Nature Next Door

The once-denuded northeastern United States is now a region of trees - because of cities. Nature Next Door shows how Northeastern urbanization - along with the construction of parks, the transformation of farming, the boom in tourism, and changes in the timber industry - fostered a period of recover [...]
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The once-denuded northeastern United States is now a region of trees - because of cities. Nature Next Door shows how Northeastern urbanization - along with the construction of parks, the transformation of farming, the boom in tourism, and changes in the timber industry - fostered a period of recovery for forests and created a new wildness of metropolitan nature. Ellen Stroud is an environmental historian at Bryn Mawr College.