The TillamookThe Tillamook
a Created Forest Comes of Age
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Book, 2004
Current format, Book, 2004, 2nd ed, Available .Book, 2004
Current format, Book, 2004, 2nd ed, Available . Offered in 0 more formats"It was Oregon's most notorious conflagration - a series of four major fires that struck the Tillamook forest beginning in 1933 and recurred with bizarre regularity through 1951. The fires burned 355,000 acres of virgin forest and became collectively known as the Tillamook Burn." "In this engaging history, Gail Wells recounts the story of the famous fires and the cooperative efforts of foresters and ordinary citizens - including thousands of schoolchildren - to get young trees growing
again on the burned landscape. It became one of the largest forest rehabilitation efforts ever, resulting in a created forest that promised "timber forever"." "Now a state forest, the Tillamook is coming of age at a time when attitudes toward forests have changed and "timber forever" is no longer the guiding principle. In contemplating the Tillamook's fate, Wells traces the historic roots of competing perspectives on forest use and examines the contemporary debate over forest issues. She
sees the future of second-growth forests as holding the possibility of a workable synthesis, "a truly stable, sustainable, and humane relationship with our forests.""--BOOK JACKET.
again on the burned landscape. It became one of the largest forest rehabilitation efforts ever, resulting in a created forest that promised "timber forever"." "Now a state forest, the Tillamook is coming of age at a time when attitudes toward forests have changed and "timber forever" is no longer the guiding principle. In contemplating the Tillamook's fate, Wells traces the historic roots of competing perspectives on forest use and examines the contemporary debate over forest issues. She
sees the future of second-growth forests as holding the possibility of a workable synthesis, "a truly stable, sustainable, and humane relationship with our forests.""--BOOK JACKET.
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