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Protecting Water and Woods: Urban Drinking Water Supplies and Forest Land Protection in the American Northeast

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Environmental Historian Ellen Stroud draws on her research into unexpected connections between urban growth and the resurgence of forests in the early-twentieth-century American Northeast to explore the implications of those connections for safeguarding twenty-first century urban water supplies. Seemingly wild landscapes have long been intricately entangled with the region's cities and towns, and protecting drinking water for the region’s cities has been a major driver of forest establishment and protection efforts there. State and national forests were established a century ago in part to provide buffers for the rivers and reservoirs on which Philadelphia, New York City, Boston, and dozens of...
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hal-04859025 , version 1 (30-12-2024)

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Ellen Stroud. Protecting Water and Woods: Urban Drinking Water Supplies and Forest Land Protection in the American Northeast. 2024, ⟨10.25580/igp.2024.0005⟩. ⟨hal-04859025⟩

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