Green Gold : Alabama's Forests and Forest Industries

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Green Gold is a thorough and valuable compilation of information on Alabama's timber and forest products industry, the largest manufacturing industry in the state. Alabama has the third-largest commercial forest in the nation, after only Georgia and Oregon. Fully two-thirds of the state's...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fickle, James E., 1939-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Timber.
Forests and forestry.
Forest products industry.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
Bois d'oeuvre > Alabama > Histoire.
Timber > Alabama > History.
Forest products industry > Alabama > History.
Forests and forestry > Alabama > History.
Alabama.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Alabama's Early Forests and People, Pioneer Settlers, and the Age of the Early Sawmillers and Naval Stores Producers; 2. The Age of "Cut Out and Get Out"; 3. Changing Patterns of Technology and Work in the Alabama Forest Products Industries; 4. The Rise of Forestry; 5. Rising from the Ashes: The Restoration of the Forests and the Early Resurgence of the Lumber Industry; 6. The Rise of the Pulp and Paper Industry; 7. The Golden Age of the Forest Products Industry? : Into the Future.
  • 8. Recent Environmental and Forest Management IssuesConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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