Green Gold: Alabama's Forests and Forest Industries

by James E. Fickle

Green Gold is a thorough and valuable compilation of information on Alabama's timber and forest products industry, the largest manufacturing industry in the state.

Alabama has the third-largest commercial forest in the nation, after only Georgia and Oregon. Fully two-thirds of the state's land supports the growth of over fifteen billion trees on twenty-two million acres, which explains why Alabama looks entirely green from space. Green...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817318135
• ISBN13: 9780817318130
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 to Postsecondary