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Merrimac,Saco,AndroscogginandConnecticutallflowoutoftheStateintoothercommonwealths,sothatthetimberofNewHampshirehasbeenquitelargelycutbeyonditsborders
NH rivers
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Inthesouth-easternpartoftheState,betweentheSalmonFallsandtheMerrimacrivers,reachingtenorfifteenmileswestofthelatterstream,andextend-ingnorthwardtotheWhiteMountainregion,wasawhitepinesectioninwhichthatwoodwasthepredominatingone.AnotherwhitepinebeltwasalongthewesternborderoftheState,extendingfromtheCon-necticutRivereastforfromtentotwentymilesandreachingfromtheMassachusettslinenorthtothemiddleofCoosCounty.
NH pinery
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ThegreattimbercountyoftheStateisCoos.
Coos Cty NH
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FornearlyfortyyearsafewAmericanfirmsandindividualshavebeencuttinglogsalongtheheadwatersoftheSt.JohnanditstributariesinnorthernMaineanddrivingthemdowntoFrederictonandSt.John,NewBrunswick,sawingthemintolumberatthoseplacesandthenship-pingtheproductintoUnitedStatesmarketsfreeofduty,underanactofCongresspassedin1867andsincethenincorporatedineverytariffact
New Brunswick
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extremesouthwesternpartofMainewastherealbirthplaceofthelumberindustryoftheState,asitwasofNewEnglandandoftheUnitedStates.
birthplace
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1832-1906
Bangor 1832-1906
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Asmuchpinewaswastedintheflushdaysasiscutnow,
waste
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pinewascutalmostexclusively,spruceattractingnoattentionuntilaboutthemiddleoftheNineteenthCentury
no spruce
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PenobscotBoomCompanywascharteredin1832
boom company 1832
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portofBangorupto1890maybesummarizedasfollows:Priorto1832(estimated)200.000.0OOfeet.From1832to1855(surveyed)2,969.847,201feet.From1855to1890(surveyed)5.902.755,919feet.Total9.072.603.120feet.
Bangor totals
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Bandsawswereusedforthefirsttimein1889.
technology
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In1832thefirstrailroadinMaine,andamongtheearliestintheUnitedStates,wasbuiltbyGen.SamuelVeazietohaultimberfromtheOldtownmillstoBangor.
early railroad 1832
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Bangor,settledin1769_andincorporatedin1791,jsacitybuiltupbythelumbertrade,and,untilrecently,lumberwasalmostthesolesupportoftheplace.IntheearlypartoftheNineteenthCenturythecitythrivedonthepinetrade
Bangor
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Maine,NewHampshireandVermontcutinarecentseason(1901-2)1,400,000,000feetoflogs,employing40,000menand13,000horsesinthewoods,atanexpenseinwages,horsehireandkeepingofabout$6,500,000.Ofthisaggregatecut,thatac-creditedtoMainewas750,000,000feet;toNewHampshire500,000,000,andtoVermont150,000,000feet
1901 New England
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fourgreatriversystems,theSt.John,thePenobscot,theKennebecandtheAndroscoggin,
map these
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BinghamPurchase,"bywhich,in1793,WilliamBingham,awealthyPhiladelphian,becamepossessedof2,107,396acresat12Jcentsanacre
Bingham Purchase
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in1888over29,000,000feetofpinetimberwassur-veyedattheportofBangor
1888 Maine
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'70's,however,thesawmillshavehadacompetitorinthelogmarketsoftheStateintheshapeofmillsmanufacturingwoodpaper.
pulp mills begin in 1870s
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Penobscot,KennebecandAndroscogginrivers.
map these rivers
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1,381sawmillsin1840
1840 Maine
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In1832thePenobscotoutputwasnearly40,000,000feet,thatriverbeingthenfarintheleadofallothers,havingimmensetimberresourcesclosebygoodwaterandtheriverbeingnavi-gableforlargevesselstoBangoratthehead
1832 Maine
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In1890Mainehad894sawmillsandtimbercamps,employing11,540hands,
1890 Maine
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In1770theexportationofmasts,boards,staves,etc.,fromNewEnglandwasvaluedat45,000
Pre-revolutionary lumber trade
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urveyalloursaidWoodsandTimber;andalsoetomarksuchofthesaidTreesthatnoworhereaftershallbetinandpropertobetakenfortheuseofourNavy;andtokeepaRegisterofthesame;
Queen Anne's pines?
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1784Massachusettspassedalawtoprotectthewhitepineyetstandinguponthepubliclandsintheeasternforests(ofMaine),whichitcharacterizedas"byfarthenoblesttrees."Thepenaltyforcuttingthemwas$100atree,
Why protect these pines?
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allpinetreesfitformasts,twenty-fourinchesindiameterandupward,withinthreefeetoftheground,thatgrewmorethanthreemilesfromthemeetinghouse
Like the King's pines
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drivenbywaterpower,andthesawingmachineryconsistedofanuprightsawinaframedrivenbyaconnectingrodfromacrankattachedtooneendofthewaterwheelshaft.
Water-powered sawmill design
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SalmonFallsRivernearthepresentcityofPortsmouth,NewHampshire,andbuiltsoonafterthelandwasgranted,in1631,
Probably the first sawmill in America
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Thehistoryofthosewonderful,virginforestswhichstretchedfromtheSt.CroixRiverofMainetotheRedRiveroftheNorthhasalmostbeenfinished,andtheresurviveonlytheremnantsofthosegreatresourcesinscatteredgroupsoftreesorindecimatedwoodlands,
So by 1907 he's telling the story of an era and a forest that has just disappeared.
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ndustrial Workers of the World (IWW
IWW is in the forests by 1917 -- when did it arrive?
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build without pine, and marvel at the thoughtless reckles�ness of his ancestors. .. f
Yep.
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hose given me a few
So, ending around 1895. When did it really end?
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ousand acres of pine land along the Lake Huron coast, south of Saginaw Bay, and destroyed whole towns, many lives, and millioris of dollars' worth of property, the lumbering interests were utterly destroyed. Not a single mill, I am to-ld, in all that region has since been built. It was thought the fire had ruined the future of the bur
Peshtigo Fire was in 1871 on Green Bay. This refers to the port Huron Fire of October 1871. 1.2 million acres.
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to be much greater than was formerly supposed. Clearings are being made, and good crops of Wheat, oa
This is false on two axes. First, boosters predicted farms would follow the forests. Second, the land was much less valuable as farms than they had predicted.
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when tbe pin
And the celebratory tone has turned...
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from the Saginaw Valley to the Straits of Mackinaw, sufficiently large to float a raft of logs, becomes a highway
By 1880, Michigan is already nearly over.
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conflict with EauClaire lumbermen, was the logging of the Chippewa River country, theuse of the river, and mastery of a great boom for handling the logs
There's a story here.
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By 1869 there were fifteen saw-mills at or near the Falls of St. Anthony. The Minneapolis lumber busi-ness leaped far beyond that of Stillwater as expansion continued in the1870s and 1880s. By 1890 Minneapolis, cutting close to a half billionfeet, was the premier lumber market not only of Minnesota but of theworld.
How does this compare with Cronon's claims?
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Stillwater continued itsdominance in the St. Croix region, sent 225 log rafts down river in 1869,and had nine mills in busy operation by 1874. The St. Croix Valleypersisted bountifully as a source of white pine. It did not reach its peakuntil 1895, when it produced 373,000,000 feet of lumber
Stillwater peak
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1864-1906, thestate sold stumpage rights for a total of more than five million dollars.Dr. Folwell writes that the "number of millions of dollars lost to the state,especially to her school and university funds, by a vicious forest policyand unconscionable depredations will never be computed.
Is there a story here?
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Funds and leadership from the East
Document this phase
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it was a later generation that awakened to a realization that essen-tially the same timber yield could have been harvested from the Minne-sota forests in such fashion as to have averted their depletion.
Is this true?
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pioneer Minnesota mills on the St. Croix River.
First phase
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www.hometownsource.com www.hometownsource.com
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Orange Walker: Marine pioneer
Orange Walker of Stillwater photo
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the forest was inexhaustible, its natural destiny was firstto yield lumber and then to be cleared for producing cereal crops,and everyone's well-being would be promoted
The attitude toward forests
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condition of labor in general
Did the fact that this was a seasonal second job affect the ability to organize?
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When we speakof logging districts, we are speaking specifically of river systems,watersheds, the Ottawa in Ontario, the Saginaw in Michigan, theChippewa in Wisconsin. Pineries that were not well served by suchsystems had to await the completion of rail construction beforecontributing their produce.
Logging districts = river systems
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the pinery reached from Lake Winnipeg on thenorth to the westernmost headwaters of the Mississippi on thesouth. Eastward to the ocean, with the important inclusion of theupper Mississippi and its Wisconsin tributaries, the pine regiongenerally encompassed the basin of the Great Lakes and St. Law-rence system, with the addition of most of Pennsylvania. Thus atits Atlantic breadth, it stretched from the head of Delaware Baynorthward to the mouth of the St. Lawrence
Dimensions
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July 22, 1852, Wisconsin Congressman BenEastman informed his colleagues in the House of Representativesthat "Upon the rivers which are tributary to the Mississippi, and alsoupon those which empy themselves into Lake Michigan, there areinterminable forests of pine, sufficient to supply all the wants ofthe citizens . , . for all time to come" (Congressional Globe,1851-52).
So it begins
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widespread drought and fire in the Lake States, and was responsiblefor the development of the "Lake Forest" of white pine.
Is this true? A storm of fires 500 years ago made space for he pines?
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Samuel P. Hays is best knownfor his Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The ProgressiveConservation Movement, 1890-1920 (1959)
Read this too
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George Perkins Marsh, whose classic Man andNature, dealing with the role of man as a disturbing agent, was pub-lished in 1864 just as the onslaught on the Great Lakes forest wasbeginning.
Read this
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All these theories had in common the notion ofdevelopment toward a mature or climax condition that wouldpersist indefinitely in equilibrium until some cataclysm
An element of 19th-century science
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north of the effective limits of agriculture
Although they told themselves otherwise
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the Great Lakes forest formeda distinct region in the westward advance of the logging empireduring the second half of the nineteenth century
Why study it as a separate region
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a multidisciplinary consideration ofecological and institutional change in the forest environment ofthe upper Great Lakes region
Thesis
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TheopeningoftheErieCanal,in1825,gaveaccesstotheforestsofwesternNewYorkandtothewonderfulpineresourcesofMichiganastheydeveloped;butthroughitsOswegofeederitfurnishedaninlettotheCanadianproducttributarytoLakeOntario,and,inconnectionwiththeRideauCanal,furnishedanewrouteforOttawalumber
Erie Canal
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figuresforloggingcamps
Good data here on salaries and wages in logging camps
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valueofproducts
Wages decrease but value of product up sharply 1880-90
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numberofestablishments
MN MILLS DECREASE 1880-90 BUT INVESTMENT WAY UP.
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Aremarkableincreaseisnotedinthecapitalinvestedinthelumberindustry,especiallyfrom1880to1890.
Increase in investment late 19th c.
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atanearlydatethereweremillsasfarinlandasthesiteofAugusta,ontheKennebecRiver,inMaine,andasearlyas1682thereweresixsawmillsinKittery
Early sawmills
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itwasnotuntiltheopeningoftheErieCanalanditsfeeders,theWellandCanalandthecanalsconnectingtheSt.LawrenceviatheSorelRiverandLakeChamplainwiththeHudson,thatanylargeimportationofCanadianlumberwaspracticable
Erie Canal and Canadian lumber
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TheDingleylawof1897,
Long discussion of tariffs and Canadian lumber
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whiletitleandallnecessarydutiesandrightsrelatingtheretoremainedwiththeinteriordepartment,themanagementoftheforestreserves,assuch,wasconcentratedintheDepartmentofAgricultureasrepresentedbytheBureauofForestry,which,afterJuly1,was,bytheagri-culturalappropriationactofMarch3,1905,forthefiscalyearendedJune30,1906,erectedintothe"ForestService,"tobeginwithJuly1,1905
Forest Service established
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dirondackForestPreserve
Adirondacks
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ThegreatHinckleyforestfireof1894arousedthepeopleofMinne-sotatothenecessityofforestprotection
Hinckley Fire
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TheAmericanmethod,orrather,themethodmostgenerallyadoptedbytheforemostAmericanforesters,isnottheplantingoftreesinanopenfieldasonewouldplantturnips,butratheracontinuousselectionandcuttingofonlymaturetimber,
Forest management
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GiffordPinchot,
Pinchot's explanation
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March2,1833,authorizingtheStateofIllinoistodiverthercanallandgranttothepurposeofconstructingarailroad.
Illinois Central and RR land grant history
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MixedwiththewhitepinealmosteverywherewasredorNorwaypine(Pinusresinosa).Thiswasahappycombination,forwhatthewhitepinelackedinstrength'andhardnesstosuititforcertainstruc-turalandmanufacturinguses,wassuppliedbythisheavierwood,sothatfromearlytimestheywerecuttogetherandoftenmarketedto-gether.
red pine (Pinus resinosa)
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FromtheearliesttimesinthehistoryoftheUnitedStatesuntilto-wardtheendoftheNineteenthCenturythenorthernconiferoustimberbeltconstitutedthebasisofthechiefsupplyofforestproductsforthedomestictradeofthecountryandalsoenteredlargelyintoforeigntrade,althoughanimportantcommercewasfoundedupontheyellowpineofthesouthAtlanticCoastandGulfstates.TheearlydiscoverersandexplorerswerestruckbythewealthoftheforestresourcesofthenorthAtlanticCoast,andparticularlywiththewhitepine,Pinusstrobus.Ashasbeenrelatedpreviously,theEnglishCrownmadereservationsofthetreesofthistimbersuitableforships,mastsandspars.ThewhitepinegrewinprofusioninNewEngland.Itwasseldomfoundinsolidbodiesofgreatextent,foritwasusuallymixedwithspruceandotherconifersandhardwoods,
Pinus strobus
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thoughalmosteverywheremixedwiththebroad-leavedtrees,stretchesacrossNewEngland,NewYork,northernPennsylvania,MichiganandWisconsinandintoMinnesota.ThecontinuityofthisbeltisbrokenbyLakeErie.Disregardingtheinternationalboundary,itiscontinu-ouseastandwestacrossthenortheasternstates,Quebec,OntarioandthedistrictaroundLakeSuperior.
Coniferous forest extent
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earlierestimatescoveredonlywhitepine,
Later estimates include red pine
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PerhapsthemostremarkableexampleofmistakenestimatehasbeenregardingthepineforestsofMichigan,WisconsinandMinnesota.Thefirstattemptatacensusofthetimberofthesestateswasmadeinconnectionwiththecensusof1880.
Pine forest underestimates
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Theestimateofstandingtimberhasbeenbasedupontheloggingcustomofthetime.Whenitwasthepracticetocutlargetimberonly,asinMichiganforexample,whensixteen-footlogswereofsuchasizethatitrequiredbuttwotofivetomakeathousandfeetboardmeasure,whenonlythebesttreeswerecutandonlythebestlogsfromthetreesweretakentothemill,leavingperhapstwoorthreetimesasmuchtimberincubiccontentsinthewoodsaswaspre-sentedtothesaw,theestimateastothequantityoftimberstanding
Timber quantities underestimated based on only counting the biggest and best.
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bestinformedstudentsofthesubjectbelieve,afterascarefulinvestigationsastheyhavebeenabletomake,thattheforestsyetremaining,ifoperatedalongconservativelines,wouldannuallyproduceinperpetuityanamountofforestproductslittle,ifany,morethanthepresentannualoutput.Ifthatbetrue,theUnitedStateshascometothepointwhereitcannolongerbelavishinitsuseofitswon-derfultimberresources,butmustrigorouslyconservethem
Is he talking about Pinchot here?
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uptoabout1850,inmanyinstancesapositivedetriment.Forestsstoodonmillionsofacresoffertilelands
Shift from clearing lands to lumber operations
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Ottawaregion,unliketheothersections,occupiesanenviableposition,inasmuchasithastheprivilegeofchoosingthebestofthreedifferentmarketsandcanshiptothemallbywaterconveyancetotheUnitedStates,toEurope,ortoSouthAmericaandAustralia.
Ottawa markets
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TheGrandOttawaisaverylargeandimportantriver,over750milesinlength,anddraininganareaof80,000squaremiles.Itreceivesmanytributariesvaryingfrom100to400milesinlength.Thewholevalleyhasbeen,andisnow,mostlycoveredwithdenseforestsofwhitepineandredpine,
Ottawa River
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twenty-ninemills,mostlyoflimitedcapacity,togetherwiththirteenquiteinsignificantones,send70,000,000feetoflumberandlogs(embracingsomesquareandsparrafts)toCleveland,Erie,BuffaloandTonawanda.
1874 exports to US
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millsofRatPortage,RainyRiver,FortFrancesandothercentersintheRainyRiverdistrict
1880s?
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MichiganlumbermenarelargelyinterestedinlumberingoperationsandtimberpropertiesintheGeorgianBaydistrictofOntario.About1890lumbermenintheSaginawdistrictbeganmakinginvestmentsinCanadianpine,andincreasinglylargequantitiesofCanadianlogswereraftedtoeasternMichiganmills80,000,000feetin1891,300,000,000in1894and238,843,024in1898.
Michigan
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LargequantitiesofsawlogswerebeingexportedtofeedMichiganmills
Across Georgian Bay
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WiththedepletionofthepineforestsinMichiganthedependenceoftheAmericanconsumeruponCanadaforaportionofthelumbersupplyincreased.ItbecametheinterestoftheAmericanmanufacturertosecurethissupplyasfaraspossibleintheformofrawmaterialtobeworkedupintheAmeri-cansawmillsinthoselocalitieswherethedomesticforestsnolongerremainedwithinaccess.ItwasequallytheinterestoftheCanadianstoexporttheirforestproductinashighlymanufacturedaformaspos-sible.
Disagreement over form of timber/lumber export
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Fallingoffduringtheprotractedperiodofworldwidedepressionwhichfollowed,itincreasedagainin1880
Economic conditions effect demand
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prosperityreacheditsclimaxin1873,andwasthetimeoftheriseofthegreatlumberingindustryofMichigan,Wiscon-sinandMinnesota,w
peak just before big pine boom in US
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About1870theindustrywasmainlycenteredintheOttawaValleyandontheupperwatersoftheTrentRiverandwaterstributarytotheGeorgianBay.
1870
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AmericanCivilWar,andthelavishexpenditureswhichresulted,createdagreatdemandforCanadianlumberathighprices,
Civil War in US lumber history too...
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increasingdemandsoftheUnitedStatesforCanadianlumber.
As American lumber less?
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1835and1836speculatorscameoverfromMaineandNewYorkandpurchasedaboutamillionacresoflandsaidtobewoodedwithpineorspruce.
More US speculators
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therewasnowbutlittlepineleftintheUnitedStatesexceptinMaineandCarolina,
1840s shortage in US?
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nolandshouldbeallottedtosettlersuntilthedistricthadbeensur-veyedandthosepartscontainingmastingorothertimberfitfortheuseoftheroyalnavyreserved
King's Arrow
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In1807Mr.WrighttookthefirstraftofsquaretimberdowntheOttawatoQuebec.
1807 begins
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ThepioneerinthetimbertradeoftheOttawaValleywasPhilemonWright,anadventurousAmerican,
American develops timber
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ThewatershedoftheOttawaembracesaregionofabout80,000squaremiles,muchofitgoodagriculturalland,andproducingorigin-allysomeofthefinestpinetimberintheworld.
Ottawa cleared for farming?
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TheseignioryofLotbiniere,intheProvinceofQuebec,isoneoftheoldestinCanada,havingbeeninthepossessionofthedeLotbi-nierefamilysincetheyear1673.TheseignioryissituatedontherightbankoftheSt.LawrenceRiver,aboutfortymileswestoftheCityofQuebec,andembracesanareaof87,000acresofforest.
Very early timber stand
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thefamousMontmorencysawmills,atthefootoftheFallsofMontmorency,neartheCityofQuebec.
Early Canadian mill
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timberimportedintoLowerCanadafromLakeChamplainfrom1800to1820included10,997,580feetofredandwhitepine,3,935,443feetofoaktimber,34,573,853feetofpineplankand9,213,827feetofpineboards.
Imports over Lake Champlain
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uptothetimeoftheconstructionoftheChamplainCanal,connectingLakeChamplainwiththeHudsonRiver,whichwascompletedin1822,andoftheOs-wegoCanal,connectingLakeOntarioatOswegowiththeErieCanalatSyracuse,N.Y.,completedin1828,timbergrownontheSt.Law-rencewatershedofNewYork,VermontandNewHampshire,largelywenttoMontrealorQuebecandthenceabroad
US production limited by access to sea
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St.Lawrencewatersys-tem,reachingfromtheheadofLakeSuperiortotheAtlantic,withthenever-failingstreamsflowingintoitfromthenorth,givesanadequateoutletforthetimberandlumberproductionofQuebecandOntario,whiletheMaritimeProvinces,withtheirdeeplyindentedcoasts,findmarinetransportationsufficient
Railroads not important
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Withintherough.triangleboundedbytheOttawaRiveronthenortheast,GeorgianBayandLakeHurononthewestandLakeErieandLakeOntarioonthesouth,
Best commercial pines
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TheHeightofLand,whichisthedividingridgeorboundarylinebetweenthewaterswhichflowintoHudsonBayorintotheAtlan-ticnorthoftheStraitofBelleIsle,andthosewhichbytheGreatLakesfindtheirwaythroughtheSt.Lawrencetotheocean,marksasome-whatclearlydefinednorthernboundaryofthemostvaluablesoftwoods.Southofthatlinearefoundwhiteandredpine,hemlock,tamarack,spruce,etc.,ofsizeswhichfitthemforsawmilluse.Northofthatlinewhiteandnorwaypinepracticallydisappearandotherspeciesdecreaseinsizeasonegoesnorthuntil,ofcommercialwoods,spruceofdiminishedsizeisleftstandinginacontinuousforest,ex-tendingtoHudsonBay
Where the Canadian pines are
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AmericancapitalistransformingthelumberbusinessofNewfound-land.Acorporation,TheTimberEstatesCompany,headedbyH.M.Whitney,ofBoston,Massachusetts,acquiredseveralofthelargestpropertiesintheislandandin1904
American developers
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historyofthelumberindustryforthelumbertradeasabranchofcommercewasalaterdevelopmentisthehistoryofprogress,ofsettlementandofcivilization.
Lumber = progress
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he first logging railroad in Beltrami County was built in 1898 from Nebish northward to Red Lake, a distance of fifteen miles. The road was operated by the Red Lake Transportation Company, which also had a steamboat line across Red Lake. Large amounts of logs were hauled to Red Lake for the Walke
Red Lake
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ometimes a demand for tiemakers and laborers on a railroad project competed with the need for men in the woods and raised wage levels. In 1901 wages with board for sawyers were thirty to thirty-five dollars per month; for teamsters, thirty-five to forty-five; for cooks, forty to eighty; for blacksmiths, forty to sixt
Wages
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ith the approach of the logging season each fall, hordes of men arrived seeking work in the woods. "They come on every train, on foot, and on horseback," reported a Bemidji newspaper in December, 1900. "For a month past, trains from the west dump their passen gers at Bemidji and give our streets the appearance of an Oklahoma land rush
Seasonal employment rush
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n unsuccessful attempt was made by Bemidji civic and business leaders to induce Walker to build a sawmill in their city.
Why not?
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avorable sites for saw mills.
These would have been steam-powered or what?
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Bemidji was the largest. Rough wagon trails linked the com
Wagon trails to Fosston
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ntil a man-made highway ? the railroad ? was built, no extensive logging operations were possible in the Mississippi headwaters region
So southern Beltrami waited for the railroad
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amboats plied the Red Lake River with supplies for the logging camps along that stream, while the railhead at Fosston
Fosston too
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ed Lake Falls, Crookston, and Grand Forks, th
Locate on map
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ginning in the St. Croix Valley in the 1830's, t
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CrookstonandGrandForks,
Go there?
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CrookstonandGrandForks,
Go there?
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Butler&Walker.
Find
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In1868,Mr.Walkerformedacom-binationwithLeviButlerandHowardW.Millstoexploitthelumberregions
Find out about them.
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Sept.11,1895Abouteightyearsago,Ienteredin-T?^.PartnershipagreementwithMr.T.B.Walkerforthepurposeofbuyingandhandlingpinetimber,logsandlum-ber.Ipurchasedanundividedhalfin-terestinalargetractthatMr.Walkerowned,andfurnishedmeanstopur-chaseothertracts;wejointlyownedbetweentwoandthreehundredthous-andacres.Mr.Walker
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Duringthelastfortyyearshehasalmostcontinuallyemployedanarmyoflaborersinandabouthissawmill,constructinglargebuildingsorworkingatotherenterprises,yethehasneverhadastrikeamonghisemployesnorhastherebeenanydissatisfactionwiththetreatmenttheyhavereceivedorthewagespaid.Foryearsthesawmillsinthenorthwestwereoperatedelevenandtwelvehoursaday.Mr.Walker,however,neverhadthemeninhismillworkmorethantenhoursandpaidthemthemaximumwagesthathaveprevailed.
Verify...
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eldestdaughterofMr.andMrs.WalkeristhewifeofErnestF.Smith,presidentoftheHennepinLumberCompany,
Also this one...
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GilbertM.Walker,hadthecontrcjlandman-agementoftheextensivelumberingandloggingbusinessontheClearwaterriverandthemillsatCrookstonandGrandForks.
Follow up
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extremelysensitivetemperamentandkeenlyfeelsanyunjustcriticism.
So he's a big baby.
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combinationorconspiracyintendedvorestraintrade
Verify...
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Thegreedytaxsharkandtheexigenciesofthetimes,
Not his fault...?
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SoonaftermigratingtotheNorthStarstate,hewasaffordedanop-portunityofrealizingthecomingvalueofthelargevirginforeststhatgrewalongthenorthernborder.
Synopsis
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severetaskmaster,
So he was an asshole.
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romanceofafatherlessboywho,bydeterminationandperseverance,hasbecomeanhonoredandrespectedcitizenandanimportantandusefulfactorintheindustrial,educationalandfinancialworld.
So it's a rags to riches story.
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taibbi.substack.com taibbi.substack.com
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“Authorities” by their nature are untrustworthy.
Epic
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The people who want to add a censorship regime to a health crisis are more dangerous and more stupid by leaps and bounds than a president who tells people to inject disinfectant.
This is a good point.
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H.L. Mencken once said that in America, “the general average of intelligence, of knowledge, of competence, of integrity, of self-respect, of honor is so low that any man who knows his trade, does not fear ghosts, has read fifty good books, and practices the common decencies stands out as brilliantly as a wart on a bald head.”
Nice Mencken quote.
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mattstoller.substack.com mattstoller.substack.com
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private allocators of public capital taking a direct governing role
But this is corporate governance today.
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private institutions who govern in their stead.
This deserves a closer look.
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American institutions are organized entirely around the short-term horizon of financiers
Wouldn't it also be reasonable to say that these institutions have been organized by globalists who assume that the gold standard is efficiency. They base their decisions on a model of comparative advantage that doesn't assign any value to national security. So it makes sense to make masks and ventilators in China, until it doesn't. (I think Chamath said something like this recently)
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The
Okay, the first block quote was from the WSJ article he cited. Where's this from?
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Herbert Hoover
Hoover was an associationalist, and seems to have honestly believed that businesses would do the right thing if given a chance. They didn't.
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an America uncomfortable with having democratic institutions take care of its people
Or did it reveal an America frustrated that democracy had failed to take care of its people?
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clarification usually takes a few years, because we have to let the illusions drop
I wonder how long it will take in this case, as we'll also have to sift through all the alternate realities of the filter bubbles?
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www.usnews.com www.usnews.com
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Walter Cronkite, trusted by millions
different from now
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modified one-party system
The question then might be, are you willing to go back to that more stable arrangement if you're going to be the party out of power?
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When winning the majority becomes possible, the logic of cooperation dissolves.
Why Congress never gets anything done these days.
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political histories tend to be presidential histories
Somebody should write a political history that focuses on Congressional majorities.
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Whose grievances get heard?
So it's not really democratizing discomfort, it's extending discomfort to those who had been insulated from it by always being the rule-setters.
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self-described independents who tended to vote for one party or the other were driven more by negative motivations.
How have the strategies and messages of campaigns encouraged this? Is it due to a lack of imagination/innovative ideas in campaigns?
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We are a collection of functional parts whose efforts combine into a dysfunctional whole
In addition to possibly being true, this approach seems to have the advantage of giving the other side the benefit of the doubt for being "rational actors" rather than "deplorables".
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hopeful about Obama
Is this critique specifically about the inability of individuals such as presidents to break away from the machine, or is it more widespread than that?
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We focus on their genius
Klein is talking about journalism, but to what extent is this approach repeated in political history?
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Introduction
From Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein, 2020
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I'm not sure. maybe "in addition"...
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White
Full name. I had to check to see if you were talking about Hayden White here.
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Which came first: geology theories or religious doctrines? Neither
Not really, though. Scripture was clearly first, both chronologically and in importance for De Luc.
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an active hand
A key issue seems to be ideas of duration. How could fossils of sea creature QUICKLY make their way to mountaintops? Only miraculously...
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God was activ
You're digging into particular denominational theologies here. Where does the Calvinist idea of predestination fit in?
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Whiggish
You should probably explain what you mean by Whiggish.
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two epistemological schools
What about the idea of CHANGE at all, evidenced by erosion? Where does this fit in your binary?
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catastrophist
This is turning out to be a big element of your binary.
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de Luc had the funding
Begs the question, was there anything political in his decisions about interpretation?
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o find more t
Idea that there should be continuity in things like the volume of water available on Earth is a sign of what?
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Biblical criticism
Interesting.
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moral view
He's speaking a completely different language here. Theory is judged not on its relationship to observation, but on its contribution to a moral system.
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a clear basis in nature in combination with the account of the Bible
I'm not sure you've demonstrated this . It still seems to me De Luc is shoehorning observations into interpretations that support his preconceptions.
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enough if it cannot be proved impossible
Contrast with Hume and other Scots.
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Indian philosophe
Cycles are a key element of many eastern religions. How does the interaction between east and west (imperialism) at this time inform metaphors available to western thinkers?
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synchronistic
Is this the word you want to use? Readers could hear echoes of Jungian synchronicity, which may be distracting if unintentional.
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Anglicans
Why Anglicans rather than, say, Presbyterians? Is there a religious-political angle to this story?
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the millenium coming faster
Interesting detail here.
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share a friendship
Explore these networks more -- this could easily lead to a dissertation!
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Scottish Enlightenmen
Good! Pursue this a bit. Mention David Hume's essay on miracles.
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deistic beliefs
But again, many deists believed deist ideas, but many were trying to stay respectable when they secretly harbored much more atheistic convictions.
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heat in bodies
Maybe add a note here describing the state of the science of thermodynamics at this point, to orient the reader.
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otherworldly intervention.
Along the lines of "two Books", scripture and nature?
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late enough
do you mean "not too late"?
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I would like to offer
Needs one more sentence: SPECIFICALLY what are you going to add to the conversation?
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temporality
Are they really? Or is the issue causality?
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the binary geological
I think you've located an interesting question here; don't think you need to argue it is the only or central debate going on.
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publishing of The Origin of Species
You might want to examine how Erasmus Darwin's Zoonomia and Chambers' Vestiges were already working on the minds of scientists and the public in the first half of the 19th c.
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redibility,
Another issue: these scientists need to be heard, and this can influence the language they use independent of their actual beliefs.
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disseminated and then reconciled
unclear
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hosen episteme
Is the choice based on belief? Or on political reality of their times? Didn't some of the scientists who posited a "clockmaker" deity do so only because they were afraid to make the leap to atheism?
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visibility of two trends
You are claiming that the vast majority of relevant geologists were religious and fell mostly in these two groups?
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this viewpoint
These are two flavors of the religious argument. Where's the scientific POV? Also, is there precedent for including god in ideas of agency?
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I am in agreement
voice
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knowledge from science and from religion as equals
Doesn't it do this by ignoring their accuracy and looking at ways they were deployed to support power?
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“socio-political” tool
It may be, but isn's she discounting science's very real role finding things out?
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cris[es] of faith
Doesn't this beg the question, what caused the crises of faith?
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n the historiography
Just in the historiography? Or in people's approaches to religion and science?
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whole denominations’
There's an implication here that scientists are not representative of their denominations that could be explored.
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More recently,
There's an implication of narrative here that you might want to spell out.
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replication of the face-to-face inter
To what extent can distance learning remain individualistic, and how much depends on these replications of in-class activities?
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Access Compromise
No less true today
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can the community call anyone’s behavior “openwashing” if it conforms with the international standard-setting instrument’s definition of OER?
Maybe this is an argument for celebrating the progress made in the UNESCO Recommendation but NOT acknowledging it as the final word on OER.
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free and perpetual, which were clearly articulated in the public draft, have been inexplicably removed in the final version
Opening the door for public funds to be used to create OER that could later be shifted to a less open or non-open format.
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I added retain as the 5th R after coming to understand that retain is actually the fundamental permission that must be granted with regard to an open educational resource.
Yes, it helps to read these declarations adversarially, to imagine what someone looking to abuse they system might do.
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three-quarters of college students who attend public institutions
Can we see some data that compares their outcomes to those of the other 25% who go to private? I think that would clarify the situation tremendously.
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Why not both
This is a good point. Would you rather be a certified HVAC person or one who in addition had taken some business courses and could more effectively work for themselves?
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College graduates account for a third of American entrepreneurs
This will work better if a startup's business plan doesn't end with expected purchase by Google, Facebook, or Amazon.
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college earnings premium is at an all-time high
Because unions have lost so much power.
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they make the places they live and work more productive
This is important. It needs to be a positive sum game, or it's pointless.
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