How Forests Built the Detroit Auto Industry

Описание: Behind every world-changing auto industry are... billions and billions of trees. Or at least, that's a large part of how Ford and General Motors came into existence.

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Key Sources on Michigan’s pine forests, the historic logging industry, sustainable logging and forestry, the link between the lumber barons and the Detroit auto industry, and more:

Estivant Pines:
https://www.michigannature.org/fileLi...
https://michigannature.iescentral.com...

Logging History:
“When Pine was King” by Lewis C. Reimann
https://www.michiganradio.org/environ...
https://project.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/...
https://project.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/...

Michigan Forest History:
https://www.legislature.mi.gov/docume...
https://web.archive.org/web/202107042...

Sustainable Forestry:
https://web.mit.edu/12.000/www/m2015/...
https://www.wfpa.org/sustainable-fore...
https://www.ncforestry.org/education/...
https://www.seattle.gov/util/Environm...

Detroit Auto Industry + Logging History:
http://hfha.org/the-ford-story/the-bi...
https://www.gmfactoryone.com/dld/cont...
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/Publica...

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