This book contains a series of essays about the great experiment in conservation known as the Adirondack Park. The park, created in 1892, is a whopping six million acres - three times the size of Yellowstone National Park. Two years after the creation of the Adirondack Park, state-owned lands within the Park were declared "forever wild," being placed under constitutional protection. The park also contains more than one million acres of motor- less wilderness. Then in 1970 the State of New York created the Adirondack Park Agency (APA), granting it "broad powers to control private land use within the park and unleashing decades of controversy". The uproar this generated is still being dealt with today. The essays contained within this book contain a well-balanced approach to the myriad topics associated with such a unique project. The editors, including Gund Fellow and Managing Director Jon Erickson, made sure to have essays that covered "juxtapositions that highlight both conflict and efforts at reconciliation."