Wild Forest Lands: Finding History and Meaning in the Adirondacks Poetry_Gift_Guide overprotective hero

overprotective hero

his ruthless pursuits for success and vengeance leave little room for matters of the heart

Imagine waking up each morning feeling in control

Gifford Pinchot

bookselling wife

Wild Forest Lands: Finding History and Meaning in the Adirondacks Poetry_Gift_Guide overprotective heroThe Adirondack Forest Preserve is the largest publicly protected wilderness in the Eastern United States, with a state constitutional provision guaranteeing that it be "forever kept as wild forest lands." But just what does "wilderness" mean today? How has our understanding of that concept shifted, from the colonial implications of the term as first applied to the Adirondacks to a more inclusive usage, still contested, today? Part memoir, part New