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Black Hills Forestry: A History

Black Hills Forestry: A History

Freeman, John F.

Paperback

Lawns, Trees, & ShrubsRegional: West

ISBN10: 1646425685
ISBN13: 9781646425686
Publisher: Univ Pr Of Colorado
Published: Oct 20 2023
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The first study focused on the history of the Black Hills National Forest, its centrality to life in the region, and its preeminence within the National Forest System, Black Hills Forestry is a cultural history of the most commercialized national forest in the nation.

One of the first forests actively managed by the federal government and the site of the first sale of federally owned timber to a private party, the Black Hills National Forest has served as a management model for all national forests. Its many uses, activities, and issues-recreation, timber, mining, grazing, tourism, First American cultural usage, and the intermingling of public and private lands-expose the ongoing tensions between private landowners and public land managers. Freeman shows how forest management in the Black Hills encapsulates the Forest Service's failures to keep up with changes in the public's view of forest values until compelled to do so by federal legislation and the courts. In addition, he explores how more recent events in the region like catastrophic wildfires and mountain pine beetle epidemics have provided forest managers with the chance to realign their efforts to create and maintain a biologically diverse forest that can better resist natural and human disturbances.

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