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

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.

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