The first book to look at wilderness in the northeastern US, Wilderness Comes Home features a new approach based on ecological reserve design to protect biological diversity, rewilding and restoring lands to wilderness, and embedding wilderness in a landscape of sustainably managed farmland and forestland. It addresses major theoretical and practical aspects of this important issue -- whether, why, and how to reestablish wilderness areas in the Northeast. Although Western wilderness models already exist for undeveloped areas, Eastern models are still evolving. Protection and social management are being urged not for the "forest primeval" but for recovering areas, in which returning species such as moose and peregrine falcons roam over new growth softwoods and hardwoods, interspersed with the stone walls that once marked field boundaries.
- ISBN10 1584651016
- ISBN13 9781584651017
- Publish Date 1 March 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher University Press of New England
- Imprint Middlebury College Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 368
- Language English