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A History of Florida Forests - Florida s Perpetual Forests; Florida Forestry: into New Millenium

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Baynard Kendrick (1894-1977) was author of Florida Trails to Turnpikes . Organizer of the Mystery Writers of America, he wrote a series of detective novels, adapted several to movies and TV, and served on the board of Florida Historical Quarterly. Barry Walsh is a freelance writer and editor who contributes to environmental journals. A columnist for The Longboat Observer , she has served as an editor with the Journal of Forestry and with Selby Botanical Gardens Press in Sarasota, Florida. Klappentext Five hundred years ago, when Ponce de Leon landed on the shores of Florida, 27 million acres of virgin timber--chiefly longleaf, slash pine and large areas of cypress, loblolly pine, sand pine, palms, and oaks--covered the land that constitutes the state today. Of the 15 million acres now forested, 12 million are privately held. This lively, 500-year history of Florida's forests begins before the Spaniards colonized the state, when Native American tribes felled trees to build shelters and canoes, carve ritual masks and weapons, and make firewood. These tribes revered Florida's forests; they understood the dangers of wildfires set by lightning and were careful when burning underbrush to improve forage or aid in the hunt. Their closeness to nature and dependence on forests for their way of life made Native Americans Florida's first "forest managers."Florida historian Baynard Kendrick offers first-person accounts by the people who explored, logged, reforested, and managed Florida's forests. His chapters feature correspondence from conquistadors as well as memoirs by early settlers, loggers, and mill operators whose work triggered a forest conservation movement in the 1920s. Commissioned by the Florida Board of Forestry in 1966 on the eve of the environmental era, Kendrick's manuscript--titled "Florida's Perpetual Forests" -- went unpublished for four decades. Barry Walsh has picked up where Kendrick left off, making this the first book to fully document Florida's forest history through the modern day. Enlightening and accessible to a broad audience, this book will appeal to historians, conservationists, foresters, agricultural leaders, archaeologists, anthropologists, legislators, and many more. Zusammenfassung Presents the 500-year history of Florida's forests! beginning before the Spaniards colonized the state! when Native American tribes felled trees to build shelters and canoes! carve ritual masks and weapons! and make firewood. This book offers first-person accounts by the people who explored! logged! reforested! and managed Florida's forests. ...

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Authors Baynard/ Walsh Kendrick, Barry Walsh
Publisher University Press Of Florida
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.07.2007
 
EAN 9780813030227
ISBN 978-0-8130-3022-7
No. of pages 585
Dimensions 159 mm x 235 mm x 38 mm
Subject Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works

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