Title: Adirondack explorations
First published: 1997
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.
Subjects: Natural history, Surveying, Natural history, united states, Adirondack mountains (n.y.), description and travel
Places: New York (State), Adirondack Mountains Region, Adirondack Mountains Region (N.Y.)
LC classification: QH105.N7 C56 1997