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The Great Smokies - From Natural Habitat To National Park (Hardcover, Updated)
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The Great Smokies - From Natural Habitat To National Park (Hardcover, Updated)
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Loot Price R565
Discovery Miles 5 650
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Seeking a taste of unspoiled wilderness, more than nine 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. Daniel S. Pierce 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. The new preface
chronicles developments in the park since the book’s original
publication in 2000. Over the past decade and a half, the park has
experienced a dramatic and improbable improvement in air quality, a
variety of successful animal reintroduction programs—including,
most spectacularly, elk—numerous improvements to trails and
roads, and the ending of long-standing dispute over the “Road to
Nowhere,” which had its origins in the founding of the park eight
decades ago. Pierce also points out new challenges that have
emerged in the park—and there is none more dangerous than the
invasive species known as the wooly adelgid, which threatens to
annihilate the park’s 800 acres of old-growth hemlocks. The
recent history of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park provides
ample proof of Pierce’s conclusion: “just as people have the
power to set aside places as wonderful as the Cataloochee Valley
and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, they also have the
power to destroy it.”
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