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9781555663711

Road Runs Through It

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    9781555663711

  • ISBN10:

    1555663710

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-06-01
  • Publisher: Johnson Books
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Summary

This book explores what many consider to be the most important issue in the re-wilding of America today-roads. Not highways, but the 500,000 miles of roads built on federal forest lands to access natural resources and then abandoned when the resources were removed.

Table of Contents

Foreword, Annie Proulx vii
Introduction, Thomas R. Petersen 1(6)
Part One: Why Roads? 7(30)
Stephanie Mills, It's Delightful, It's De-Lovely, It's De-Roaded
9(3)
Rosalie Edge, Roads and More Roads in the National Parks and National Forests
12 (9)
Tom Lyon, Momentum
21(3)
Mary Sojourner, Not for Me
24(3)
Janisse Ray, Roadbed
27(10)
Part Two: Where the Deer and the Antelope Can't Play 37 (32)
Barry Lopez, Apologia
39(5)
Carolyn Duckworth, From a Wonderland Road
44(7)
Derrick Jensen, Transfixed by the Headlights of the Hurtling Machine
51(2)
Scott Stouder, Keeping the Hunt Wild
53(5)
David Quammen, Only Connect
58(11)
Part Three: Got Roads? 69(58)
Peter Matthiessen, The High Country
71(26)
Stephen J. Lyons, Across the Checkerboard with Dwight
97(9)
Mary O'Brien, Two Ways of Being
106 (4)
Brooke Williams, The Nakina Trail
110 (13)
Guy Hand, Pining for an Oak Meadow
123(4)
Part Four: Much Ado About Access 127(40)
Edward Abbey, Polemic, Industrial Tourism and the National Parks (excerpt)
129(8)
Katie Alvord, The Entitled
137(10)
David Petersen, Road Huntin' Ain't No Huntin' a'Tall: A Reasoned Rant
147(4)
Susan Cerulean, Dip Nets and the Devil's Own Invention
151(8)
David Havlick, Getting There
159(8)
Part Five: Ripped, Restored, Revived 167(32)
T.H. Watkins, The End of the Road
169(3)
Kraig Klungness, The Two-Track and the Beer Can: What Ripping a Road Affirms
172(4)
Freeman House, More Than Numbers: Twelve or Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Watershed
176 (17)
Thomas R. Petersen, The Spirit of Restoration
193(6)
Part Six: In Defense of Wild Places 199 (20)
Ted Kerasote, Tinker's Basin
201(2)
William Kittredge, Sanity
203(2)
Pepper Trail, Miles...from Nowhere
205(3)
Phil Condon, Kith and Kin of the Wild
208(11)
Resources 219(1)
Contributors 220(7)
About Wikllands CPR 227

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