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• catalog abstract "When the first European explorers reached the southern shores of North America in the early seventeenth century, they faced a solid forest that stretched all the way from the Atlantic coast to eastern Texas and Oklahoma. The ways in which they and their descendants used--and abused--the forest over the next nearly four hundred years form the subject of The Southern Forest. In chapters on the explorers, pioneers, lumbermen, boatbuilders, and foresters, Laurence Walker. Chronicles the constant demands that people have made on forest resources in the South. He shows how the land's very abundance became its greatest liability, as people overhunted the animals, clearcut the forests, and wore out the soil with unwise farming practices--all in a mistaken belief that the forest's bounty (including new ground to be broken) was inexhaustible. With the advent of professional forestry in the twentieth century, however, the southern forest has. Made a comeback. A professional forester himself, Walker speaks from experience of the difficulties that foresters face in balancing competing interests in the forest. How, for example, does one reconcile the country's growing demand for paper products with the insistence of environmental groups that no trees be cut? Should national forests be strictly recreational areas, or can they support some industrial logging? How do foresters avoid using chemical pesticides when. The public protests such natural management practices as prescribed burning and tree cutting? This personal view of the southern forest adds a new dimension to the study of southern history and culture. The primeval southern forest is gone, but, with careful husbandry on the part of all users, the regenerated southern forest may indeed prove to be the inexhaustible resource of which our ancestors dreamed.".
• catalog contributor b3468974.
• catalog created "1991.".
• catalog date "1991".
• catalog date "1991.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1991.".
• catalog description "1. The Explorers' Forest -- 2. The Pioneers' Forest -- 3. The Lumbermen's Forest -- 4. The Boat Builders' Forest -- 5. The Foresters' Forest -- 6. The Next Generation's Forest -- Appendix A. Two Hundred Men and Women of the Southern Forest -- Appendix B. Scientific Names of Trees and Plants Mentioned.".
• catalog description "Chronicles the constant demands that people have made on forest resources in the South. He shows how the land's very abundance became its greatest liability, as people overhunted the animals, clearcut the forests, and wore out the soil with unwise farming practices--all in a mistaken belief that the forest's bounty (including new ground to be broken) was inexhaustible. With the advent of professional forestry in the twentieth century, however, the southern forest has.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Made a comeback. A professional forester himself, Walker speaks from experience of the difficulties that foresters face in balancing competing interests in the forest. How, for example, does one reconcile the country's growing demand for paper products with the insistence of environmental groups that no trees be cut? Should national forests be strictly recreational areas, or can they support some industrial logging? How do foresters avoid using chemical pesticides when.".
• catalog description "The public protests such natural management practices as prescribed burning and tree cutting? This personal view of the southern forest adds a new dimension to the study of southern history and culture. The primeval southern forest is gone, but, with careful husbandry on the part of all users, the regenerated southern forest may indeed prove to be the inexhaustible resource of which our ancestors dreamed.".
• catalog description "When the first European explorers reached the southern shores of North America in the early seventeenth century, they faced a solid forest that stretched all the way from the Atlantic coast to eastern Texas and Oklahoma. The ways in which they and their descendants used--and abused--the forest over the next nearly four hundred years form the subject of The Southern Forest. In chapters on the explorers, pioneers, lumbermen, boatbuilders, and foresters, Laurence Walker.".
• catalog extent "xii, 322 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Southern forest.".
• catalog identifier "0292776489 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Southern forest.".
• catalog issued "1991".
• catalog issued "1991.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Austin : University of Texas Press,".
• catalog relation "Southern forest.".
• catalog spatial "Southern States".
• catalog spatial "Southern States.".
• catalog subject "634.9/0975 20".
• catalog subject "Forest ecology Southern States.".
• catalog subject "Forest products industry Southern States History.".
• catalog subject "Foresters Southern States History.".
• catalog subject "Forests and forestry Southern States History.".
• catalog subject "Logging Southern States History.".
• catalog subject "SD144.A15 W35 1991".
• catalog subject "Shipbuilding Southern States History.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. The Explorers' Forest -- 2. The Pioneers' Forest -- 3. The Lumbermen's Forest -- 4. The Boat Builders' Forest -- 5. The Foresters' Forest -- 6. The Next Generation's Forest -- Appendix A. Two Hundred Men and Women of the Southern Forest -- Appendix B. Scientific Names of Trees and Plants Mentioned.".
• catalog title "The southern forest : a chronicle / Laurence C. Walker.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".