Mississippi forests and forestry /

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Author / Creator:Fickle, James E.
Imprint:Jackson : Mississippi Forestry Foundation ; University Press of Mississippi, c2001.
Description:xiv, 347 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4762138
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ISBN:1578063086 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-324).
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Origins: Man and the Forest from Prehistory to Colonization
  • 2. Pioneers: Early Farmers Clear the Forests
  • 3. Pioneers: Early Lumbermen Log the Forests
  • 4. The Bonanza Era: Mississippi Lumbering's Rise to National Prominence
  • 5. "Like Locusts through a Field of Wheat": The Devastation of Mississippi's Forests
  • 6. "Scientific Forestry": Developments in the South and in Mississippi
  • 7. Transformations: Restoring Mississippi's Forests
  • 8. The Greening of Mississippi: From Recovery to the Present
  • 9. The Path to the Future: Forests for Whom?