TY - JOUR
T1 - Constructing a technological forest
T2 - Nature, culture, and Tree-planting in the nebraska sand hills
AU - Gardner, Robert
PY - 2009/4
Y1 - 2009/4
N2 - U.S. foresters built the first federal tree nursery in the treeless Nebraska Sand Hills, in 1902, and began planting a forest in the surrounding grasslands. This forest was built to be a technology that would produce timber, ameliorate the climate, and attract settlers to the area. Over the course of a century foresters gained a unique ecological perspective by creating rather than harvesting a forest. As a technology and an ecosystem, designed by humans but shaped by ecological process, this forest defies the boundaries of natural and artificial.
AB - U.S. foresters built the first federal tree nursery in the treeless Nebraska Sand Hills, in 1902, and began planting a forest in the surrounding grasslands. This forest was built to be a technology that would produce timber, ameliorate the climate, and attract settlers to the area. Over the course of a century foresters gained a unique ecological perspective by creating rather than harvesting a forest. As a technology and an ecosystem, designed by humans but shaped by ecological process, this forest defies the boundaries of natural and artificial.
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U2 - 10.1093/envhis/14.2.275
DO - 10.1093/envhis/14.2.275
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:68649114842
SN - 1084-5453
VL - 14
SP - 275
EP - 297
JO - Environmental History Review
JF - Environmental History Review
IS - 2
ER -