Facts about the South's Forests and Forest Industries
Author : American Forest Products Industries
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Page : 28 pages
File Size : 35,1 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Florida
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Author : American Forest Products Industries
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 35,1 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Florida
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Author : American Forest Products Industries
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 28,96 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Forest products industry
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Author : National Association of Forest Industries (Australia)
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Page : 6 pages
File Size : 33,71 MB
Release : 1995*
Category : Forests and forestry
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Author : South Carolina Forest Industries Committee
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Page : 11 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Forests and forestry
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Author : Page S. Bunker
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Page : 44 pages
File Size : 46,90 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Forests and forestry
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Author : Thomas Brandeis
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 33,12 MB
Release : 2015-01-03
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ISBN : 9781505840711
The forests of the Southern United States are a vast and rich resource, not only for the region but also for the Nation, and for the world as well. Spanning 13 Southern States from Texas to Virginia, the forests include a diversity of dynamic landscapes and ecosystems, and play a vital role in the regions culture and economy. The forests are highly productive, providing raw materials that fuel regional, national, and global economies.
Author : John C. Barber
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Page : 112 pages
File Size : 39,52 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Forest landowners
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Author :
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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 43,48 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Forests and forestry
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Author : United States. National Resources Planning Board
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Page : 72 pages
File Size : 45,6 MB
Release : 1940
Category : Forests and forestry
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Author : Thomas D. Clark
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 34,53 MB
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0813189861
In the early 1920s, in many a sawmill town across the South, the last quitting-time whistle signaled the cutting of the last log of a company's timber holdings and the end of an era in southern lumbering. It marked the end as well of the great primeval forest that covered most of the South when Europeans first invaded it. Much of the first forest, despite the labors of pioneer loggers, remained intact after the Civil War. But after the restrictions of the Southern Homestead Act were removed in 1876, lumbermen and speculators rushed in to acquire millions of acres of virgin woodland for minimal outlays. The frantic harvest of the South's first forest began; it was not to end until thousands of square miles lay denuded and desolate, their fragile soils—like those of the abandoned cotton lands—exposed to rapid destruction by the elements. With the end of the sawmill era and the collapse of the southern farm economy, the emigration routes from the South to the industrial cities of the North and Midwest were thronged with people forced from the land. Yet in the first quarter of this century, even as the destruction of forest and land continued, a day of renewal was dawning. The rise of the conservation movement, the beginnings of the national forests, the development of scientific forestry and establishment of forest schools, the advance of chemical research into the use of wood pulp—all converged even as the 1930s brought to the South the sweeping reclamation programs of the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Tennessee Valley Authority; in their wake came a new generation of wood-using industries concerned not so much with the immediate exploitation of timber as with the maintenance of a renewable resource. In The Greening of the South, this dramatic story is told by one of the participants in the renewal of the forest. Thomas D. Clark, author of many books about southern history, is also an active timber producer on lands in both Kentucky and South Carolina