Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vi
3. PREFACE ix
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiv
5. Introduction Farms and Forests: An Appalachian Portrait 1
6. Part One: Origins
7. Chapter One. A Harvest of Scarcity: Self-Sufficiency in the Blue Ridge Mountains 11
8. Chapter Two. Customs in Common: Community And Agriculture In The Green Mountains 40
9. Chapter Three. Academics and Partisans: Federal Land Use Planning, 1900– 1933 76
10. Part Two: Projects
11. Chapter Four. Designing the Shenandoah National Park 105
12. Chapter Five. Cultivating the Vermont Forest 140
13. Chapter Six. Reforming Submarginal Lands, 1933–1938 175
14. Epilogue: Cellarholes and Wilderness: The Return of the Appalachian Forest 213
15. Notes 221
16. Index 278