Managing the mountains
Subtitle: land use planning, the New Deal, and the creation of a federal landscape in Appalachia
By: Sara M. Gregg
Series: Yale agrarian studies series; Yale agrarian studies
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780300142198
Subjects: New Deal, 1933-1939; Regional planning; Economic conditions; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Farms and forests: an Appalachian portrait --; title: 1: Origins --; title: A harvest of scarcity: self-sufficiency in the Blue Ridge Mountains --; title: Customs in common: community and agriculture in the Green Mountains --; title: Academics and partisans: federal land use planning, 1900-1933 --; title: 2: Projects --; title: Designing the Shenandoah National Park --; title: Cultivating the Vermont forest --; title: Reforming submarginal lands, 1933-1938 --; title: Epilogue: cellarholes and wilderness: the returns of the Appalachian forest.