Managing the Mountains : Land Use Planning, the New Deal, and the Creation of a Federal Landscape in Appalachia

by Sara M. Gregg

• ISBN13: 9780300142198
• ISBN10: 0300142196
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2010-11-23
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

Historians have long viewed the massive reshaping of the American landscape during the New Deal era as unprecedented. This book uncovers the early twentieth-century history rich with precedents for the New Deal in forest, park, and agricultural policy. Sara M. Gregg explores the redevelopment of the Appalachian Mountains from the 1910s through the 1930s, finding in this region a changing paradigm of land use planning that laid the groundwork for the national New Deal. Through an intensive analysis of federal planning in Virginia and Vermont, Gregg contextualizes the expansion of the federal government through land use planning and highlights the deep intellectual roots of federal conservation policy.

Author Biography

Sara M. Gregg is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library. She lives in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiv
Introduction: Farms and Forests: An Appalachian Portrait	p. 1
Origins
A Harvest of Scarcity: Self-Sufficiency in the Blue Ridge Mountains	p. 11
Customs in Common: Community and Agriculture in the Green Mountains	p. 40
Academics and Partisans: Federal Land Use Planning, 1900-1933	p. 76
Projects
Designing the Shenandoah National Park	p. 105
Cultivating the Vermont Forest	p. 140
Reforming Submarginal Lands, 1933-1938	p. 175
Epilogue: Cellarholes and Wilderness: The Return of the Appalachian Forest	p. 213
Notes	p. 221
Index	p. 278
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