SAVING STERLING FOREST: EPIC STRUGGLE TO PRESERVE NY\'S HIGHLANDS, Botshon 2007 for Sale

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STERLING FOREST: EPIC STRUGGLE TO PRESERVE NY\'S HIGHLANDS, Botshon 2007
Title: SAVING STERLING FOREST: The Epic Struggle to Preserve New York\'s Highlands
Author: Ann Botshon
Published: 2007 State University of New York Press, Albany NY
ISBN: Format: Book
No. Pages: 204 pgs
Size: about 9 x 6 inches
Edition: first edition, first printing
Cover: trade paperback
Illustrations/Photos: sparsely illustrated
Language: About this Book:

From the back cover,

This is the inspiring story of the twenty-five-year-long effort to preserve Sterling Forest, a tract of rugged, upland terrain encompassing twenty thousand acres within the New York-New Jersey Highlands. Barely forty miles northwest of New York City, Sterling Forest seemed destined to suffer the same fate that had befallen thousands of acres of land in this rapidly suburbanizing corridor. The fight to save Sterling Forest brought together one of the largest coalitions of environmental groups and government entities ever assembled. Despite the loose, sometimes fractious nature of the alliance, the coalition managed to extract support from Congress, New York State, New Jersey, and private donors, while at the same time negotiating a contract to purchase the land from the Sterling Forest Corporation, a company that vigorously protected its financial interests at every turn. Deemed by some to be one of the more remarkable environmental victories of the 1990s, the successful outcome of the Sterling Forest struggle-a large state park within easy access of millions of people and a protected supply of water to New Jersey residents-embodied virtually every facet of land-use conflict. It provides a model for saving other areas where critical wild lands are threatened by development.

\"Ann Botshon\'s work is an important documentation of one of the most significant open space victories in the nation. It is imperative that the lessons learned in the struggle to save Sterling Forest be imparted to a new generation of advocates who are likely to face even more difficult challenges in protecting our access to and relationship with the natural world.” — U.S. Representative Maurice D. Hinchey, 22nd Congressional District of New York

ANN BOTSHON (1942-2004) was Coordinator of the Wallkill River Task Force and Editor of the Sierra Atlantic, the quarterly magazine published by the Atlantic (New York) Chapter of the Sierra Condition:

Near Fine (NF): Describes a book that shows some small signs of wear - but on first appearance looks to be Fine. Any defects noted by the seller: — lightest handling.

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