Click through the timeline below to understand the legislative context behind conservation worker’s experiences.


Sources consulted for the timeline:

Knott, Catherine Henshaw. Living with the Adirondack Forest: Local Perspectives on Land Use Conflict. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. 

McMartin, Barbara. Perspectives on the Adirondacks: A Thirty-Year Struggle by People Protecting Their Treasure. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2002. 

Podskoch, Martin. Adirondack Civilian Conservation Corp Camps: History, Memories and Legacy of the CCC. East Hampton, CT: Podskoch Press, 2015.

Podskoch, Martin. Adirondack Fire Towers, Their History and Lore: The Southern Districts.  Fleischmanns, New York: Purple Mountain Press, 2003.

Podskoch, Martin. Adirondack Fire Towers, Their History and Lore: The Northern Districts.  Fleischmanns, New York: Purple Mountain Press, 2005.

Porter, William, Jon Erickson, and Ross Waley, ed. The Great Experiment in Conservation: Voices from the Adirondack Park. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2009. 

Terrie, Philip. Forever Wild: A Cultural History of Wilderness in the Adirondacks. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1994.