Title A storied wilderness : rewilding the Apostle Islands / James W. Feldman ; foreword by William Cronon

Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2011

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 330 p.) Series Weyerhaeuser environmental books Weyerhaeuser environmental book. Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Lines in the Forest -- 2. Creating a Legible Fishery -- 3. Consuming the Islands -- 4. Sand Island Stories -- 5. Tale of Two Parks: Rewilding the Islands, 1929-1970 -- 6. Rewilding and the Manager's Dilemma Summary "The Apostle Islands are a solitary place of natural beauty, with red sandstone cliffs, secluded beaches, and a rich and unique forest surrounded by the cold, blue waters of Lake Superior. But this seemingly pristine wilderness has been shaped and reshaped by humans. The people who lived and worked in the Apostles built homes, cleared fields, and cut timber in the island forests. The consequences of human choices made more than a century ago can still be read in today's wild landscapes A Storied Wildernesstraces the complex history of human interaction with the Apostle Islands. In the 1930s, resource extraction made it seem like the islands' natural beauty had been lost forever. But as the island forests regenerated, The ways that people used and valued the islands changed--human and natural processes together led To The re-wilding of the Apostles. In 1970, The Apostles were included in the national park system and ultimately designated as the Gaylord Nelson Wilderness How should we understand and value wild places with human pasts? James Feldman argues convincingly that such places provide the opportunity to rethink the human place in nature.The Apostle Islands are an ideal setting for telling the national story of how we came to equate human activity with the loss of wilderness characteristics when in reality all of our cherished wild places are the products of the complicated interactions between human and natural history."--pub. desc Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Restoration ecology -- United States -- History National parks and reserves -- United States -- History National parks and reserves -- United States -- Management Restoration ecology -- Wisconsin -- Apostle Islands National Lakeshore BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Green Business. NATURE -- Natural Resources. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) Ecology Management National parks and reserves National parks and reserves -- Management Restoration ecology SUBJECT Apostle Islands National Lakeshore (Wis.) -- Management Apostle Islands National Lakeshore (Wis.) -- Environmental conditions Subject United States Wisconsin -- Apostle Islands National Lakeshore Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021694524 ISBN 9780295802978 0295802979

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