest of New York City, Sterling Forest seemed destined to suffer the same fate that had befallen thousands of acres of land in this rapidly suburbanizing corridor. The fight to save Sterling Forest brought together one of the largest coalitions of environmental groups and government entities ever assembled. Despite the loose, sometimes fractious nature of the alliance, the coalition managed to extract support from Congress, New York State, New Jersey, and private donors, while at the same time negotiating a contract to purchase the land from the Sterling Forest Corporation, a company that vigorously protected its financial interests at every turn. Deemed by some to be one of the more remarkable environmental victories of the 1990s, the successful outcome of the Sterling Forest struggle--a large state park within easy access of millions of people and a protected supply of water to New Jersey residents--embodied virtually every facet of land-use conflict. It provides a model for saving other areas where critical wild lands are threatened by development.
OP  - 204
CN  - SD428.A2 N727 2007eb
SN  - 9781429471220
SN  - 1429471220
SN  - 0791469395
SN  - 0791469409
SN  - 9780791469392
SN  - 9780791469408
SN  - 9780791480847
SN  - 0791480844
KW  - Forest conservation : New York (State) : Sterling Forest.
KW  - Forest management : New York (State) : Sterling Forest.
KW  - Sterling Forest (N.Y.)
KW  - NATURE : Natural Resources.
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Environmental Economics.
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Green Business.
KW  - Forest conservation
KW  - Forest management
KW  - New York (State) : Sterling Forest
ER  -