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