Logging in Maine's Empty Quarter
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8375779 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bret Wallach (University of Maine at Fort Kent, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 542-551 |
| Publication date | 1980-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1980.tb01331.x |
| OpenAlex | W1997341295 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
North and west of its high point, Mt. Katahdin, Maine is virtually uninhabited. Yet pulpwood and sawtimber pour from the area. Living in remote camps during the week and working for jobbers who have logging contracts with the few landowners who dominate the region, the woodsmen are caught in a dangerous, piecework rush. The land is deteriorating. The spruce budworm has induced virtual clearcutting, and the ensuing succession produces an ideal forest for a future budworm outbreak. There is no solution in sight acceptable to the landowners: despite its wilderness aura, the region's outlook is for even-age thickets of periodically decimated, stagnant fir
Archaeology · Business · Clearcutting · Felling · Geography · Habitat · Logging · Pulpwood · Quarter (Canadian coin) · Slash (logging) · Snag · Spruce budworm · Treasury · Wilderness · Ecology · Fire effects on ecosystems · Forest Biomass Utilization and Management · Forest Management and Policy · Forestry
| Citations per year | 0.03 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1988 - 1988 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |