Green gold : Alabama's forests and forest industries / James E. Fickle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fickle, James E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forests and forestry--Alabama--History.

Forests and forestry.

Forest products industry--Alabama--History.

Forest products industry.

Timber--Alabama--History.

Timber.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press : Copublished with the Alabama Forestry Foundation, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Alabama's early forests and people, pioneer settlers, and the age of the early sawmillers and naval stores producers

The age of "cut out and get out"

Changing patterns of technology and work in the Alabama forest products industries

The rise of forestry

Rising from the ashes: the restoration of the forests and the early resurgence of the lumber industry

The rise of the pulp and paper industry

The golden age of the forest products industry? Into the future

Recent environmental and forest management issues.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8173-8739-0

OCLC:

870228676