Author: Greg M. Peters
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604699639
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
A complete look at America’s National Forests—their triumphs, challenges, controversies, and vital programs—and the dedicated people who keep them alive.
Our National Forests
Author: Greg M. Peters
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604699639
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
A complete look at America’s National Forests—their triumphs, challenges, controversies, and vital programs—and the dedicated people who keep them alive.
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604699639
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
A complete look at America’s National Forests—their triumphs, challenges, controversies, and vital programs—and the dedicated people who keep them alive.
American Legacy
Author: Kenneth Brower
Publisher: Division
ISBN:
Category : Forest reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Information and photographs of our national forests in stunning detail.
Publisher: Division
ISBN:
Category : Forest reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Information and photographs of our national forests in stunning detail.
Forests for the People
Author: Christopher Johnson
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
American Indians and National Forests
Author: Theodore Catton
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816531994
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Winner of the Forest History Society's 2017 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award American Indians and National Forests tells the story of how the U.S. Forest Service and tribal nations dealt with sweeping changes in forest use, ownership, and management over the last century and a half. Indians and U.S. foresters came together over a shared conservation ethic on many cooperative endeavors; yet, they often clashed over how the nation’s forests ought to be valued and cared for on matters ranging from huckleberry picking and vision quests to road building and recreation development. Marginalized in American society and long denied a seat at the table of public land stewardship, American Indian tribes have at last taken their rightful place and are making themselves heard. Weighing indigenous perspectives on the environment is an emerging trend in public land management in the United States and around the world. The Forest Service has been a strong partner in that movement over the past quarter century.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816531994
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Winner of the Forest History Society's 2017 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award American Indians and National Forests tells the story of how the U.S. Forest Service and tribal nations dealt with sweeping changes in forest use, ownership, and management over the last century and a half. Indians and U.S. foresters came together over a shared conservation ethic on many cooperative endeavors; yet, they often clashed over how the nation’s forests ought to be valued and cared for on matters ranging from huckleberry picking and vision quests to road building and recreation development. Marginalized in American society and long denied a seat at the table of public land stewardship, American Indian tribes have at last taken their rightful place and are making themselves heard. Weighing indigenous perspectives on the environment is an emerging trend in public land management in the United States and around the world. The Forest Service has been a strong partner in that movement over the past quarter century.
This Land
Author: Robert H. Mohlenbrock
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520239679
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Provides a definitive overview of the national forests throughout the western region of the United States, in a volume that describes each forest's natural features, wildernesses, scenic drives, campgrounds, hiking trails, and other unique attractions in the states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. Original.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520239679
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Provides a definitive overview of the national forests throughout the western region of the United States, in a volume that describes each forest's natural features, wildernesses, scenic drives, campgrounds, hiking trails, and other unique attractions in the states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. Original.
Our National Parks
Author: John Muir
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Midnight Forests
Author: Gary Hines
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Gifford Pinchot is regarded as the father of the conservation movement. Pinchot and President Teddy Roosevelt set aside large areas and designated them public lands; these are today's National Forests.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Gifford Pinchot is regarded as the father of the conservation movement. Pinchot and President Teddy Roosevelt set aside large areas and designated them public lands; these are today's National Forests.
Our National Forests
Author: Richard Hans Douai Boerker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
A Conspiracy of Optimism
Author: Paul W. Hirt
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803272880
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
A Conspiracy of Optimism explains the controversy now raging over the U.S. Forest Service’s management of America’s national forests. Confronted with the dual mandate of production and preservation, the U.S. Forest Service decided it could achieve both goals through more intensive management. For a few decades after World War Two, this “conspiracy of optimism” masked the fact that high levels of resource extraction were destroying forest ecosystems. The effects of intensive management—massive clear-cuts, polluted streams, declining wildlife populations, and marred scenery—initiated several decades of environmental conflict that continues to the present. Hirt documents the roots of this conflict and illuminates recent changes in administration and policy that suggest a hopeful future for federal lands.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803272880
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
A Conspiracy of Optimism explains the controversy now raging over the U.S. Forest Service’s management of America’s national forests. Confronted with the dual mandate of production and preservation, the U.S. Forest Service decided it could achieve both goals through more intensive management. For a few decades after World War Two, this “conspiracy of optimism” masked the fact that high levels of resource extraction were destroying forest ecosystems. The effects of intensive management—massive clear-cuts, polluted streams, declining wildlife populations, and marred scenery—initiated several decades of environmental conflict that continues to the present. Hirt documents the roots of this conflict and illuminates recent changes in administration and policy that suggest a hopeful future for federal lands.
American Canopy
Author: Eric Rutkow
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439193584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
In the bestselling tradition of Michael Pollan's "Second Nature," this fascinating and unique historical work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and trees across the entire span of our nation's history.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439193584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
In the bestselling tradition of Michael Pollan's "Second Nature," this fascinating and unique historical work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and trees across the entire span of our nation's history.