Defending a Borderland

Neil S. Forkey is associate professor of Canadian Studies at St. Lawrence University, where he is also the Archie F. MacAllaster and Barbara Torrey MacAllaster Professor of North Country Studies. He is author of Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century and Shaping the Upper Canadian Frontier: Environment, Society, and Culture in the Trent Valley, and his writing has appeared in the Canadian Historical Review, the Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'Études canadiennes, the American Review of Canadian Studies, Forest and Conservation History, Ontario History, and New York History.

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroduction. The "Slick of '76," the St. Lawrence Borderland, and the Environmental Age1. "To Live Neath the Line Is a Shocking Affair": Citizens Get UPSET, 1974–19802. Confronting Nuclear Power in Brockville and Prescott, 1976–19803. "Why Would We Want to Leave? Where Would We Go?": Thousand Islands Residents, Parks Canada, and the Complexities of Expansion, 1975–19814. Winter Navigation and the Birth of Save the River, 1978–19845. "The Wind Has No Boundary": Anti-incineration Battles, 1983–19906. Keeping the North Country's Skies Friendly: The Campaign against Low-Altitude Military Flights, 1989–1992ConclusionNotesIndex

"In this groundbreaking book, Neil Forkey offers a series of stories of Canadian and American environmental activism in an approach that recognizes the St. Lawrence watershed as a transnational region. These are stories that deserve more attention." - David Stradling, author of The Nature of New York: An Environmental History of the Empire State " Defending a Borderland brings out the passions and emotions that ordinary people experienced when a familiar way of life was threatened. Forkey accentuates the diversity in these grassroots mobilization efforts and approaches, finding that when people of different classes, occupations, ages, and backgrounds find common cause, they can prevail over seemingly insurmountable odds." - Richard W. Judd, author of Democratic Spaces: Land Preservation in New England, 1850 - 2010