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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Wild Forest Lands: Finding History and Meaning in the Adirondacks

Wild Forest Lands: Finding History and Meaning in the Adirondacks

Terrie, Philip G.
Community Foundation for Greater New Haven

Paperback

Series: New York State

Biographies GeneralEnvironmental StudiesRegional: Middle Atlantic

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 0815611889
ISBN13: 9780815611882
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: Sep 15 2025
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

The Adirondack Forest Preserve is the largest publicly protected wilderness in the Eastern United States, with a state constitutional provision guaranteeing that it be forever kept as wild forest lands. But just what does wilderness mean today? How has our understanding of that concept shifted, from the colonial implications of the term as first applied to the Adirondacks to a more inclusive usage, still contested, today?

Part memoir, part New York history, and part meditation, Wild Forest Lands explores the rhetorical and spiritual meaning of the Adirondack wilderness. Terrie revisits the literature and history of the region, reckoning with how his views on the places he has defended have evolved over time. Rich with detail, Wild Forest Lands grapples with the enduring power of the Adirondacks and what it truly means to preserve something that is, by nature, wild.

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