PREDATION ON ARTIFICIAL NESTS ALONG THREE EDGE TYPES IN A NORTH CAROLINA BOTTOMLAND HARDWOOD FOREST.: An article from: Wilson Bulletin

PREDATION ON ARTIFICIAL NESTS ALONG THREE EDGE TYPES IN A NORTH CAROLINA BOTTOMLAND HARDWOOD FOREST.: An article from: Wilson Bulletin Review

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Title: PREDATION ON ARTIFICIAL NESTS ALONG THREE EDGE TYPES IN A NORTH CAROLINA BOTTOMLAND HARDWOOD FOREST.
Author: James F. Saracco
Publication:Wilson Bulletin (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1999
Publisher: Wilson Ornithological Society
Volume: 111 Issue: 4 Page: 541

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The Forest City Lynching of 1900: Populism, Racism, and White Supremacy in Rutherford County, North Carolina (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, 10)

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Politics in Rutherford County were heated a century ago: the developing textile industry, the growing population, an agricultural crisis and race relations inflamed everyone. Mills Higgins Flack, a leader of the Farmers’ Alliance and the county’s first Populist in the state House, was allegedly murdered on August 28, 1900, by Avery Mills, an African American. This book documents the murder and the lynching of Avery Mills. The author (Flack’s great-great-grandson) considers the phenomena of racial lynching, the Populist movement in the county, the white supremacy movement of the state’s Democratic party and the county’s KKK activities.

Blue Ridge Commons: Environmental Activism and Forest History in Western North Carolina (Environmental History and the American South)

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In the late twentieth century, residents of the Blue Ridge mountains in western North Carolina fiercely resisted certain environmental efforts, even while launching aggressive initiatives of their own. Kathryn Newfont examines the environmental history of this region over the course of three hundred years, identifying what she calls commons environmentalism—a cultural strain of conservation in American history that has gone largely unexplored.

Efforts in the 1970s to expand federal wilderness areas in the Pisgah and Nantahala national forests generated strong opposition. For many mountain residents the idea of unspoiled wilderness seemed economically unsound, historically dishonest, and elitist. Newfont shows that local people’s sense of commons environmentalism required access to the forests that they viewed as semipublic places for hunting, fishing, and working. Policies that removed large tracts from use were perceived as “enclosure” and resisted.

These battles often pitted industrialists against environmentalists. Newfont argues that the side that most effectively hitched its cause to local residents’ commons culture usually won. A few perceptive activists realized that the same cultural ground that yielded wilderness opposition could also produce ambitious protection efforts, such as Blue Ridge residents’ opposition to petroleum exploration and clearcut timber harvesting.

Incorporating deep archival work and years of interviews and conversations with Appalachian residents, Blue Ridge Commons reveals a tradition of people building robust forest protection movements on their own terms.