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The Jefferson National Forest: An Appalachian Environmental History
University of Tennessee Press, 2011 Cloth: 978-1-57233-828-9 | eISBN: 978-1-57233-837-1 Library of Congress Classification SD428.J4S27 2011 Dewey Decimal Classification 333.7509755
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The highland forests of southwestern Virginia were a sacred land to Native Americans and one they relied upon for sustenance. After European contact, this beautiful country drew successive waves of settlers and visitors, and for a brief yet intense period, industrialists rapaciously exploited its timber resources, particularly in the higher elevations where the woodlands had survived the nearby valleys’ generations of agricultural use. This is the story of how various peoples have regarded this land over the centuries and how, starting in the early twentieth century, the federal government acquired 700,000 acres of it to create what is now the Jefferson National Forest (JNF). See other books on: Chemistry | Environmental Science | Forest management | Management | Regional Studies See other titles from University of Tennessee Press |
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