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eBook
A Wild Idea
2021
Overview
A Wild Idea shares the
complete story of the difficult birth of the Adirondack Park Agency
(APA). The Adirondack region of New York's rural North
Country forms the nation's largest State Park, with a territory as
large as Vermont. Planning experts view the APA as a triumph of
sustainability that balances human activity with the preservation
of wild ecosystems. The truth isn't as pretty. The story of the
APA, told here for the first time, is a complex, troubled tale of
political dueling and communities pushed to the brink of
violence.
The North Country's environmental movement started among a small
group of hunters and hikers, rose on a huge wave of public concern
about pollution that crested in the early 1970s, and overcame
multiple obstacles to \"save\" the Adirondacks. Edmondson shows how
the movement's leaders persuaded a powerful Governor to recruit
planners, naturalists, and advisors and assign a task that had
never been attempted before. The team and the politicians who
supported them worked around the clock to draft two visionary
land-use plans and turn them into law. But they also made mistakes,
and their strict regulations were met with determined opposition
from local landowners who insisted that private property is
private.
A Wild Idea is based on in-depth interviews with five
dozen insiders who are central to the story. Their observations
contain many surprising and shocking revelations. This is a rich,
exciting narrative about state power and how it was imposed on
rural residents. It shows how the Adirondacks were \"saved,\" and
also why that campaign sparked a passionate rebellion.
Publisher
Cornell University Press,Three Hills
Subject
/ Adirondack Park Agency (N.Y.)
/ Agency
/ camping
/ HISTORY
/ HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
/ HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
/ Land Use
/ Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
/ NATURE
/ NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection
/ New York
/ TRAVEL
/ TRAVEL / Parks & Campgrounds
/ Zoning
ISBN
1501759019, 9781501759017, 9781501759031, 1501759035, 1501759027, 9781501759024
