The landscape of community
Subtitle: a history of communal forests in New England
By: Robert McCullough.
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Hanover, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
Subjects: Community forests -- New England -- History.
Description: New England's tradition of forested communities stretches unbroken to the seventeenth century, when the earliest settlers worked common wood lots or set aside timbered public lands to support residents, churches, and schools. Where these reserves have survived decades of changing land holding patterns, their history offers insight into the debate over the benefits of economic development and the impulse toward preservation.

Robert McCullough explains that these communal forests have come to hold even more significance for the contributions they make to public welfare and education, recreation, and conservation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-386) and index.