Forestry in the U.S. South : A History / Mason C. Carter, Robert C. Kellison, and R. Scott Wallinger ; foreword by Steven Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carter, Mason C., 1933- author.

Wallinger, R. Scott, author.

Kellison, R. C. (Robert Clay), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forests and forestry--Southern States--History.

Forests and forestry.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During the second half of the twentieth century, the forest industry removed more than 300 billion cubic feet of timber from southern forests. Yet at the same time, partnerships between public and private entities improved the inventory, health, and productivity of this vast and resilient resource. A comprehensive and multilayered history, Forestry in the U.S. South explores the remarkable commercial and environmental gains made possible through the collaboration of industry, universities, and other agencies.This authoritative assessment starts by discussing the motives and practices of early lumber companies, which, having exhausted the forests of the Northeast by the turn of the twentieth century, aggressively began to harvest the virgin pine of the South, with production peaking by 1909. The rapidly declining supply of old-growth southern pine triggered a threat of timber famine and inspired efforts to regulate the industry. By mid-century, however, industrial forestry had its own profit incentive to replenish harvested timber. This set the stage for a unique alliance between public and private sectors, which conducted cooperative research on tree improvement, fertilization, seedling production, and other practices germane to sustainable forest management. By the close of the 1990s, concerns about an inadequate timber supply gave way to questions about how to utilize millions of acres of pine plantations approaching maturity. No longer concerned with the future supply of raw material and facing mounting global competition the U.S. pulp and paper industry consolidated, restructured, and sold nearly20 million acres of forests to Timber Investment Management Organizations (TIMOs) and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), resulting in an entirely new dynamic for private forestry in the South. Incomparable in scope, Forestry in the U.S. South spotlights the people and organizations responsible for empowering individual forest owners across the region, tripling the production of pine stands and bolstering the livelihoods of thousands of men and women across the South.

Contents:

Origins of forestry in the South

Expansion of forestry: public and private

Early developments in forestry education, research, and technology transfer in the South

Depression, recovery, and controversy, 1930-1945

Postwar expansion: industry, education, incentives

The planted forest: intensive management begins

The grand alliance: research cooperatives

Corporate forestry

Extending forestry to nonindustrial forests

Southern forestry enters the environmental era

The southern forest at the close of the twentieth century

A new century brings massive changes to southern forestry

The road traveled and the road ahead.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780807160565

0807160563

9780807160558

0807160555

OCLC:

921176285