| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Wars in the Woods: The Rise of Ecological Forestry in America. By Samuel P. Hays. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007. xviii, 277 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-8229-4328-X. Paper, $27.95, ISBN 0-8229-5940-2.)

The central argument of Wars in the Woods is that the last thirty years of forestry politics and policy in the United States have been defined by the rise of ecological forestry and the challenge it posed to commodity forestry. Samuel P. Hays argues that this confrontation is driven by competing understandings of the value of forests and that each side's entrenched, value-based positions are difficult to mediate with scientific evidence or through political negotiation. Background chapters outline ecological forestry as a distinctive approach to forest management, consider the profusion of local forest-oriented citizen interest groups in the 1980s and 1990s, and examine the resistance to ecological forestry among forest commodity interests and their allies. Hays then addresses many recent forestry debates using the categories of "ecological forestry" and "commodity forestry."

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