Lumber Production and Community Stability: A View from the Pacific Northwest

Robbins, William G.

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“…132) and the later 1960 Multiple‐Use, Sustained‐Yield Act (74 Stat. 215) (MUSYA) were both passed to “promote the stability of forest industries… through continuous supplies of timber,” and focused primarily on resource productivity and market conditions (Robbins ). In the fisheries industry, the concept of sustainable yield was utilized in the United States in the early 1930s as a way to predict the consequences of harvesting activities on fish populations.…”

Section: Origins Of “Sustainability” In Natural Resource Managementmentioning

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Sustainable Yield in Theory and Practice: Bridging Scientific and Mainstream Vernacular

Rudestam

Langridge²

2014

Groundwater

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Groundwater is a vital resource in California, and the concept of "sustainable yield" is an attempt to determine a metric that can ensure the long-term resilience of groundwater systems. However, its meaning is ambiguous and quantification is challenging. To provide insight into developing a working definition that encompasses the inherent uncertainty and complexity of the term, this paper examines how sustainable yield in groundwater is interpreted by (1) scientists, (2) the courts in groundwater adjudications, (3) state agencies, and (4) local water practitioners. Through qualitative interviews, this paper identifies problems that local water agencies in the state encounter in engaging with sustainable yield as they incorporate the term in groundwater management practices. The authors recommend that any definitions make explicit the human dimensions of, and assumptions embedded in, the use of these terms in groundwater management practices, and they point to the value of participation in this process.

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Section: Origins Of “Sustainability” In Natural Resource Managementmentioning

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Sustainable Yield in Theory and Practice: Bridging Scientific and Mainstream Vernacular

Rudestam

Langridge²

2014

Groundwater

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“…Whatever the intent, however, harvests from federal lands were dwarfed by harvests from private lands until just before World War II. Robbins (1982Robbins ( , 1987 and Klyza (1996) both portray the period between world wars as one of intense struggle between timbered interests and the federal government over the role of the state. Conflict between industry and the federal government revolved around the role federal agencies would play in the regulation of private timberlands and over how much timber would come from federal land.…”

Section: Sustained Yieldmentioning

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“…Failure of federal efforts to reign in or exert much control over private forest exploitation contributed momentum to the development of a more extensive federal timber sale program based on sustained yield principles (Robbins, 1987). It also bears mentioning that radical organizing in the woods reached its zenith in the decades leading up to the second world war and this also may be seen as a critical precursor to the emergence of a post-war compact among industry, state, and local communities regarding federal timber.…”

Section: Sustained Yieldmentioning

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“…Timber companies feared and despised the unions and on numerous occasions enlisted repressive and sometimes deadly state intervention (Lembcke, 1978). Increasingly intense efforts to enact sustained harvest regimes in the federal forests therefore became justified in the name of stabilizing communities in the Pacific Northwest, countering not only industry cut-and-run forest practices (Robbins, 1987), but also the associated migratory-and radicalcharacter of the workforce (Hibbard and Elias, 1993).…”

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Timber and Town: Post‐War Federal Forest Policy, Industrial Organization, and Rural Change in Oregon's Illinois Valley

Prudham

1998

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In the recent political furor over disposition of the remaining old‐growth forests in the Pacific Northwest, focus has been directed at the ecological shortcomings of the federal sustained yield forest management doctrine. This has occurred in part at the expense of evaluation of these policies based on social criteria. Yet the sustained yield paradigm and the post‐war compact between private capital and federal forest agencies were justified in part to foster stable rural timber economies. Nowhere has this compact been more significant than in rural Oregon. And yet nowhere are its failings more apparent. The central argument of this paper is that the failure of federal sustained yield policies to sustain rural communities stems from an implicitly naive model of industrial capitalism. By ignoring the inherently destabilizing character of capitalist industry, by further failing to refine the notion of community stability, and by failing to take genuine steps to defend rural society from the upheavals of industrial change, the United States Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management have allowed community stability to languish in the dogged pursuit of accelerated cutting rates. This paper explores industrial change in Oregon's forest products sector in the post‐war era of federal sustained yield management, looking specifically at southwest Oregon's Illinois Valley.

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“…35 William Robbins argues that in the American Northwest, private enterprise in fact valued sustained yield only as a means of controlling production and restricting competition to large companies which were able to carry nonproductive stands. 36 David Clary makes a more moderate critique of the failure of sustained yield policy, interpreting the 1944 Sustained Yield Act as an ill-conceived initiative which foundered on opposition from small operators, unions, and others who opposed government concessions to large firms. 37 Other American historians have argued that forest depletion was forestalled, not by attempts at sustained yield, but by the declining market for wood.…”

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Technology and The North American Forest

Brown¹

2009

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This paper is a critical review of recent historical literature relating to nineteenth and twentieth-century European-based technology in the North American forest. My discussion is limited to the industrial technologies of logging, sawmilling, pulp and paper milling, and forestry. These technologies will be discussed with reference to three issues in the history of technology: first, the nature of technological change; second, the environmental and social impacts of technology; and finally, the role of social values in determining choices of technology. Throughout, there will be an attempt to compare Canadian and American perspectives, when these diverge.

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Lumber Production and Community Stability: A View from the Pacific Northwest

Cited by 12 publications

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Sustainable Yield in Theory and Practice: Bridging Scientific and Mainstream Vernacular

Sustainable Yield in Theory and Practice: Bridging Scientific and Mainstream Vernacular

Timber and Town: Post‐War Federal Forest Policy, Industrial Organization, and Rural Change in Oregon's Illinois Valley

Technology and The North American Forest

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