John Neff (2)
Auteur de Katahdin: An Historic Journey - Legends, Exploration, and Preservation of Maine's Highest Peak
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John Neff (2) a été combiné avec John W. Neff.
Œuvres de John Neff
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Neff, John W.
- Date de naissance
- 20th century
- Sexe
- male
- Organisations
- Maine Appalachian Trail Club
Appalachian Trail Conservancy (board member)
Friends of Baxter State Park (first president)
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 1
- Membres
- 21
- Popularité
- #570,576
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 9
It is strange that the author gives the lumber industry such a free ride. This in spite of the fact that in the course of the book he describes in passing the challenge of Katahdin trail builders as the lumber industry obliterated trail after trail over the years, the lumbering practices of blowing up Katahdin area stream beds to prevent logjams and blowing up boulders on the mountain face to facilitate hauling out lumber, not to mention the devastated forests, derelict buildings, dams, and equipment left behind as lumber companies exhausted Katahdin area timber and moved on to exploit elsewhere. And also given that the timber interests were the main lobby that for many years successfully frustrated both Baxter's legislative and private efforts to preserve the Katahdin area.… (plus d'informations)