Vermont Wilderness Areas

Hearing before the Subcommittee on Soil and Water Conservation, Forestry, and Environment of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session, on H.R. 4198 ... February 1, 1984.

A fresh and innovative look at the remote and remarkable wild areas in one tiny New England state.

Hearing before the Subcommittee on Soil and Water Conservation, Forestry, and Environment of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session, on H.R. 4198 ... February 1, 1984.

The first field guide to all of Vermont's natural communities

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.