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Managing the mountains : land use planning, the New Deal, and the creation of a federal landscape in Appalachia
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- Creator
- Sara M. Gregg
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2010]
- ©2010
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- xviii, 285 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0300142196, 1280571608, 030014220X, 9786613601209, 9780300142204, 9780300142198
- OCLC
- ocn794004249, ocn683200019, ocn923597976
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: Farms and forests: an Appalachian portrait -- 1: Origins -- A harvest of scarcity: self-sufficiency in the Blue Ridge Mountains -- Customs in common: community and agriculture in the Green Mountains -- Academics and partisans: federal land use planning, 1900-1933 -- 2: Projects -- Designing the Shenandoah National Park -- Cultivating the Vermont forest -- Reforming submarginal lands, 1933-1938 -- Epilogue: cellarholes and wilderness: the returns of the Appalachian forest