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British Columbia: Sooke Region Museum, 1990. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Second Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 213 pages. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Printed upon glossy stock. The 43 chapters include such topics as Early Port San Juan, Jordan River - Logging with Rail; Sooke and Otter Districts, WWI; The Depression Years; Boyd & Garrison; Seaton, Peatt & Eve, Munns; Butlers, CIP Inc.; Silviculture; and much more. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. A lovely copy..

Victoria, B.C.: B.C. (British Columbia) Ministry of Forests. Very Good. 1993. First Edition. Paperback. 18 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. "This transcript is taken from a slide presentation given by Ralph Schmidt at the annual meeting of the Northern Silviculture Committee in Prince George, July 8, 1992. The meeting marked the occasion of the re-opening of the Aleza Experiment Station, now called the Aleza Lake Research Forest." - from Preface. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; The Aleza Lake Experiment Station (1920's and 1930's), B.C. (British Columbia) Ministry of Forests Miscellaneous Report Forestry Research Forest Service Bob St. Clair Dr. Percy M. Barr Silviculture History .

Washington, D.C.: The American Forestry Association, 1928. Magazine. Good. Paperback. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Pages 707-768. Features: The Christmas Fir is Born - by Henry Clepper; Meeting the Red Menace (Forest Fire) - Uncle Sam's Policy of Trying to Save Pennies on Forest Fires is the Weak Link in National Forest Protection - article with great photos by Col. William B. Greeley; Evergreens of the Old Testament - by Adelaide Borah; Taming the Christmas Tree - the growing of evergreens for the Yule-tide season enters the ranks of new American industries - article with photos by Ovid M. Butler; Southern Cypress - article by Lysle Tomerlin with photos; Rusty and Ben (two bears) - story with photos by Stephen Doering; Keeping Christmas Green - the use of Holly and other plants to make wreaths; The Sport of Kings - Falconry - article with photos by Mabel Gillespie; Cutting Today's Forests to use in Coal Mines - article with nice photos by Thomas H. Wittkorn; The Tree… Read More

Washington, D.C.: The American Forestry Association, 1928. Magazine. Fair. Paperback. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Pages 194-256. Features: The Passing of the Maine Wilderness - article with photos of destruction by John C. Phillips; An Anchor to Forestward - How America Tried to Grow Trees for Sail of the line on Santa Rosa Island; Naming the Sequoia - article by Cristel Hastings; Robins and Ruminations - article by Guy W. von Schriltz; How Dierks Lumber and Coal Company is Placing one of the largest bodies of controlled timber in the world uner forest management; Wilderness Classroom - article with great animal photos by R.W. Hiestand; Bankers Join Forest Converts - realization that florests are 'flood insurance' arouses financial interests; American Forest Week - proclamation by President Calvin Coolidge; The Paradise of the Cedars - The Park of the Cedars in Algeria - great photos; Fireproofing the Georgia Woods, by I.F. Eldridge; Centerfold contains 8 amazing… Read More

Washington, D.C.: The American Forestry Association, 1929. Magazine. Fair. Paperback. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 64 pages. Features: Timberline Pine - poem by Eunice Skamser; The Plateau of the Thousand Cows - Plateau de Millevache in France - interesting article with photos illustrating the reclamation of 400,000 acres of worn-out grazing land; Redwoods - Ever-living memorials - article by J.D. Grant with fantastic photos; The Fugitive Canoe - by Olaus J. Murie; Southern Forestry Project Expands; Pymatuning - Penn's Wilderness - photo-illustrated article by George Miksch Sutton; The First-born of Alaskan Forests - How the Russian ship "Phoenix" was hewn from the Sylvan monarchs of Resurrection Bay - it was the first ship built on the Northwestern Coast of America - photo-illustrated article by H.J. Lutz; August George Becker - the Cabinet-Maker of Clermont - photo-illustrated article by Charles R. Keyes; Dressing up wayside (roadside) refreshment stands -… Read More

Washington, D.C.: The American Forestry Association, 1928. Magazine. Good. Paperback. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 64 pages. Features: Spruce for Tomorrow's Paper - Can the Pulp and Paper Industry of the Northeast Survive? - with good photos; The Oldest Cultivated Trees in the World - Cypress Arches of Chapultepec Park, or the Bosque de Chapultepec, on the outskirts of Mexico City - with photos; Redwood Burls - by Emanuel Fritz - article with photos; The Forest and the Great Stone Face, by Allen Hollis; The Barred Door - by W.N. Craigie; Uncle Sam's First Timber Sale - near the quaint village of Nemo, South Dakota - with nice photos; Canada and the Migratory Bird Treaty; Don's Christmas Adventure - a story by Erle Kauffman; Shapshots of European Forests - In a Fir Forest of France - article with photos by John D. Guthrie; A Plea for the Forests - by Hon. John Q. Tilson; Planting Woodland Gardens - by J. Farnworth Anderson; A Man and a Mountain - Lije Coalman and… Read More

USA: The American Forestry Association, 1929. Book. Good. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 64 pages. Features: A Glimpse into the Colorful Past of the Ontario-Minnesota Border Lakes - by Ernest C. Oberholtzer - article with wonderful photos; The Search for 11-year-old Jimmy Blake in Arizona's Blue Range - article with photos; The Huge Tulip Trees of North Carolina - photo-illustrated article by Orpheus Moyer Schantz; The Murmer of the Forest - by John L. Coontz; The Chippewa National Forest - photo-illustrated article by H.H. Chapman; The Farmer and Game Conservation - photo-illustrated article by James F. Hoge; The First Year of the Association's Southern Forestry Educational Project; "Old Yolla Bolly" the Bear - photo-illustrated article by Allen H. Hodgson; Two-pages of photos of bizarre trees; George P. Brett (President of Macmillan Publishing) and his foremost private Pinetum in the country - photos and article by Erle Kauffman;… Read More

Corvallis, OR: Forestry Club - Oregon State University, 1964. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 71 pages. 1964 Edition of the Forestry Department Yearbook at Oregon State University. Illustrated in black and white. Average wear and soiling. Binding intact. Unmarked. Solid copy..

Canada: Canada/British Columbia, 1995. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 110 pages. "Brings together information about issues that foresters involved with aspen management in British Columbia are likely to face." - from Introduction. Average wear. Prior owner's name whited out atop front cover. Some high-lighting to contents..

Canada: Canada/British Columbia, 1994. Book. Fine. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 206 pages. "Documents the strategic importance of the hardwood resource in British Columbia, within a framework that will be useful for management, research, and development plans." - from Introduction. Clean, bright and unmarked. Excellent copy..

Canada: Natural Resources, New Brunswick, 1981. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. "In 1980, 1,220 permanent sample plots on all ownerships in New Brunswick were assessed to determine the damage caused by the spruce budworm to spruce and balsam fir" - from Abstract. Bilingual English/French. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy..

Canada: Whistle Punk Books, 1990. Book. Good. Paperback. Signed by Author(s). First Printing. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 112 pages. Bibliography, index, references and footnotes, appendices. Signed by author upon title page. "A unique contribution to the industrial history of Canada and the United States... Gives an account of the major manufacturers and presents material to assist the historian and collector in the identification of artifacts... An informative record and above all, a pleasant reading experience." - from page 3. Moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy..

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada: Government of British Columbia, 1998. Book. Fine. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 51 pages. "Examines important physical and mechanical wood properties of rapidly grown second-growth western hemlock from selected locations in British Columbia." - from page 1. Clean, bright and unmarked..

Canada: Integrated Resources Policy Branch, British Columbia Ministry of Forests, 1995. Book. Very Good. Spiral-Bound. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 51 pages. References. "A comprehensive overview of the commercial harvest of more than 200 botanical forest products in British Columbia." - from Executive Summary. Clean and unmarked with very light wear..

USA: Oregon Forest Products Transportation Association, 1985. Book. Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 90 pages. Glossary. List of sources. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of dozens of outstanding archival black and white photos which present the development of log trucking technology over the years, and some of the personalities who used and developed it, including Glenn Putnam, T.A. "Truie" Schneider, Bert Pickens, Crabtree Lumber Company, Norm Williams, Leonard Lively, Lloyd Christensen, J.T. McDonald; Howard Brown, H. Clay Myers II, Howard Jenkins, White Trucks, Allan Hedin, Lee Woods, Bob Rush, Bob Slagle, and Carson Strong. Documents some very obscure contraptions used in the early days. Reprint of the 1983 first edition. Usual library markings. Original paperback book, complete with covers, now sturdily bound in generic brown hardcover library binding. A sound copy of this wonderfully informative and entertaining reference..

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxxii, 336 pages. Footnotes. Index. Twenty pages of black and white reproductions of photos. "In this far-ranging study, Ian Radforth charts the course of the transition of Ontario's twentieth-century logging industry and the response of its workers to the changes - from the rough-and-ready days of the primitive camp bunkhouse to the development of a highly mechanized and closely managed industry." - half-title page and back cover. Prior owner's name atop first leaf. Moderate quantity of markings to contents. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this fascinating history..

Canada: Canada Wire and Cable Company, 1950. Book. Fair. Paperback. Second Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 287 pages. Index. Black and white photos. Detailed diagrams. Features "Canada Tru-Lay steel wire rope for every purpose". Contents include: Flattened Strand; Wire Rope Slings; Wire Rope Fittings; Care and Maintenance; Splicing of Wire Rope; Excavating and Contracting Ropes; Industrial Ropes for Material Handling; Ropes for Mining; Logging Ropes; Marine Ropes; Gas and Oil Well ropes; Elevator Ropes; Engineering data; Glossary. Diagrams of the High Lead, North Bend/Tight Skyline, Skidder, Slack Line, and Tyler Systems of log transport. Great series of photos demonstrating how to splice a very thick wire rope. Decorated black imitation leather covers. Prior owner's detaills inside front cover. Binding somewhat tender but intact. Average soiling and wear. A worthy copy of this nostalgic, interesting and informative volume..

Canada: The Canadian Geographical Society, 1947. Magazine. Illus. by Harris, Lawren S. (Cover). Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Pages 249-293 plus seventeen pages of nice vintage ads. Features: An Introduction to Canadian Architecture - major article with dozens of photos; Britain's Trees and Forests; Lawren Harris; PICAO into ICAO - International Civil Aviation Organization; and more. Some of the ads include: 1947 Mercury 114 car; The Monarch 8 car; Canadian Pacific - great one-page color ad for their train travel and Empress Hotel. Moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy..

Canada: The Canadian Geographical Society, 1939. Magazine. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Pages 267-316 plus fourteen pages of nice vintage ads. Features: Canada's Pulp and Paper Industry - article with dozens of excellent photos; Wild Rice in Canada - many wonderful photos; The Dukhobors; Indian Life in Mexico; Apple Marketing; and more. Some of the best ads include: Canadian Apples, The Empress Hotel, and an Imperial Oil ad on back cover which features photo of a very rustic northern scene with drums of fuel and mountains of firewood. Average wear and soiling. Small name stamp inside front cover. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy..

Ottawa, Canada: The Canadian Geographical Society, 1930. Book. Illus. by Bridgen, F.H.; Simpson, Charles W.. Good. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. X [ads], 363-464 pages. Profusely illustrated with wonderful black and white photos. Features: Colour reproductions of paintings by F.H. Brigden and Charles W. Simpson; Northern Rivers; Unto the Hills; Green Gold - Canada's wealth of forests, including many photos of 1930s logging techniques/technology; Colonization in Quebec - article with many photos; Roof of the World - a photo-illustrated journey to the fascinating Indian city of Simla, by B.G. Radley; Where B.C. Ends - Stewart B.C. and the Portland Canal - article with many great photos; New Books; Glorious nostalgic Canadian ads. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue..