Seeking a taste of unspoiled wilderness, more than nine million people visit the Great Smoky Mountains National Park each year. Yet few probably realize what makes the park unusual: it was the result of efforts to reclaim wilderness rather than to protect undeveloped land. Daniel S. Pierce tells how park supporters set about raising money to buy the land-often from resistant timber companies-and describes the fierce infighting between wilderness advocates and tourism boosters over the shape the park would take. He also ...
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Seeking a taste of unspoiled wilderness, more than nine million people visit the Great Smoky Mountains National Park each year. Yet few probably realize what makes the park unusual: it was the result of efforts to reclaim wilderness rather than to protect undeveloped land. Daniel S. Pierce tells how park supporters set about raising money to buy the land-often from resistant timber companies-and describes the fierce infighting between wilderness advocates and tourism boosters over the shape the park would take. He also discloses the unfortunate human cost of the park's creation: the displacement of the area's inhabitants. The new preface chronicles developments in the park since the book's original publication in 2000. Over the past decade and a half, the park has experienced a dramatic and improbable improvement in air quality, a variety of successful animal reintroduction programs-including, most spectacularly, elk-numerous improvements to trails and roads, and the ending of long-standing dispute over the "Road to Nowhere," which had its origins in the founding of the park eight decades ago. Pierce also points out new challenges that have emerged in the park-and there is none more dangerous than the invasive species known as the wooly adelgid, which threatens to annihilate the park's 800 acres of old-growth hemlocks. The recent history of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park provides ample proof of Pierce's conclusion: "just as people have the power to set aside places as wonderful as the Cataloochee Valley and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, they also have the power to destroy it."
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Add this copy of Great Smokies: From Natural Habitat to National Park to cart. $13.93, very good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2015 by Univ Tennessee Press.
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2nd Revised Edition, with a New Preface edition
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Univ Tennessee Press
Published:
2015
Language:
English
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2nd Revised Edition, with a New Preface edition
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Univ Tennessee Press
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2015
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English
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