A confidential case study on the selective logging options for the virgin pine forests of the Crossett Lumber Company

Abstract

A.E. (Albert Edward) Wackerman—also known as “Wack”—played a significant role in the development of sustainable forestry in the Southern United States. A native of Cleveland, OH, and educated at the University of Minnesota and Yale University, Wackerman worked for a few years with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Lake States Forest Experiment Station before accepting a job as the Crossett Lumber Company’s second professional forester in 1927 (Bragg 2012). For the next 5 years, Wackerman helped the company develop strategies to make the transition from exploitive lumbering to sustainable forestry.

Parent Publication

• Celebrating 100 years of forest science: an abridged history of the Southern Research Station

Citation

Wackerman, A.E.; Bragg, Don C. 2023. A confidential case study on the selective logging options for the virgin pine forests of the Crossett Lumber Company. In: Bragg, Don C., ed. Celebrating 100 years of forest science: an abridged history of the Southern Research Station. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-272. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station: 67-95.