Download or read book The Redwood Lumbering Industry on the Northern California Coast 1850 1900 written by Ralph Thomas Wattenburger and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Logging the Redwoods written by Lynwood Carranco and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press The giant redwood trees are one of California’s best known attractions. Thousands of tourists visit the Northern California groves each year. The story of the California redwood lumber industry also tells the stories of the men, the trains, and the land. This book is dedicated to the pioneer lumbermen who succeeded in launching careers as mill men by overcoming the tremendous obstacle of moving the giant redwoods from the woods to the mill, by inventing equipment strong enough to handle the gigantic logs, and by finding suitable markets for their lumber throughout the Pacific area; and to Augustus William Ericson and the other early photographers who preserved the early history of logging in pictures.
Download or read book Building the Redwood Region written by James Michael Buckley and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Hundred Years of the Redwood Lumber Industry 1850 1950 written by Howard Brent Melendy and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Century of Lumber Production in California and Nevada written by Richard H. May and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mills and Markets written by Thomas R. Cox and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mills and Markets: A History of the Pacific Coast Lumber Industry to 1900
Download or read book The Home of the Redwood written by Redwood Lumber Manufacturers Association and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book T P Andrews Report on the Redwoods written by T. P. Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains report on the redwood lumber industry of the Pacific Coast, specifically California. Also includes two maps of Northern California coast.
Download or read book Redwood Lumber Industry written by Lynwood Carranco and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Technical Paper written by California Forest and Range Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ghost Forest written by Greg King and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive story of the California redwoods, their discovery and their exploitation, as told by an activist who fought to protect their existence against those determined to cut them down. Every year millions of tourists from around the world visit California’s famous redwoods. Yet few who strain their necks to glimpse the tops of the world’s tallest trees understand how unlikely it is that these last isolated groves of giant trees still stand at all. In this gripping historical memoir, journalist and famed redwood activist Greg King examines how investors and a growing U.S. economy drove the timber industry to cut down all but 4 percent of the original two-million-acre redwood ecosystem. King first examined redwood logging in the 1980s—as an award-winning reporter. What he found in the woods convinced him to leap the line of neutrality and become an activist dedicated to saving the very last ancient redwood groves remaining in private hands. The land grab began in 1849, when a “green gold rush” of migrants came to exploit the legendary redwoods that grew along the Russian River. Several generations later, in 1987, Greg King discovered and named Headwaters Forest—at 3,000 acres the largest ancient redwood habitat remaining outside of parks—and he led the movement to save this grove. After a decade of one of the longest, most dramatic, and violent environmental campaigns in US history, in 1999 the state and federal governments protected Headwaters Forest. The Ghost Forest explores a central question, an overhanging mystery: What was it like, this botanical Elysium that grew only along the Northern California coast, a forest so spectacular—but also uniquely valuable as a cornerstone of American economic growth—that in the end it would inspire life-and-death struggles? Few but loggers and surveyors ever saw such magnificent trees, ancient sentinels that, like ghosts, have informed King’s understanding of the world. On a lifelong journey, King finds himself through the generations, and through the trees. A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Title
Download or read book Mining California written by Andrew C. Isenberg and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile—rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and grasslands. Not since William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis has a historian so skillfully applied John Muir's insight—"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe"—to the telling of the history of the American West. Beautifully told, this is western environmental history at its finest.
Download or read book History of the California Lumber Industry 1850 1936 written by Emil Theodore Hieronymus Bunje and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Technical Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forest Survey Release written by California Forest and Range Experiment Station, Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mills of Humboldt County 1910 1945 written by Fortuna Depot Museum Susan J.P. O’Hara and Alex Service and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sequoia sempervirens, California coastal redwood, was Humboldt County's economic mainstay from the 1850s onwards. By the early 20th century, harvesting "red gold" was the major industry along California's North Coast, with Humboldt at the forefront of the industry. The first half of the 20th century saw technological changes in logging and milling. New uses for redwood included cigar boxes, "presto-logs," and core logs for plywood. The industry began reforestation practices, growing their own seedlings as early as 1907. World War I and the Great Depression impacted the industry, as did activism to preserve the redwoods. In the 1930s, the largest stand of old-growth redwoods was preserved, and the turmoil of the 1935 strike resulted in several strikers being killed in Eureka. This book explores Humboldt's early-20th-century lumber industry and day-to-day realities of life in the mills and woods in an era underrepresented in published logging history.
Download or read book Technical Paper California Forest and Range Experiment Station written by California Forest and Range Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
