HSL Annual Meeting with Author Phil Terrie
About
HSL members and the community are invited to join us for the 2025 Annual Meeting. The meeting will feature a special presentation from author and historian
Phil Terrie
presenting about his new book, Wild Forest Lands: Finding History and Meaning in the Adirondacks.
Book Description:
The Adirondack Park stands alone as one of the largest publicly protected areas in the United States, a constitutionally protected forest preserve with a provision guaranteeing that it must be “forever kept as wild forest lands.” But, just what does “wilderness” mean today and how can the concept be untangled from the colonial implications of the term as it first applied to the Adirondacks?
About the Author:
Philip G. Terrie is professor emeritus in American culture and environmental studies at Bowling Green State University. He is the author of Forever Wild: A Cultural History of Wilderness in the Adirondacks and Contested Terrain: A new History of Nature and People in the Adirondacks, Second Edition.
