The Apostle Islands are a solitary place of natural beauty, with
red sandstone cliffs, secluded beaches, and a rich and unique
forest surrounded by the cold, blue waters of Lake Superior. But
this seemingly pristine wilderness has been shaped and reshaped by
humans. The people who lived and worked in the Apostles built
homes, cleared fields, and cut timber in the island forests. The
consequences of human choices made more than a century ago can
still be read in today's wild landscapes. A Storied Wilderness
traces the complex history of human interaction with the Apostle
Islands. In the 1930s, resource extraction made it seem like the
islands' natural beauty had been lost forever. But as the island
forests regenerated, the ways that people used and valued the
islands changed - human and natural processes together led to the
rewilding of the Apostles. In 1970, the Apostles were included in
the national park system and ultimately designated as the Gaylord
Nelson Wilderness. How should we understand and value wild places
with human pasts? James Feldman argues convincingly that such
places provide the opportunity to rethink the human place in
nature. The Apostle Islands are an ideal setting for telling the
national story of how we came to equate human activity with the
loss of wilderness characteristics, when in reality all of our
cherished wild places are the products of the complicated
interactions between human and natural history. Watch the book
trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frECwkA6oHs
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