Elers Koch

Forty Years a Forester (Second Edition, )

Herausgeber: Miller, Char

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Produktbeschreibung

Elers Koch (1880–1954) grew up on the Montana frontier in the late 1800s. After earning a master’s degree in forestry from Yale University in 1903, he joined the USDA Bureau of Forestry. In addition to being a major innovator in forest management, Koch was a skilled mountaineer, an outspoken wilderness advocate, and a successful novelist. Char Miller is the W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis at Pomona College and is a fellow of the Forest History Society. John Maclean¿is a prize-winning author of five books on wildland fire, including The Esperanza Fire: Arson, Murder, and the Agony of Engine 57.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• 2nd Second Edition, edition
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9781496213358
• ISBN-10: 1496213351
• Artikelnr.: 55495222

Autorenporträt

Elers Koch (1880–1954) grew up on the Montana frontier in the late 1800s. After earning a master’s degree in forestry from Yale University in 1903, he joined the USDA Bureau of Forestry. In addition to being a major innovator in forest management, Koch was a skilled mountaineer, an outspoken wilderness advocate, and a successful novelist. Char Miller is the W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis at Pomona College and is a fellow of the Forest History Society. John Maclean is a prize-winning author of five books on wildland fire, including The Esperanza Fire: Arson, Murder, and the Agony of Engine 57.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Foreword
John N. Maclean
Introduction
Char Miller
1. Montana Boy
2. Gifford Pinchot’s Young Men
3. Forest Supervisor: 1907–1918
4. Forest Fires
5. The Lochsa River Fire
6. The Moose Creek Story
7. Snowshoes
8. Mountain Climbing
9. Growing Trees
10. Ranger Stories
11. The Forest Service and the New Deal
12. The Passing of the Lolo Trail
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index