...Donald Edward Davis Looking for Longleaf the Fall and Rise of an American Forest . Lawrence S. Earley . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Book Reviews Looking for Longleaf The Fall and Rise of an American Forest. By Lawrence S. Earley. Chapel Hill: Universityof North...

...Robert B. Outland, III The Art of Managing Longleaf: A Personal History of the Stoddard-Neel Approach . By Leon Neel with Paul S. Sutter and Albert G. Way . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2010 . 224 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8203-3409-7 . © the Agricultural...

...Lynn A. Nelson Conserving Southern Longleaf: Herbert Stoddard and the Rise of Ecological Land Management . By Albert G. Way . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2011 . 320 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8203-4017-3 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 2013...

... a free lunch, however, Poppendieck s central argument is convincing that changing school food could help transform the food system as a whole. Jeff Charles California State University San Marcos The Art of Managing Longleaf: A Personal History of the Stoddard-Neel Approach. By Leon Neel with Paul S...

... on the future of agriculture in America. Dona Brown University of Vermont Conserving Southern Longleaf: Herbert Stoddard and the Rise of Ecological Land Management. By Albert G. Way. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011. 320 pp., $24.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-8203-4017-3. Albert Way provides a biography...

... on both the local and regional levels. They concluded thatGeorgia's longleaf pine belt, or wiregrass region, was underserved on a north-south basis, but had sig nificant agricultural and manufacturing promise. Agricultural historians will findGrant's chapter "Developing theWiregrass Region" of particular...

..., Empire, and the New Liberal State, 1880-1930 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012). 5. On the sandhills, see Bertram Whittier Wells, The Natural Gardens of North Carolina (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1932), 109-39; on longleaf forests more generally, see Mart Stewart...

... , The Greening of the South: The Recovery of Land and Forest ( Lexington : University Press of Kentucky , 1984 ); Outland , Tapping the Pines ; Lawrence S. Earley , Looking for Longleaf: The Fall and Rise of an American Forest ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2005 ); Jack...

... researchcenterson the massharvestingof the longleaf pine that began during Reconstruction and continued with a vengeance through the late nineteenth and into the early twentieth centuries.The depletion of forests in the North made southernforests a targetof intense interestto the victors of the CivilWarand...

... no mentionoftheworkofnotedbotanistEliza FrancesAndrews,whodid numerousearlyexperimentrsegardingthe importanceof firein longleaf propagationW. hileEarleyseems convincedthatfrequentforestfiresare essentialinperpetuatinlgongleafpinesintheirnaturalsettingA, ndrewswas notso sure,believingthatjudiciousthinningand periodiccleaningof...

... significance that the virginpine forests played in the early economic development of the region.Most researchcenterson the massharvestingof the longleaf pine that began during Reconstruction and continued with a vengeance through the late nineteenth and into the early twentieth centuries.The depletion...

..., 2011 2011 Agricultural History Fall surprising (148). Much of the chapter fixates on what other management practices do wrong. A thirty-two-page photo essay of clearly reproduced color pictures with substantive captions provides much-needed clarity. The Art of Managing Longleaf is, as its subtitle...

... and outbuildings, and a small labor force based on family and community ties. In ALBERT WAY is an assistant professor of history at Kennesaw State University. He is the author of Conserving Southern Longleaf: Herbert Stoddard and the Rise of Ecological Land Management (2011) and The Art of Managing Longleaf...

... a longstandinEgnglishpreferenceforhardwoodsover coni fers, South Carolina plantations secured an early foothold in theAtlan tic economy by rendering naval stores out of longleaf pine. "To those that has Plenty of thatWood," distilling tree gum into turpentine and firingtarkilnsfilledwith the lightwoodthatlitteredthesandyuplands...

... ; Keiner, Oyster Question ; Taylor, Making Salmon , chap. 4. 3. A few exceptions include Way, Conserving Southern Longleaf , esp. chap. 4; Prendergast, “Raising the Thanksgiving Turkey” ; N. Russell, “Wild Side of Animal Domestication” ; Zontek, “Hunt, Capture, Raise, Increase.” The body...

... planting in the eastern half of the state. As the piedmont gave way to the foothills, the undulation of the terrain increased, making it even less attractive to large-scale plantations. And though conifers were plenty, the piedmont s lack of longleaf pine stands precluded the possibility of developing...