Chapter 9: Clear-Cutting, Reforestation, and the Coming of the Interstate: Vermont’s Photographic Record of Landscape Use and Response

Author(s): Paul Bierman

Editor(s): Robert H. Webb; Diane E. Boyer; Raymond M. Turner

Year: 2010

Summary

In this chapter, we use both original and repeat images of Vermont to document how the landscape has responded to human actions that include deforestation, reforestation, and road building. We use three examples to demonstrate how repeat photography of the same site at different times can be used to document—both qualitatively and quantitatively— landscape response to human actions with the thought that, by examining past landscape responses, we can better inform future land-use decisions. The images and research reviewed in this chapter are part of the Landscape Change Program, a digital image archive (www.uvm.edu/landscape).

Cite this Record

Chapter 9: Clear-Cutting, Reforestation, and the Coming of the Interstate: Vermont’s Photographic Record of Landscape Use and Response. Paul Bierman, Robert H. Webb, Diane E. Boyer, Raymond M. Turner. In Repeat Photography: Methods and Applications in the Natural Sciences. Pp. 105-116. Washington, D.C: Island Press. 2010 ( tDAR id: 391831) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8TM7D90

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Keywords

Culture
Euroamerican • Historic

Investigation Types
Environment Research • Heritage Management

General
Deforestation • Highways • Reforestation

Geographic Keywords
Clarendon Springs, Vermont • Duxbury, Vermont • Highgate Falls • Lake Champlain • Missisquoi River • Tunbridge, Vermont • Vermont (State / Territory)

Temporal Keywords
19th and 20th Century

Spatial Coverage

min long: -73.449; min lat: 42.626 ; max long: -71.537; max lat: 45.089 ;

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