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Clearcutting the Pacific Rain Forest : Production, Science, and Regulation.

Rajala, Richard A.

Clearcutting the Pacific Rain Forest : Production, Science, and Regulation. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (311 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1: Machines, Managers, and Work -- Introduction -- 1 The Forest as Factory: Technological Change in West Coast Logging, 1880-1965 -- 2 Managing the Factory Regime: The Emergence of Logging Engineering and Industrial Forestry, 1880-1965 -- Part 2: Clearcutting, Conservation, and the State -- Introduction -- 3 Clearcutting, Forest Science, and Regulation, 1880-1930 -- 4 Depression-Era Forestry in the Pacific Northwest: Selective Logging, a New Regulation Debate, and the State Option -- 5 Forest Practice Regulation and the British Columbia State in the 1930s: A Missed Opportunity for Reform -- 6 State and Provincial Regulation: Industry Control and the Denial of Silviculture, 1940-65 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

This book integrates class, environmental, and political analysis to uncover the history of clearcutting in the Douglas fir forests of BC, Washington, and Oregon between 1880 and 1965.

9780774856331


Forest management -- British Columbia -- History.
Forest management -- Northwest, Pacific -- History.
Clearcutting -- British Columbia -- History.
Clearcutting -- Northwest, Pacific -- History.
Forest policy -- British Columbia -- History.
Forest policy -- Northwest, Pacific -- History.
Logging -- Technological innovations -- British Columbia -- History.


Electronic books.

SD146.B7 -- R35 1998eb

338.17498

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