Mockingbird Song
stock for decades. Now the foresters, a lumber industry trade group, urban recreationists, editors, and college andagronomis ...
vice, as well as many recreationists who also subscribe toAmerican Forests, has ever been the principal publicist of forest arso ...
from competing with the pines. Thousands of small woodlot owners across the region who did not sell or lease their trees to the ...
Constrained by a small pool of informants—arsonists are not often appre- hended ( just as Jack Camp had declared two decades ear ...
too, was less a concern for foresters. Virginia had a mere arsons. Yet the geographic distribution of arsons seems less a ma ...
nuers—pursued them relentlessly. Unlike medieval forest rebels (in legend, anyway), American moonshiners and cannabis growers we ...
language about Yosemite and Hetch Hetchy was so biblical—mountains are ‘‘cathedrals’’; prominent rocks and valley floors, ‘‘sacr ...
mountains and valleys. Later humans, once they became separate from bears and other animals, climbed to ridges and peaks to burn ...
rows and inevitabilities in such a fashion. Musical behavior—not to men- tion geological morphology and wonderful biological div ...
Black Mountains of Western North Carolina (from Timothy Silver, Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains: An Environmental History ...
in ‘‘a comfortable place’’ notwithstanding the exhaustion required to get there—resembles Henry David Thoreau’s reaction to reac ...
wilderness experiences for visitors, since even as a young man he was the legendary tracker and killer of bears, the pathfinder ...
an emergency appropriation to buy Mount Mitchell (beginning with forty or so acres) and create a state park. Early in the l ...
View of a farm from Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia, . Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Courtesy Library of Congress (LC-USF- ...
in at least a score of communities throughout the area of the cut-down and future park: in Big Cove; in Noland, Deep, Baskins, a ...
cars gridlocked as drivers and passengers disembarked to feed panhan- dling bears—became daily events in summer. Cherokee, North ...
come a climax, high-canopy forest, not a home to lowly bunnies and ’coons. Meanwhile, and curiously, the service had a predator ...
nial intellectuals who fed and expanded his own thinking. These included Aldo Leopold, the forester, game manager, and elegiac n ...
The cat, with huge leaps, clambered up a tree; and now he had reached the very pinnacle, and as he gathered himself up to take a ...
war is on, too, and soldiering, he is persuaded, is a better opportunity than farm labor to help his younger brothers and sister ...
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