Author: Lucius Lee HubbardPublisher:
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Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Hubbard's Guide to Moosehead Lake and Northern Maine : Being the Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged, of "Summer Vacations at Moosehead Lake and Vicinity," Describing Routes for the Canoe-man Over the Principal Waters of Northern Maine, with Hints to Campers and Estimates of Expense for Tours ...
Author: Lucius Lee HubbardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A Bibliography of the State of Maine from the Earliest Period to 1891
Author: Joseph WilliamsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
A History of Lumbering in Maine, 1861-1960
Author: David Clayton SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
"When one thinks of Maine, one usually thinks of trees, forests, lumber, saw, pulp and paper mills. In many ways to forest and its uses are central factors in Maine history. Professor David C. Smith has written in other places about that history, but this book puts much of that knowledge together in a detailed unfolding of logging from 1860 to 1960 and its influence on the state and its economy. The book ranges from a description of life in the woods for the logger, through driving the rivers with the product of forest, to the saw mill and its manufacture and finally the shipping and sale of the end product in its foreign and domestic destinations. Attention is paid to the economy and social structure of the state and the effects of the national economy on the logger. The shift in the Maine woods to pulpwood logging and the growth of the paper mill is discussed along with the long and bitter fights for control of the rivers between downriver loggers and upriver papermakers. The long fight for the establishment of a state forestry and conservation policy is outlined, along with the career of Austin Cary, a pioneer forester. Life in the Maine woods in the twentieth century is portrayed, and such factors as the depression, the CCC, and the Second World War are also discussed. A handsome portfolio of photographs illustrating the lumbering process from the woods to the users of the products demonstrates the ubiquity of the logging business. Maine has had its forests from the beginning, their utilization is the lifeblood of the state's history. This book discusses that lifeblood and illuminates the history of the Pine Tree State. Among David Smith's published works are... "- Publisher.
University of Maine Studies
Author: Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1876-1949
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of BibliographyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
The Larch Sawfly
Author: The Maine Central
Author: Ten Million Acres of Timber
Author: Austin Horatio WilkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Silica Stories
Author: Christina De La RochaPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319540548
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Do you know silica, the tetrahedra of silicon and oxygen constituting the crystals of New Agers and the desiccant in a box of new shoes? It's no mere mundane mineral. As chemically reacting silicate rocks, silica set off the chain of events known as the origin of life. As biomineralized opal, it is the cell wall, skeleton, spicules, and scales of organisms ornamenting numerous lobes of the tree of life. Cryptocrystalline silica made into stone tools helped drive the evolution of our hands and our capability for complex grammar, music, and mathematics. As quartz crystals, silica is impressively electric and ubiquitous in modern technology (think sonar, radios, telephones, ultrasound, and cheap but precise watches). Silica is inescapable when we take a drink or mow the lawn and it has already started to save the Earth from the carbon dioxide we're spewing into the atmosphere. This book tells these scientific tales and more, to give dear, modest silica its due.