Children of the Northern Forest: Wild New England's History from Glaciers to Global Warming

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Jamie Sayen

Children of the Northern Forest

Wild New England's History from Glaciers to Global Warming

Jamie Sayen

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Yale University Press
23 January 2024

History of the Americas; Earth sciences; Forests, rainforests; Conservation of the environment; The Earth: natural history general; Local history

Series: Yale Agrarian Studies Series

This no-holds-barred narrative of the failure of conservation in northern New England’s forests envisions a wilder, more equitable, lower-carbon future for forest-dependent communities

Jamie Sayen approaches the story of northern New England’s undeveloped forests from the viewpoints of the previously unheard: the forest and the nonhuman species it sustains, the First Peoples, and, in more recent times, the disenfranchised human voices of the forest, including loggers, mill workers, and citizens who, like Henry David Thoreau, wish to speak a kind word for nature.

From 1988 to 2016 paper companies sold their timberlands and closed seventeen paper mills in northern New England. Policy makers ceded veto power to large absentee landowners, who tried to preserve the status quo by demanding additional tax cuts and other subsidies for economic elites. They vetoed measures designed to restore and preserve forest health; at present, about half of the former industrial forests are classified as degraded, and the regional economy continues to be trapped in low-value commodity markets.

This book operates as a case study of how a rural resource region can respond to a global economy responsible for climate change, habitat loss and degradation, and environmental injustice. Sayen offers a blueprint for restoring vast wildlands and transitioning to a lower-carbon, high-value-adding, local economy, while protecting the natural rights of humans, nonhumans, and unborn generations.

By: Jamie Sayen
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780300270570
ISBN 10: 0300270577
Series: Yale Agrarian Studies Series
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 23 January 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jamie Sayen is an environmental activist and author of Einstein in America: The Scientist’s Conscience in the Age of Hitler and Hiroshima and You Had a Job for Life: The Story of a Company Town. He lives in Stratford, NH.

Reviews for Children of the Northern Forest: Wild New England's History from Glaciers to Global Warming

“Jamie Sayen seeks to transform how we understand and pursue human relationships with nature in an era of global change. The lessons that emerge from this book are important at local, national, and global scales.”—David R. Foster, author of A Meeting of Land and Sea and New England Forests Through Time “Children of the Northern Forest examines why more than thirty years of strenuous conservation efforts have failed to protect northern New England’s forest, and presents a vision of a better future for the region and all its creatures.”—Brian Donahue, author of The Great Meadow and Reclaiming the Commons