Adirondack explorations
Subtitle: nature writings of Verplanck Colvin
By: compiled and edited by Paul Schaefer ; with introductions to selected articles by Norman J. Van Valkenburgh.
Contributors: Schaefer, Paul.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: [Syracuse, N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Natural history -- New York (State) -- Adirondack Mountains Region.; Surveying -- New York (State) -- Adirondack Mountains Region.; Adirondack Mountains Region (N.Y.)
Description: "Verplanck Colvin worked twenty-eight years as the superintendent of the Topographical Survey of the Adirondack Mountains, one of the last great frontiers of the East."--BOOK JACKET. "This collection of essays - compiled by preeminent conservationist Paul Schaefer - reveals Colvin's many perspectives on the Adirondacks. His writings reflect on outdoorsman's appreciation of the wilderness, with a poet's unerring sense for its beauty."--BOOK JACKET. "One of Colvin's best-known contributions involved sharpening surveying techniques, thus making property boundaries cleared and taxes fairer. And as an early advocate for the preservation of the Adirondacks, he became a force behind passage of the Forever Wild statute of 1885 and the the establishment of the Park itself in 1892."--BOOK JACKET.