The Southern Forest : : A Chronicle / / Laurence C. Walker.
When the first European explorers reached the southern shores of North America in the early seventeenth century, they faced a solid forest that stretched all the way from the Atlantic coast to eastern Texas and Oklahoma. The ways in which they and their descendants used—and abused—the forest over th...
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Walker, Laurence C., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Southern Forest : A Chronicle / Laurence C. Walker. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021] ©1991 1 online resource (336 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Photographs and Drawings -- Maps -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1. The Explorers’ Forest -- CHAPTER 2. The Pioneers’ Forest -- CHAPTER 3. The Lumbermens Forest -- CHAPTER 4. The Boat Builders' Forest -- CHAPTER 5. The Foresters' Forest -- CHAPTER 6. The Next Generations Forest -- Afterword -- APPENDIX A. Two Hundred Men and Women of the Southern Forest -- APPENDIX B. Scientific Names of Trees and Plants Mentioned -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star When the first European explorers reached the southern shores of North America in the early seventeenth century, they faced a solid forest that stretched all the way from the Atlantic coast to eastern Texas and Oklahoma. The ways in which they and their descendants used—and abused—the forest over the next nearly four hundred years form the subject of The Southern Forest. In chapters on the explorers, pioneers, lumbermen, boatbuilders, and foresters, Laurence Walker chronicles the constant demands that people have made on forest resources in the South. He shows how the land's very abundance became its greatest liability, as people overhunted the animals, clearcut the forests, and wore out the soil with unwise farming practices—all in a mistaken belief that the forest's bounty (including new ground to be broken) was inexhaustible. With the advent of professional forestry in the twentieth century, however, the southern forest has made a comeback. A professional forester himself, Walker speaks from experience of the difficulties that foresters face in balancing competing interests in the forest. How, for example, does one reconcile the country's growing demand for paper products with the insistence of environmental groups that no trees be cut? Should national forests be strictly recreational areas, or can they support some industrial logging? How do foresters avoid using chemical pesticides when the public protests such natural management practices as prescribed burning and tree cutting? This personal view of the southern forest adds a new dimension to the study of southern history and culture. The primeval southern forest is gone, but, with careful husbandry on the part of all users, the regenerated southern forest may indeed prove to be the inexhaustible resource of which our ancestors dreamed. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022) Forest ecology Southern States. Forest products industry Southern States History. Foresters Southern States History. Forests and forestry Southern States History. Logging Southern States History. Shipbuilding Southern States History. NATURE / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000 9783110745351 https://doi.org/10.7560/776487 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292769519 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292769519/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Photographs and Drawings -- Maps -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1. The Explorers’ Forest -- CHAPTER 2. The Pioneers’ Forest -- CHAPTER 3. The Lumbermens Forest -- CHAPTER 4. The Boat Builders' Forest -- CHAPTER 5. The Foresters' Forest -- CHAPTER 6. The Next Generations Forest -- Afterword -- APPENDIX A. Two Hundred Men and Women of the Southern Forest -- APPENDIX B. Scientific Names of Trees and Plants Mentioned -- Notes -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Photographs and Drawings -- Maps -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1. The Explorers’ Forest -- CHAPTER 2. The Pioneers’ Forest -- CHAPTER 3. The Lumbermens Forest -- CHAPTER 4. The Boat Builders' Forest -- CHAPTER 5. The Foresters' Forest -- CHAPTER 6. The Next Generations Forest -- Afterword -- APPENDIX A. Two Hundred Men and Women of the Southern Forest -- APPENDIX B. Scientific Names of Trees and Plants Mentioned -- Notes -- Index |
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