Author: James T. BonesPublisher:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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The Forest Resources of West Virginia
Author: James T. BonesPublisher:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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A preview of West Virginia's forest resource
Author: Joseph E. BarnardPublisher:
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Category : Forest surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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West Virginia Trees
Author: Alonzo Beecher BrooksPublisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Transforming the Appalachian Countryside
Author: Ronald L. LewisPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807862975
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
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In 1880, ancient-growth forest still covered two-thirds of West Virginia, but by the 1920s lumbermen had denuded the entire region. Ronald Lewis explores the transformation in these mountain counties precipitated by deforestation. As the only state that lies entirely within the Appalachian region, West Virginia provides an ideal site for studying the broader social impact of deforestation in Appalachia, the South, and the eastern United States. Most of West Virginia was still dominated by a backcountry economy when the industrial transition began. In short order, however, railroads linked remote mountain settlements directly to national markets, hauling away forest products and returning with manufactured goods and modern ideas. Workers from the countryside and abroad swelled new mill towns, and merchants ventured into the mountains to fulfill the needs of the growing population. To protect their massive investments, capitalists increasingly extended control over the state's legal and political systems. Eventually, though, even ardent supporters of industrialization had reason to contemplate the consequences of unregulated exploitation. Once the timber was gone, the mills closed and the railroads pulled up their tracks, leaving behind an environmental disaster and a new class of marginalized rural poor to confront the worst depression in American history.
Monongahela National Forest
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Category : Monongahela National Forest (W. Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Forest Statistics for West Virginia
Author: Dawn M. DiGiovanniPublisher:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares
Author: Nancy LangstonPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295989688
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
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Across the inland West, forests that once seemed like paradise have turned into an ecological nightmare. Fires, insect epidemics, and disease now threaten millions of acres of once-bountiful forests. Yet no one can agree what went wrong. Was it too much management—or not enough—that forced the forests of the inland West to the verge of collapse? Is the solution more logging, or no logging at all? In this gripping work of scientific and historical detection, Nancy Langston unravels the disturbing history of what went wrong with the western forests, despite the best intentions of those involved. Focusing on the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon and southeastern Washington, she explores how the complex landscapes that so impressed settlers in the nineteenth century became an ecological disaster in the late twentieth. Federal foresters, intent on using their scientific training to stop exploitation and waste, suppressed light fires in the ponderosa pinelands. Hoping to save the forests, they could not foresee that their policies would instead destroy what they loved. When light fires were kept out, a series of ecological changes began. Firs grew thickly in forests once dominated by ponderosa pines, and when droughts hit, those firs succumbed to insects, diseases, and eventually catastrophic fires. Nancy Langston combines remarkable skills as both scientist and writer of history to tell this story. Her ability to understand and bring to life the complex biological processes of the forest is matched by her grasp of the human forces at work—from Indians, white settlers, missionaries, fur trappers, cattle ranchers, sheep herders, and railroad builders to timber industry and federal forestry managers. The book will be of interest to a wide audience of environmentalists, historians, ecologists, foresters, ranchers, and loggers—and all people who want to understand the changing lands of the West.
Rural Development Through Forestry
Author: Nutrient Properties of Five West Virginia Forest Soils
Author: L. R. AuchmoodyPublisher:
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Category : Forest soils
Languages : en
Pages : 868
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Forest and Rangeland Management
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. Subcommittee on Environment, Soil Conservation, and ForestryPublisher:
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Category : Forest management
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
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