Conserving Southern Longleaf: Herbert Stoddard and the Rise of Ecological Land Management

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INDEX adaptive management, 247n99 aesthetic, 14; landscape, 26, 172; preindustrial , 38, 52; upper-class, 44 African Americans, 52, 209; agrarian middle class, 161; hunting tourism, 41; labor, 160; tenant agriculture, 19, 27, 50, 51, 156. See also racial hierarchies; slavery Agassiz, Louis, 65 Agricultural Adjustment Administration , 3, 146, 166 agriculture, 19, 85, 97, 153; agrarian traditions, 3, 5; bureaucracy, 16; corn, 85, 156, 159, 162; credit arrangements , 145, 156–57; environmental consequences, 144–45; industrialization, 17, 145, 166, 169, 175; landscapes, 146, 229n8; peanuts , 159, 162; productivity, 159; sharecropping, 2, 54, 145, 156. See also cotton; tenant agriculture Aiken, S.C., 23 Akeley, Carl, 66, 67, 69, 240n38 Alabama, 96, 99, 107, 182, 218 Alaska, 99 Albany, Ga., 25 Allee, Warder Clyde, 139, 221 Altamaha River, 28 American Forestry Association (afa), 102, 107, 110, 135, 200 American Forests, 109, 110, 135, 186 American Game Association, 153 American Game Conference (1925), 120, 150 American Museum (Barnum), 65 American Museum of Natural History , 66, 67, 69, 129 American Nervousness (Beard), 34 American Ornithologists’ Union, 76, 77, 207 American Society of Mammalogists, 117 American Sportsman, The, 38 Animal Ecology (Elton), 152 anti-fire campaigns, 109, 244n44; consequences, 95, 98–99, 104, 246n72; defiance of, 53, 81, 101–2; Stoddard’s reaction to, 104–5, 111; U.S. Forest Service policy, 100, 102–3, 108, 113, 182, 201. See also burning; fire Appalachian Mountains, 23 Archbold, John D., 43, 44, 46, 47, 49 Arizona, 122 Arkansas, 23, 96 Art of Taxidermy (Rowley), 63 Ashe, W. W., 97, 98 Asheville, N.C., 23, 24 asthma, 20 Atlantic Ocean, 7, 9, 24 Aucilla River, 13 Auk, The, 77 Baldwin, S. Prentiss, 76–77, 78–79, 86, 87 Baraboo Bluffs (Wis.), 63, 64 Barber, W. E., 72–73 Barbour, George, 23, 25, 26, 27 290 index barn owls, 126 Barnum, Phineus T., 65, 67 Barrett, S. A., 72, 79 Beadel, Gerald, 81, 204 Beadel, Henry, 18, 51, 81, 172, 203–6, 214 Beard, George M., 34 Beck, Thomas, 255n82 Beck Committee, 255n82 beggarweed, 40, 91, 163 Bill, Ledyard, 23, 24–25, 34 Biltmore Estate, 98 biocentrism, 4, 18 biodiversity, 2, 6, 18, 22, 148 bird banding, 76–77 bird migration, 207–8 Birdsong Plantation, 203, 205 blackberries, 163 black snakes, 127 Blanton, S. R., 45–46 bluestem grasses, 2, 11, 14, 15, 91 bobcats, 127 bobwhite quail, 2, 4, 14, 15, 44–45, 87; habitat, 39–40, 53, 93–95, 103–4, 146; hunting, 22, 35, 42–43, 48, 81, 226; predators, 84, 118, 120; preserves, 47, 51, 53, 54, 121; southeast history of, 78, 89. See also Bobwhite Quail, The (H. Stoddard); Cooperative Quail Investigation Bobwhite Quail, The (H. Stoddard), 16, 103, 116, 129, 143, 187; agricultural management, 145, 147, 162–63; land management, 113, 173; wildlife management, 83–84, 120, 123, 125–26, 130–31; testament to burning, 104 boll weevil, 112, 145 Bonaventure Island, 73–74 Bonninghausen, R. A., 214–15 Boone and Crockett Club, 38 Boston, Mass., 31 Boynton, A. F., 36 Brandon, David, 33 Brandon, James, 32 Brinton, Daniel G., 23–24, 33, 34–35; Guide-Book of Florida and the South, 23 broad-winged hawks, 126 broom sedge, 40 bull grass, 40, 163 Bureau of Agricultural Economics, 166 burning, 15, 220; bobwhite quail habitat, 40, 102–3; cattle industry, 62; cessation controversy, 53, 106–7; land management, 81–82, 190, 214–15. See also anti-fire campaigns; fire bush clovers, 94 Butler, Ovid, 102, 109, 111, 200–201 butterfly peas, 94 California, 244n44 Campbell, Louis, 87, 93 Canada, 73 carrying capacity, 90 Carson, Rachel, 219 Cary, Austin, 100, 111, 180 cash crops, 13 cattle herding, 60 cattle industry, 80, 92, 97, 116, 157–58 Chapin, Charles, 46, 79, 82 Chapman, H. H., 180; burning advocacy , 108–11, 190, 195; even-aged management, 177–78, 183–84, 197; loblolly pine research, 176; pulp/ paper industry, 185–86 Chattahoochee National Forest, 168 Cherokee National Forest, 168 Chicago, Ill., 31, 58–59 Chicago Academy of Sciences, 139 index 291 Chickasawhay National Forest, 167–68 chiggers, 14, 92 Chinquapin Plantation, 47 Chubb, Thomas, 46 Chuluota, Fla., 58, 59, 60 Cincinnati, Ohio, 122 citrus industry, 59, 60 Civilian Conservation Corps, 3, 104 Civil War, 13, 14, 21, 26, 38–40, 48 Clarke-McNary Act (1924), 105 class hierarchies, 224, 232n8 clear cutting, 178–79 Clements, Frederic, 75, 210 climate, 14, 20–21, 62 climate cure (climatotherapy), 22, 24 coachwhip snakes, 127, 131...