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American Canopy

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by Eric Rutkow


  Newsweek, 265, 330, 333

  New York:

  Adirondack plateau in, 137–38

  Adirondack protection in, 139–45, 246–47

  Board of Trade and Transportation in, 144

  commercial logging in, 108

  Dutch elm disease in, 223

  1872 drought in, 139

  farming in, 248

  FDR’s forestry initiatives in, 246–47, 248–49

  Forest Commission in, 142, 143, 144

  paper industry in, 125

  tanning industry in, 127, 153

  New York, N.Y.:

  Earth Day in, 314–15

  Liberty Pole protests in, 37–38

  maple tree disease in, 342

  nineteenth-century life in, 84–85

  population explosion in, 84, 85

  public park creation in, 87–92

  river-based commerce in, 140

  skyscrapers in, 90

  New Yorker, 221, 226, 265

  New York Evening Post, 86, 87, 122

  New York Herald, 77, 124

  New York State Forestry Association, 143

  New York Stock Exchange, 35

  New York Times, 114, 123, 138, 142, 143, 152, 208, 215, 226, 241–42, 244, 251, 253, 260, 278, 292, 304, 313, 315, 316, 324, 325, 330, 331, 333, 336, 339, 343

  New York Tribune, 119, 122, 140, 149

  New York World, 123, 124

  New York World’s Fair, 74

  Niagara Falls State Park, 92

  Nixon, Richard, 281, 309, 315, 319

  Nobel Peace Prize, 340–41

  Norris-Doxey Farm Forestry Act, 260

  North, J. W., 172

  North America:

  apples introduced to, 55–56

  English colonization of, 5, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18–21

  European “cultural degeneracy” theory about, 48, 56

  oranges introduced to, 171, 204

  tree resources in, 5, 13, 15, 339

  see also America, colonial

  Northeast:

  blizzards in, 341

  Great Hurricane in, 225

  logging in, 107–8, 125

  paper production in, 125, 126

  spruce in, 230

  Northern Pacific Railroad, 161, 188, 189

  Northwest:

  forest fires in, 192–93

  forest regrowth in, 194–95

  land transfers in, 188, 190

  logging in, 7, 188–95, 229, 231–38, 317, 320–21, 322, 323

  lumber workers in, 191–92, 231, 232–33, 234, 235, 236, 237, 239

  spotted owl controversy in, 316, 317–18

  transportation networks in, 189, 194, 236, 237

  tree farming in, 285, 286

  tree resources in, 188–89, 231, 264

  Northwest Forest Plan (NFP), 323, 324

  Northwest Territory, 54

  Johnny Appleseed’s travels through, 58–61

  Protestantism in, 60

  Norton, Matthew, 111, 112, 113, 114

  Norwood; or, Village Life in New England (Beecher), 220

  Notes on the State of Virginia (Jefferson), 48

  oak, 14, 23, 342

  oak, black, 23, 127

  oak, live, 151

  oak, white, 11, 23, 35, 104, 272

  Obama, Barack, 341

  Ogden, William Butler, 116, 120, 146

  Ohio, apple trees in, 61

  Ohio Company, 58

  oil spills, 311

  Old Faithful, 332

  Oliver, Andrew, 33, 34, 36

  Olmsted, Frederick Law, 88–94, 138, 141, 147, 156, 211, 269, 287, 297

  Olympic Games, of 1960, 296

  Omaha, 130

  Omaha Daily Herald, 133

  O’Neal, Tatum, 330

  “Operation Outdoors,” 296

  orange crates, 175

  orange juice, 178

  oranges, 7, 168, 168–79

  advertising of, 175, 177–78

  cooperative associations for, 176–78

  demand for, 174–75, 178–79

  farm labor for, 175–76

  irrigation for, 172, 175, 179

  North American introduction of, 171, 204

  transportation of, 172, 174, 175

  varieties of, 172, 173

  windbreaks for, 256

  Oranges (McPhee), 179

  Oregon:

  forest fire prevention in, 193

  logging in, 194

  spotted owl controversy in, 316, 319–23

  Oregon, University of, 197

  Oregon Law Review, 295

  Organization Man, The (Whyte), 281

  Osage Orange, 50

  O’Shaughnessy Dam, 166

  Otoe, 130

  Outdoor Recreation Act Program (ORAP), 310

  Outdoor Recreation Bureau, U.S., 295

  Outlook, 243

  owl, barred, 324

  owl, northern spotted, 317–18, 319–23, 324

  Ozaki, Mayor, 209

  ozone depletion, 336–37

  Pachappa Orange Growers’ Association, 176

  Pack, Charles Lathrop, 243, 249, 258

  Palm Beach, Fla., 170

  Panama Canal, 194

  Pando, 8

  paper, 6, 120–28

  consumption of, 6

  creation of, 120–21

  disposable products from, 279–80

  importance of, 126

  kraft, 187, 188

  rag, 121–22

  wood-pulp, 122–24, 125–26, 187, 188, 230

  papyrus, 121

  Parker, Carleton, 234

  parks, national, 77, 139, 145, 151, 152

  expansion of, 152

  opposition to, 151

  see also forests, national; National Park Service, U.S.

  parks, public, 86–87, 92–93, 98

  see also Central Park

  parks, state, 143, 145

  Parliament, British:

  American plant legislation in, 43

  Broad Arrow policy in, 29

  tree preservation measures in, 14

  see also Great Britain

  Pasadena, Calif., 175

  passenger pigeon, 318

  Patterson, Flora, 214

  Patuxet, 20

  Paulding, James, 65–66

  Pauly, Philip, 207

  peaches, 58, 278

  peanuts, 187

  pear, sickle, 245

  Peattie, Donald Culross, 27

  Penn, William, 34–35

  Pennsylvania:

  apple trees in, 61

  chestnut protection measures in, 215, 216

  commercial logging in, 108

  leather industry in, 127

  Pennsylvania Gazette, 44

  People, 331

  Pepys, Samuel, 26

  Pernin, Peter, 115, 117, 118, 119

  Pershing, John J., 228–29, 231, 232, 236, 242

  Peshtigo, Wis., 115, 116, 117–20, 139

  Peshtigo Company, 116

  pesticides, 226–27

  Petre, Lord, 43

  Pettigrew, Richard, 159

  Pettigrew Amendment, 159, 287, 294

  Philadelphia, Pa., as intellectual center, 46

  Philadelphia Daily Evening Register, 122

  Philadelphia Inquirer, 123

  Philipp, Emanuel, 195

  Philippines, 205

  Pilat, Ignaz, 91

  Pilgrims, 19, 20

  Pinchot, Gifford, 8, 153–57, 158–59, 160–67, 173, 193, 196–97, 198, 204, 217, 246–47, 250, 283, 284, 287–88, 297, 298, 304, 311

  Pinchot, James, 153, 154

  Pinchot, Mary, 153

  pine, bristlecone, 1–2, 8

  federal protection of, 9

  pine, longleaf, 70, 127, 180, 182, 184, 187, 195, 197

  pine, pitch, 23

  pine, ponderosa, 189

  pine, Scotch, 15

  pine, white, 1, 72, 273

  early medicinal uses of, 23

  logging of, 5, 26–27, 107–8, 109–15, 125, 127
, 128, 138, 180, 190

  overuse of, 79

  in shipbuilding, 23, 26–27, 32, 33

  pine, whitebark, 342

  pine, yellow, 195

  Pioneers, The (Cooper), 66–67

  pitch, 15, 70

  Plant Genetic Resources Unit, 61

  Plant Quarantine Act, 210, 215, 223

  Plymouth Company, 18, 19

  Plymouth Rock, splitting of, 38–39

  plywood, 275

  consumption of, 6

  pollution, 308–9, 312, 335, 344

  Popham, George, 19

  poplar, 123, 125

  Population Bomb, The (Ehrlich), 312

  populism, 176

  Portugal:

  colonial timber trade with, 24

  American colonization by, 11

  Powell, John Wesley, 135–36

  Precaution (Cooper), 65, 66

  preservation, 304, 305–6

  and Aldo Leopold, 300, 301

  and Gifford Pinchot, 154, 162, 166–67

  and Muir, 149, 150, 151, 152, 157

  and sequoias, 77, 92

  Prince Nurseries, 52

  Principall Navigations (Hakluyt), 17

  “Problem of the Wilderness, The” (Marshall), 302

  Progressivism, 165, 166

  Prohibition, 178

  “Prometheus,” 1, 3, 4–5, 9

  Promontory Summit, 99

  Prospect Park, 92

  Providence Journal, 123

  Public Works Administration (PWA), 223

  Pulitzer, Joseph, 124

  Pullman, George, 103

  Purdue University, 197

  railroads, 99–105

  bridges for, 101–2

  cars for, 103

  crossties for, 104–5, 130, 212

  federal land grants to, 190

  and forest fires, 103, 116, 117, 142

  and forestry, 163

  logging industry competition with, 115

  refrigeration systems on, 175

  in South, 181, 183, 184

  steam engines on, 102–3

  strap, 101

  transcontinental, 173–74, 189

  tree planting by, 130

  wood use in, 70, 100–105, 109, 110, 127, 130

  World War I construction of, 237

  Rain Forest Action Network (RAN), 329, 330

  rain forests:

  biodiversity in, 327

  destruction of, 324, 327–28, 336, 344

  logging in, 327

  preservation of, 329–32

  ranching in, 328

  Raleigh, Walter, 12, 16

  ranching, 134, 137

  in rain forests, 328

  Rather, Dan, 315

  Reagan, Ronald, 316, 320

  Reclamation Bureau, U.S., 304

  Reconstruction, 181

  Redford, Robert, 325

  Red River Lumber Company, 191

  Reducing Emissions Through Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), 343

  redwoods, coastal, 8, 76, 188, 230

  Report of the Chief of the Forest Service (1946), 294

  Report on the Forests of North America, 141, 179–80, 181, 190

  Republican Party, U.S., 130, 341

  Revere, Paul, 34, 36

  Revolutionary War, 8, 39, 45, 51

  British mast shortage in, 32–33

  trees’ emblematic usage in, 35

  Rhode Island:

  Dutch elm disease in, 226

  Tree of Liberty in, 37

  Ribault, John, 13

  Richmond, Duke of, 43

  Richthofen, Manfred von, 229

  Rickenbacker, Eddie, 229

  Riverside, Calif., 172–73, 175, 179

  Roanoke colony, 16

  Rockefeller, John D., 113, 169

  Rock Island, Ill., 106

  Rolling Stones, 330

  Roosevelt, Eleanor, 244, 245, 251

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 8, 224, 244–45, 262, 263, 266, 270, 304

  Depression-era forestry initiatives of, 249–54, 255, 256–60, 261, 293, 298, 302

  early forestry interests of, 245–49, 283

  Roosevelt, Sara, 244

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 8, 75, 138, 161–62, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 175, 204, 206, 211, 244, 256, 287, 318

  Root, Elihu, 293

  root gall worm, 208

  rosewood, 327

  Royal Poinciana, 170

  rum, 57

  Rural Hours (Cooper), 78

  Russell, Charles Edward, 194

  Russo-Japanese War, 206

  Rybczynski, Witold, 270

  Sacramento, Calif., elm planting in, 221

  Sacramento Daily Record-Union, 149

  St. Augustine, Fla., 169

  sakuras, 201–3, 204–7, 208–10

  Salmond, John, 253

  San Francisco, Calif., 166, 189

  Sanitary Commission, U.S., 92

  sanitoriums, 138

  San Jose scale, 208

  San Padre National Forest, 262

  Santa Barbara, Calif., oil spill in, 311

  Saranac Lake, 137

  Saratoga Springs, N.Y., 85, 220

  Sargent, Charles Sprague, 141, 142, 144, 148, 152, 155, 158, 159, 162, 179, 188, 190, 218

  sassafras, 17, 23

  Saunders, William, 173

  sawmills, 69, 108, 182, 184, 236, 237

  Scandinavia, elm disease in, 222

  Scharf, Kenny, 330

  Schulman, Edmund, 2, 3

  Schwarz, Maria Beatrice, 221

  Scidmore, Eliza, 202–3, 204, 205, 209

  Science, 327

  Scientific Monthly, 302

  Scientific Revolution, 41

  Scribner, Charles, 97

  Seattle, Wash., growth of, 189

  Sedition Act of 1798, 39

  Senate, U.S.:

  Timber Culture Act in, 136

  wildfire hearings in, 342

  Seneca Village, 88

  Sequoia National Park, 152

  sequoias, 8, 72–78

  federal protection of, 76–78, 92, 98, 149, 151, 152

  Seward, William, 96

  Seymour, Horatio, 140

  Shakespeare, William, 17

  Shawnee, 64

  sheep, 149, 150

  Sheetrock, 274

  Shelterbelt, 255, 256–60, 261

  Sherman, William Tecumseh, 75

  shipbuilding:

  in colonial New England, 23–24

  masts for, 23, 25, 26–28, 32–33

  trees in, 5, 14–15, 23, 46–47, 151

  Sierra Club, 152

  Sierra Nevadas, 71, 72, 73, 147, 148, 149

  Silent Spring (Carson), 227, 308, 312

  Simmons’ Spice Mill, 178

  Siskiyou National Forest, 264

  skid roads, 190–91

  skid row, 192

  slavery, 51, 130

  slaves, forest meeting places of, 35

  slave trade, 25, 327

  Smith, John, 18

  Smokey Bear, 265, 266–67

  Society of American Foresters, 161, 285

  soda pulp, 123

  Soil Conservation Act, 260

  Soil Conservation Service (SCS), 260

  Sonora Herald, 73

  Sons of Liberty, 8, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38

  South:

  brick home construction in, 274

  chestnut blight in, 217

  commercial logging in, 115, 179–88, 194

  company towns in, 182, 184–85

  convict labor in, 127

  economic development in, 181

  farming in, 176

  lumber workers in, 182, 184, 185–87

  naval stores industry in, 70, 127

  plantations in, 50–51

  transportation network in, 181, 183, 184

  tree farming in, 285, 286

  South Carolina Railroad, 102

  Southeast, droughts in, 341

  Southern California Colony Association, 172

  Southern California Frui
t Exchange, 176

  Southern Lumber Operators’ Association, 185, 186

  Southern Pacific Railroad, 174, 189

  Southwest:

  bristlecone pines in, 1–2

  national forests in, 298

  Spain:

  British war with, 17

  colonial timber trade with, 24

  naval superiority of, 12, 16

  American colonization by, 11–12

  Spielberg, Steven, 325

  Springwood, 245, 247

  spruce, 15, 23, 125, 126

  in airplane construction, 230, 231, 236, 237, 238, 239

  spruce, Norway, 228, 247

  spruce, red, 230

  spruce, Sitka, 230–31

  World War I logging of, 232, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238

  Staehle, Albert, 265

  Stamp Act, 33–34, 36

  Standard Oil, 114, 169

  Stanford, Leland, 99, 100

  Starr, Frederick, 97

  Starr, Kevin, 175

  State Department, U.S., in Japanese cherry tree incident, 208

  steam power, 70, 102–3

  steel, 70, 102

  Steinbeck, John, 176

  Stephenson, Isaac, 116, 119, 120

  Stevenson, Adlai, III, 326

  Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 169

  Strentzel, Louie Wanda, 150

  Students for a Democratic Society, 315

  stump speech, 62

  Stuyvesant, Peter, 56

  suburbia:

  consumerism in, 279

  criticisms of, 281, 282

  growth of, 268–69, 278, 282–83, 306

  racism in, 282–83

  as symbol of capitalism, 281

  trees’ importance to, 7, 277–78, 280

  “Succession of Forest Trees, The” (Thoreau), 83

  “Sudden Oak Death,” 342

  sugar, 24

  Sullivan, William, 183, 184

  sumac, 23

  Sunkist, 177–78

  Sunset, 174

  Sustainable Forest Initiative, 287

  Sweden, 273, 326

  Swedenborgianism, 59, 60, 80

  sycamore, American, 35

  Taft, Helen “Nellie,” 201, 205, 206, 209

  Taft, William Howard, 75, 165, 201, 205, 206, 208

  Tahoe National Forest, 296

  Takamine, Jokichi, 206

  tannin, 127, 212

  tar, 15

  teak, 327

  Technics and Civilization (Mumford), 68

  telegraph poles, 212

  temperance movement, 61

  Texas, droughts in, 341

  Thayer, James Bradley, 145, 146

  Thomas, Jack Ward, 321, 322–24

  Thoreau, Henry David, 8, 78–84, 105, 146, 150, 211, 220, 287, 300

  Thoreau, John, 80

  Tibbets, Luther and Eliza, 173, 175

  Tien Shan Mountains, 55

  Tillamook blowup of 1933, 193

  timber:

  British shortage of, 13–15, 26, 29

  colonial trade in, 24–25, 27

  in composite materials, 275

  consumption of, 6

  nineteenth-century production of, 108, 157

  Pilgrims’ need for, 21–22

  research studies of, 197, 198–99, 274

  and urbanization, 68, 85

  uses of, 5–6, 105, 272–73

  World War I use of, 231–41

 

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