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Instant Insights: Sustainable Forest ManagementThis collection features five peer-reviewed literature reviews on sustainable forest management. The first chapter discusses the varying definitions of sustainable forest management (SFM) in tropical landscapes, as well as the trade-offs associated with SFM. The chapter also reviews the spatial scales of assessing SFM...
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Holy Old MackinawThe American lumberjack at work and at play, from Main to Oregon - here is his rough and lusty story. In these modern days, timber is harvested by cigarette-smoking married men, whose children go to school in busses, but for nearly three hundred years...
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Logging in Mason County: 1946-1985In 1946, the US Forest Service and Simpson Logging Company agreed to a sustained yield unit, cooperatively managing lands for 100 years for "community stability." Championed by USFS chief William Greeley and dubbed the "Sustained Steal" by detractors, the Shelton Cooperative Sustained Yield Unit...
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Sedges of the Northern Forest: Quick GuideThe Quick Guide for Sedges of the Northern Forest contains two double-sided photographic charts that allow users to see high-res, close-up images of the more than 200 sedges in the Northern Forest region. The map-sized folding charts are water-resistant and field-friendly, the perfect companion...
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Oregon Wildland Firefighting: A HistoryOver the past century, some of the world's largest wildland fires have occurred in Oregon. Accidentally set by a disgruntled cook on an English ship, the Great Fire of 1845 displaced multiple tribes and boiled wildlife alive in the Columbia River. The Tillamook Burn...
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Forest Management and PlanningThe branch of chemistry concerned with the overall administration of forests is known as forest management. It includes economic, legal as well as social aspects. Scientific and technical aspects such as forest regulation, silviculture, forest protection, etc. also fall under this domain. Some of...
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Forestry In British IndiaThis 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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When Money Grew on Trees: A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber BaronBorn in the timber colony of New Brunswick, Maine, in 1848, Andrew Benoni Hammond got off to an inauspicious start as a teenage lumberjack. By his death in 1934, Hammond had built an empire of wood that stretched from Puget Sound to Arizona--and in...
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Central Park Trees and Landscapes: A Guide to New York City's MasterpieceThis is the ultimate field guide to the trees and landscapes of Central Park, with a lively, authoritative text and over 900 color photographs, botanical plates, and extraordinarily detailed maps. Under the direction of the Central Park Conservancy, the park's landscapes have been painstakingly...
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Instant Insights: Restoring Degraded ForestsThis collection features four peer-reviewed reviews on restoring degraded forests. The first chapter reviews the restoration of tropical forests, focusing specifically on forest landscape restoration (FLR). It addresses the importance of implementing FLR and provides two detailed case studies to demonstrate this. The chapter...
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Europe's Changing Woods and Forests: From Wildwood to Managed LandscapesOur understanding of the historical ecology of European forests has been transformed in the last twenty years. Bringing together key findings from across the continent, Europe's Changing Woods and Forests: From Wildwood to Managed Landscapes provides a comprehensive account of recent research and the...
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Christmas Tree Pest Manual (Third Edition)The newest edition is published by the U.S. Forest Service, Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry. This edition includes a number of new pests, many of them found on fir Christmas trees. The original manual had a strong emphasis on Scotch pine. Most of...
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Melbourne's Logging Era: 1912-1932Melbourne was a quiet coastal town of 157 people on Florida's Indian River lagoon. Farming, ranching, fishing, and related trades supported the local economy. Melbourne entered the industrial age in 1912, when the Union Cypress Company began manufacturing lumber from the private cypress and...
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The Cultivated Forest: People and Woodlands in Asian HistoryForests have histories that need to be told. This examination of wood and woodlands in East and Southeast Asia brings together case studies from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Sumatra to explore continuities in the history of forest management across these regions as well...
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Fast-Growing Trees Species: Opportunities and Risks for Sustainable Agricultural and Forest Land Use SystemsThe articles in this Special Issue cover a very wide range of topics related to the cultivation, management and use of fast-growing tree species. In addition to research on breeding and on the influence of pruning practices on the height growth of paulownia, three...
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Big BurnA good case could be made for predicting a calamitous forest fire that would ravage the relatively unscathed, lush timber stands of the Northwest. Some people shrugged and lamented that one could never predict much of the future. But regardless of what people thought,...
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Forest Trees and Forest SceneryForest Trees and Forest SceneryIn the ensuing pages I have made simple inquiries into the sources of beauty and attractiveness in American forest trees and sylvan scenery. In the concluding chapter, by way of contrast, I have given a short account of the esthetic...
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Forest Service General Technical Report SO-15Identifying Hardwoods Growing on Pine SitesThe authors thank Bryan A. Jowers, Glendale, California, for the excellent winter silhouettes. For help in obtaining specimens or photographs of species not easily accessible to us, we thank the following: Roger W. Barbour, University of Kentucky; William Harlow,...
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United States. Department of Agriculture. Farmers' bulletin no. 67Forestry for FarmersSir: I have the honor to recommend that the two articles contributed by me to the Yearbooks for 1894 and for 1895 on forestry for farmers be reprinted as a Farmers' Bulletin. The articles contain information in popular form regarding the growth...
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Montezuma National Forest, Colorado (1939)Montezuma National Forest, Colorado (1939)The topography of the forest varies from the extremely rugged San Miguel Range in the north and the rough 3 but slightly lower La Plata Range on the east, to the high mesas of the southwestern part. The Dolores River...
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