Money Trees: The Douglas Fir and American Forestry, 1900–1944. By Emily K. Brock.

Abstract

Money Trees: The Douglas Fir and American Forestry, 1900–1944 . By Emily K. Brock. (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2015. 272 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. $27.95, paper.) In Money Trees , Emily K. Brock identifies the need for a history of the profession of American forestry. While other historians, such as Char Miller, with his biography of Gifford Pinchot (2001), and Michael Williams, with his opus, Americans and their Forests (1988), have broached the subject, Brock focuses on the bifurcation between wilderness advocates and industrial foresters in the first half of the twentieth century. Much of the split in forestry lay in the nature of the profession itself. As Brock notes, ecology … gordong{at}gonzaga.edu