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Excerpt from How the United States Can Meet Its Present and Future Pulpwood Requirements For a number of reasons the problem of timber supply for pulp and paper manufacture has become more serious than it is for most wood-using industries. Relatively large plant investments make it much more difficult for paper mills to follow the retreating timber stands than is the case with lumber manufacture. Comparatively few woods have been used in paper making. These factors and the requirement, in one of the most important pulp processes, of abundant and cheap power have so far confined the production of paper to but few timber regions. Pulp manufacture in these regions has in general followed lumbering, and starting with diminished supplies of timber has reduced them still further. A stage has now been reached where many pulp and paper mills have either no timber of their own or only very limited amounts, and few have permanent supplies. Concern for future pulp-wood supplies and their relationship to the entire national forest problem led the American Paper and Pulp Association to form a special Committee on the perpetuation of the pulp and paper industry in the United States. The committee requested the Forest Service to make an investigation, the results of which are incorporated in this report. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The paper industry rejuvenated the American South—but took a heavy toll on its land and people. When the paper industry moved into the South in the 1930s, it confronted a region in the midst of an economic and environmental crisis. Entrenched poverty, stunted labor markets, vast stretches of cutover lands, and severe soil erosion prevailed across the southern states. By the middle of the twentieth century, however, pine trees had become the region’s number one cash crop, and the South dominated national and international production of pulp and paper based on the intensive cultivation of timber. In The Slain Wood, William Boyd chronicles the dramatic growth of the pulp and paper industry in the American South during the twentieth century and the social and environmental changes that accompanied it. Drawing on extensive interviews and historical research, he tells the fascinating story of one of the region’s most important but understudied industries. The Slain Wood reveals how a thoroughly industrialized forest was created out of a degraded landscape, uncovers the ways in which firms tapped into informal labor markets and existing inequalities of race and class to fashion a system for delivering wood to the mills, investigates the challenges of managing large papermaking complexes, and details the ways in which mill managers and unions discriminated against black workers. It also shows how the industry’s massive pollution loads significantly disrupted local environments and communities, leading to a long struggle to regulate and control that pollution.