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Product Description: Book by Young, Raymond A.

Product Description: Solving the pulp and paper industries' environmental problems is essential to maintaining the forest industry and accommodating the changing economic needs of forest communities. This book explores the construction of new mills--operating on new technology that does not produce pollutants--which are vital to the pulp and paper industry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Sustainable development is an important concept underlying many of today's renewable resource policies. Agro-based resources, such as wood, make up a significant portion of modern renewable resources. While probably the most familiar example, wood is only one type of agromass in the vast world of photosynthetic resources...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: As one of the most successful farm organizations in the United States, the Missouri Farmers Association brought together farm clubs from all over the state to serve as the central body through which farmer-owned businesses could compete with investor-owned businesses...read more

Product Description: An updated and expanded edition of the introductory forestry text. Treatment is comprehensive and more advanced than other forestry textbooks, featuring new chapters on range management, watershed management, and remote sensing, along with revised chapters on measurement of the forest, structure and function of forest trees, and structure and properties of wood...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A state-of-the-art review of cellulose chemistry and technology, covering structure and biosynthesis, cellulose modification, liquid crystals of cellulose derivatives and cellulose degradation. The book describes structures of cellulose fibers and new methods for fiber production, and includes methods of x-ray diffraction and model selection for characterization of cellulose and cellulose-solvent complexes, wettability, hornification and dry forming of cellulose fibers...read more