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Format: 398 S. , Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.

ISBN: 1574441760

Content: "The North American Forests describes where, why, and how the many kinds of trees found in this continent grow in silvical associations, called forest cover types. The writer, with four collaborators, has in mind (1) students in forestry school courses that involve regional silviculture, (2) students in other natural resource disciplines who need a grasp of the geography, the ecology, and the silvicultural practices required to sustain North American forests, and (3) inquiring lay people anxious to understand why foresters do what they do in order to assure adequate goods and services from this richly diverse and fascinating renewable resource." "Over a hundred forest cover types, involving several times that many species, are described in the 13 chapters. Readers travel to woodlands as diverse as the Arctic tundra and Florida's tropics, the Atlantic's coastal pond pines and the Pacific's Monterey pines, and the summits of Engelmann spruce and sea-level swamps of baldcypress."--BOOK JACKET.

Language: English

Subjects: Geography , Biology

Keywords: Nordamerika ; Forstökologie ; Nordamerika ; Forstgeografie ; Nordamerika ; Forstwirtschaft ; Nordamerika ; Wald

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Format: XII, 322 S. , Ill., Kt.

Edition: 1. ed.

ISBN: 0292776489

Content: 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

Content: 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

Content: 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

Language: English

Keywords: USA Südstaaten ; Forstwirtschaft ; Geschichte ; USA Südstaaten ; Forstproduktindustrie ; USA Südstaaten ; Forstökologie ; USA Südstaaten ; Holzwirtschaft ; Geschichte ; USA Südstaaten ; Wald

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Format: 398 Seiten , Ill., graph, Darst.

Edition: 1

ISBN: 1574441760

Language: German

Keywords: Nordamerika ; Forstwirtschaft

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Format: 68 S. : , Ill.

Series Statement: Bulletin / Stephen F. Austin State University 18

Language: English

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Format: 332 S. : zahlr. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.

ISBN: 0-8493-1307-4

Language: English

Subjects: Geography , Biology

Keywords: Südstaaten ; Waldbau ; Südstaaten ; Wald ; Ökologie

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Format: 398 S. : Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.

ISBN: 1-57444-176-0

Content: "The North American Forests describes where, why, and how the many kinds of trees found in this continent grow in silvical associations, called forest cover types. The writer, with four collaborators, has in mind (1) students in forestry school courses that involve regional silviculture, (2) students in other natural resource disciplines who need a grasp of the geography, the ecology, and the silvicultural practices required to sustain North American forests, and (3) inquiring lay people anxious to understand why foresters do what they do in order to assure adequate goods and services from this richly diverse and fascinating renewable resource." "Over a hundred forest cover types, involving several times that many species, are described in the 13 chapters. Readers travel to woodlands as diverse as the Arctic tundra and Florida's tropics, the Atlantic's coastal pond pines and the Pacific's Monterey pines, and the summits of Engelmann spruce and sea-level swamps of baldcypress."--BOOK JACKET.

Language: English

Subjects: Geography , Biology

Keywords: Forstökologie ; Forstgeografie ; Forstwirtschaft ; Wald

URL: http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=008292614&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA

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Format: 398 S. : Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.

ISBN: 1-57444-176-0

Content: "The North American Forests describes where, why, and how the many kinds of trees found in this continent grow in silvical associations, called forest cover types. The writer, with four collaborators, has in mind (1) students in forestry school courses that involve regional silviculture, (2) students in other natural resource disciplines who need a grasp of the geography, the ecology, and the silvicultural practices required to sustain North American forests, and (3) inquiring lay people anxious to understand why foresters do what they do in order to assure adequate goods and services from this richly diverse and fascinating renewable resource." "Over a hundred forest cover types, involving several times that many species, are described in the 13 chapters. Readers travel to woodlands as diverse as the Arctic tundra and Florida's tropics, the Atlantic's coastal pond pines and the Pacific's Monterey pines, and the summits of Engelmann spruce and sea-level swamps of baldcypress."--BOOK JACKET.

Language: English

Subjects: Geography , Biology

Keywords: Forstökologie ; Forstgeografie ; Forstwirtschaft ; Wald

URL: http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=008292614&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA

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Format: 398 S , Ill

ISBN: 1574441760

Note: Literaturangaben

Language: English

Subjects: Geography , Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science , Biology

Keywords: Nordamerika ; Wald

URL: Verlagsangaben

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9780292767980

Content: First published in 1990, Forests explores the ecological, economic, and human influences on over thirty significant types of woodlands. Laurence Walker focuses especially on the effects of site factors—climate, physiography, biology, and soils—upon the growth of various kinds of trees. Projects for amateur naturalists, reading lists, and a glossary make this the perfect introduction for general readers.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Preface -- , 1 The Changing Forest -- , THE NEEDLELEAF TREES -- , 2 Westward Wood: Douglas-fir -- , 3 Dwarf and Giant: Longleaf Pine -- , 4 Tall Timbers: Coast Redwood -- , 5 Murky Bottom and Droughty Land: Loblolly Pine -- , 6 Ancient Wonders: Bristlecone Pine -- , 7 Redcedar Riddle: Eastern Redcedar -- , 8 Enduring Giants: Giant Sequoia -- , 9 Up from the Ashes: Sand, Pond, Pitch, Jack, and Lodgepole Pines -- , 10 Mountain Heights to Low Bogs: Spruce and Fir Trees -- , 11 Trees on the Range: Junipers and Pinyon Pine -- , 12 Swamp Dweller: Baldcypress -- , 13 Timber for a King: Eastern White Pine -- , 14 From Monterey to the World: Monterey Pine -- , 15 Woods of Longevity: White-Cedars and Junipers -- , 16 Pioneer Plant for Paper Pulp: Virginia Pine -- , 17 Krummholz and Elfinwood: Subalpine Fir -- , 18 Sandhills and Flatwoods: Slash Pine -- , THE BROADLEAF TREES -- , 19 Lost Bonanza: American Chestnut -- , 20 Oranges That Are Apples: Osage-Orange -- , 21 Cinderella Cellulose: Trembling Aspen -- , 22 Living Riprap: Willows -- , 23 Toxic Defense: Black Walnut -- , 24 From Cotton to Cottonwood: Cottonwood -- , 25 Species Proliferation: The Oaks -- , 26 Tree Legume: Black Locust -- , 27 Ship Timbers: Live Oak -- , 28 Stink-Bomb Tree: Ginkgo -- , 29 Forests to Fine Furniture: The Northern Hardwoods -- , 30 Tropical Hardwoods: The Dipteroearps -- , 31 Low-Mountain Shrubs: Chaparral -- , 32 Tree-Like Monocots: Bamboos and Palms -- , THE FOREST—WHOSE WOODS THESE ARE -- , Forests for the Future -- , Afterword -- , Further Reading -- , Glossary -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.7560/791121

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292767980

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292767980

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Format: 1 online resource (336 p.)

ISBN: 9780292769519

Content: 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.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Photographs and Drawings -- , Maps -- , Preface -- , CHAPTER 1. The Explorers’ Forest -- , CHAPTER 2. The Pioneers’ Forest -- , CHAPTER 3. The Lumbermens Forest -- , CHAPTER 4. The Boat Builders' Forest -- , CHAPTER 5. The Foresters' Forest -- , CHAPTER 6. The Next Generations Forest -- , Afterword -- , APPENDIX A. Two Hundred Men and Women of the Southern Forest -- , APPENDIX B. Scientific Names of Trees and Plants Mentioned -- , Notes -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.7560/776487

URL: https://doi.org/10.7560/776487

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292769519

URL: https://doi.org/10.7560/776487

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292769519