Includes aeral photographs of the region. Front: northern New York State, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia). Back on left: Vermont, New Hampshire. Back on right: Snake Mountain near Middlebury, Vt.
Summary:
The Northern Forest of North America-stretching from New England and eastern Canada into the Upper Midwest-is one of the world's largest contiguous forests. Complex and beautiful, it supports a wide variety of life, and the woodlands offer an interconnected vastness that gives American and Canadian lives perspective and balance. This book is timely, for the Northern Forest is at the heart of important environmental and economic issues that have become critical, especially as big logging companies sell large portions of their land. The very existence of this forest is extraordinary. For instance, in 1870 the forest covered just thirty percent of Vermont, but today eighty percent is woodland. This remarkable turnaround has taken place on what is overwhelmingly private land. Environmentalist Bill McKibben, in his introduction, says, "This unintentional and mostly unnoticed renewal of the rural and mountainous east represents the great environmental story of the United States and, in some ways, the whole world." But forest acreage has begun to decrease in every state in New England, as trees are removed for commercial development.
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