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Great Smokies - From Natural Habitat To National Park (Hardcover)
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Great Smokies - From Natural Habitat To National Park (Hardcover)
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Seeking a taste of unspoiled wilderness, more than eight million
people visit the Great Smoky Mountains National Park each year. Yet
few probably realize what makes the park unusual: it was the result
of efforts to reclaim wilderness rather than to protect undeveloped
land.
The Smokies have, in fact, been a human habitat for 8,000 years,
and that contact has molded the landscape as surely as natural
forces have. In this book, Daniel S. Pierce examines land use in
the Smokies over the centuries, describing the pageant of peoples
who have inhabited these mountains and then focusing on the
twentieth-century movement to create a national park.
Drawing on previously unexplored archival materials, Pierce
presents the most balanced account available of the development of
the park. He tells how park supporters set about raising money to
buy the land--often from resistant timber companies--and describes
the fierce infighting between wilderness advocates and tourism
boosters over the shape the park would take. He also discloses the
unfortunate human cost of the park's creation: the displacement of
the area's inhabitants.
Pierce is especially insightful regarding the often-neglected
history of the park since 1945. He looks at the problems caused by
roadbuilding, tree blight, and air pollution that becomes trapped
in the mountains' natural haze. He also provides astute assessments
of the Cades Cove restoration, the Fontana Lake road construction,
and other recent developments involving the park.
Full of outstanding photographs and boasting a breadth of coverage
unmatched in other books of its kind, The Great Smokies will help
visitors better appreciate the wilderness experience they have
sought. Pierce's account makes us more aware of humanity's long
interaction with the land while capturing the spirit of those
idealistic environmentalists who realized their vision to protect
it.
The Author: Daniel S. Pierce teaches in the department of history
and the humanities program at the University of North Carolina,
Asheville, and is a contributor to The Tennessee Encyclopedia of
History and Culture.
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