Forests and forestry in the American States : a reference anthology

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The National Association of State Foresters

Foreword

Introduction

Book 1: The stirrings of concern (1860-1900). Part I: The east. New York : preserve or manage? ; Maine : Paul Bunyan's classroom ; Pennsylvania : the crusaders ; Ohio : an idea before its time

Part II: The lakes states. Horse loggers and buffalo chips ; Minnesota : fire at Hinckley

Part III: Prairies and plains. Nebraska : the tree planters ; Kansas : forests on the prairie ; North Dakota : the treeless plains

Part IV: The west. Colorado : mountain forests; mountain water ; California : politics and trees

Part V: The south. Live oaks and pine / by Samuel T. Dana

Book 2: The coming of the professionals (1900-1911). Part I: The south. North Carolina : birth at Biltmore / by Gifford Pinchot

Part II: The east. New York : looking for foresters ; Connecticut : scattering the seeds / by Austin Hawes ; Pennsylvania : building a corps ; New Hampshire : glimmerings of forestry / by Stewart H. Holbrook ; Maine : forests belong to everyone ; Massachusetts : parks and forests ; Vermont : les verts monts ; Rhode Island : Providence plantations ; New Jersey : forestry in the pine barrens ; Maryland : politics do not fight fires

Part III: The west. California : forestry resurrected ; Oregon : public and private ; Washington : crisis and action ; Montana : a falling star

Part IV: Prairies and plains. Indiana : Hoosier hardwoods ; Kansas : no windbreaks; no orchards

Part V: The lakes states. Wisconsin : after the axe ; Michigan : off the tax rolls and on again ; Minnesota : from a movement to a science

Book 3: An alliance for forestry (1911- ). Part I: Forging the partnership. North Carolina : forests for the east ; New Hampshire : you can't save the forests if you don't own the land / by Harris Collingwood ; Massachusetts : John Weeks of the Bay State ; Rhode Island : hurricanes natural and political ; Vermont : keeping the mountains green ; Connecticut : no loss without some small gain ; Delaware : woods in megalopolis ; Maryland : water on a warden's back

Part II: Regulation or cooperation? : the Clarke-McNary law. Pennsylvania : Pinchot's White House ; Idaho : the Idaho idea ; Washington : keep America green ; Oregon : timber, Tillamook, and Charlie Mac ; Montana : a treasure, public and private

Part III: Hardship in the hardwoods. Virginia : new deal in the Old Dominion ; Tennessee : experiment on the Tennessee ; West Virginia : if trees could cuss ; Kentucky : back from scrub

Part IV: Dust Bowl. Oklahoma : drought! ; North Dakota : shelterbelt ; South Dakota : the ghost trees ; Nebraska : trees in the Sand Hills ; Kansas : from planting to management

Part V: Farmland forestry. Ohio : experiments in forestry ; Indiana : the coming test ; Missouri : their noses for fire towers ; Illinois : where the prairies begin ; Iowa : forestry on the farm

Part VI: Forestry in the Rockies. Colorado : forestry on the divide ; Utah : forestry on the desert ; New Mexico : Smokey's country ; Arizona : pinons and ponderosa ; Wyoming : forestry in the wide open spaces ; Nevada : sparked by sparks at the capitol

Part VII: Pulp, pine, and paper. Louisiana : forestry on the bayous ; Texas : the piney woods ; Alabama : the thicket clearers ; Georgia : TPO's in the Tupelos ; Florida : turpentine in the tropics ; South Carolina : who Is Gifford Pinchot? ; Mississippi : leave this tree ; Arkansas : razorback forestry

Part VIII: Multiple use. Wisconsin : forty-five years too soon ; Minnesota : let the silent stumps tell their story ; Michigan : the land nobody wanted ; Maine : the forest Down East ; New Jersey : green acres ; New York : forests and the metropolis ; California : wildlands and cities

Part IX: New frontiers. Alaska : the last empire ; Hawaii : ohia, koa, and eucalyptus

Part X: Conclusion. The job ahead / by Maurice K. Goddard and Ralph R. Widner

Appendix: State forestry statistics, 1964