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Conserving Southern Longleaf

Herbert Stoddard and the Rise of Ecological Land Management

By: Albert G. Way

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Conserving Southern Longleaf

Herbert Stoddard and the Rise of Ecological Land Management

By: Albert G. Way

The Red Hills region of south Georgia and north Florida contains one of the most biologically diverse ecosystems in North America, with longleaf pine trees that are up to four hundred years old and an understory of unparalleled plant life. At first glance, the longleaf woodlands at plantations like Greenwood, outside Thomasville, Georgia, seem undisturbed by market economics and human activity, but Albert G. Way contends that this environment was socially produced and that its story adds nuance to the broader narrative of American conservation. The Red Hills woodlands were thought of primarily as a healthful refuge for northern industrialists in the early twentieth century. When notable wildlife biologist Herbert Stoddard arrived in 1924, he began to recognize the area's ecological value. Stoddard was with the federal government, but he drew on local knowledge to craft his land management practices, to the point where a distinctly southern, agrarian form of ecological conservation emerged. This set of practices was in many respects progressive, particularly in its approach to fire management and species diversity, and much of it remains in effect today. Using Stoddard as a window into this unique conservation landscape, Conserving Southern Longleaf positions the Red Hills as a valuable center for research into and understanding of wildlife biology, fire ecology, and the environmental appreciation of a region once dubbed simply the “pine barrens.”

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University of Georgia Press

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0820334669

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The Art of Managing Longleaf

A Personal History of the Stoddard-Neel Approach

By: Leon Neel,Paul S. Sutter,Albert G. Way

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A Personal History of the Stoddard-Neel Approach

By: Leon Neel,Paul S. Sutter,Albert G. Way

Greenwood Plantation in the Red Hills region of southwest Georgia includes a rare one-thousand-acre stand of old-growth longleaf pine woodlands, a remnant of an ecosystem that once covered close to ninety million acres across the Southeast. The Art of Managing Longleaf documents the sometimes controversial management system that not only has protected Greenwood's “Big Woods” but also has been practiced on a substantial acreage of the remnant longleaf pine woodlands in the Red Hills and other parts of the Coastal Plain. Often described as an art informed by science, the Stoddard-Neel Approach combines frequent prescribed burning, highly selective logging, a commitment to a particular woodland aesthetic, intimate knowledge of the ecosystem and its processes, and other strategies to manage the longleaf pine ecosystem in a sustainable way. The namesakes of this method are Herbert Stoddard (who developed it) and his colleague and successor, Leon Neel (who has refined it). In addition to presenting a detailed, illustrated outline of the Stoddard-Neel Approach, the book—based on an extensive oral history project undertaken by Paul S. Sutter and Albert G. Way, with Neel as its major subject—discusses Neel's deep familial and cultural roots in the Red Hills; his years of work with Stoddard; and the formation and early years of the Tall Timbers Research Station, which Stoddard and Neel helped found in the pinelands near Tallahassee, Florida, in 1958. In their introduction, environmental historians Sutter and Way provide an overview of the longleaf ecosystem's natural and human history, and in his afterword, forest ecologist Jerry F. Franklin affirms the value of the Stoddard-Neel Approach.

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0820344133

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The Primeval Forest

By: Albert Schweitzer

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The Primeval Forest

By: Albert Schweitzer

In July of 1913, 38-year-old medical doctor Albert Schweitzer gave up his position as a respected professor at the university of Strasbourg, and celebrated authority on music and philosophy, in order to go as a physician to French Equatorial Africa. First published in 1931, THE PRIMEVAL FOREST is Schweitzer's own fascinating story of these eventful years--a story rich in human interest and high drama.

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JHU Press

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0801859581

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The Art of Managing Longleaf

A Personal History of the Stoddard-Neel Approach

By: Leon Neel,Paul S. Sutter,Albert G. Way

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A Personal History of the Stoddard-Neel Approach

By: Leon Neel,Paul S. Sutter,Albert G. Way

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Conserving Southern Longleaf

Herbert Stoddard and the Rise of Ecological Land Management

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Conserving Southern Longleaf

Conserving Southern Longleaf

The Art of Managing Longleaf

The Art of Managing Longleaf

The Primeval Forest

The Primeval Forest

The Art of Managing Longleaf

The Art of Managing Longleaf

Conserving Southern Longleaf

Conserving Southern Longleaf

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