Author: Angela Taylor
Publisher: Melbourne University Publish
ISBN: 9780522848397
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A Forester's Log is a unique forest story, told from a forester's viewpoint-the view of John La Gerche, one of the first generation of foresters in Victoria, who managed the Ballarat-Creswick State Forest in the late nineteenth century. La Gerche's Letter Books and Pocket Books have survived to provide a rare insight into a bailiff-forester's burdens in the 1880s and 1890s. As a bailiff, he daily had to confront prop cutters and woodcarters, 'scamps and vagabonds' who constantly defied forest regulations. His pioneering work helped shape today's forested landscape around the Central Victorian goldfields town of Creswick, 'the home of forestry'. In the detailed correspondence between this amateur forester and his bureaucratic masters lies the human story of an ordinary yet remarkable man, endeavouring to strike a fair balance between the competing demands of local woodcutters and distant officials. Angela Taylor reads between the lines to create a beautifully perceptive portrait of a vanishing character type-the truly committed public servant. A Forester's Log is an illuminating and charming book which will appeal to a wide range of readers, both urban and rural, including those interested in conservation and landscape heritage.
A Forester's Log
Author: Angela Taylor
Publisher: Melbourne University Publish
ISBN: 9780522848397
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A Forester's Log is a unique forest story, told from a forester's viewpoint-the view of John La Gerche, one of the first generation of foresters in Victoria, who managed the Ballarat-Creswick State Forest in the late nineteenth century. La Gerche's Letter Books and Pocket Books have survived to provide a rare insight into a bailiff-forester's burdens in the 1880s and 1890s. As a bailiff, he daily had to confront prop cutters and woodcarters, 'scamps and vagabonds' who constantly defied forest regulations. His pioneering work helped shape today's forested landscape around the Central Victorian goldfields town of Creswick, 'the home of forestry'. In the detailed correspondence between this amateur forester and his bureaucratic masters lies the human story of an ordinary yet remarkable man, endeavouring to strike a fair balance between the competing demands of local woodcutters and distant officials. Angela Taylor reads between the lines to create a beautifully perceptive portrait of a vanishing character type-the truly committed public servant. A Forester's Log is an illuminating and charming book which will appeal to a wide range of readers, both urban and rural, including those interested in conservation and landscape heritage.
Publisher: Melbourne University Publish
ISBN: 9780522848397
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A Forester's Log is a unique forest story, told from a forester's viewpoint-the view of John La Gerche, one of the first generation of foresters in Victoria, who managed the Ballarat-Creswick State Forest in the late nineteenth century. La Gerche's Letter Books and Pocket Books have survived to provide a rare insight into a bailiff-forester's burdens in the 1880s and 1890s. As a bailiff, he daily had to confront prop cutters and woodcarters, 'scamps and vagabonds' who constantly defied forest regulations. His pioneering work helped shape today's forested landscape around the Central Victorian goldfields town of Creswick, 'the home of forestry'. In the detailed correspondence between this amateur forester and his bureaucratic masters lies the human story of an ordinary yet remarkable man, endeavouring to strike a fair balance between the competing demands of local woodcutters and distant officials. Angela Taylor reads between the lines to create a beautifully perceptive portrait of a vanishing character type-the truly committed public servant. A Forester's Log is an illuminating and charming book which will appeal to a wide range of readers, both urban and rural, including those interested in conservation and landscape heritage.
The Forester's Log
Author: Mary Stuever
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826344585
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This collection of Stuever's popular columns celebrates the bond between land and people and inspires us to preserve our forest treasures.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826344585
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This collection of Stuever's popular columns celebrates the bond between land and people and inspires us to preserve our forest treasures.
The Foresters' Almanac, 1977
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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A Guide to Logging Aesthetics
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1971
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
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Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
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Languages : en
Pages : 1310
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Languages : en
Pages : 1310
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Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1971, Hearings Before ... 91-2, on H.R. 17619
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee
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Languages : en
Pages : 1306
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Languages : en
Pages : 1306
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Independent Logging and Sawmill Industry
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business
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Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Hearings on problems of small business lumber and pulpwood industries.
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Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Hearings on problems of small business lumber and pulpwood industries.
Independent Logging and Sawmill Industry--1958[-]
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business
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Category : Logging
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
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Category : Logging
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Lumber World Review
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Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
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Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
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