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American forests : nature, culture, and politics
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- Creator
- edited by Char Miller
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, [1997]
- ©1997
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 289 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0700608486, 9780700608485, 0700608494, 9780700608492
- OCLC
- ocm36910050
- Includes bibliographical references (page 273) and index.
- Introduction : on rewriting forest history / Char Miller -- Forests and conservation, 1865-1890 / Donald J. Pisani -- Wildlife, conservation, and the first Forest Reserve / John F. Reiger -- Beginning of the National Forest System / Harold K. Steen -- Timber users, timber savers : the Homestake Mining Company and the first regulated timber harvest / Richmond L. Clow -- National forest timber sales and the legacy of Gifford Pinchot : managing a forest and making it pay / Robert E. Wolf -- "Regular ding-dong fight" : the dynamics of Park Service-Forest Service controversy during the 1920s and 1930s / Hal K. Rothman -- Establishing administrative "standing" : the Sierra Club and the Forest Service, 1897-1956 / Susan R. Schrepfer -- Economic development and Indian land rights in modern Alaska : the 1947 Tongass Timber Act / Stephen W. Haycox -- Bitterroot revisited : "A university (re)view of the Forest Service" / Arnold W. Bolle -- From rule-of-thumb to scientific range management : the case of the intermountain region of the Forest Service / Thomas G. Alexander -- Social context of forestry : the Pacific Northwest in the twentieth century / William G. Robbins -- What price sustained yield? : the Forest Service, community stability, and timber monopoly under the 1944 Sustained-Yield Act / David A. Clary -- National forests and the campaign for wilderness legislation / Dennis Roth -- Forest dreams, forest nightmares : an environmental history of a forest health crisis / Nancy Langston