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Wildland Fire Smoke in the United States: A Scientific AssessmentThis open access book synthesizes current information on wildland fire smoke in the United States, providing a scientific foundation for addressing the production of smoke from wildland fires. This will be increasingly critical as smoke exposure and degraded air quality are expected to increase...
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Synthetic Pesticide Use in Africa: Impact on People, Animals, and the EnvironmentA UN report presented to the UN Human Rights Council in 2017 recognized that, "although pesticide use has been correlated with a rise in food production, it has had catastrophic impacts" on human health and the environment. The report acknowledged that "increased food production...
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The Lumber Boom of Coastal South Carolina: Nineteenth-Century Shipbuilding & the Devastation of Lowcountry Virgin ForestsThe virgin forests of longleaf pine, bald cypress and oak that covered much of the South Carolina Lowcountry presented seemingly limitless opportunity for lumbermen. Henry Buck of Maine moved to the South Carolina coast and began shipping lumber back to the Northeast for shipbuilding....
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Competition and Oligopsony in the Douglas Fir Lumber IndustryThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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The State in the Forest: Contested Commons in the Nineteenth Century Venetian AlpsThe State in the Forest uses a case study of conflict over use of wood - the principal source of energy and the primary raw materialat the time - to offer an environmental history of the nineteenth century 'great transformation'. The focus is on...
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Australia's Megafires: Biodiversity Impacts and Lessons from 2019-2020Author: Libby RumpffPublisher: CSIRO PublishingPublished: 05/30/2023Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9781486316649
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Diversity and Distribution of Forest InsectsForests are the richest and most complex ecosystems in the world. Due to the abundance of species and their intricate relationships, huge problems are faced when investigating and analyzing them, despite the fact that increasingly sophisticated research tools are currently available. This is also...
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The Overstory Book: Cultivating Connections with Trees, 2nd EditionWhether in a small backyard or a larger farm or forest, trees are vital to the web of life. Protecting and planting trees can restore wildlife habitat, heal degraded land, conserve soil, protect watersheds, diversify farm or garden products, beautify landscapes, and enhance the...
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Maryland's Forests and Parks: A Century of ProgressFor 100 years, the Maryland State Forests and Parks Services have maintained and provided public access to Maryland's most beautiful and historic places. These include Assateague, Elk Neck, the first completed Washington Monument, Fort Frederick, Green Ridge, and Swallow Falls. Maryland's Forests and Parks:...
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Logging and Lumbering in MaineGo inside the people, places, forests and machines that made Maine the logging and lumber giant it is today.Known as the Pine Tree State, Maine once led the world in lumber production. It was the first great lumber-producing region, with Bangor at its center....
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Haywire: Discord in Maine's Logging Woods and the Unraveling of an IndustryLogging in the northern forest has been romanticized, with images of log drives, plaid shirts, and bunkhouses in wide circulation. Increasingly dismissed as a quaint, rural pastime, logging remains one of the most dangerous jobs in the United States, with loggers occupying a precarious...
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North American Agroforestry, Third EditionNorth American Agroforestry Explore the many benefits of alternative land-use systems with this incisive resource Humanity has become a victim of its own success. While we've managed to meet the needs--to one extent or another--of a large portion of the human population, we've often...
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Chainsaw LumbermakingOnce you're familiar with Will Malloff's method of chainsaw lumbermaking, you will be able to simply and economically turn trees into lumber on your own Learn how to select the tree you want, fell it safely, and process it into a stack of great...
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LiDAR Remote Sensing and ApplicationsIdeal for both undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of geography, forestry, ecology, geographic information science, remote sensing, and photogrammetric engineering, LiDAR Remote Sensing and Applications expertly joins LiDAR principles, data processing basics, applications, and hands-on practices in one comprehensive source. The LiDAR...
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FirelinesThe ephemeral forms that fire takes as it sweeps through the landscape of southwest Wisconsin, renewing patchworks of prairie, forest, and savanna, are the subject of this book. Jill Metcoff pairs her photographs from controlled burns with historical commentary, poetic reflections, and her own...
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Forester's Log: Musings from the WoodsWhen Mary Stuever graduated from forestry school in the early 1980s, her profession was facing tremendous challenges as the nation's forests were poised for serious decline from catastrophic wildfires, insect outbreaks, and suburban encroachment. Stuever captured this transition over the last few decades in...
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A Forest on the Sea: Environmental Expertise in Renaissance VeniceWinner, Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, American Historical AssociationWinner, Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Award, the Forest History SocietyWood was essential to the survival of the Venetian Republic. To build its great naval and merchant ships, maintain its extensive levee system, construct buildings, fuel industries, and heat...
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Cut & Run LoggingAn unprecedented rape of Mother Nature from the 1880s to the 1940s completely changed the wooded landscape in the northern Great Lakes region of America as well as the society and ecology forevermore. In this time of empire building, logging towns grew like weeds...
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The Forests of Alabama, and Their Products; The Grasses, and Other Forage Plants of Alabama, Indigeneous [sic] Naturalized, and Cultivated]This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Rainforest Capitalism: Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber ConcessionCongolese logging camps are places where mud, rain, fuel smugglers, and village roadblocks slow down multinational timber firms; where workers wage wars against trees while evading company surveillance deep in the forest; where labor compounds trigger disturbing colonial memories; and where blunt racism, logger...
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