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Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Author: William J. Lewis
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467147877
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Deep within the heart of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, the Piney people have built a vibrant culture and industry from working the natural landscape around them. Foraging skills learned from the local Lenapes were passed down through generations of Piney families who gathered many of the same wild floral products that became staples of the Philadelphia and New York dried flower markets. Important figures such as John Richardson have sought to lift the Pineys from rural poverty by recording and marketing their craftsmanship. As the state government sought to preserve the Pine Barrens and develop the region, Piney culture was frequently threatened and stigmatized. Author and advocate William J. Lewis charts the history of the Pineys, what being a Piney means today and their legacy among the beauty of the Pine Barrens.

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Category : Coastal zone management
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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Author: New Jersey. Pinelands Commission
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Category : Ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Author: United States. Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service. Northeast Regional Office
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 518

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Author: Carleton K. Montgomery
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813552141
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 405

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Regional Planning for a Sustainable America is the first book to represent the great variety of today’s effective regional planning programs, analyzing dozens of regional initiatives across North America. The American landscape is being transformed by poorly designed, sprawling development. This sprawl—and its wasteful resource use, traffic, and pollution—does not respect arbitrary political boundaries like city limits and state borders. Yet for most of the nation, the patterns of development and conservation are shaped by fragmented, parochial local governments and property developers focused on short-term economic gain. Regional planning provides a solution, a means to manage human impacts on a large geographic scale that better matches the natural and economic forces at work. By bringing together the expertise of forty-two practitioners and academics, this book provides a practical guide to the key strategies that regional planners are using to achieve truly sustainable growth.

Author: John McPhee
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374233608
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens. The term refers to the predominant trees in the vast forests that cover the area and to the quality of the soils below, which are too sandy and acid to be good for farming. On all sides, however, developments of one kind or another have gradually moved in, so that now the central and integral forest is reduced to about a thousand square miles. Although New Jersey has the heaviest population density of any state, huge segments of the Pine Barrens remain uninhabited. The few people who dwell in the region, the "Pineys," are little known and often misunderstood. Here McPhee uses his uncanny skills as a journalist to explore the history of the region and describe the people—and their distinctive folklore—who call it home.

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Water Resources
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Category : Droughts
Languages : en
Pages : 1054

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Category : Environmental protection
Languages : en
Pages : 548

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