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American forests : nature, culture, and politics  Cover Image Book Book

American forests : nature, culture, and politics / edited by Char Miller.

Miller, Char, 1951- (Added Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0700608486 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0700608494 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xiv, 289 p. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c1997.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: Forests and forestry > United States > History.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.

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Kirtland Community College Library SD 143 .A596 1997 30522650 General Collection Available -


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