| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Natural History |
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Natural History
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| Contents |
Intro -- Half Tile -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Cast of Major Characters -- Part I: Exploring the Forest -- Why DuPont Forest? -- Recalling a Buck Forest Childhood -- What Is in DuPont Forest Today -- Part II: Settlers and Land Barons -- Meeting the First Settlers -- Visiting the Land of the Sky -- Kingdom of the Happy Land -- Finding Cherokee Petroglyphs -- Growing Up in Cedar Mountain -- Creating Buck Forest Lodge -- Hike: Three Waterfalls in Three Miles -- Who Was Alex Guion? -- Appalachians Make Good Workers |
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Part III: DuPont Corporation Goes to Work -- Immigrant Irénée Starts an Empire -- DuPont Corporation Comes to Western North Carolina -- Channing Hubbard, the First Site Employee -- Making Hyperpure Silicon -- What to Do with All This Land? -- Moving on to X-Ray Film -- Earle Johnson Remembers -- Exploring the Twists and Turns of Cascade Lake Road -- Lewis Staton Gets a Road -- Hike: Spring in DuPont Forest -- Brevard, Past and Present, with Stuart English -- The DuPont Plant Was a Good Place to Work -- Part IV: Summit Camps -- Summer Camp, the Best Part of Childhood -- Airstrip Trail |
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Buck Forest Development -- Part V: End of an Era -- Growing Up DuPont -- DuPont Corporation Sells the Plant -- Hike: Midsummer Walk from Guion Farm -- Fight for the Falls -- Alan Hirsch Remembers the Fight for the Waterfalls -- Aleen Steinberg, Environmental Activist -- Fauna and Flora in the Forest -- Jeff Jennings Saves a Forest -- The X-Ray Plant Closes -- Part VI: The Forest Grows Up -- Dave Brown, First Forest Supervisor -- Hike: Bewildered on Sheep Mountain Trail -- Studying the Forest Management Plan -- Creating a Recreational Forest -- We Can All Get Along |
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Speaking with Forest Supervisor Jason Guidry -- Hike: Walking Joanna Road from Both Directions -- Blockbusters in the Forest -- Visiting the Donut Hole -- Holmes Educational State Forest: DuPont Forest's Smaller Friend -- Part VII: The Future of DuPont Forest -- Pay to Play in the Forest? -- Kiwi Gelato in Brevard -- Marielle DeJong Comes Home -- Contemplations and Speculations -- DuPont Forest Continues to Grow -- Bibliography -- About the Author |
| Subject |
Forests and forestry.
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Forests and forestry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781439671023 |
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1439671028 |
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