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American Forests: A History of Resiliency and Recovery

by Douglas W. MacCleery , Steven Anderson , R. Scott Wallinger
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780890300480
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Forest History Society
  • Publisher Imprint: Forest History Society
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 86
  • Original Price: USD 12.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Slightly Rev
  • Item Weight: 159 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Natural Resources

For more than a century, Americans have carried on a debate about their forests over how and why to manage them, and the sometimes-heated discussions continue today. In American Forests, Douglas MacCleery traces this debate from the time that forest management first came to the United States, through the conservation and environmental movements, on up to 2011, when the book was last updated.

MacCleery's history of recovery establishes that the "timber famine" that Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot so stridently forecast in the early twentieth century never occurred. He shows that logged lands have come back, either through natural processes or human effort, unless converted to agricultural or urban use. Also, many species of wildlife--once diminished--are again abundant, forested watersheds are better protected, and the number of forest acres that burn each year has been dramatically reduced. Nonetheless, as MacCleery points out, the new forests are different from the original forests, which had evolved according to nature's rhythms and in response to native peoples' significant manipulation. And while some wildlife species thrive under the new conditions, others do not. Appreciation of the forest as an ecosystem increases, but the debate is not over.

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