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Wilderness is central to the image of Maine most of us carry in our minds. In this extraordinary collection nearly forty writers, poets, artists, and photographers bear witness to the central role it plays in Maine, its importance to our understanding of nature, to our sense of who we are in the world, to our very souls. And some of them devote practical thinking to how we might recover and nurture wilderness in the future. At this time of major changes in land ownership in the North Woods and of development pressures and sprawl threatening the rural landscape of southern and central Maine, these voices for wilderness could not be more relevant.

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Provocative and encouraging.

Provocative and encouraging.-- Central Maine Newspapers

"Provocative and encouraging.-- ""Central Maine Newspapers"""

.. .conservationists will find powerful affirmation here. Provocative and encouraging.

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Dean Bennett, a lifelong Maine resident, went on his first hunting trip to his family's Camp Sheepskin at the age of three and has spent each hunting season since at the camp. Bennett has been a cabinetmaker, curriculum developer, education program evaluator, college professor, and author. An advocate for the environment, Bennett names deer hunting as a pastime, and simultaneously has stressed the importance of environmental ethics while serving on various environmental organizations over his lifetime. He lives in Hallowell, Maine, with his wife, biologist Sheila K. Bennett. Robert Kimber is a free-lance writer and translator with a special interest in outdoor and environmental subjects. Over the last fifty years, he has hiked, canoed, and snowshoed extensively in Maine, Labrador, and northern Quebec. His work has appeared in Audubon, Country Journal, Down East, Field & Stream, Harrowsmith, Horticulture, Northern Woodlands, Yankee, and other magazines. His books include A Conoeist's Sketchbook, Upcountry: Reflections on a Rural Life, and Living Wild and Domestic: The Education of a Hunter-Gardener. Kimber and his wife, Rita, live on an old farm in Temple, Maine, and have collaborated on over forty book translations from the German.

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