The Bitterroot and Mr. Brandborg

The Bitterroot and Mr. Brandborg
Author: Frederick H Swanson
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2012-05-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1607819902

Meticulously written, "The Bitterroot and Mr. Brandborg" tells the story of Guy M. Brandborg and his impact on the practices of the U.S. Forest Service. It articulates Brandborg's Progressive-era idealism and is based on extensive archival research in collections throughout the Rockies and the Northwest, including the Brandborg family papers.

Hearings

Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1498
Release: 1956
Genre:
ISBN:

April 5 and 6, 1971

April 5 and 6, 1971
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands
Publisher:
Total Pages: 550
Release: 1971
Genre: Clearcutting
ISBN:

Hearings

Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1320
Release: 1961
Genre:
ISBN:

Wilderness Preservation System

Wilderness Preservation System
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands
Publisher:
Total Pages: 478
Release: 1961
Genre: Wilderness areas
ISBN:

Committee Serial No. 12. Considers S. 174, and similar bills, to establish the National Wilderness Preservation System. Hearings were held in McCall, Idaho.

Wilderness Preservation System

Wilderness Preservation System
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 482
Release: 1962
Genre: Wilderness areas
ISBN:

Plantations and Protected Areas

Plantations and Protected Areas
Author: Brett M. Bennett
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2015-12-18
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0262329921

How global forest management shifted from an integrated conservation model to a bifurcated system of timber plantations and protected areas. Today, the world's forests are threatened by global warming, growing demand for wood products, and increasing pressure to clear tropical forests for agricultural use. Economic globalization has enabled Western corporations to export timber processing jobs and import cheap wood products from developing countries. Timber plantations of exotic, fast-growing species supply an ever-larger amount of the world's wood. In response, many countries have established forest areas protected from development. In this book, Brett Bennett views today's forestry issues from a historical perspective. The separation of wood production from the protection of forests, he shows, stems from entangled environmental, social, political, and economic factors. This divergence—driven by the concomitant intensification of production and creation of vast protected areas—is reshaping forest management systems both public and private. Bennett shows that plantations and protected areas evolved from, and then undermined, an earlier integrated forest management system that sought both to produce timber and to conserve the environment. He describes the development of the science and profession of forestry in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe; discusses the twentieth-century creation of timber plantations in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australia; and examines the controversies over deforestation that led to the establishment of protected areas. Bennett argues that the problems associated with the bifurcation of forest management—including the loss of forestry knowledge necessary to manage large ecosystems for diverse purposes—suggest that a more integrated model would be preferable.