Author: Donald I. DickmannPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047203653X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A perfect companion to Michigan Trees
The Forests of Michigan, Revised Ed.
Author: Donald I. DickmannPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047203653X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A perfect companion to Michigan Trees
Imagining the Forest
Author: John R. KnottPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472051644
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Forests have always been more than just their trees. The forests in Michigan (and similar forests in other Great Lakes states such as Wisconsin and Minnesota) played a role in the American cultural imagination from the beginnings of European settlement in the early nineteenth century to the present. Our relationships with those forests have been shaped by the cultural attitudes of the times, and people have invested in them both moral and spiritual meanings. Author John Knott draws upon such works as Simon Schama's Landscape and Memory and Robert Pogue Harrison's Forests: The Shadow of Civilization in exploring ways in which our relationships with forests have been shaped, using Michigan---its history of settlement, popular literature, and forest management controversies---as an exemplary case. Knott looks at such well-known figures as William Bradford, James Fenimore Cooper, John Muir, John Burroughs, and Teddy Roosevelt; Ojibwa conceptions of the forest and natural world (including how Longfellow mythologized them); early explorer accounts; and contemporary literature set in the Upper Peninsula, including Jim Harrison's True North and Philip Caputo's Indian Country. Two competing metaphors evolved over time, Knott shows: the forest as howling wilderness, impeding the progress of civilization and in need of subjugation, and the forest as temple or cathedral, worthy of reverence and protection. Imagining the Forest shows the origin and development of both.
Michigan Trees, Revised and Updated
Author: Burton V. BarnesPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472089215
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The number-one book for tree identification in Michigan and the Great Lakes
Deep Woods Frontier
Author: Theodore J. KaramanskiPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814320495
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Narrating the history of Michigan's forest industry, Karamanski provides a dynamic study of an important part of the Upper Peninsula's economy.
Michigan's Forests 1993
Author: Thomas L. SchmidtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Trees of Michigan and the Upper Great Lakes
Author: Norman Foster SmithPublisher: Thunder Bay Press Michigan
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Of Michigan's great wealth of natural resources, few have been more important in the past or are more highly valued today than our forests and the trees which compose them. Not only are they a continuous source of raw materials for industry and agriculture but they affect the climate, water resources, and soil, purify our air, furnish food and shelter for wildlife and are indispensable to our vast recreational and scenic areas. They form a basic part of our diverse natural environment - our ""biodiversity."" Their protection and management are vital to the state's wellbeing. Industries which depend upon trees for their existence are major employers and rank high in the state's economy. The annual production and manufacture of forest products is measured in billions of dollars. The recreation ""industry,"" including vacation travel, resorts, food, lodging, hunting, fishing, and camping, is likewise a multi-billion dollar a year business. Equally important is the intangible wealth which trees bring to us through sheer enjoyment of beauty and love of nature. Whether in field, fencerow, woodlot or forest, or along highways, rural roads, urban streets, or greenbelts, this bounty is ours for the taking. We have only to picture ourselves without trees to appreciate this value.
Michigan's Forest Resources
Author: Virgil E. FindellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest industry
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Landscaping with Native Plants of Michigan
Author: Lynn M. SteinerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781610604345
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Landscaping with Native Plants of Michigan is designed for beginning and experienced gardeners who want to learn more about Michigan’s unique native-plant communities and how to successfully incorporate them into their home landscapes. It combines the practicality of a field guide with all the basic information homeowners need to create an effective landscape design. The plant profiles section includes comprehensive descriptions of more than 600 native plant species, subspecies, and varieties of flowers, trees, shrubs, vines, evergreens, grasses, and ferns that have grown in Michigan since the time before European settlement. Information on planting, maintenance, and landscape uses for each plant is also included. Readers will also gain many creative ideas from the section featuring Michigan gardeners who have successfully incorporated native plants into their home landscapes.
Michigan's Forest Statistics, 1987
Author: W. Brad SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Report of the Michigan Forestry Commission
Author: Michigan. Forestry CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest policy
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description