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Tom Wessels

Tom Wessels is professor emeritus at Antioch University New England where he founded the master’s degree program in conservation biology. He is the author of Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England; Forest Forensics: A Field Guide to Reading the Forested Landscape; Granite, Fire, and Fog: The Natural and Cultural History of Acadia; and New England’s Roadside Ecology: Explore 30 of the Region’s Unique Natural Areas.

Acadia National Park, on Maine’s Mount Desert Island, is among the most popular national parks in the United States. From the road, visitors can experience...
In this compelling and cogently argued book, Tom Wessels demonstrates how our current path toward progress, based on continual economic expansion and inefficient...