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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Tác giả chính: Botshon, Ann, 1942-
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2007.
Loạt:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18252775
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  • 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.