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Robert Nevill Isbell Papers
No full textDr. Isbell was a Professor of Chemistry at Wake Forest College, 1926-41 and 1957 to 1963. He founded the Wake Forest College Marching Band in 1926 and was its director until 1941. He was an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve Chemical Corps from 1930-46. He received a commission in the Chemical Corps in June 1941 and rose in rank to Colonel. He was concerned with atomic operations and nuclear weaponry.This collection contains two gradebooks, 1957-60; and biographical information
The Aleza Lake Forest Experiment Station: A Brief Statement of its Purpose and Development
Get PDFPart of the Aleza Lake Research Forest fond
The History of Wake Forest College, Volume IV, 1943-1967
No full textThe Shaw volume contains much information, although it is not as detailed as the first three books. It is also more readable and wanders less often than the earlier ones. It covers the years of World War II, the admission of female students, the return of the veterans, the decision to move to Winston-Salem, the move itself, and the "fruitful years of the Tribble administration." One reviewer summarized: "Scores of names and dozens of pictures, as well as sections on student life, athletics and departmental histories complete the fabric of life at Wake Forest." A review by Linda Brinson (WFU '69) in the Winston-Salem Journal September 4, 1988, H6 concluded: "Perhaps the greatest strength of Vol. IV is that Shaw does what he states as his purpose in the preface: 'to give the whole picture of the life of the college.'" Wake Forest should be well pleased with this chronicle of the years that did so much to shape its future. Anyone with an interest in the college would find this new history a valuable source of both information and understanding. (J. Edwin Hendricks)Biographical information about the author is available in Linda Brinson, "Gentle Man of the Press," Wake Forest University Magazine, September 2, 2002. p. 46
Fighting for the forests: a history of the Western Australian forest protest movement 1895-2001
Get PDFAs the first comprehensive study of Western Australian forest protest the thesis analyses the protest movement's organisation, campaigns and strategies. Its central argument is that the contemporary Western Australian forest protest movement established a network of urban and south-west activist groups which encouraged broad public support, and that a diversity of protest strategies focused public attention on forest issues and pressured the state government to change its forest policies. The forest protest movement was characterised by its ability to continually adapt its organisation and strategies to changing social and political conditions. This flexible approach to protest not only led to victories in the Shannon River Basin, Lane-Poole Reserve and old growth forest campaigns, but also transformed forest protest into an influential social movement which contributed to the downfall of the Court Liberal Government in 2001
Carbon estimates of forest biomass for the Clatsop State Forest
No full textprepared by Andrew Yost, Ph. D., Forest Resources Planning Program.Title from PDF cover (viewed on April 24, 2020).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (pages 10-11).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Forest biomass: linking energy to forest health
Get PDFPresented at the Can forests meet our energy needs? The future of forest biomass in Colorado conference, February 21, 2008, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado.Dr. Kurt Mackes is an Assistant Professor at Colorado State University. He received both his B.S. and M.S. Degrees in Wood Science and Technology, concentrating in wood engineering from Colorado State University and a Ph.D. in Forestry and Forest Products from Virginia Tech. He is currently conducting a variety of research projects and extension work related to forest products and wood utilization in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain Region. Kurt also has over 10 years of small business sales and production experience with companies that produced wood and plastic products. He teaches Forest Products Marketing and Wood Products courses at Colorado State University and has authored a number of publications on marketing opportunities for wood products
Colorado forest facts
Get PDFAn overview of Colorado's forest ecosystems, forest products industry and conservation efforts
Colorado forest action plan
Get PDFThe 2020 Colorado Forest Action Plan provides a strategic framework to address the benefits, conditions and trends in Colorado's forests, as well as the threats and challenges the state's forests face across political, jurisdictional and ecological boundaries. State forest action plans are mandated by the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978, passed by Congress and amended by the 2008 and 2014 U.S. farm bills. This is an update to the 2010 Colorado Forest Action Plan
Forest Ag: encouraging forest productivity
No full textCSFS #150-599.In 1990, the Colorado legislature enacted House Bill 1229, now recorded in Title 39 of the Colorado Revised Statutes. This statute allows certain forest lands similar tax valuation as that of traditional agricultural lands. Qualified landowners with 40 or more forested areas and who are interested in harvesting wood products from their lands may participate in this program
Grassland biodiversity can pay
No full textThe biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) literature provides strong evidence of the biophysical basis for the potential profitability of greater diversity but does not address questions of optimal management. BEF studies typically focus on the ecosystem outputs produced by randomly assembled communities that only differ in their biodiversity levels, measured by indices such as species richness. Landholders, however, do not randomly select species to plant; they choose particular species that collectively maximize profits. As such, their interest is not in comparing the average performance of randomly assembled communities at each level of biodiversity but rather comparing the best-performing communities at each diversity level. Assessing the best-performing mixture requires detailed accounting of species’ identities and relative abundances. It also requires accounting for the financial cost of individual species’ seeds, and the economic value of changes in the quality, quantity, and variability of the species’ collective output—something that existing multifunctionality indices fail to do. This study presents an assessment approach that integrates the relevant factors into a single, coherent framework. It uses ecological production functions to inform an economic model consistent with the utility-maximizing decisions of a potentially risk-averse private landowner. We demonstrate the salience and applicability of the framework using data from an experimental grassland to estimate production relationships for hay and carbon storage. For that case, our results suggest that even a risk-neutral, profit-maximizing landowner would favor a highly diverse mix of species, with optimal species richness falling between the low levels currently found in commercial grasslands and the high levels found in natural grasslands
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