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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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U.S. Forest Facts and Historical Trends
Author: U.S. Forest Facts and Historical Trends
Author: U.S. Forest Resource Facts and Historical Trends
Author: W. Brad SmithPublisher:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
U. S. Forest Resource Facts and Historical Trends
Author: W. Brad SmithPublisher:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 37
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U.S. Forest Facts and Historical Trends, April 2001
Author: United States. Forest ServicePublisher:
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Languages : en
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Historical Forestry Statistics of the United States
Author: Encyclopedia of American Forest and Conservation History
Author: Forestry in the U.S. South
Author: Mason C. CarterPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807160555
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
During the second half of the twentieth century, the forest industry removed more than 300 billion cubic feet of timber from southern forests. Yet at the same time, partnerships between public and private entities improved the inventory, health, and productivity of this vast and resilient resource. A comprehensive and multilayered history, Forestry in the U.S. South explores the remarkable commercial and environmental gains made possible through the collaboration of industry, universities, and other agencies. This authoritative assessment starts by discussing the motives and practices of early lumber companies, which, having exhausted the forests of the Northeast by the turn of the twentieth century, aggressively began to harvest the virgin pine of the South, with production peaking by 1909. The rapidly declining supply of old-growth southern pine triggered a threat of timber famine and inspired efforts to regulate the industry. By mid-century, however, industrial forestry had its own profit incentive to replenish harvested timber. This set the stage for a unique alliance between public and private sectors, which conducted cooperative research on tree improvement, fertilization, seedling production, and other practices germane to sustainable forest management. By the close of the 1990s, concerns about an inadequate timber supply gave way to questions about how to utilize millions of acres of pine plantations approaching maturity. No longer concerned with the future supply of raw material and facing mounting global competition the U.S. pulp and paper industry consolidated, restructured, and sold nearly 20 million acres of forests to Timber Investment Management Organizations (TIMOs) and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), resulting in an entirely new dynamic for private forestry in the South. Incomparable in scope, Forestry in the U.S. South spotlights the people and organizations responsible for empowering individual forest owners across the region, tripling the production of pine stands and bolstering the livelihoods of thousands of men and women across the South.
Report of the Forest Service
Author: United States. Forest ServicePublisher:
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Category : Forest policy
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Combined reports of: Report to Congress and Report for the Secretary of Agriculture.
Americans and Their Forests
Author: Michael WilliamsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521428378
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Dr Williams begins by exploring the role of the forest in American culture: the symbols, themes, and concepts - for example, pioneer woodsman, lumberjack, wilderness - generated by contact with the vast land of trees. He considers the Indian use of the forest, describing the ways in which native tribes altered it, primarily through fire, to promote a subsistence economy.