The agony of an American wilderness : loggers, environmentalists, and the struggle for control of a forgotten forest / Samuel A. MacDonald.
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : welcome to Pennsylvania : a strange new front in the great American timber war
- The forgotten forest : the Allegheny experience, from old growth to brush heap and beyond
- Meet the activists : history, culture and politics collide at the annual gathering
- Mom and pop go bust : the complex plight of the Allegheny sawmill
- I work in the woods : fear and logging on the Allegheny
- Restoration, reality and the perils of science : can the allegheny become a wilderness again?
- Take it to the streets : radical activists battle pre-teen satirists for control
- Third way or third rail? : zero cut meets resistance from within
- The anti-activist : a right-wing renaissance man in the land of bulls, bars and "dinors"
- Legal eagles, underdogs and the fish that (almost) ate Pittsburgh : half steps and caveats in federal court 1
- Wilderness revisited : what is pretty? and why it matters
- Old growth, new economy and the tourism promise : if you build it, who will come?
- Epilogue : the great green pendulum.