Nature and Culture in the Northern Forest: Region, Heritage, and Environment in the Rural Northeast

Index

Abbot, Jacob, 111 Abenaki, 135, 139–140, 142, 215 abolitionist activity, 86, 94 Aboljacknagesic stream, 215 Abram, David, 237, 242 Acadia National Park, 54 Ackerman, Diane, 20, 231, 234 Adirondack High Peaks region, 87– 89; Adirondack Park, 9, 12, 77, 83, 90; Adirondack region, 81, 86, 92; Adirondacks, 3, 77–97, 175; “The Adirondacks” (Burroughs essay), 220–221; farming, 88 Agassiz, Louis, 84–86 agriculture, 57, 63, 88, 135, 137, 194, 199, 209, 216 Airline Trail, 207 Aitteon, Joe, 252, 254 Alaska, 18, 36 Allegash, 34 Allen, Paula Gunn, 68 alpine zone, 17 American naturalists, 127n38 Ammonoosuc Ravine, 193 anadromous fish, 140 animal communication, 236 antifoundationalist, 173–174 Antioch New England Graduate School, 137, 145 Appalachia, 207; Appalachia, 203; Appalachian chain, 63, 91; Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC), 1, 5, 6, 11, 161–166, 188, 190, 191, 195, 203, 208; Appalachian Trail, 10, 21, 153–170, 188, 190–191, 204, 237; Appalachian Trail Conference, 155, 168n14; southern Appalachians , 214 arctic, 3, 21, 25, 33, 63 Ashuelot River, 140–141 Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), 6, 167n1 ballad, 100–102, 126n11 balsam fir, 17, 25, 28, 194, 207, 230 Banks, Russell, 9, 84, 86, 88–89, 94–95 Bass, Rick, 233–234 Bate, Jonathan, 272, 275n31 Bauhin, Caspar, 21 Baxter, Percival, 4; Baxter Peak, 214, 216; Baxter State Park, 29, 275n32 Bear Swamp, 64–65 Beaver Brook Trail, 158 Beckley, Hosea, 98–100, 104, 116 beech buds, 57; beech scale, 52–53; beech stand, 55; beech tree mast, 51 Bering Strait, 22 Berry, Wendell, 181, 270 birch logs, 261–263, 265, 272, 273n11; birch trees, 265, 274n12 black fly, 6, 92, 228 Blake, Harrison, 100–101 Index 282 • iNdex blue heather, 70 Blue Line, 90–91 body-consciousness, 237 Body for Nature, 228, 243 Bolles, Frank, 5, 171; Bolles Brook, 156 Bonta, Marcia, 25 boreal forest, 2, 8, 9, 18, 24, 29, 33, 34, 63, 233 Boston Society of Natural History, 106, 110 Brody, Hughs, 69, 74 Brower, Rueben, 40–41, 46 Brown, Dona, 7, 181 Brown, John, 86–87, 94–95 Brown, Owen, 94 Bryce, James, 199, 210n17 buckthorn, 137 Buell, Lawrence, 181, 247 Burlington, Vermont, 103; Burlington Natural History Society, 107 Burnt Lands, 214–216, 250–251, 253, 257 Burroughs, John, 8, 11, 20, 22, 23, 25, 213–224; “The Adirondacks,” 220, 221; “Birch Browsings,” 220, 221; “Emerson and His Journals,” 222; “The Halcyon in Canada,” 220, 221–222; “In the Hemlocks,” 220–221; “Pepacton,” 220, 222 Burt’s Bees, 275n32 Butterick Dress Pattern Company, 147 Cadillac Mountain, 54 Cairngorm Mountains, 193 California, 23, 24 Cambridge Village, 20 camp community, 154 Camp Moosilauke, 153–154, 156–157, 165 Canada, 2, 19, 22–24, 87, 233 Cape Cod, 33, 231 Carr, Jeanne, 23 Carter, William Lorenzo, 102 Cartesian dualism, 235 catastrophe species, 88–89 Cathedral of the Pines, 147 Catskills, 221 Caucomgomoc River, 34 census records, 145, 148n7 Center Cemetery, 99 Center for Northern Studies, 62–63 Chamberlain Lake, 34–35 Champlain Valley, 34 Channing, Francis William, 258n15 Cheshire County, 139; Cheshire Place, 147 Chesuncook Lake, 30 Chittenden, Alfred, 159, 163 Chocorua, New Hampshire, 10, 171 Chocorua Lake, 176, 184n17 circumboreal, 22–23, 25 cirques, 194 civic virtue, 179, 181 Civil War, 88, 147, 231 Clifton Forge, 214 Clingman’s Dome, 17 Coe, Kenneth, 55 Cole, Thomas, 81 Colter, John, 82 Columbus, Ohio, 232 Concord, Massachusetts, 19, 30, 31, 32, 34, 84, 215, 217, 269 Connecticut River, 119–120, 165 conservation, 3, 4, 5, 11, 90, 107, 125, 138, 143, 155, 157, 159, 160, 162, 167, 180, 188–189, 191–192, 194, 197, 200, 204, 206, 208n5, 209n10, 209n11, 210n20, 229, 233 consumer culture, 232 Cook, Reginald, 43, 45 Coolidge, Philip, 264 Countryside Act, 210n20 Craftsbury Common, Vermont, 63 Crag Camp, 207 Crawford, Ethan Allen, 163, 191 Crawford Notch, 5, 7, 163, 167n3, iNdex • 283 190–191, 198, 208n3; Crawford Path, 163, 191, 193, 200, 201 Cronon, William, 90, 266, Curtis, William, 164, 169n35 Danby, Vermont, 54 Deane Preserve, 55–56 deep ecology, 272, 275n31 Delaware River, 220, 222 Dena’Ina, 18, 22 Descartes, Rene, 235 Dillard, Annie, 36, 143 Douglas, William O., 229, 243 Downeast Maine, 28, 34, 49, 54 Downing, Jack, 102 Dublin Art Colony, 143 Durham, Knowlton, 156 Dutch Elm Disease, 51 Dyer Bay, 28 Eagle Lake, 54 Eagleton, Terry, 236, 242 East Branch of the Penobscot River, 161–162, 166, 214 Eaton, Stephen, 45 Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy, 262–264, 271–272...