Land-Use Planning for Sustainable Development


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Thirteen years ago, the first edition of Land-Use Planning for Sustainable Development examined the question: is the environmental doomsday scenario inevitable? It then presented the underlying concepts of sustainable land-use planning and an array of alternatives for modifying conventional planning for and regulation of the development of land. Th



















Apostle Islands National Lakeshore


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Sand and Fire


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The human and natural history of a fragile Midwestern landscape While many people are familiar with the federally protected St. Croix and Namekagon Rivers of northwestern Wisconsin, few know about the Namekagon Barrens, a rare pine barrens landscape within a few miles of their confluence. A tiny remnant of the millions of barrens acres that once covered the region, the Namekagon Barrens Wildlife Area lies in the heart of the state’s Northwest Sands, a band of pine and oak stretching from Bayfield on Lake Superior to St. Croix Falls on the Wisconsin–Minnesota border. Unfathomable amounts of glacial sand and repeated fires over thousands of years shaped a land of scrub oak and jack pine, blueberries and sweet fern, creating an ideal habitat for wolves and sharp-tailed grouse. Just as compelling is the land’s rich human history, from Paleo-Indian hunters to Ojibwe berry pickers, loggers to early road builders, and immigrants whose farming efforts failed to the wildlife habitat specialists who manage it today. The book, told in memoir style and featuring color photographs by the author, sets the land’s unusual natural history as the backdrop for a multilayered story about the impact of people on this vulnerable landscape.




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Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Master Plan (1971) B1; Proposed Mainland Developments, Environmental Assessment (EA) (1977) B2; Proposed Mainland Development, Environmental Assessment (EA) (1978) B3; Statement for Management (1977) B4; Interpretive Prospectus (1979) B5; Natural Resources Inventory and Management, Environmental Assessment (EA) B6; Resource(s) Management Plan (RMP) and Environmental Assessment (EA) B7; Record of Decision and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for Selected Environmental Alternatives (1982)


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