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Set in what remains some of the wildest country in the United States, Sound Wormy recalls a time when regulations were few and resources were abundant for the southern lumber industry. In 1901 Andrew Gennett put all of his money into a tract of timber along the Chattooga River watershed, which traverses parts of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. By the time he wrote his memoir almost forty years later, Gennett had outwitted and outworked countless competitors in the southern mountains to make his mark as one of the region's most seasoned, innovative, and successful lumbermen. His recollections of a rough-and-ready outdoors life are filled with details of logging, from the first "cruise" of a timber stand to the moment when the last board lies "on sticks" in the mill yard. He tells how massive poplars, oaks, and other hardwoods had to be felled and trimmed by hand, dragged down mountain slopes by draft animals, floated downstream or carried by rail to the mill, and then sawn, graded, and stacked for drying. He tells of buying timber rights in a land market filled with "sharp" operators, where titles and surveys were often contested and kinship and custom were on an equal footing with the law. Gennett saw more than potential "boardfeet" when he looked at a tree. He recalls, for instance, his efforts to convince the U.S. Forest Service to purchase undisturbed areas of wilderness at a time when its mandate was to condemn and buy up farmed-out and clear-cut land. One such sale initiated by Gennett would become the Joyce Kilmer Wilderness in North Carolina. Filled with logging lore and portraits of the southern mountains and their people, Sound Wormy adds an absorbing new chapter to the region's natural and environmental history.

Lumbermen --- Lumber trade --- History. --- Gennett, Andrew.

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A study of the booming industry and subsequent recession in the timber industry of the north-west USA, which argues that it was not the widely-blamed actions of the Federal Reserve so much as the actions of the buyers themselves which caused the problem.

Lumber trade --- Lumber industry --- Timber industry --- Forest products industry --- Lumbering --- Government policy --- E-books

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Building materials industry --- Lumber trade --- House furnishings industry and trade --- Building fittings industry --- Great Britain.

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Douglas fir --- Forests and forestry --- Lumber trade --- Douglas fir. --- History --- Economic aspects

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This is an innovative analysis of the agrarian world and growth of government in early modern Germany through the medium of pre-industrial society's most basic material resource, wood. Paul Warde offers a regional study of south-west Germany from the late fifteenth to the early eighteenth century, demonstrating the stability of the economy and social structure through periods of demographic pressure, warfare and epidemic. He casts light on the nature of 'wood shortages' and societal response to environmental challenge, and shows how institutional responses largely based on preventing local conflict were poor at adapting to optimise the management of resources. Warde further argues for the inadequacy of models that oppose the 'market' to a 'natural economy' in understanding economic behaviour. This is a major contribution to debates about the sustainability of peasant society in early modern Europe, and to the growth of ecological approaches to history and historical geography.

Lumber trade --- Bois --- History. --- Commerce --- Histoire --- Germany --- Allemagne --- Economic conditions. --- History --- Historical geography --- Conditions économiques --- Géographie historique --- History of Germany and Austria --- anno 1500-1799 --- Economic conditions --- Historical geography. --- Lumber industry --- Timber industry --- Forest products industry --- Lumbering --- Arts and Humanities --- Lumber trade - Germany - History --- Germany - Economic conditions