Stewards of the people's forests : a short history of the British Columbia Forest Service

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Stewards of the people's forests : a short history of the British Columbia Forest Service / Robert Griffin and Lorne Hammond.

Griffin, Robert Brian, 1951- (author.). Hammond, Lorne Foster, 1955- (author.). Royal British Columbia Museum, (issuing body.).

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ISBN: 9780772668325 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0772668329 (pbk.)
Physical Description: 303 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher: Victoria, Canada: Royal BC Museum, [2014]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of Contents

Preface

(2)

Introduction

(14)

A Slowly Changing World

(3)

Managing a Colonial Forest

(5)

Two Forest Industries: Coast and Interior

(2)

Growth and Debt and Debate

(3)

Chapter 1 The Great Forestry Debate, 1906--1912

(21)

The 1909 Royal Commission on Timber and Forestry

(6)

"A Common-Sense Conservation Policy"

(3)

Implementing Progressive Forestry

(2)

Organizational Roots of the Forest Service

(5)

Chapter 2 The Forest Branch, 1912--1920

(27)

Creating Revenue and Information Services

(1)

A System for Fire Protection

(3)

Mixed Use: Grazing and Range Management

(2)

Early Entomology Partnerships

(3)

The 1913 Recession and the Great War

(2)

Building Global Markets

(6)

Spruce for Aeroplanes

(3)

Chapter 3 The Forest Branch, 1919--1945

(63)

Emerging from One War

(1)

Range Management and Grazing

(5)

Building a Forest Atlas: Intensive Surveys

(1)

A Quiet Revolution: Information Services

(1)

Chief Forester Peter Caverhill and the Great Depression

(6)

A System for Forest Research

(5)

The Death of Caverhill

(1)

The Young Men's Forestry Training Plan (YMFTP)

(4)

Ernest Manning's View of the Forest

(7)

Exploring New Approaches to Forestry

101

(5)

The Great Slash Debate and the Bloedel Fire

106

(6)

Fallout from the Bloedel Fire

112

(5)

The Second World War

117

(9)

The Ranger

126

(4)

The Death of Manning

130

(1)

Further Impacts of the War: Parks, Planes and a New Name

131

(3)

Chapter 4 The Orchard Years: Striving for Sustained Yield

134

(37)

Convincing the People

136

(7)

Creating the Forest Service

143

(8)

Finding the Forest: Surveys and Inventory

151

(7)

Shaping the Forest

158

(12)

The End of an Era: A New Government

170

(1)

Chapter 5 The Williston Years, 1956--1972: A New Agenda and Style

171

(43)

Adjusting the Agenda

172

(13)

The Burning Forest

185

(9)

Grazing Lands

194

(11)

Myriad Activities

205

(1)

New Foresters

206

(6)

The End of an Era

212

(2)

Chapter 6 Adjusting the Program

214

(28)

Difficult Times

219

(8)

A New World

227

(6)

Creating the New Forest

233

(9)

Chapter 7 A Remodeled Forest Service

242

(40)

Creating the Code

244

(5)

Paper Trail

249

(2)

New Help for Growing Problems

251

(16)

At the Interface: Fires Between Town and Forest

267

(3)

A World-class Operation

270

(1)

Fighting the Good Fight

271

(11)

Epilogue

282

(2)

Appendix 1 Ministers of the BC Forest Service 1910--Present

284

(1)

Appendix 2 Ministers of the BC Forest Service 1910--Present

285

(1)

Appendix 3 Chief Foresters of the BC Forest Service

286

(1)

Appendix 4 Names of the BC Departments and Ministries Responsible for the Forest Service, 1912--Present

287

(1)

Endnotes

288

(7)

Index

295

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