The Catskill Park: Inside the Blue Line: The Forest Preserve & Mountain Communities of America's Firts Wilderness (Paperback)

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History of New York State's Catskill Park (established 1904) and the Catskill Forest Preserve (established 1885), one of the earliest experiments in environmental conservation in the United States, wherein wildlands coexist with private property within the "blue line" of the Catskill Park. Illustrated with 32 pages of color photographs and more than 70 historical & contemporary B&W photographs, and including the Carpenter Report, an 1886 "inventory" of the Catskill Mtns., including its streams and rivers, game, forests & industry.

Product Details ISBN-10: 1883789427
ISBN-13: 9781883789428
Published: Black Dome Press, 10/01/2004
Pages: 208
Language: English