The Adirondack Atlas offers a detailed Geographic Portrait of the largest protected area in the contiguous United States and the largest region of protected temperate forests in the world.
As a comprehensive and standard resource, the Atlas captures the full scope of the park\'s topographic, hydrographic, and ecological history for a wide audience of geographers, historians, and Adirondack enthusiasts..
Jenkins includes old stories of fur routes and battles, log drives and Shea engines; new stories about school taxes and education, conservation easements and local economies, artistic ferment and social ills, about healthy towns, dying trees, and deer harvests.
As he maps out the diverse and ever-changing environment--the recreational growth, conflicts between users, development, pollution, and climate change--he highlights elements that threaten to alter the Park and undo the protection it now enjoys.
Jerry Jenkins explores this connection between the wild and human communities within a protected landscape.
It is one of the only parks in the world to combine large wilderness areas with extensive private lands and a substantial residential population.
The Park has a complex history.
As the first book of its kind, it is both a work of art and an authoritative reference.
Generously illustrated-complete with 450 full-color maps and 250 figures, graphs, tables, charts, and scientific drawings-this volume covers 130 topics on the six-million-acre Adirondack Park.
The Adirondack Atlas offers a detailed Geographic Portrait of the largest protected area in the contiguous United States and the largest region of protected temperate forests in the world
