The Highlands: Critical Resources, Treasured Landscapes (Rivergate Books (Hardcover)),Used

The Highlands: Critical Resources, Treasured Landscapes (Rivergate Books (Hardcover)),Used

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Think of the Highlands as the backyard and backstop of the PhiladelphiaNew YorkHartford metroplex. A backyard that spans over three million acres across Pennsylvania, New York, and Connecticut, the Highlands serves as recreational open space for the metroplexs burgeoning human population. As backstop, Highlands watersheds provide a ready source of highquality drinking water for over fifteen million people.The Highlands is the first book to examine the natural and cultural landscape of this fourstate region, showing how its distinctive and why its conservation is vital. Each chapter is written by a different leading researcher and specialist in that field, and introduces readers to another aspect of the Highlands: its geological foundations, its aquifers and watersheds, its forest ecology, its past iron industry.In the 1800s, the Highlands were mined, cutover, and then largely abandoned. Given time, the forests regenerated, the land healed, and the waters cleared. Increasingly, however, the Highlands are under assault againpolluted runoff contaminating lakes and streams, invasive species choking out the local flora and fauna, exurban sprawl blighting the rural landscape, and climate change threatening the integrity of its ecosystems.The Highlands makes a compelling case for land use planning and resource management strategies that could help ensure a sustainable future for the region, strategies that could in turn be applied to other landscapes threatened by urbanization across the country. The Highlands are a valuable resource. And now, so is The Highlands.

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