Beyond Preservation Restoring and Inventing Landscapes A. Dwight Baldwin, Jr., Judith De Luce, and Carl Pletsch, editors		$22.50 paper ISBN: 0-8166-2347-3 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-2347-1 $67.50 cloth ISBN: 0-8166-2346-5 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-2346-4
Addressing current ecological issues, from the philosophical to the practical, Frederick Turner and William R. Jordan III Here offer a new paradigm for understanding the relationship between the humans and nature. Challenging the idea that preserving nature is the only solution to environmental problems, they advocate going beyond preservation to restoration and actual construction of our landscape. Fifteen respondents reflect on the implications and consequences of Turner's and Jordan's bold proposals. "Bold theses promote controversy: this book is sure to find itself at the center of a philosophical firestorm. Are restoration ecologists 'Lord Man' reincarnate? Or are they imaginative visionaries in quest of a Leopoldian rapprochement with the land? The essays herein challenge readers to sharpen their thinking and reconsider their place in a complex ecosocial terrain." —Max Oelschlaeger "The best book on the subject to date." —Michael Polan, Harper's Contributors: Gary W. Barrett, Ann Cline, David L. Gorchov, William Jordan III, G. Stanley Kane, Jack Temple Kirby, Dora G. Lodwick, Orie L. Loucks, Kimberly E. Medley, Constance Pierce, Ellen Price, Frederick Turner, John E. Wierwille, Gene E. Willeke. 256 pages | 1993