Money trees : the Douglas fir and American forestry, 1900-1944 / Emily K. Brock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brock, Emily K., 1973-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Douglas fir.

Douglas fir--Economic aspects--United States.

Lumber trade--United States.

Lumber trade.

History.

Douglas fir--Economic aspects.

United States.

Forests and forestry--West (U.S.).

Forests and forestry.

Douglas fir--United States--History--20th century.

West United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

272 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Douglas fir and American forestry, 1900-1944

Place of Publication:

Corvallis, OR : Oregon State University Press, 2015.

Summary:

Around the start of the last century, the forests of the Pacific Northwest were viewed as dynamic sites of industrial production, and also as natural landscapes of ecological integrity. These competing visions arose as the nation's professional foresters faced conflicting demands from lumber companies and government regulators. External pressures converged with internal scientific debates within the profession, leading foresters to question the proper scope of their work. Money Trees is an interdisciplinary history of the crucial decades that shaped the modern American conception of the value of the forest. It begins with early twentieth century environmental changes in the Douglas Fir forests of the Pacific Northwest, which led to increasing divisiveness and controversy among foresters. Brock balances this regional story with a national view of the intellectual and political currents that governed forest management, marshaling archival evidence from industry, government, and scientific sources. An important contribution to environmental scholarship, Money Trees offers a nuanced vision of forestry's history and its past relationship to both wilderness activism and scientific ecology. With fresh perspectives on well-known environmental figures such as Bob Marshall and Gifford Pinchot, it will add to the conversation among scholars in environmental history, history of science, and the history of the American West. It will be welcomed as a key resource across the spectrum of environmental studies, and by anyone interested in natural resources, laud management, the role of science in environmentalism, and the modern wilderness movement. Book jacket.

Contents:

Northwest promise : new forests for a new century

The dynamics of science, rooted in place : field stations and forest

Ecology

On the ground : ecological experiments and philosophical refinements

Forestry, wilderness, and the New Deal

The money tree : private forests and public relations

Divergent paths : wild and tame forests in the 1940s

Axe-in-hand.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-256) and index.

ISBN:

9780870718090

0870718096

OCLC:

897437389