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Drawing Lines in the Forest - Creating Wilderness Areas in the Pacific Northwest (Paperback)
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Drawing Lines in the Forest - Creating Wilderness Areas in the Pacific Northwest (Paperback)
Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
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Drawing boundaries around wilderness areas often serves a double
purpose: protection of the land within the boundary and release of
the land outside the boundary to resource extraction and other
development. In Drawing Lines in the Forest, Kevin R. Marsh
discusses the roles played by various groups-the Forest Service,
the timber industry, recreationists, and environmentalists-in
arriving at these boundaries. He shows that pragmatic, rather than
ideological, goals were often paramount, with all sides benefiting.
After World War II, representatives of both logging and recreation
use sought to draw boundaries that would serve to guarantee access
to specific areas of public lands. The logging industry wanted to
secure a guaranteed supply of timber, as an era of stewardship of
the nation's public forests gave way to an emphasis on rapid
extraction of timber resources. This spawned a grassroots
preservationist movement that ultimately challenged the managerial
power of the Forest Service. The Wilderness Act of 1964 provided an
opportunity for groups on all sides to participate openly and
effectively in the political process of defining wilderness
boundaries. The often contentious debates over the creation of
wilderness areas in the Cascade Mountains in Oregon and Washington
represent the most significant stages in the national history of
wilderness conservation since World War II: Three Sisters, North
Cascades and Glacier Peak, Mount Jefferson, Alpine Lakes, French
Pete, and the state-wide wilderness acts of 1984.
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