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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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In American Fields and Forests
In American Fields and Forests (Classic Reprint)
Author: Henry David ThoreauPublisher:
ISBN: 9781332719761
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Excerpt from In American Fields and Forests But the book is also something more than a collection of essays. It represents both the literary outcome and the literary inspiration of an important movement in American life, that which has come to be known as the Nature Movement. As to the origin and significance of this movement it would be hard to find a more perti nent statement than that contained in an essay in Mr. Dallas Lore Sharp's The Lay of the Land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Forests and Forestry in the American States
Author: Ralph R. WidnerPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484252201
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Excerpt from Forests and Forestry in the American States: A Reference Anthology Forestry as a matter of public policy is scarcely over 80 years old in America. As a profession, it is barely over 65. As a definitive science it is about 50. Forestry came to the United States in several distinct stages. Born as an idea in the minds of a few men and women, it sprang into adolescence as a political movement in the last decades of the nineteenth century. It matured as it grew into a profession Shortly after the beginning of the twentieth. It is now, as a science, just entering its prime, its finest years still ahead. American forestry grew up pragmatically in the same way that its parent, the American political system, flourished. An idea was tried. If it worked, it was retained. If it did not, it was cast aside. This trial and error approach to national policy is uniquely possible in the United States because of the country's political structure. Because the states of the Union have retained large areas of sovereignty to themselves, the American nation is much like a network of great laboratories with a wide range of social, economic, and political experiments going on all the time. In no field has this trying and testing been more appropriate than in the field of forestry. Woodland conditions vary so radically from one part of the continent to an other that a national plan for forestry, even if it had been politically possible, would probably have been impossible technically during the infant years of the science. Instead the diversity of political and physical conditions in the states led to a healthier, more flexible, and more appropriate set of American forest policies than any centralized approach could have produced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Field and Forest, Or the Fortunes of a Farmer (Classic Reprint)
Author: Oliver OpticPublisher:
ISBN: 9781332921430
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Excerpt from Field and Forest, or the Fortunes of a Farmer The scene of the story is laid upon the waters of the upper Missouri; and while the writer hopes the reader will find the story sufficiently stirring and exciting to engage his attention, he also trusts that Phil's Christian principles, his reverence for the Bible, and his devotion to duty and principle, will receive the earnest consideration of his young friends. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Field and Forest
Author: Oliver OpticPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781507701201
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
"[...]a huge blister on his leg, made by the fire into which he had rolled in his drunken frenzy. Then he pointed to me, and as he did so, his bloodshot eyes lighted up with rage and malice. I understood him to charge me with the infliction of the injury upon his leg. Since both of the thieves were so very drunk when we were at their camp, I did not at first see how they had been made aware of my presence. They did not seem to see me, and I concluded that they had identified me in the morning by the smallness of my track in the soft soil. They could not have known what transpired in their fury, but probably reasoned that, as I had been there, and taken the horses, I had burned their legs also. The Indians' Horses returned to their Owners.[...]".
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural
Author: Francis Peyre PorcherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Seeing America, Vol. 1
Author: Walter B. PitkinPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267474332
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Excerpt from Seeing America, Vol. 1: Farm and Field To present such a volume has been our task. We have tried to weave into a story of elemental human interest the maximum information about the production of raw materials, about the difficulties and dangers men endure in order to furnish their fellows with the necessities of life, about the wonders of modern machinery, about man's natural enemies in farm; forest, and field, and about the need of conserving our natural resources. The nice problem of balancing story interest against solid information seems to have been solved pretty well; but, of course, the final verdict rests with teachers and pupils. Grateful acknowledgment is made to chambers of commerce, to editors of farm magazines, and to agricultural colleges too numer ous to mention by name here. These institutions have supplied us with a precious fund of special information more minute than is to be found in the usual reference books. Only a little of it all appears on the, surface of the narrative. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Forest and the Field (Classic Reprint)
Author: H. A. L.Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780428780210
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Excerpt from The Forest and the Field Some of my ancestors must have belonged to a migratory tribe, for the nomadic propensity was innate in me; and bred up a soldier and a hunter, since my boyhood I have been a wanderer over the face of the earth, leading - what some of my friends term - a vagabond life, which I do not feel inclined to change, even now that the future looks small in comparison with the past. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Echoes of the Forest
Author: William Edgar BrownPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265220825
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Excerpt from Echoes of the Forest: American Indian Legends As one who is eager to welcome every addition to true literature that comes from his native State, I bespeak a cordial welcome for this book. Its range of themes is Wide and interesting, its treatment of them warm and sympathetic, and its prosodical methods accurate and instructive to those who would win recognition in the broad tournament of the wide field of poetry. Its motives, too, as expressed in verse, are always for the true and right, and the Whole work has characteristics of the flowers of imagination sown in the gardens of sane common sense. So, I expect the people not only of Michigan, bu' of many other States, to read the following lines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Massabesic Experimental Forest
Author: Thomas W. McConkeyPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780260851420
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Excerpt from The Massabesic Experimental Forest: A Field Laboratory of the Northeastern Forest Experiment Station of the U. S. Forest Service Much of the timber killed in the 1947 fire - near1y 4% million board feet-was salvaged the following year. The larger trees went into sawlogs, and the smaller ones went into such products as wallboard. In many places within the burn, where the fire had not crowned, a good many trees survived. However, most of this surviving timber on the burn-about 1 million board-feet-was blown down by storms in 1950 and 1954. This, too, was salvaged. So, between fire and wind, the destruction of the pre-1947 stands on some acres of the Massabesic was, by 1954, practically complete. Thus, almost at its outset, the Forest, created to study the management of white pine stands, had to have its goals reset to undertake, as well, the te-establishment of pine on burned-over areas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.