Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Domestic Commerce Series
Author: Proceedings of the Annual Western Forestry Conference
Author: Western Forestry and Conservation AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest fires
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Summaries of the Proceedings of the Western Forestry Conference
Author: Western Forestry and Conservation Association (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest fires
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Wood Conservation Bibliography
Author: John Hugo KraemerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wood
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Author-title Catalog
Author: University of California, Berkeley. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
Clearcutting the Pacific Rain Forest
Author: Richard A. RajalaPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 9780774805919
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This book integrates class, environmental, and political analysis touncover the history of clearcutting in the Douglas fir forests of B.C.,Washington, and Oregon between 1880 and 1965. Part I focuses on the mode of production, analyzing thetechnological and managerial structures of worker and resourceexploitation from the perspective of current trends in labour processresearch. Rajala argues that operators sought to neutralize thevariable forest environment by emulating the factory model of workorganization. The introduction of steam-powered overhead loggingmethods provided industry with a rudimentary factory regime by 1930,accompanied by productivity gains and diminished workplace autonomy forloggers. After a Depression-inspired turn to selective logging withcaterpillar tractors timber capital continued its refinement ofclearcutting technologies in the post-war period, achieving completemechanization of yarding with the automatic grapple. Driviing thisprocess of innovation was a concept of industrial efficiency thatresponded to changing environmental conditions, product and labourmarkets, but sought to advance operators' class interests byroutinizing production. The managerial component of the factory regimetook shape in accordance with the principles of the early 20th centuryscientific management movement. Requiring expertise in the organizationof an expanded, technologically sophisticated exploitation process,operators presided over the establishment of logging engineeringprograms in the region's universities. Graduates introducedrational planning procedures to coastal logging, contributing to a rateof deforestation that generated a corporate call for technical forestryexpertise after 1930. Industrial foresters then emerged from theuniversities to provide firms with data needed for long-rangeinvestment decisions in land acquisition and management. Part II constitutes an environmental and political history ofclearcutting. This reconstructs the process of scientific researchconcenring the factory regime's impact on the ecology of theDouglas fir forest, assessing how knowledge was utitized in theregulation of cutting practices. Analysis of business-governmentrelations in British Columbia, Washington and Oregon suggests that thereliance of those client states on revenues generated by timber capitalenouraged a pattern of regulation that served corporate rather thansocial and ecological ends.
The United States Forest Service
Author: A Century of Forest Resources Education at Penn State: Serving Our Forests, Waters, Wildlife, and Wood Industries
Author: Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271047283
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Fire Management in the American West
Author: Mark HudsonPublisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1607320894
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Most journalists and academics attribute the rise of wildfires in the western United States to the USDA Forest Service's successful fire-elimination policies of the twentieth century. However, in Fire Management in the American West, Mark Hudson argues that although a century of suppression did indeed increase the hazard of wildfire, the responsibility does not lie with the USFS alone. The roots are found in the Forest Service's relationships with other, more powerful elements of society--the timber industry in particular. Drawing on correspondence both between and within the Forest Service and the major timber industry associations, newspaper articles, articles from industry outlets, and policy documents from the late 1800s through the present, Hudson shows how the US forest industry, under the constraint of profitability, pushed the USFS away from private industry regulation and toward fire exclusion, eventually changing national forest policy into little more than fire policy. More recently, the USFS has attempted to move beyond the policy of complete fire suppression. Interviews with public land managers in the Pacific Northwest shed light on the sources of the agency's struggles as it attempts to change the way we understand and relate to fire in the West. Fire Management in the American West will be of great interest to environmentalists, sociologists, fire managers, scientists, and academics and students in environmental history and forestry.
Restoring Western Ranges and Wildlands
Author: Stephen B. MonsenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Range management
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description