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Index
Adams, Brock, 321
Adams, John, 49, 57
Adams, Samuel, 34
Ad Council, 266
Adirondack Park Enabling Act, 143
Adirondacks, 137–45
logging in, 142, 143, 144, 246–47
protection of, 138–45, 154, 246–47
Adventures in the Wilderness; or Camp-Life in the Adirondacks (Murray), 137, 138, 139
Adventures of Peter Pine, The, 286
advertising, 175, 177–78, 191
forest fire prevention, 263, 265, 266–67
African Americans:
in environmental movement, 315
Great Migration of, 186
in logging industry, 182, 184, 185, 186–87
suburban exclusion of, 282–83
Agassiz, Louis, 74
Agency for International Development, U.S., 329
agriculture, see farming
Agriculture Department, U.S., 61, 128, 154
chestnut blight study by, 215
in Dutch elm disease outbreak, 222, 223, 224–25
Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction Office of, 204, 210, 215, 259
Forestry Division of, 154, 160, 162, 196; see also Forest Service, U.S.
plant importation restrictions by, 201, 202, 207, 208, 210, 222, 223
Plant Industry Bureau of, 215, 216
Alabama, tree farming in, 285
Albany, N.Y., 108, 109
Albion, Robert, 33
alder, 23
Alleghenies, 62
aluminum, 239, 274
Amazon rain forest, 324, 325, 332, 336
America, colonial:
alcohol consumption in, 56–57
apple cultivation in, 56
backwoods in, 62
botany in, 41–42, 44, 45
British economic exploitation of, 12–13, 18, 21, 23, 24, 25
early settlement points in, 20
elm cultivation in, 218–19
home building in, 272–73
horticultural trade in, 40, 42–43, 44, 45, 56, 203
increased immigration to, 22
mast trade in, 23, 25, 26–28, 32, 33
Revolutionary-era protests in, 33–34, 35, 36, 37–39
scientific progress in, 40–41, 44–45
shipbuilding in, 23–24
timber trade in, 24–25, 27
trades in, 23
tree resources in, 5–6, 13, 18, 20–23, 26–27, 40, 211–12
triangle trades in, 25
American Association of Nursery Men, 207
American Automobile Association (AAA), 294
American Federation of Labor (AFL), 186, 235, 251
American Forest Congress, 163
American Forest Foundation, 343
American Forestry, 240
American Forestry Association (AFA), 154, 223, 224, 225, 242, 249
American Forestry Congress, 154, 256
American Forests, 223, 224, 230, 251, 252, 259
“American Forests: Their Destruction and Preservation” (Starr), 97
American Philosophical Society (APS), 45, 46, 48, 49
American Tree Association, 243
American Weekly Mercury, 27
American Wood Paper Company, 123, 125
Anders, Bill, 325
Anderson, Clinton, 305–6
Anglo-Dutch wars, 26
Apache National Forest, 298
Apollo 8, 325
Appalachians:
chestnuts in, 211, 213, 217
logging in, 213
apple cider, 56–57, 61
apples, 55–58
Appleseed, Johnny, 8, 54–55, 58–61, 71
Arbor Day, 8, 132–34, 135, 154, 313, 316
arboriculture, 130, 224, 227
Arbor Lodge State Historical Park and Arboretum, 134
Arbustrum Americanum: The American Grove (Marshall), 46
Arizona Territory, 298
Army, U.S.:
Civilian Conservation Corps camps run by, 250
Spruce Production Division (SPD) of, 234, 235–36, 237–38
Tenth Engineers (Forestry) of, 241
see also military, U.S.
Arnold Arboretum, 92, 141
Arrhenius, Sven, 334
asbestos, 274
ash, 22, 23, 342
aspens, quaking, 8
asphalt, 274
Associated Press, 312
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad, 174
Atlantic Monthly, 92, 218, 252
automobiles, 288
mass production of, 289
recreation in, 289–93, 294, 299, 307
“Autumnal Tints” (Thoreau), 83
Azores, 24
B-52s, 330
backlog, 62
Backwoodsman, The (Paulding), 65–66
backwoodsmen, 61–68
Bad Nauheim, Germany, 245–46
Baedeker Company, 156
Bailey, L. H., 61
Baker, Newton, 231, 233
Ballinger, Richard, 165–66
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 102
Bambi, 264–65
Barbados, colonial timber trade with, 24–25
Barton, Benjamin Smith, 41, 49
Bartram, John, 41–46, 48, 53, 56, 203
Beauty Bonded Formica, 274
Beecher, Henry Ward, 138, 220
Beef Slough, 112, 113
beer, 57, 61
beetles, elm-bark, 221–22, 223, 225, 226
beetles, Japanese long-horned, 342
Bell, Alexander Graham, 204
Bergere, Estella, 299
Bernhard, Sandra, 331
Big Burn of 1910, 193
Biltmore, 93, 156, 161
