The Interrupted Forest: A History of Maine's Wildlands

by Neil Rolde

Book Overview

Add to this the thousands of farms that have grown back to woods since the Civil War, and you have the most forested state, by percentage, in the United States. But the "uninterrupted forest" that Henry David Thoreau first saw in the 1840s was never exactly that. Loggers had cut it severely, European settlers had gnawed into it, and, much earlier, native people had left their mark. This book takes you deep into the past to understand the present,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1684751284
• ISBN13: 9781684751280
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Down East Books
• Length: 416 Pages