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"Logging in the northern forest has been romanticized, with images of log drives, plaid shirts, and bunkhouses in wide circulation. Increasingly dismissed as a quaint, rural pastime, logging remains one of the most dangerous jobs in the United States, with loggers occupying a precarious position amid unstable markets, expanding global competition, and growing labor discord. Examining a time of transition and decline in Maine's forest economy, Andrew Egan traces pathways for understanding the challenges that have faced Maine's logging community and, by extension, the state's forestry sector, from the postwar period through today. Seeking greater profits, logging companies turned their crews loose at midcentury, creating a workforce of independent contractors who were forced to purchase expensive equipment and compete for contracts with the mills. Drawing on his own experience with the region's forest products industry, interviews with Maine loggers, media coverage, and court documents, Egan follows the troubled recent history of the industry and its battle for survival"--

Travailleurs forestiers --- Bois --- Forêts --- Loggers --- Lumber trade --- Logging --- Commerce --- Exploitation --- Maine. --- E-books

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The results presented in this book summarize the main findings of the CARBOFOR project, which brought together 52 scientists from 14 research units to investigate the effects of future climate on the carbon cycle, the productivity and vulnerability of French forests. This book explains the current forest carbon cycle in temperate and Mediterranean climates, including the dynamics of soil carbon and the total carbon stock of French forests, based on forest inventories. It reviews and illustrates the main ground-based methods for estimating carbon stocks in tree biomass. Spatial variations in projected climate change over metropolitan France throughout the 21st century are described. The book then goes on to consider the impacts of climate change on tree phenology and forest carbon balance, evapotranspiration and production as well as their first order interaction with forest management alternatives. The impact of climate change on forest vulnerability is analysed. A similar simulation study was carried out for a range of pathogenic fungi, emphasizing the importance of both warming and precipitation changes. The consequences of climate change on the occurrence of forest fires and the forest carbon cycle in the Mediterranean zone are also considered.A valuable reference for researchers and academics, forest engineers and managers, and graduate level students in forest ecology, ecological modelling and forestry.

Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry) --- Biogeochemical cycles --- Biogeochemistry --- Cycles --- Ecology --- Global carbon cycle --- Forêts --- Cycle du carbone. --- Climatic changes. --- Recherche. --- ecosystem --- forest --- Forêts

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Forests and forestry --- Deforestation --- Forêts --- Déboisement --- Conversion, Forest --- Depletion of forests --- Disforestation --- Forest conversion --- Forest depletion --- Forest-land conversion --- Clearing of land --- Forest fires --- Plants --- Exploitation --- Extinction

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Espace de liberté, parangon d'une nature ouverte et généreuse, source d'imaginaire pour petits et grands mais aussi patrimoine à conserver et à valoriser, soumise aux impératifs de rentabilité économique : la forêt, dont la représentation a profondément évolué au fil du temps, est aujourd'hui l'objet d'appropriations et d'enjeux contradictoires dans nos pays occidentaux. Fruit d'une approche interdisciplinaire réunissant historiens, géographes, forestiers et archéologues, cet ouvrage s'efforce d'explorer les multiples facettes de cette réalité dont la richesse n'a d'égale que la complexité.

History of Europe --- Forestry --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1200-1499 --- Logging --- Forest management --- Forests and forestry --- Forêts --- Forêts et sylviculture --- History --- Congresses --- Economic aspects --- Exploitation --- Histoire --- Congrès --- Gestion --- Aspect économique --- Forêts --- Forêts et sylviculture --- Congrès --- Aspect économique --- History of European western forests --- Middle ages-20th century --- Foresterie --- Foresterie. --- Forêt. --- Histoire. --- forêt --- forêt. --- Congrès. --- 20e s --- Europe. --- Forets --- Forests and forestry - Europe - History - Congresses --- Forets - Europe - Histoire - Congres --- histoire

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Au-delà de l’identification des essences utilisées par l’homme l’anthracologie peut restituer l’histoire des forêts, sur la base des charbons de bois provenant du combustible domestique. La crédibilité de la discipline repose entièrement sur la définition d’une méthode rigoureuse, de la fouille jusqu’à l’interprétation paléoécologique, objet de la première partie de cet ouvrage. Dans la seconde partie, treize sites languedociens, de la fin de la Préhistoire à l’Antiquité, sont étudiés selon cette méthode En Languedoc, des équilibres anciens entre la chênaie méditerranéenne et toutes les sphères d’activité humaine nécessitent une révision de l’histoire des déforestations. Ce n’est qu’à l’âge du Fer que s’étendent des espaces déboisés durables en plaine, maintenus à la période romaine, inaugurant peut-être les premiers champspermanents. Les résultats de cette étude, s’ajoutant à la documentation existante, constituent une première synthèse des transformations des territoires. Besides identifying plants used by men, charcoal analysis may also reconstruct the history of forests, based on the study of charcoal from domestic uses. The reliability of this discipline depends on the definition of rigourous methods, from the archaeological dig to the palaeoenvironmental interpretation, which is the subject of the tint part of this work.In part two, thirteen languedocian sites dating from the end of Prehistory to Antiquity are studied following this method. In the Languedoc region, the early balance between the mediterranean oak forest and human activities leads us to review the history of deforestation. It is only in the lion Age that permanent tree clearance on plains increases, maintained during the roman period, announcing perhaps the first permanent fields. The results of this study, combined with documentary sources, constitute a first synthesis on territory changes.

Neolithic period - France - Languedoc --- Paleoecology - France - Languedoc --- Forests and forestry - France - Languedoc - History --- Charcoal industry - France - Languedoc - History --- Neolithic period --- Paleoecology --- Forests and forestry --- Charcoal industry --- Forests --- Paléoécologie --- Forêts et sylviculture --- History --- Histoire --- Archaeology --- écologie --- Protohistoire --- bois --- Préhistoire --- paléobotanique --- charbon de bois --- combustible --- chênaie