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People and place, Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests : the first 100 years, editors, Rosemary G. Conroy, Richard Ober

Label
People and place, Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests : the first 100 years, editors, Rosemary G. Conroy, Richard Ober
Language
eng
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
People and place
Responsibility statement
editors, Rosemary G. Conroy, Richard Ober
Sub title
Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests : the first 100 years
Table Of Contents
Preface / Lew Feldstein -- Foreward / Jim Collins -- Introduction / Richard Ober -- The Weeks Act : How the White Mountain National Forest came to be / Martha Carlson and Richard Ober -- Franconia Nothc : Sawed or saved? / Howard Mansfield -- Three mountains : How Monadnock, Sunapee, and Kearsarge came to be saved / Rosemary Conroy -- Profile : Philip Wheelock Ayres / Conroy -- "This forestry work must not stop:" A member's plea comes true / Ober -- "Once you learn to read the land:" The essence of education programs / Fred Taylor -- Profile : Lawrance W. Rathbun / Conroy -- Reclaiming New Hampshire's waters : An undercurrent from the beginning / Suki Casanave -- Current use : The bedrock of conservation in the Granite State / Richard Ober, Liz Lorving, Isobel Parke -- Land and trust : The 1980s saw a huge increse in land protection / Conroy -- Right time, right place : The story of the trust for New Hampshire lands / Ralph Jimenez -- A place apart : Looking back, and ahead, at the Northern Forest / Ober -- Profile : Paul O Bofinger / John Harrigan -- A photographic celebration of Society-protected lands -- The conservation center / Carol Cushing -- The Hay Forest Reservation / David Anderson -- The Rocks Estate / Mike Dickerman -- Donald Hall : "Mount Kearsarge" -- Peter Forbes : "Land conservation can make people and communities whole" -- Donella Meadows : "We have to ask quality questions" -- John Hay : "We are incapable of replacing the truth" -- Our second century / Jane A. Difley -- Timeline : A century of accomplishment -- Personnel : Executive committee, trustees and officers ; Staff, Lost River guides, and interns ; Volunteers of the year and conservationists of the year -- Lands protected : Permanent reservations ; History of land transferred to public agencies and non-profits ; Conservation easments (Grantee interest) ; Conservation easments (Executory interest) -- Index -- Author biographies