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Forestry in the U.S. South - A History (Hardcover)
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Forestry in the U.S. South - A History (Hardcover)
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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.
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