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Author : Robert Edwards Carter Stearns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105046994807
Review of the decade 1872-82 during which 150 thousand Australian eucalyptus trees planted in California.
Author : Jared Farmer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393241273
From roots to canopy, a lush, verdant history of the making of California. California now has more trees than at any time since the late Pleistocene. This green landscape, however, is not the work of nature. It’s the work of history. In the years after the Gold Rush, American settlers remade the California landscape, harnessing nature to their vision of the good life. Horticulturists, boosters, and civic reformers began to "improve" the bare, brown countryside, planting millions of trees to create groves, wooded suburbs, and landscaped cities. They imported the blue-green eucalypts whose tangy fragrance was thought to cure malaria. They built the lucrative "Orange Empire" on the sweet juice and thick skin of the Washington navel, an industrial fruit. They lined their streets with graceful palms to announce that they were not in the Midwest anymore. To the north the majestic coastal redwoods inspired awe and invited exploitation. A resource in the state, the durable heartwood of these timeless giants became infrastructure, transformed by the saw teeth of American enterprise. By 1900 timber firms owned the entire redwood forest; by 1950 they had clear-cut almost all of the old-growth trees. In time California’s new landscape proved to be no paradise: the eucalypts in the Berkeley hills exploded in fire; the orange groves near Riverside froze on cold nights; Los Angeles’s palms harbored rats and dropped heavy fronds on the streets below. Disease, infestation, and development all spelled decline for these nonnative evergreens. In the north, however, a new forest of second-growth redwood took root, nurtured by protective laws and sustainable harvesting. Today there are more California redwoods than there were a century ago. Rich in character and story, Trees in Paradise is a dazzling narrative that offers an insightful, new perspective on the history of the Golden State and the American West.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LOC:00028837008
Author : Los Angeles Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119351513
Author : Los Angeles Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2865621
Author : New York (State). Forest Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : UCAL:$B6715
"Compendium of laws relative to the Adirondack wilderness from 1774-1894": 1893, v. 2.
Author : California State Agricultural Society (Sacramento, Calif.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Agricultural exhibitions
ISBN : UCD:31175033332217
Author : United States. Forest Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Coast redwood
ISBN : UOM:39015063991783
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11659001
Author : Clarke, firm, booksellers, Cincinnati
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : America
ISBN : UOM:39015024598990
Author : Robert Clarke & Co
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : America
ISBN : UOM:39015033687370
Author : Clarke, firm, booksellers, Cincinnati
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : America
ISBN : HARVARD:HXQSAZ
Author : American Forestry Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : UCAL:$B1905
Author : American Forestry Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : UOM:39015069836008
Author : Richard Preston
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780812975598
Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained–the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. Ninety-six percent of the ancient redwood forests have been destroyed by logging, but the untouched fragments that remain are among the great wonders of nature. The biggest redwoods have trunks up to thirty feet wide and can rise more than thirty-five stories above the ground, forming cathedral-like structures in the air. Until recently, redwoods were thought to be virtually impossible to ascend, and the canopy at the tops of these majestic trees was undiscovered. In The Wild Trees, Richard Preston unfolds the spellbinding story of Steve Sillett, Marie Antoine, and the tiny group of daring botanists and amateur naturalists that found a lost world above California, a world that is dangerous, hauntingly beautiful, and unexplored. The canopy voyagers are young—just college students when they start their quest—and they share a passion for these trees, persevering in spite of sometimes crushing personal obstacles and failings. They take big risks, they ignore common wisdom (such as the notion that there’s nothing left to discover in North America), and they even make love in hammocks stretched between branches three hundred feet in the air. The deep redwood canopy is a vertical Eden filled with mosses, lichens, spotted salamanders, hanging gardens of ferns, and thickets of huckleberry bushes, all growing out of massive trunk systems that have fused and formed flying buttresses, sometimes carved into blackened chambers, hollowed out by fire, called “fire caves.” Thick layers of soil sitting on limbs harbor animal and plant life that is unknown to science. Humans move through the deep canopy suspended on ropes, far out of sight of the ground, knowing that the price of a small mistake can be a plunge to one’s death. Preston’s account of this amazing world, by turns terrifying, moving, and fascinating, is an adventure story told in novelistic detail by a master of nonfiction narrative. The author shares his protagonists’ passion for tall trees, and he mastered the techniques of tall-tree climbing to tell the story in The Wild Trees—the story of the fate of the world’s most splendid forests and of the imperiled biosphere itself.
