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The Furniture of Isaac Vose & Thomas Seymour, 1815 to 1825
Open 11 May to 14 September 2018 Details
Environmental History Seminar
“Whither Have All the Forests Gone": A Case of Land Preservation in Suburban Washington
15 January 2013.Tuesday, 5:15PM - 7:30PM
John Spiers, Boston College
Comment: James Levitt, Harvard Forest
This paper examines a frustrating question for those concerned with environmental issues: Why has land preservation been such a challenge for suburbs in the late 20th century? It considers how land preservation occurs by offering a case study of a grassroots environmental movement in Fairfax County that formed around 1970 in response to plans for a single-family residential development adjacent to the Potomac River.
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