Ready for Harvest: Clearcutting in the Southern Appalachians materials, c.1994
Sub-Series (ap.afc.07.16)
- Extent
- 63 Video cassettes
- 1 Film containers
- 1 Boxes
- Part of
- Appalshop Films Collection, 1969-2015 > Series VII. Appalshop Films 1991-1999 > Ready for Harvest: Clearcutting in the Southern Appalachians materials, c.1994
- Scope and Contents
- Contains material related to the color documentary Ready for Harvest: Clearcutting in the Southern Appalachians, a 1994 release. The film explores the history of extensive logging in the forests of the Southern Appalachian Mountains in the early half of the century, and the effects of more recent clearcutting by logging companies. Footage includes interviews with a practitioner of forest management techniques, citizens whose communities have been affected by clearcutting, and an ecologist who argues for the importance of biological diversity to a healthy ecosystem. Subjects include clearcutting, corporate logging practices, and environmental and economic aspects of logging in the Appalachian region.
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