Wild Forest Lands

The Adirondack Park stands alone as one of the largest publicly protected areas in the United States, a constitutionally protected forest preserve with a provision guaranteeing that it must be "forever kept as wild forest lands." But, just what does "wilderness" mean today and how can the concept be untangled from the colonial implications of the term as it first applied to the Adirondacks? Part memoir, part New York history, and part meditation, Wild Forest Lands ponders on the rhetorical and s