Forestry in the U.S. South : a history / Mason C. Carter, Robert C. Kellison, R. Scott Wallinger ; foreword by Steven Anderson.

Author
Carter, Mason C., 1933- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2015]
  • ©2015
Description
xx, 386 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

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    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. 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. 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. -- from back cover.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Origins of forestry in the South
    • Expansion of forestry: public and private
    • Early developments in forestry education, research, and technology transfer in the South
    • Depression, recovery, and controversy, 1930-1945
    • Postwar expansion: industry, education, incentives
    • The planted forest: intensive management begins
    • The grand alliance: research cooperatives
    • Corporate forestry
    • Extending forestry to nonindustrial forests
    • Southern forestry enters the environmental era
    • The southern forest at the close of the twentieth century
    • A new century brings massive changes to southern forestry
    • The road traveled and the road ahead.
    ISBN
    • 9780807160541 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 0807160547 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780807160558 ((pdf))
    • 0807160555 ((pdf))
    • 9780807160565 ((epub))
    • 0807160563 ((epub))
    • 9780807160572 ((mobi))
    • 0807160571 ((mobi))
    LCCN
    2015006261
    OCLC
    904227241
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