Dan O'Neill (2)
Auteur van The Firecracker Boys
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The book itself is very well researched and tackles a paradoxical problem of human relationship's with wilderness. We create preserves to prevent the destruction of a landscape, but the point of the preserve is it's development by humans in the past and human subsistence methods such as fishing, logging, hunting. It may seem like a clear cut argument to not allow any development at all in a national preserve but O' Neill makes a very clear case against the National Park's policies.
I found many similarities to the issues associated to the Chilkoot Pass Trail and their attempts to preserve history and block any changes to the landscape. For instance, take the case of trash as an artifact. There is a cut off date for when trash becomes historically significant. Anything after certain year need to be removed and leaving trash in the park is obviously forbidden. However, any "trash", like an old coffee can, or bent nails is an "artifact" which you are not supposed to remove from the park, or in some instance even touch.
In addition to general history, O'Neill uses interviews, legal records, policy documents, artifacts and oral history to illustrate his journey down the river. I found it very interesting and I highly recommend anyone journeying into the Yukon Charley Preserve to give it a read.… (meer)