Green Gold : Alabama's Forests and Forest Industries.
Fickle, James E., 1939-
Green Gold : Alabama's Forests and Forest Industries. - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (377 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-350) and index.
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Alabama's Early Forests and People, Pioneer Settlers, and the Age of the Early Sawmillers and Naval Stores Producers; 2. The Age of "Cut Out and Get Out"; 3. Changing Patterns of Technology and Work in the Alabama Forest Products Industries; 4. The Rise of Forestry; 5. Rising from the Ashes: The Restoration of the Forests and the Early Resurgence of the Lumber Industry; 6. The Rise of the Pulp and Paper Industry; 7. The Golden Age of the Forest Products Industry? : Into the Future. 8. Recent Environmental and Forest Management IssuesConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Green Gold is a thorough and valuable compilation of information on Alabama's timber and forest products industry, the largest manufacturing industry in the state. Alabama has the third-largest commercial forest in the nation, after only Georgia and Oregon. Fully two-thirds of the state's land supports the growth of over fifteen billion trees on twenty-two million acres, which explains why Alabama looks entirely green from space. Green Gold presents the story of human use of and impact on Alabama's forests from pioneer days to the present, as James E. Fickle chronic.
9780817387396 (electronic bk.) 0817387390 (electronic bk.) 9780817318130 (trade cloth ; alk. paper) 0817318135 (trade cloth ; alk. paper)
1620025 Proquest Ebook Central
2013030766
Forests and forestry--History.--Alabama
Forest products industry--History.--Alabama
Timber--History.--Alabama
Bois d'œuvre--Histoire.--Alabama
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Real Estate--General.
Forest products industry.
Forests and forestry.
Timber.
Alabama.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
SD144
333.7509761
SD144.A2 / F53 2014
Green Gold : Alabama's Forests and Forest Industries. - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (377 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-350) and index.
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Alabama's Early Forests and People, Pioneer Settlers, and the Age of the Early Sawmillers and Naval Stores Producers; 2. The Age of "Cut Out and Get Out"; 3. Changing Patterns of Technology and Work in the Alabama Forest Products Industries; 4. The Rise of Forestry; 5. Rising from the Ashes: The Restoration of the Forests and the Early Resurgence of the Lumber Industry; 6. The Rise of the Pulp and Paper Industry; 7. The Golden Age of the Forest Products Industry? : Into the Future. 8. Recent Environmental and Forest Management IssuesConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Green Gold is a thorough and valuable compilation of information on Alabama's timber and forest products industry, the largest manufacturing industry in the state. Alabama has the third-largest commercial forest in the nation, after only Georgia and Oregon. Fully two-thirds of the state's land supports the growth of over fifteen billion trees on twenty-two million acres, which explains why Alabama looks entirely green from space. Green Gold presents the story of human use of and impact on Alabama's forests from pioneer days to the present, as James E. Fickle chronic.
9780817387396 (electronic bk.) 0817387390 (electronic bk.) 9780817318130 (trade cloth ; alk. paper) 0817318135 (trade cloth ; alk. paper)
1620025 Proquest Ebook Central
2013030766
Forests and forestry--History.--Alabama
Forest products industry--History.--Alabama
Timber--History.--Alabama
Bois d'œuvre--Histoire.--Alabama
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Real Estate--General.
Forest products industry.
Forests and forestry.
Timber.
Alabama.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
SD144
333.7509761
SD144.A2 / F53 2014