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  • Nature Next Door

  • Cities and Trees in the American Northeast (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
  • By: Ellen Stroud
  • Narrated by: Diane Neigebauer
  • Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins

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Nature Next Door

By: Ellen Stroud
Narrated by: Diane Neigebauer
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The once denuded Northeastern United States is now a region of trees. Nature Next Door argues that the growth of cities, the construction of parks, the transformation of farming, the boom in tourism, and changes in the timber industry have together brought about a return of Northeastern forests. Although historians and historical actors alike have seen urban and rural areas as distinct, they are in fact intertwined, and the dichotomies of farm and forest, agriculture and industry, and nature and culture break down when the focus is on the history of Northeastern woods. Cities, trees, mills, rivers, houses, and farms are all part of a single transformed regional landscape.

In an examination of the cities and forests of the Northeastern United States, Ellen Stroud shows how urbanization processes there fostered a period of recovery for forests, with cities not merely consumers of nature but creators as well. Interactions between city and hinterland in the 20th-century Northeast created a new wildness of metropolitan nature: a reforested landscape intricately entangled with the region's cities and towns.

The book is published by University of Washington Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

“Offers a compelling historical explanation for the return of America's Northeastern forests." (Environmental History)

"Valuable for anyone interested in forestry, urban forestry, and land use or conservation. Highly recommended." (Choice)

"Stroud writes with a clear and elegant voice." (Technology and Culture)

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