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McGraw-Hill Book Company, Published 1953. Hardcover, 278 pp.; 24 cm; The American Forestry Series, Henry J. Vaux, consulting editor.
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In Good condition, no dust jacket. Maroon cloth boards with blind-stamped rules and a very light blind-stamped "American Forestry Series" on front cover, black spine panel lettered in gilt. Mild shelf wear with surface scratches to both covers, some color loss along edges and at corner tips. Binding tight. Two former owners' names on front pastedown and front free endpaper in ink. Pages mildly toned. Light pencil underlining and occasional marginal notes on several pages, otherwise unmarked. Greeley (1879-1955) was the third Chief of the United States Forest Service (1920-1928), where he shepherded the Clarke-McNary Act of 1924 into law, and afterward spent two decades as an executive of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association in Seattle. Written from Port Gamble, Washington, in his last years and published as a textbook in McGraw-Hill's American Forestry Series, this is his summing-up of how nations arrive at a forest policy, from a man who had made policy from both the government and the industry side. Part Two surveys the forest policies of Germany, France, Switzerland, Russia, Japan, Scandinavia, Britain, Canada, and South America; Part Three traces the American story from free timber and migrating industries through the forest reserves of 1891, the Act of 1897, Roosevelt and Pinchot, the Weeks Act of 1911, state forestry, private forest management, forest taxation, flood control, and the postwar debate over national wood supply. A companion to his memoir Forests and Men (1951). Contents: Part One, Origins and Implements of Forest Policy: Origins of Forest Policy; Ways and Means of National Action in Forestry. Part Two, Illustrative Forest Policies: The Forest Policy of Germany; The Forest Policy of France; The Forest Policy of Switzerland; The Forest Policy of Russia; The Forest Policy of Japan; The Democratic Forest Policies of Scandinavia; The Forest Policy of Britain; The Forest Policy of Canada; Forest Policies in South America. Part Three, The Forest Policy of the United States: Free Timber and Migrating Industries; The First Step in American Forestry, Education; The Second Step, Public Forest Management; The Third Step, Public and Private Cooperation; Growth in State Forest Policies; Private Forest Management in the United States; Forest Research; Forest Taxation; Flood Control and Water Conservation; Forestry Aids Seldom Used in America; The Status of National Wood Supply; Current Problems of American Forestry. Part Four, Summary of World Trends in Forest Policy: Paramount Public Interest. References; Index.