Promise of Wilderness
From Denali''s majestic slopes to the Great Swamp of central New Jersey, protected wilderness areas make up nearly twenty percent of the parks, forests, wildlife refuges, and other public lands that cover a full fourth of the nation''s territory. But wilderness is not only a place. It is also one of the most powerful and troublesome ideas in American environmental thought, representing everything ...
From Denali''s majestic slopes to the Great Swamp of central New Jersey, protected wilderness areas make up nearly twenty percent of the parks, forests, wildlife refuges, and other public lands that cover a full fourth of the nation''s territory. But wilderness is not only a place. It is also one of the most powerful and troublesome ideas in American environmental thought, representing everything ...
