{"product_id":"9780813080864-the-wild-east","title":"The Wild East","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Biography of the Great Smoky Mountains\u003cbr\u003eExplores the social, political, and environmental changes in the Great Smoky Mountains during the 19th and 20th centuries. While this national park is most often portrayed as a triumph of wilderness preservation, Margaret Lynn Brown concludes that the region is in fact a re-created wilderness--a product of restoration and manipulation of the land.\u003cbr\u003eThe classic environmental history of the Great Smoky Mountains, updated with a view from the twenty-first century\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Wild East\u003c\/em\u003e explores the social, political, and environmental changes in the Great Smoky Mountains during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Although this  national park is most often portrayed as a triumph of wilderness preservation, Margaret Lynn Brown concludes that the largest forested  region in the eastern United States is actually a re-created wilderness a product of restoration and even manipulation of the land. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeveral hundred years before white settlement, Cherokees farmed and hunted this land. Between 1910 and 1920, corporate lumbermen built railroads into the region’s most remote watersheds and removed more than 60 percent of  the old-growth forest. Despite this level of human impact, those who  promoted the establishment of a national park in 1934 represented the land as an untouched wilderness and described the people living there as pioneers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToward the end of the twentieth century, Brown  writes, the Smokies faced the consequences of decades of management decisions that fluctuated between promoting human tourism and ensuring  environmental preservation. Nearly 25 years after the book's first  publication, this revised edition discusses current research, citizen  science initiatives, and land management practices that are restoring  native plants and wildlife populations in the twenty-first century.  Margaret Lynn Brown emphasizes the extraordinary treasure that is the  Great Smoky Mountains and the importance of continuing to invest in the  park's protection for years to come.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56471234511222,"sku":"9780813080864","price":23.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_38145927_62ca8978-1b95-48a7-a5d2-a6955a0099ff.jpg?v=1763752968","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780813080864-the-wild-east","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}