The Adirondack Park - McMartin, Barbara
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In The Adirondack Park McMartin has aptly likened the various wild forest, wilderness, recreation, and primitive areas to a patchwork quilt, with landscapes connecting to jagged boundaries following rivers and narrow valleys. Recommended "views and visits" give readers an insider's advantage to making the most of any Adirondack expedition. With a storyteller's ease, McMartin provides a brief history and description of each area. She chronicles the preserve's unusual origins, people, politics, and economics that created what is now one of the most important wilderness areas in the eastern United States.…mehr

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In The Adirondack Park McMartin has aptly likened the various wild forest, wilderness, recreation, and primitive areas to a patchwork quilt, with landscapes connecting to jagged boundaries following rivers and narrow valleys. Recommended "views and visits" give readers an insider's advantage to making the most of any Adirondack expedition. With a storyteller's ease, McMartin provides a brief history and description of each area. She chronicles the preserve's unusual origins, people, politics, and economics that created what is now one of the most important wilderness areas in the eastern United States.
Autorenporträt
Barbara McMartin is the author or coauthor of twenty books and guidebooks on the Adirondacks, among them Hides, Hemlocks, and Adirondack History and The Great Forest of the Adirondacks. She has been active in several environmental groups and citizens advisory committees and is currently chair of the Department of Environmental Conservation's Forest Preserve Advisory Committee, of which she has been a member for two decades.