Fruits of corporate forestry: there's a growing movement to organize against the giant tree factories of the South

Journal Article · Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1982 · Environ. Action; (United States)

OSTI ID:5447164

Schlesingr, T

Southern tree farms illustrate how giant timber companies using technology to increase their productivity can alter the ecosystem and reduce the natural and economic wealth of an area. People with concerns about jobs, absentee ownership, environmental damage, and genetic depletion along with a tradition of unions and coalitions are organizing to challenge corporate forestry. Their goal is the regulation of an industry which dominates the economic and physical environment. Efforts to reverse the trend toward conglomerate ownership hope to unionize the workforce, rescind tax benefits, and outlaw such practices as clar cutting. The union movement hopes to establish local cooperative arrangements with small landowners and woodcutters to compete with outside owners. (DCK)

• OSTI ID: 5447164
• Journal Information: Environ. Action; (United States), Vol. 13:8
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

29 ENERGY PLANNING
POLICY AND ECONOMY
60 APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES
FEDERAL REGION IV
FORESTRY
ECONOMIC IMPACT
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
SOCIAL IMPACT
WOOD PRODUCTS INDUSTRY
INTERVENORS
LABOR RELATIONS
INDUSTRY
NORTH AMERICA
USA
299003* - Energy Planning & Policy- Unconventional Sources & Power Generation- Other- (-1989)
530100 - Environmental-Social Aspects of Energy Technologies- Social & Economic Studies- (-1989)
553000 - Agriculture & Food Technology