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The Greening of the South - The Recovery of Land and Forest (Paperback)
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The Greening of the South - The Recovery of Land and Forest (Paperback)
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In the early 1920s, in many a sawmill town across the South, the
last quitting-time whistle signaled the cutting of the last log of
a company's timber holdings and the end of an era in southern
lumbering. It marked the end as well of the great primeval forest
that covered most of the South when Europeans first invaded it.
Much of the first forest, despite the labors of pioneer loggers,
remained intact after the Civil War. But after the restrictions of
the Southern Homestead Act were removed in 1876, lumbermen and
speculators rushed in to acquire millions of acres of virgin
woodland for minimal outlays. The frantic harvest of the South's
first forest began; it was not to end until thousands of square
miles lay denuded and desolate, their fragile soils -- like those
of the abandoned cotton lands -- exposed to rapid destruction by
the elements. With the end of the sawmill era and the collapse of
the southern farm economy, the emigration routes from the South to
the industrial cities of the North and Midwest were thronged with
people forced from the land. Yet in the first quarter of this
century, even as the destruction of forest and land continued, a
day of renewal was dawning. The rise of the conservation movement,
the beginnings of the national forests, the development of
scientific forestry and establishment of forest schools, the
advance of chemical research into the use of wood pulp -- all
converged even as the 1930s brought to the South the sweeping
reclamation programs of the Civilian Conservation Corps and the
Tennessee Valley Authority; in their wake came a new generation of
wood-using industries concerned not so much with the immediate
exploitation of timber as with the maintenance of a renewable
resource. In The Greening of the South, this dramatic story is told
by one of the participants in the renewal of the forest. Thomas D.
Clark, author of many books about southern history, is also an
active timber producer on lands in both Kentucky and South Carolina
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