Displaying 1 of 1 2021 Author: Edmondson, Brad, author. Title: A wild idea : how the environmental movement tamed the Adirondacks / Brad Edmondson. Publisher, Date: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021. Description: 295 pages : ill., maps ; 24 cm Summary: "The history of a globally significant land-use plan for New York State's six-million-acre Adirondack Park, the environmentalists who worked for decades to turn it into law, and the opponents who rose to meet them"-- Provided by publisher. Subjects: Adirondack Park Agency (N.Y.) -- History. Land use -- New York (State) -- Adirondack Park -- History -- 20th century. Adirondack Park (N.Y.) -- History. Notes: 16 pages of photographs and maps. Pagination includes acknowledgements, source notes, bibliography, and index. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Introduction: two views of the landscape -- Whose woods these are -- A three-year vacation -- Forever Northway -- Brotherly love -- Going rogue -- Order must be -- Pass the f*cking thing -- The big map -- The nature business -- The big push -- Cashing the chips -- Conclusion: convinced against their will. ISBN: 9781501759017 Place Request Add to My List Share Expand All | Collapse All Find it Syndetics Unbound Map It Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1