adirondack park

Experiences of a wilderness park ranger in the Adirondack Mountains. This installment includes more stories of the time Larry Weill spent living in the backwoods of the West Canada Lakes Wilderness Area, as well as several tales of the author's experiences working at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics. Two chapters from Weill's daughter, Kelly, bring the story full circle.

Examines the history, geography, landscape, and influence of Adirondack Park, documenting how it became one of the largest parks in the lower forty-eight states and the only one with land evenly divided between protected wilderness and privately owned tracts of land.

Presents a geographic portrait of the Adirondack Park, the largest protected area in the contiguous U.S., featuring discussion of 130 topics, and including hundreds of maps, tables, graphs, and illustrations.

Describes how the Adirondack Park of New York State was created in 1892 to preserve over a million acres of land and keep it "forever wild.".

A comprehensive field guide to the wildlife found in the Adirondacks in upstate New York, describing the region's natural history and ecology and the various mammals, birds, retiles, fish, and invertebrates that inhabit it.

Christine Jerome and her husband set out in August 1990 to retrace the route of George Washington Sears in 1883 and tell of the experience.

Looks at Adirondack Park as a case study in conservation and development, featuring articles in which scholars, activists, and practitioners discuss the biological and physical foundations of the Adirondack ecosystem and economy, political institutions and management, and social and economic dimensions.