Americans and their Forests: A Historical Geography (Studies in Environment and History)
Williams (history, Oxford) examines in this scholarly, well-written account the effects of settlement and industrial development on the Appalachian forest--a woodland which once spread almost without a break from the Atlantic seaboard to the Western plains. The process of deforestation was begun by the pioneers and continued by the ruthless logging operations of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; it was halted only by the forest conservation movement of the 1900s. Both a valuable resource and reference work in its field and a very readable overview of the American conservation movement. Highly recommended.- Eleanor Maass Assocs . , New Milford, Pa.Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.