Hoof Prints On Forest Ranges: The Early Years Of National Forest Range Administration - Couverture souple

Roberts, Paul Henley

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1258227134 ISBN 13 : 9781258227135

Editeur : Literary Licensing, LLC, 2011

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EARLY during each of the years
shortly following the turn of the century, patrons of the old
Albany Hotel of Denver, Colorado, as they lay in their beds, could
hear an ominous rumble, almost a roar, of voices welling up
from the glass dome which then covered a portion of the hotel
lobby. To the initiated it meant that the rowmen of the 'Vest,
in annual convention assemb1ed, again were discussing the
various proposals Gifford Pinchot had made to govern the grazing
of domestic livestock on the public lands which had been, or
were to be, "tvithdrawn from the public domain as forest reserves.
The conversations were tinged with salt and sulphur,
and the rich idiom of the Old 'Vest poured out less often
in prose than in blank verse.
Some of the speakers were men who themselves had helped
to win the West, many more the sons of such men. Some were
men of erudition and high statesmanship, O'vners or managers of
large interests with established records of objective manageme

Table of Contents

PICTURE SECTION between xvi and 1; I ORIGIN OF RANGE CONTROL 1; II MAELSTROM ON THE RANGE 7; III FOREST RESERVE THREAT 21; IV MEN AND A SYSTEM 35; V OUT ON THE FORESTS 55; VI COURTS AND CONFERENCES 79; vn COOPERATION IN RANGE MANAGEMENT 97; VIII TIME OF CHANGE 115; IX THE CLOSING 129; X THE LONGHORNS 143; EPILOGUE 149

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Literary Licensing, LLC
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1258227134
• ISBN 13: 9781258227135
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 174
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• Personne responsable: non disponible