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Authors: Richard A. Rajala
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Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: W. Scott Prudham
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Americans and Their Forests
Language: en
Pages: 630
Authors: Michael Williams
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-06-26 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Dr Williams begins by exploring the role of the forest in American culture: the symbols, themes, and concepts - for example, pioneer woodsman, lumberjack, wilde
The Defoliation of America
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Authors: Amy Marie Hay
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-12-14 - Publisher: University of Alabama Press

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"In The Defoliation of America, Amy M. Hay profiles the attitudes, understandings, and motivations of grassroots activists who rose to fight the use of phenoxy