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Small Private Forest Landowners in Michigan's Upper Peninsula


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Describes the small forest landowner population including its distribution as to type of owner, size of holding, objectives of ownership, forestry practices, problems, and responses to existing and proposed forestry programs. The considerable proportion of absentee owners and the owners whose primary ownership objective is other than timber production suggest that for the Upper Peninsula the traditional approaches of public forestry programs may need to be revised.




Bioengineering Case Studies


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"Bio-Stabilization Case Studies: Treatment and Performance Evaluation" describes and evaluates 30 projects from across the United States where bio-stabilization was employed to address a detrimental naturally occurring process or byproduct of the built environment. Bio-stabilization (or soil bioengineering) refers to the use of plant materials, primarily live cuttings, arranged in the ground in different arrays to reinforce soils and protect upland slopes and/or stream banks against surficial erosion and shallow slope failures. Examples included in the collection represent different regions of the country and their specific conditions and challenges. Each project is illustrated with a number of distinctive photographs to support the reader's understanding and showcase the wide scope of projects and techniques presented. The volume is ideal for civil and environmental engineers and environmental scientists working on watershed, infrastructure projects, and municipal scale installations.