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OverviewThe once denuded northeastern United States is now a region of trees. Nature Next Door argues that the growth of cities, the construction of parks, the transformation of farming, the boom in tourism, and changes in the timber industry have together brought about a return of northeastern forests. Although historians and historical actors alike have seen urban and rural areas as distinct, they are in fact intertwined, and the dichotomies of farm and forest, agriculture and industry, and nature and culture break down when the focus is on the history of Northeastern woods. Cities, trees, mills, rivers, houses, and farms are all part of a single transformed regional landscape. In an examination of the cities and forests of the northeastern United States-with particular attention to the woods of Maine, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Vermont-Ellen Stroud shows how urbanization processes there fostered a period of recovery for forests, with cities not merely consumers of nature but creators as well. Interactions between city and hinterland in the twentieth century Northeast created a new wildness of metropolitan nature: a reforested landscape intricately entangled with the region's cities and towns. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ellen Stroud , William CrononPublisher: University of Washington Press Imprint: University of Washington Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.295kg ISBN: 9780295993317ISBN 10: 0295993316 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 01 August 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsForeword | The Once and Future Forest / William Cronon Acknowledgments A Note on the Maps Introduction | The City and the Trees 1. Water and Woods in Pennsylvania 2. New Hampshire Watersheds, Viewsheds, and Timber 3. Packaging the Forested Farm in Vermont 4. Who Owns Maine’s Trees? 5. Fractured Forests and the Future of Northeastern Trees Notes Bibliographic Essay IndexReviewsThis book is to be recommended to forestry professionals and practitioners, as well as providing a valuable reference to both educators and students in natural resource management and policy. -Benktesh D. Sharma, Human Ecology With this intriguing book, environmental historian Stroud has fundamentally rewritten the recent forest history of the northeastern US. . . . Valuable for anyone interested in forestry, urban forestry, and land use or conservation. Highly recommended. -G. D. Dryer, Choice Author InformationEllen Stroud is an environmental historian at Bryn Mawr College, where she is an associate professor in the Growth and Structure of Cities Department, and holds the Johanna Alderfer Harris and William H. Harris M.D. Chair in Environmental Studies. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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