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Author MacDonald, Samuel A

Title The Agony of an American Wilderness : Loggers, Environmentalists, and the Struggle for Control of a Forgotten Forest
Published Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (198 pages)
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Welcome to Pennsyltucky-A Strange New Front in the Great American Timber War; 1. The Forgotten Forest: The Allegheny Experience, from Old Growth to Brush Heap and Beyond; 2. Meet the Activists: History, Culture, and Politics Collide at the Annual Gathering; 3. Mom and Pop Go Bust: The Complex Plight of the Allegheny Sawmill; 4. I Work in the Woods: Fear and Logging on the Allegheny; 5. Restoration, Reality, and the Perils of Science: Can the Allegheny Become a Wilderness Again?
6. Take it to the Streets: Radical Activists Battle Pre-Teen Satirists for Control7. Third Way or Third Rail? Zero Cut Meets Resistance from Within; 8. The Anti-Activist: A Right-Wing Renaissance Man in the Land of Bulls, Bars, and ""Dinors""; 9. Legal Eagles, Underdogs, and the Fish that (Almost) Ate Pittsburgh: Half Steps and Caveats in Federal Court; 10. Wilderness Revisited: What is Pretty? and why it Matters; 11. Old Growth, New Economy, and the Tourism Promise: If you Build it, who Will Come?; 12. Epilogue: The Great Green Pendulum; Index; About the Author
Summary What is a forest? What are forests for? Who should control them? These are familiar questions, but the Allegheny casts them in a new light. The national environmental movement has become less willing to compromise since its victories in the Pacific Northwest, and the Allegheny is its newest proving ground. This book explains what activists are after, how the struggle differs from more familiar environmental battles and what it means for the future of the American landscape
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Logging -- Environmental aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Allegheny National Forest
Forest conservation -- United States
Wilderness areas -- United States.
Environmental protection -- United States.
Conservation of natural resources -- United States.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
Conservation of natural resources
Environmental protection
Forest conservation
Logging -- Environmental aspects
Wilderness areas
Forstschutz
Umweltschutz
Naturschutz
SUBJECT Allegheny National Forest (Pa.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2005003980
Subject Pennsylvania -- Allegheny National Forest
United States
Allegheny
Pennsylvania
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780742569683
0742569683