Degradation

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Degradation
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Central Europe, The Industrial Revolution, and
the Birth of Scientific Forestry
Saltzburg
Tarrant
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The spread of Scientific Forestry

• Indian Forest Service -1850
• Sir Dietrich Brandis
• Sustained production of timber for colonial
  development
• Community forests
• Minor products fodder, NTFPs

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North American Land Transformation
The West Coast
The Upper Peninsula, MI
The Allegeny Plateau, PA
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The Birth of Forestry in North America the
Conservation Era 1890-1935

• Timber famine, water scarcity
• Gifford Pinchot
• The Biltmore Estate, NC
• The Yale Forest School
• Henry Graves
• US Forest Service
• James W. Toumey
• Aldo Leopold

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Frontiers of forest exploitation