Catskill Park Inside The Blue Line The Forest Preserve & Mountain Communities Of America's First Wilderness

History of New York State's Catskill Park (established 1904) and the Catskill Forest Preserve (established 1885), one of the earliest experiments in environmental conservation in the United States, wherein wildlands coexist with private property within the "blue line" of the Catskill Park. Illustrated with 32 pages of color photographs and more than 70 historical & contemporary B&W photographs, and including the Carpenter Report, an 1886 "inventory" of the Catskill Mtns., including its streams and rivers, game, forests & industry.Van Valkenburgh, Norman J. is the author of 'Catskill Park Inside The Blue Line The Forest Preserve & Mountain Communities Of America's First Wilderness', published 2004 under ISBN 9781883789428 and ISBN 1883789427.