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... forest management skill doing without science ...

... of erosion control is centered on performance and agency rather than cognition; it is “doing without science.” forest management skill doing without science ...

... Chapter 3 explores how Dennis, an aging forest ecologist, conceptualized the work of “passing on” the Date Creek Research Forest to a younger collaborator as the site began to decay. As the meanings of the partial cutting experiment that originally defined the forest diversified, both Dennis...

... Neoliberalism spelled an end for state forestry and the post–World War II edifice of state-led development and highly intrusive resource management regimes. By the 2010s, Mexico’s overall rate of deforestation, which had once been the fifth highest in the world, had slowed considerably. Some...

... Scientific forestry, the practice of managing woods to achieve the maximum sustained yield of timber for commercial practices, emerged as a central issue of contention between the Mexican government and rural populations during the twentieth century. Although scientific forestry was implemented...

... in this redistribution, a newly invigorated forest service headed by Miguel Angel de Quevedo redoubled its efforts to teach rural people how to manage the land and to oversee village logging by organizing peasants into producers’ cooperatives monitored by forestry experts. Although these cooperatives sometimes fell prey...

... conditions. Forests emerged as important sites of social contention after the revolution, as land reform and economic nationalism began to deliver the woods to rural communities. Land reform sparked a strong agrarian movement in Michoacán and a nascent labor movement in Chihuahua, both of which echoed...

... thousands of peasant communities received land grants known as ejidos . Since forests were included in this redistribution, a newly invigorated forest service headed by Miguel Angel de Quevedo redoubled its efforts to teach rural people how to manage the land and to oversee village logging by organizing...

... the community-based forestry. Village forestry (including producers cooperatives) were undermined by new policies such as forest concessions granted to timber companies, logging bans ( vedas ), and joint venture agreements ( contratos de asociación en participación ) between villagers and timber interests...

... forestry (including producers cooperatives) were undermined by new policies such as forest concessions granted to timber companies, logging bans ( vedas ), and joint venture agreements ( contratos de asociación en participación ) between villagers and timber interests. In Chihuahua, Mexican corporations...

... The Tlatelolco massacre of 1968 touched off a decade of unrest throughout Mexico, including the forestlands. Beginning with president Luis Echeverría (1970–1976), political leaders promoted community forestry, that is, local management of small-scale timber production. Para-governmental...

... back from managing the venue in September 1980, even if her successors maintained the manic level of activity. With the Peppermint Lounge, the Ritz, and TR3 also going strong, competition within the art-punk party scene rose a notch when Jim Fouratt and Rudolf Piper struck a deal with Maurice Brahms...

..., gullible working-class migrants from Britain died rapidly, and the colony collapsed in disaster. Stollmeyer remained in Port of Spain and gained a position as manager of an asphalt deposit in South Trinidad. He found a method to distill that heavy hydrocarbon into a light oil that would burn and generate...