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Author : Dennis Morrow Roth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Forest policy
ISBN : LCCN:88601714
Author : Dennis Morrow Roth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Nature
ISBN : MINN:31951D009024498
Author : Dennis Morrow Roth,United States. Forest Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Forest reserves
ISBN : PURD:32754062311224
Author : Christopher Johnson,David Govatski
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1610910095
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.
Author : Dennis Morrow Roth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:85601007
Author : Dennis Morrow Roth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0371904471
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
Author : Dennis Morrow Roth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Forest policy
ISBN : MINN:31951D01030935A
Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199883967
This collected volume of original essays proposes to address the state of scholarship on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of Americans responses to wilderness from first contact to the present. While not bringing a synthetic narrative to wilderness, the volume will gather competing interpretations of wilderness in historical context.
Author : Robert Marshall
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1609380223
Devoted conservationist, environmentalist, and explorer Robert Marshall (1901-1939) was chief of the Division of Recreation and Lands, U.S. Forest Service, when he died at age thirty-eight. Throughout his short but intense life, Marshall helped catalyze the preservation of millions of wilderness acres in all parts of the U.S., inspired countless wilderness advocates, and was a pioneer in the modern environmental movement: he and seven fellow conservationists founded the Wilderness Society in 1935. First published in 1933, "The People's Forests" made a passionate case for the public ownership and management of the nation's forests in the face of generations of devastating practices; its republication now is especially timely. Marshall describes the major values of forests as sources of raw materials, as essential resources for the conservation of soil and water, and as a OC precious environment for recreationOCO and for OC the happiness of millions of human beings.OCO He considers the pros and cons of private and public ownership, deciding that public ownership and large-scale public acquisition are vital in order to save the nation's forests, and sets out ways to intelligently plan for and manage public ownership. The last words of this book capture Marshall's philosophy perfectly: OC The time has come when we must discard the unsocial view that our woods are the lumbermen's and substitute the broader ideal that every acre of woodland in the country is rightly a part of the people's forests.OCO"
Author : Paul S. Sutter
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780295989907
In its infancy, the movement to protect wilderness areas in the United States was motivated less by perceived threats from industrial and agricultural activities than by concern over the impacts of automobile owners seeking recreational opportunities in wild areas. Countless commercial and government purveyors vigorously promoted the mystique of travel to breathtakingly scenic places, and roads and highways were built to facilitate such travel. By the early 1930s, New Deal public works programs brought these trends to a startling crescendo. The dilemma faced by stewards of the nation's public lands was how to protect the wild qualities of those places while accommodating, and often encouraging, automobile-based tourism. By 1935, the founders of the Wilderness Society had become convinced of the impossibility of doing both. In Driven Wild, Paul Sutter traces the intellectual and cultural roots of the modern wilderness movement from about 1910 through the 1930s, with tightly drawn portraits of four Wilderness Society founders--Aldo Leopold, Robert Sterling Yard, Benton MacKaye, and Bob Marshall. Each man brought a different background and perspective to the advocacy for wilderness preservation, yet each was spurred by a fear of what growing numbers of automobiles, aggressive road building, and the meteoric increase in Americans turning to nature for their leisure would do to the country�s wild places. As Sutter discovered, the founders of the Wilderness Society were "driven wild"--pushed by a rapidly changing country to construct a new preservationist ideal. Sutter demonstrates that the birth of the movement to protect wilderness areas reflected a growing belief among an important group of conservationists that the modern forces of capitalism, industrialism, urbanism, and mass consumer culture were gradually eroding not just the ecology of North America, but crucial American values as well. For them, wilderness stood for something deeply sacred that was in danger of being lost, so that the movement to protect it was about saving not just wild nature, but ourselves as well.
Author : Samuel A. Macdonald
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0742541584
What is a forest? What are forests for? Who should control them? These are familiar questions, but the Allegheny casts them in a new light. The national environmental movement has become less willing to compromise since its victories in the Pacific Northwest, and the Allegheny is its newest proving ground. This book explains what activists are after, how the struggle differs from more familiar environmental battles and what it means for the future of the American landscape.
Author : Kevin R. Marsh
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295989860
Drawing boundaries around wilderness areas often serves a double purpose: protection of the land within the boundary and release of the land outside the boundary to resource extraction and other development. In Drawing Lines in the Forest, Kevin R. Marsh discusses the roles played by various groups—the Forest Service, the timber industry, recreationists, and environmentalists—in arriving at these boundaries. He shows that pragmatic, rather than ideological, goals were often paramount, with all sides benefiting. After World War II, representatives of both logging and recreation use sought to draw boundaries that would serve to guarantee access to specific areas of public lands. The logging industry wanted to secure a guaranteed supply of timber, as an era of stewardship of the nation's public forests gave way to an emphasis on rapid extraction of timber resources. This spawned a grassroots preservationist movement that ultimately challenged the managerial power of the Forest Service. The Wilderness Act of 1964 provided an opportunity for groups on all sides to participate openly and effectively in the political process of defining wilderness boundaries. The often contentious debates over the creation of wilderness areas in the Cascade Mountains in Oregon and Washington represent the most significant stages in the national history of wilderness conservation since World War II: Three Sisters, North Cascades and Glacier Peak, Mount Jefferson, Alpine Lakes, French Pete, and the state-wide wilderness acts of 1984.
Author : Doug Scott
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1555915272
A look at how America has preserved more than 100 million acres of diverse wilderness areas in 44 states, now protected in our National Wilderness Preservation System. Discussion of current visions valuing wilderness and its place in our culture.
Author : Gerald W. Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Forest policy
ISBN : MINN:31951D00791080V
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030582944