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Category : Forest conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Conserving our forests since 1910
Author: American Forests
Author: Douglas W. MacCleeryPublisher:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Highlights in the History of Forest Conservation
Author: Who Saved the Redwoods
Author: Laura and James WassermanPublisher: Algora Publishing
ISBN: 1628943750
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Powerful lumber interests stood in the way of the first campaigns to save the redwood trees of Humboldt County, California, but they were boldly opposed and pushed back. This history of the early 1900s recalls the Progressive Era crusades of women and men who prevailed against great odds, protecting the best of California’s northern redwood forests. This book tells the forgotten, dramatic story of early 20th-century Californians and other Americans who were the first group to preserve an important span of California’s northern redwood forests, a story never told before in one place. Numerous books have been published about battles to save the redwoods, particularly during the California redwood wars of the 1960s, 1970s and 1990s. But no book exclusively details the first fights during the 1920s and 1930s and portrays the significant role of women. By successfully fending off the logging industry, they paved the way for the modern environmental movement. The book, incorporating archived material that highlights for the first time the prominent role of women, covers the most formative period of early efforts to save the redwoods, the 21 years from 1913 through 1934. The story recounts a colorful moment in time when a paradigm firmly shifted toward preservation and a new generation of native Californians successfully faced down Eastern lumber interests over destruction of their beautiful, ancient forests. The storyline follows a trajectory of initial failure and ridicule, then limited successes, and the determination that overcame the entrenched intransigence of lumber interests. Finally, a historic rush of stunning preservation victories established Humboldt Redwoods State Park as the largest expanse of surviving old-growth redwoods on earth. This book offers a definitive account of a pivotal moment in environmentalism and a new explanation of how forceful, determined people a century ago preserved the great California redwood forests that are now enjoyed by millions of visitors from every corner of earth. This book tells the forgotten, dramatic story of early 20th-century Californians and other Americans who were the first group to preserve an important span of California’s northern redwood forests, a story never told before in one place. By successfully fending off the logging industry, they paved the way for the modern environmental movement. The book, incorporating archived material that highlights for the first time the prominent role of women, covers the most formative period of early efforts to save the redwoods, the 21 years from 1913 through 1934. The story recounts a colorful moment in time when a paradigm firmly shifted toward preservation and a new generation of native Californians successfully faced down Eastern lumber interests over destruction of their beautiful, ancient forests. The storyline follows a trajectory of initial failure and ridicule, then limited successes, and the determination that overcame the entrenched intransigence of lumber interests. Finally, a historic rush of stunning preservation victories established Humboldt Redwoods State Park as the largest expanse of surviving old-growth redwoods on earth. This book offers a definitive account of a pivotal moment in environmentalism and a new explanation of how forceful, determined people a century ago preserved the great California redwood forests that are now enjoyed by millions of visitors from every corner of earth.
Select List of References on the Conservation of Natural Resources in the United States
Author: Library of Congress. Division of BibliographyPublisher:
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
A very thorough Library of Congress bibliography (complete with Library of Congress call numbers) of books and articles on various aspects of conservation as defined in strictly utilitarian, economic and scientific terms. Topically organized (e.g., "General," "Mineral," "Water," "Forests," "Land and Soil," etc.); includes some 600 entries and author and subject indices. Still extremely useful to researchers in these areas of conservation history in this era, this work also suggests how conservation was most clearly defined in the public mind at this time, and the degree to which it had come to assume unquestioned importance in American public policy.
American Forests and Forest Life
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
Miscellaneous Publication
Author: A Selected Bibliography of North American Forestry
Author: Edward Norfolk MunnsPublisher:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Forest Service Roadless Area Conservation: Letters from agencies and elected officials
Author: United States. Forest ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental impact statements
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Forest Service Roadless Area Conservation: Letters from agencies and elected officials
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Category : Environmental impact statements
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
This describes a strategy for conserving National Forest System inventoried roadless areas and their important values. It has an analysis of management options and the Forest Service's preferred alternative.