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- catalog abstract ""The War against the Beavers is a wry and funny account of two people's ten-year apprenticeship in backwoods living, from their arrival as literal babes in the woods to their education in the ways of nature as they face plagues of insects, fungus, storms and droughts, and embark on a lengthy campaign to eradicate a colony of beavers that threatens the peace and beauty of their forest refuge." "Juxtaposing idyllic descriptions - hiking and cross-country skiing, swimming and canoeing in clear waters, harvesting berries and wild rice - with the intensive labor of maintaining a wilderness homestead, Conley draws a beguiling picture of the ups and downs of backwoods living. Having come to the North Woods to escape the rigors of modern life, the couple finds instead that their beliefs about animals, humans, and nature are tested. They emerge from the experience with a hard-won wisdom and a new and deeper understanding of the ever-changing character of wilderness."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12853956.
- catalog coverage "Boundary Waters Canoe Area (Minn.) Biography.".
- catalog coverage "Boundary Waters Canoe Area (Minn.) Description and travel.".
- catalog coverage "Vermilion River Region (Minn.) Biography.".
- catalog coverage "Vermilion River Region (Minn.) Description and travel.".
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""Juxtaposing idyllic descriptions - hiking and cross-country skiing, swimming and canoeing in clear waters, harvesting berries and wild rice - with the intensive labor of maintaining a wilderness homestead, Conley draws a beguiling picture of the ups and downs of backwoods living. Having come to the North Woods to escape the rigors of modern life, the couple finds instead that their beliefs about animals, humans, and nature are tested. They emerge from the experience with a hard-won wisdom and a new and deeper understanding of the ever-changing character of wilderness."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""The War against the Beavers is a wry and funny account of two people's ten-year apprenticeship in backwoods living, from their arrival as literal babes in the woods to their education in the ways of nature as they face plagues of insects, fungus, storms and droughts, and embark on a lengthy campaign to eradicate a colony of beavers that threatens the peace and beauty of their forest refuge."".
- catalog description "Acknowledgments -- Prologue : a cabin in the wilderness -- pt. 1. Babes in the woods -- Heading for the wilderness -- Home alone at the cabin -- Summer pleasures -- Forest paths -- The art of ricing -- Winter pleasures -- Of mice and men -- Round-robin with the weasels -- Icy roads -- Cabin opener -- Tree-planting ceremony -- Bruno the bear -- Blueberry Hill -- Raspberry picking -- Devastation -- pt. 2. The war against the beavers -- The war begins -- Jim Rondeau -- Strange bedfellows -- Tree nailing -- Nature attacks -- The first trapper -- A new beaver dam -- The logging letter -- A tour with the "forest coordinator" -- Amos, the eco-trapper -- Edna, the woodswoman -- More beaver stories -- The first victim -- A silent spring -- A new plague -- Urbanization -- The beavers return -- Joe Ahearn -- Big timber -- Wolves -- More chaos -- "Nature's ways" -- Back to Blueberry Hill -- Epilogue.".
- catalog extent "xx, 167 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0816642176 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,".
- catalog spatial "Boundary Waters Canoe Area (Minn.) Biography.".
- catalog spatial "Boundary Waters Canoe Area (Minn.) Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Area.".
- catalog spatial "Vermilion River Region (Minn.) Biography.".
- catalog spatial "Vermilion River Region (Minn.) Description and travel.".
- catalog subject "917.76/7 21".
- catalog subject "Beavers Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Area.".
- catalog subject "Conley, Verena Andermatt, 1943-".
- catalog subject "Country life Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Area.".
- catalog subject "F612.B73 C656 2003".
- catalog subject "Log cabins Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Area.".
- catalog subject "Natural history Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Area.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Acknowledgments -- Prologue : a cabin in the wilderness -- pt. 1. Babes in the woods -- Heading for the wilderness -- Home alone at the cabin -- Summer pleasures -- Forest paths -- The art of ricing -- Winter pleasures -- Of mice and men -- Round-robin with the weasels -- Icy roads -- Cabin opener -- Tree-planting ceremony -- Bruno the bear -- Blueberry Hill -- Raspberry picking -- Devastation -- pt. 2. The war against the beavers -- The war begins -- Jim Rondeau -- Strange bedfellows -- Tree nailing -- Nature attacks -- The first trapper -- A new beaver dam -- The logging letter -- A tour with the "forest coordinator" -- Amos, the eco-trapper -- Edna, the woodswoman -- More beaver stories -- The first victim -- A silent spring -- A new plague -- Urbanization -- The beavers return -- Joe Ahearn -- Big timber -- Wolves -- More chaos -- "Nature's ways" -- Back to Blueberry Hill -- Epilogue.".
- catalog title "The war against the beavers / Verena Andermatt Conley.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".