Georgia's Timber Industry
Author : John B. Tansey
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,64 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Pulpwood industry
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Author : John B. Tansey
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,64 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Pulpwood industry
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Author : Tony G. Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,19 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic books
ISBN :
Author : Tony G. Johnson
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 34,21 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Forest products industry
ISBN : 1428953566
Author : James W. Bentley
Publisher :
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 24,28 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Forest products industry
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Author : Andrew Gennett
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 23,76 MB
Release : 2010-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0820337870
Set in what remains some of the wildest country in the United States, Sound Wormy recalls a time when regulations were few and resources were abundant for the southern lumber industry. In 1901 Andrew Gennett put all of his money into a tract of timber along the Chattooga River watershed, which traverses parts of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. By the time he wrote his memoir almost forty years later, Gennett had outwitted and outworked countless competitors in the southern mountains to make his mark as one of the region's most seasoned, innovative, and successful lumbermen. His recollections of a rough-and-ready outdoors life are filled with details of logging, from the first "cruise" of a timber stand to the moment when the last board lies "on sticks" in the mill yard. He tells how massive poplars, oaks, and other hardwoods had to be felled and trimmed by hand, dragged down mountain slopes by draft animals, floated downstream or carried by rail to the mill, and then sawn, graded, and stacked for drying. He tells of buying timber rights in a land market filled with "sharp" operators, where titles and surveys were often contested and kinship and custom were on an equal footing with the law. Gennett saw more than potential "boardfeet" when he looked at a tree. He recalls, for instance, his efforts to convince the U.S. Forest Service to purchase undisturbed areas of wilderness at a time when its mandate was to condemn and buy up farmed-out and clear-cut land. One such sale initiated by Gennett would become the Joyce Kilmer Wilderness in North Carolina. Filled with logging lore and portraits of the southern mountains and their people, Sound Wormy adds an absorbing new chapter to the region's natural and environmental history.
Author : Archer H. Mayor
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 14,1 MB
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0820334480
In Southern Timberman, Archer H. Mayor traces the legacy of William Buchanan and the companies he owned along the borders of Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas, from his first lumber mill in the early 1880s to the sale of the last company in 1979. Like many self-made men, Buchanan was known for both his compassion and his relentlessness. To the hundreds of workers who lived in his company-built mill towns, “Old Man” Buchanan was a caring father figure. To his business associates, he was a strong-willed profiteer--a God-fearing, “cut-out-and-get-out” lumberman whose crews laid waste to thousands of acres of virgin pineland. Whatever his tactics, William Buchanan had a gift for making money. By the time he died in 1923, he was one of the wealthiest men in the South. Southern Timberman is also the story of a strong, volatile family who fought--sometimes among themselves--to preserve that fortune. Tracing the growth of Buchanan’s ventures from the first acre of virgin pine to the charged atmosphere of the corporate boardroom, Mayor paints a compelling family portrait set against the background of America’s oil and timber industries.
Author : Tony G. Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 48,59 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Forest products
ISBN :
In 2003, industrial roundwood output from the Souths forests totaled 8.2 billion cubic feet, 6 percent less than in 1999. Mill byproducts generated from primary manufacturers increased 1 percent to 3.2 billion cubic feet. Almost all plant residues were used primarily for fuel and fiber products. Saw logs were the leading roundwood product at 3.7 billion cubic feet; pulpwood ranked second at 3.3 billion cubic feet; veneer logs were third at 830 million cubic feet. The number of primary processing plants declined from 2,551 in 1999 to 2,281 in 2003. Total receipts declined 5 percent to 8.3 billion cubic feet.
Author : Robert Walter Larson
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 33,68 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Forests and forestry
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Author : Herbert A. Knight
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 16,97 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Timber
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Author : Donald Edward Davis
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 10,97 MB
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0820340219
A timely study of change in a complex environment, Where There Are Mountains explores the relationship between human inhabitants of the southern Appalachians and their environment. Incorporating a wide variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, the study draws information from several viewpoints and spans more than four hundred years of geological, ecological, anthropological, and historical development in the Appalachian region. The book begins with a description of the indigenous Mississippian culture in 1500 and ends with the destructive effects of industrial logging and dam building during the first three decades of the twentieth century. Donald Edward Davis discusses the degradation of the southern Appalachians on a number of levels, from the general effects of settlement and industry to the extinction of the American chestnut due to blight and logging in the early 1900s. This portrait of environmental destruction is echoed by the human struggle to survive in one of our nation's poorest areas. The farming, livestock raising, dam building, and pearl and logging industries that have gradually destroyed this region have also been the livelihood of the Appalachian people. The author explores the sometimes conflicting needs of humans and nature in the mountains while presenting impressive and comprehensive research on the increasingly threatened environment of the southern Appalachians.