| Book Review | Environmental History, 10.2

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Cumberland Island National Seashore: A History of Conservation Conflict. By Lary M. Dilsaver. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004. x + 323 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $35.00
Cumberland Island National Seashore is located three miles off the coast of Southern Georgia and is part of the barrier island system that reaches from Florida to Virginia. Together the natural and cultural resources have attracted a diverse range of people to the island and have made its preservation both imperative and controversial. Lary M. Dilsaver has captured the complex history of this place in his book Cumberland Island National Seashore: A History of Conservation Conflict.	1
The book begins with the natural history of the island and then summarizes 130 centuries of Native American use. From the eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries, the island supported a mixed economy of lumbering, cotton, oranges, and olives. Following the Civil War, the island became a summer retreat, and it became part of the National Park Service during the early 1970s.	. . .

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