Contents -- Preface -- Prologue: One Man's Journal -- Three Landscapes in New England History -- The Cultural Landscape of New England -- Views of the Nineteenth-Century Countryside -- Daily Life -- The Farmer as Hero -- Meadows and Mowers -- Stone Walls and Other Fences -- A Natural History of Woodlands -- Woodlands and Sproutlands -- Forest Land Use and Woodland Practices -- Firewood and Other Fuels -- Wildfire: A Human and Natural Force -- The Coming of the New Forest -- Social Change and Farm Abandonment in New England -- The Succession of Forest Trees -- Losses and Change -- Animals: From Bobolinks to Bears -- The Passenger Pigeon -- The American Chestnut -- Stepping Back and Looking Ahead -- Reading Forest and Landscape History -- Landscape Change -- Insights into the Ecology and Conservation of the Land -- Bibliographic Essay -- Bibliography -- Index.