| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.2

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Book Review

Wars in the Woods: The Rise of Ecological Forestry in America. By Samuel P. Hays. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007. xv + 277 pp. Notes, index. $27.95, paper.)

Samuel Hays's Wars in the Woods might be cast as the third book in a classic trilogy of American conservation history. But his latest contribution is more modest in scope than either his Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency (Harvard, 1959) or Beauty, Health, and Permanence (Cambridge, MA, 1989), even as it takes the clean historiographic separation of utilitarians and preservationists to new levels. Hays's focus here is forest management over the last forty years. The reader envisions the author surrounded by boxes of forestry reports, NGO newsletters, conference proceedings, and newspaper clippings, as he identifies trends and sorts out movements. Hays's conclusion is that there has been an ongoing and irreconcilable split between what he terms "commodity" and "ecological" forestry. This tidy simplification is the book's greatest strength and its greatest weakness.

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