Forty Years a Forester
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Forty Years a Forester

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Forty Years a Forester

About this book

Elers Koch, a key figure in the early days of the U.S. Forest Service, was among the first American-trained silviculturists, a pioneering forest manager, and a master firefighter. By horse and on foot, he helped establish the boundaries of most of our national forests in the West, designed new fire-control strategies and equipment, and served during the formative years of the agency. Forty Years a Forester, Koch’s entertaining and illuminating memoir, reveals one remarkable man’s contributions to the incipient science of forest management and his role in building the human relationships and policies that helped make the U.S. Forest Service, prior to World War II, the most respected bureau in the federal government.

This new, fully annotated edition of Koch’s memoir offers an unparalleled look at the Forest Service’s formative ambitions to regulate the national forests and grasslands and reminds us of the principled commitment that Koch and his peers exemplified as they built the national forest system and nurtured the essential conservation ethic that continues to guide our use of the public lands.
 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Frontispiece
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Foreword
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. Montana Boy
  11. 2. Gifford Pinchot’s Young Men
  12. 3. Forest Supervisor: 1907–1918
  13. 4. Forest Fires
  14. 5. The Lochsa River Fire
  15. 6. The Moose Creek Story
  16. 7. Snowshoes
  17. 8. Mountain Climbing
  18. 9. Growing Trees
  19. 10. Ranger Stories
  20. 11. The Forest Service and the New Deal
  21. 12. The Passing of the Lolo Trail
  22. Acknowledgments
  23. Notes
  24. Index
  25. About Elers Koch
  26. About Char Miller
  27. About John N. Maclean