How Forestry Came to the Southeast; The Role of the Society of American Foresters traces the rise of the conservation movement in the United States in the late nineteenth century which led to the practice of forestry in America.The first section of the book covers the beginning of forestry in the United States and presents the growth of the forest products industry and the development of plantation silviculture. The last section presents the last forty years for forestry in the...
More DescriptionHow Forestry Came to the Southeast; The Role of the Society of American Foresters traces the rise of the conservation movement in the United States in the late nineteenth century which led to the practice of forestry in America.The first section of the book covers the beginning of forestry in the United States and presents the growth of the forest products industry and the development of plantation silviculture. The last section presents the last forty years for forestry in the Southeast in the era of regulation, mergers, the rise of TIMOs and REITs, the change in forestland ownership and the burgeoning biomass industry.The book also documents the history of the Southastern Society of American Foresters, its leaders, meetings and award winners. There are historic photographs of the pioneers of conservation and of forestry as well as images of forest operations, mills, fires, state parks, national forests and maps of forest product mills in the four original Southeastern states, namely Alabama, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. These four states are the geographic area defined as the Southeast for the purpose of this book as they are the original states of the Southeastern Section of the Society of American Foresters.