Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public LandsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wilderness areas
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Eastern Wilderness Areas
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public LandsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wilderness areas
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Eastern Wilderness Area
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public LandsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wilderness areas
Languages : en
Pages : 1662
Book Description
Eastern Wilderness Areas
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public LandsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wilderness areas
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Eastern Wilderness Areas
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public LandsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wilderness areas
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
Proposed Eastern Wilderness Areas in National Forests
Author: United States. Congress. House. Interior and Insular Affairs CommPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Proposed Eastern Wilderness Areas in National Forests
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public LandsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Forests for the People
Author: Christopher JohnsonPublisher: Island Press
ISBN: 9781610910095
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Forests for the People tells one of the most extraordinary stories of environmental protection in our nation’s history: how a diverse coalition of citizens, organizations, and business and political leaders worked to create a system of national forests in the Eastern United States. It offers an insightful and wide-ranging look at the actions leading to the passage of the Weeks Act in 1911—landmark legislation that established a system of well-managed forests in the East, the South, and the Great Lakes region—along with case studies that consider some of the key challenges facing eastern forests today. The book begins by looking at destructive practices widely used by the timber industry in the late 1800s and early 1900s, including extensive clearcutting followed by forest fire that devastated entire landscapes. The authors explain how this led to the birth of a new conservation movement that began simultaneously in the Southern Appalachians and New England, and describe the subsequent protection of forests in New England (New Hampshire and the White Mountains); the Great Lakes region (Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota), and the Southern Appalachians. Following this historical background, the authors offer eight case studies that examine critical issues facing the eastern national forests today, including timber harvesting, the use of fire, wilderness protection, endangered wildlife, oil shale drilling, invasive species, and development surrounding national park borders. Forests for the People is the only book to fully describe the history of the Weeks Act and the creation of the eastern national forests and to use case studies to illustrate current management issues facing these treasured landscapes. It is an important new work for anyone interested in the past or future of forests and forestry in the United States.
This Land
Author: Robert H. MohlenbrockPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520239679
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to the facilities and natural features in the 71 national forests of Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington.
East Branch & Lincoln Railroad
Author: Erin Paul DonovanPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467128627
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Built by James Everell Henry, the East Branch & Lincoln Railroad (EB&L) is considered to be the grandest and largest logging railroad operation ever built in New England. In 1892, the mountain town of Lincoln, New Hampshire, was transformed from a struggling wilderness enclave to a thriving mill town when Henry moved his logging operation from Zealand. He built houses, a company store, sawmills, and a railroad into the East Branch of the Pemigewasset River watershed to harvest virgin spruce. Despite the departure of the last EB&L log train from Lincoln Woods by 1948, the industry's cut-and-run practices forever changed the future of land conservation in the region, prompting legislation like the Weeks Act of 1911 and the Wilderness Act of 1964. Today, nearly every trail in the Pemigewasset Wilderness follows or utilizes portions of the old EB&L Railroad bed.
A Sand County Almanac
Author: Aldo LeopoldPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0197500269
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "full of beauty and vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with a call for changing our understanding of land management.