Millicoma: Biography of a Pacific Northwestern Forest

By Arthur V. Smyth

Book Overview

Arthur V. Smyth tells the story of his days as a forester for the Weyerhaeuser Company in the Coos Bay area of Oregon and presents what he calls a "biography" of industrial forestry in the Pacific Northwest.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0890300585
• ISBN13: 9780890300589
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Forest History Society
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Timbering in Southwest Oregon

Smyth has delivered a straightforward account of a forest economy's ascension and decline, plus that forest's natural history and management evolution from old-growth to tree farm to conservation area. Any outdoor person can relate to Smyth's recollections of unromantic hard work in the woods while still invoking the inherent romance of forestry among trees big and small. The book is a business history as well, recounting events regional and in the world at large that reached into southwest Oregon to alter best-laid plans.

Facinating saga of an Oregon Forest

Daniel Botkin, Professor of Ecology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, writes "Smyth provides a facinating saga of one of Oregon's most productive and intensively harvested forests. In the final analyisis, what Smyth's book suggests is that to deal with and solve our environmental problems about forests, we should understand and learn from the details of history - obtained from many different avenues- and that we need to see the use of forests against the panorama of changes in human values and changing scientific knowledge."