Wilderness Partners: Buzz Caverly and Baxter State Park

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Buzz Caverly’s inspiring story reveals the minefield of people and issues he negotiated to save the park’s wilderness character.

Buzz Caverly first joined the ranger body of workers at Baxter State Park in 1960, when the brand new park used to be just taking shape under the direction of Helon Taylor and the park’s donor, Percival Baxter, who wished the park to be ceaselessly wild. Caverly’s legendary career within the park one of the crucial strange wilderness areas within the nation culminated when he became park director in 1981. Over time he saw tremendous changes in attitude about land conservation, public get entry to, and park management. From the Wild West days of the 1960s to the intensely managed years of the 1990s and beyond, the clash of personalities and politics is entertaining and inspiring, and reveals the minefield of people and issues Buzz needed to negotiate to save the park’s wilderness character. B&W photographs

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