Foreword / Paul S. Sutter
"The custom of our country": the Appalachian forest commons
Response to devastation: organizing forests in the southern Appalachians
Plenty of trouble: creating federal forests in the Blue Ridge
De jure commons: national forests and Blue Ridge neighbors
Contested forests: commons, clearcutting, and wilderness
Wilderness as commons enclosure: rare II opposition
Wilderness as commons defense: the southern Nantahala
Mobilizing commons defense: "oil fever" threatens the forests
Clearcutting returns: timber enclosure threatens the forests
Commons environmentalism mobilized: Western North Carolina Alliance's Cut the clearcutting! campaign
Conclusion: An American commons in the Blue Ridge
Afterword: A call to commons.
