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Untamed Vermont: Extraordinary Wilderness Areas of the Green Mountain State

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Vermont is most often regarded as quintessentially old New England: small villages with white clapboard houses and tall church spires; family farms with red barns and grazing cows; and verdant fields lined with maple and white birch trees.

But there’s another Vermont – virtually unknown to many – that may be composed of untamed wilderness with an atypical variety of landscape, soils, trees, and wildflowers, in a wide range perhaps unmatched in any other small region. These wild areas are a number of the state’s most beautiful and photogenic. Some are secure permanently, but many don’t seem to be. Some are difficult to succeed in, even on foot; others are just a short stroll from a town or roadside.

A. Blake Gardner has been trekking to wild areas during Vermont for more than a decade, and he photographs them, carefully and lovingly, with his large-format camera. To supplement Gardner’s exquisite portraits, Tom Wessels writes about how these wild areas came to be. He looks at the state’s geology, its natural history, and its culture. And he scrutinizes the threats to that diversity and discusses its preservation and stewardship.

Untamed Vermont serves as a pictorial reminder of the natural and fragile beauty of the wild areas within the Green Mountains, and how vital to our well-being the preservation of that wildness is.

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