 Only when very wealthy families like the Roosevelts, the Vanderbilts, the Rockefellers began to discover the beauty of the Adirondacks and began to make summer homes in the Adirondacks did the government of New York State suddenly become interested in environmental conservation, which of course was a morally complex issue because it put pressure on the many working class people who had made their living off the land. And so the book aims to tell a really good story, but underneath it