Saving Sterling Forest : the epic struggle to preserve New York's highlands /
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 sam...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2007.
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| Edice: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18252775 |
Obsah:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. forest is at stake
- 2. Money from the colonial rocks
- 3. sprawl wars begin
- 4. art of launching a (forest) preservation movement, 1985-1990
- 5. New corporate actions make enviros scramble
- 6. Government sees green
- 7. Turning the grassroots into a fighting force
- 8. Bounced around in the Washington turf wars
- 9. open space movement saves a highlands jewel.