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Toward a Philosophy of Wilderness

Wilderness scholars and writers join social theorists in an attempt to clearly define the role of wilderness in a postmodern society.

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The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature

Mon, 03/26/2007 - 23:43 — Mike Yoshioka

William Cronon
Frederick Jackson Turner
& Vilas Research Professor of
History, Geography, and Environmental Studies,
University of Wisconsin - Madison

The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature

by William Cronon

(William Cronon, ed., Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature, New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1995, 69-90;
links to printer-friendly texts available at bottom of this page)

The time has come to rethink wilderness.

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