Living with the Adirondack Forest

Living with the Adirondack Forest
Author: Catherine Henshaw Knott
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2018-09-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1501731661

Attitudes about land use, Catherine Henshaw Knott suggests, may reflect profound differences in class, religion, and life experience, pitting urban Americans who see nature at risk against rural Americans whose lives are dominated by nature's forces. She documents the thoughts and feelings of people whose lives are intimately connected to the forest, including loggers, trappers, craftspeople, and guides, as well as tree farmers and maple syrup producers. After describing the key players in the conflict and chronicling battles and bridge-building between stake-holders, Knott concludes that the participation of local people in decision making is the only process that can shift an increasingly hostile cycle toward resolution.

Contested Terrain

Contested Terrain
Author: Philip G. Terrie
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780815605706

This work shows how expectations about land use, combined with interactions with nature have defined the Adirondacks. Outlining the disputes for the control of the land, the author introduces the key players from the residents, landholders, to preservationists and developers.

Perspectives on the Adirondacks

Perspectives on the Adirondacks
Author: Barbara McMartin
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2007-06-04
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780815608950

Barbara McMartin narrates the history of Adirondack environmental policy in depth, beginning with the 1970 formation of the Adirondack Park Agency, set up to regulate private development and to oversee the planning of public terrain. Although hailed as the most innovative land-use legislation of its time, it ignited a wildfire of controversy, creating a landscape of conflict. Park residents protested. Government stood firm. Over the decades, disparate groups have sought to shape an effective program to protect Adirondack wildland but cannot seem to work together. This is the first comprehensive account of that ongoing drama: a stirring story of the environmental movement, public action, and government failure and success.

The Revolutionary War in the Adirondacks

The Revolutionary War in the Adirondacks
Author: Marie Danielle Annette Williams
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2013-07-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1439670234

This lively history of the American Revolution explores the combat that took place in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. Much of New York during the Revolutionary era was frontier wilderness, sparsely populated and bitterly divided. Although the only major campaign in the region would end at the Battle of Saratoga, factional raiding parties traversed the mountains and valleys of the Adirondacks throughout the war. Sir Christopher Carleton led groups of Loyalists, Hessians and Iroquois in successful attacks along Lake Champlain, capturing forts and striking fear in local villages. Mohawk war chief Joseph Brant led a motley band of irregulars known as “Brant’s Volunteers” in chaotic raids against Patriot targets. Marauding brothers Edward and Ebenezer Jessup brought suffering to the very lands they had purchased years before in Kingsbury, Queensbury and Fort Edward. In this volume, historian Marie Danielle Annette Williams chronicles these and other stories of the Revolutionary War in the Adirondacks.

Loyalists in the Adirondacks: The Fight for Britain in the Revolutionary War

Loyalists in the Adirondacks: The Fight for Britain in the Revolutionary War
Author: Marie Williams
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2023-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1467152064

From the outbreak of the Revolutionary War to the summer of 1777, Loyalists and Patriot forces wove their way through the mountains and valleys of the Adirondacks, vying for land and control of the key waterways of the Hudson River, Lake Champlain, the St. Lawrence River and the New York Harbor. The majority of New Yorkers, particularly those who occupied the Adirondack Mountain Region and other wilderness frontier regions, were either Loyalist or neutral throughout the war. Their stories, motivations and actions are often overlooked out of a false impression that most colonists were unifed in favor of American independence. Author Marie Williams recounts the harrowing efforts, battlefield endeavours and conflicted hearts and minds of the forgotten British and Loyalists during the revolutionary era in the Adirondacks.

Conflict, Consensus, and Rationality in Environmental Planning

Conflict, Consensus, and Rationality in Environmental Planning
Author: Yvonne Rydin
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2003-02-20
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0191555029

We all now recognize the importance of talk today. In policy settings, there are more and more calls for consultation, collaboration, and deliberation. This is particularly the case in environmental planning, with its disputes over genetically modified organisms, power plants, and new roads. Rydin provides an in-depth and fully theorized account of the role of talk or discourse within environmental planning, combining theory, reported research, and original empirical case studies. She highlights the problem that planners and others face when trying to expand the space for talk within planning situations and provides a detailed assessment of the prospects for consensus-building and deliberative democracy. She also highlights the role that discourse plays in legitimizing institutions of planning and discusses how a rationality of sustainable development may be embedded within new institutional arrangements.

Battles of the North Country

Battles of the North Country
Author: Jonathan D. Anzalone
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Adirondack Park (N.Y.)
ISBN: 9781625343642

Introduction : The Adirondack Park as a modern wilderness playground -- Olympic transformations, Part 1 : the re-creation of recreation and the 1932 Winter Games in Lake Placid -- Cities of tents : development of Adirondack campgrounds during the interwar years -- A mountain to climb : the transformation of Whiteface Mountain and the future of the Adirondacks, 1925-1945 -- A mountain for all seasons? New York State and skiing on Whiteface Mountain, 1945-1971 -- Adirondack sprawl : from the Northway to the creation of the Adirondack Park Agency, 1959-1972 -- "There was once an Adirondack Park" : the struggle over the exurbanization of the Adirondack Park, 1971-1980 -- Olympic transformations, Part 2: The 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid -- Conclusion

Great Camps of the Adirondacks

Great Camps of the Adirondacks
Author: Harvey H. Kaiser
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2003-07
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781567920734

The author does a thorough job in explaining the beginnings of rustic architecture and why it has a permanent place in the culture. The mix of social background and the history of the early Adirondack camps provides a designers guidebook.

Governing New York State

Governing New York State
Author: Jeffrey M. Stonecash
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2001-02-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780791448885

An indispensable guide to New York State's politics, political institutions, and public policies.