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Defending the Wilderness: The Adirondack Writings of Paul Schaefer

Defending the Wilderness: The Adirondack Writings of Paul Schaefer

Schaefer, Paul

Paperback

Series: New York State

Environmental StudiesNature Writing

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0815602375
ISBN13: 9780815602378
Publisher: Syracuse Unbound
Published: Aug 1 1989
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.03 Depth: 8.99
Language: English

Defending the Wilderness brings together the best of Paul Schaefer's writings on the Adirondacks. It provides a fascinating account of the history of the conservation movement in New York State since the early 1930s as seen through the eyes of one who organized the grass-roots movement that stopped the damming of Adirondack rivers in the biggest, longest, and most costly conservation battle in the United States. They also tell the story of how the now-famous forever wild article of the New York State Constitution has enabled the state to lead the nation in conservation efforts for more than a century.

But these pieces do more than chronicle a half-century of conservation work; they also capture the essence of the country itself. In essay after essay, Schaefer describes the beauty of the Adirondacks, its wild rivers and

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