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Rewilding the islands: Nature, history, and wilderness at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Rewilding the islands: Nature, history, and wilderness at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore./
Author:	Feldman, James W.
Description:	444 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-08, Section: A, page: 3129.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-08A.
Subject:	History, United States. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3143101
ISBN:	9780496008797

Rewilding the islands: Nature, history, and wilderness at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.
Feldman, James W.

Rewilding the islands: Nature, history, and wilderness at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. - 444 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-08, Section: A, page: 3129.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2004.

Northern Wisconsin's Apostle Islands---twenty-two islands in southwest Lake Superior---provide a place to explore changing ideas about wilderness and history, and the relationship between the two. Congress created Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in 1970, and the National Park Service has managed the islands as a wilderness since then. But wild though they sometimes seem, the island environments are the product of interconnected processes of human and natural history. Euro-Americans have lived among the Apostles since the mid-1800s, French traders and missionaries since the 1600s, and Native Americans for many years before that. Island dwellers logged, fished, and farmed, and in so doing indelibly marked their environment. Tourists have visited the area since the 1850s, shaping the landscape in still other ways. I use the term "rewilding" to explain how wild characteristics have returned to the islands in ways informed both by ecological processes such as fire and succession as well as the human history of resource use. The composition of the modern forests reflects past human choices about where and when to log, fish, or farm, and where and when not to. Even the wilderness character of the islands is the product of human choice, not just the ability of wild nature to return to an area once marked by industry. As the state---first the state of Wisconsin and then the federal government---consolidated its authority in the region, it managed the islands to create a landscape valued for recreational and ecological qualities, a landscape we today call wilderness. Natural resource managers promoted some activities and prohibited others, with consequences both for the environments of the islands and for the people who lived, worked, and played among them. But the NPS struggles to manage rewilding places like the Apostles, places where wild nature and human history mingle and overlap. Both popular understanding of wilderness as well as Park Service management policy segregate nature and history by defining and valuing wilderness as a place without human intrusion. Exploring the intersections of nature and culture provides a more complex understanding of both wilderness and history in the Apostle Islands.

ISBN: 9780496008797Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017393
History, United States.

Rewilding the islands: Nature, history, and wilderness at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.
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