Author: James T. Bones
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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The Forest Resources of West Virginia
Author: James T. Bones
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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A preview of West Virginia's forest resource
Author: Joseph E. Barnard
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Category : Forest surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Category : Forest surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Monongahela National Forest
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Category : Monongahela National Forest (W. Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Category : Monongahela National Forest (W. Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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West Virginia Trees
Author: Alonzo Beecher Brooks
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Transforming the Appalachian Countryside
Author: Ronald L. Lewis
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807862975
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
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In 1880, ancient-growth forest still covered two-thirds of West Virginia, but by the 1920s lumbermen had denuded the entire region. Ronald Lewis explores the transformation in these mountain counties precipitated by deforestation. As the only state that lies entirely within the Appalachian region, West Virginia provides an ideal site for studying the broader social impact of deforestation in Appalachia, the South, and the eastern United States. Most of West Virginia was still dominated by a backcountry economy when the industrial transition began. In short order, however, railroads linked remote mountain settlements directly to national markets, hauling away forest products and returning with manufactured goods and modern ideas. Workers from the countryside and abroad swelled new mill towns, and merchants ventured into the mountains to fulfill the needs of the growing population. To protect their massive investments, capitalists increasingly extended control over the state's legal and political systems. Eventually, though, even ardent supporters of industrialization had reason to contemplate the consequences of unregulated exploitation. Once the timber was gone, the mills closed and the railroads pulled up their tracks, leaving behind an environmental disaster and a new class of marginalized rural poor to confront the worst depression in American history.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807862975
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
In 1880, ancient-growth forest still covered two-thirds of West Virginia, but by the 1920s lumbermen had denuded the entire region. Ronald Lewis explores the transformation in these mountain counties precipitated by deforestation. As the only state that lies entirely within the Appalachian region, West Virginia provides an ideal site for studying the broader social impact of deforestation in Appalachia, the South, and the eastern United States. Most of West Virginia was still dominated by a backcountry economy when the industrial transition began. In short order, however, railroads linked remote mountain settlements directly to national markets, hauling away forest products and returning with manufactured goods and modern ideas. Workers from the countryside and abroad swelled new mill towns, and merchants ventured into the mountains to fulfill the needs of the growing population. To protect their massive investments, capitalists increasingly extended control over the state's legal and political systems. Eventually, though, even ardent supporters of industrialization had reason to contemplate the consequences of unregulated exploitation. Once the timber was gone, the mills closed and the railroads pulled up their tracks, leaving behind an environmental disaster and a new class of marginalized rural poor to confront the worst depression in American history.
Forest Statistics for West Virginia
Author: Dawn M. DiGiovanni
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Land Use and Forest Resources in a Changing Environment
Author: Gordon A. Bradley
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780295961040
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780295961040
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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The Forest Resources of the Hiawatha National Forest, 1993
Author: Thomas Schmidt
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Category : Forest surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Category : Forest surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Rural Development Through Forestry
U.S. Forest Service Research Note NE.
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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Publisher:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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