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...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2007.
|
| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
|
| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18252775 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.