Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Abbreviations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Lay of the Land; A Boundless Forest; Early Modern Management, Organization, and Exploitation; Forest Rights under Siege; 1678 and Its Aftermath: Conquest, Reform, and the 1669 Ordinance; Forest Transformation in Franche-Comté; 2 ""Agromania"" and Silvicultural Science: Conservation's Intellectual Underpinnings; Seventeenth-Century Origins; Administrators, Local Interests, and Natural Philosophers.

The Impact of Agromanieand Physiocracy on the ForestsForest Improvers and Silvicultural Science; Woodland Romantics and the Natural Ideal; 3 A necessity as vital as bread: Forest Crisis on the Eve of the Revolution; The Landscape of Discontent; Seigneurial Usurpations; Industrial Harm; Resource Competition and Internal Friction; The Failings of the Forest Administration; A Salty Struggle; 4 Seduced by the word liberty: Woodland Crisis and the Failure of Revolutionary Reform; Lend a hand to the officers charged with enforcing the laws
At the disposal of the nation

Such desirable benefitsWhat makes the poor into slaves
Federalist Revolt and the Rébellion des Montagnes; Never was there a more favorable moment
Violationseverywhere
The need for a new forestry organization is felt each passing day
5 Nothing is more respected ... than the right of property: The Creation of the 1827 Forest Code; Today the Evil is at its Peak
Let us ... keep in mind that we need to save our woods
Extraordinary and frequent flooding
Between penury and prevarication
Reining in egoism and selfish motives

The clearest enemy of the tree is the goatTaming the Wild Countryside; Increased the obstacles rather than remedied the defects
We have become poor:The Push for the Forest Code; The Battle over Affouage; Reconciling the needs of all with the rights of each?; The interest we must principally protect is ... that of the landowner
Timber [is] the principal aim of conservation
6 Not even a branch of wood has been granted to us
Claims, Contestation, and Cantonnement: The Forest Code'sReception across France.

Far from reestablishing public tranquility, [it] has only made the problem worseTumult, Murder, and Mayhem: The Forest Code in the Jura; The masters of their woods
Seeking an End to iniquitous custom
Uprooting the guilty hopes of Liberty; Epilogue: Homo is but Arbor Inversa
From Liberty Tree to President Pine; Conservation's Achilles' Heel; Bibliography; Manuscript Sources; Archives Nationales; Série AD
Archives imprimées; Série BB
Ministère de la Justice; Série C
Chambre des députés; Série D
Missions des représentants du peuple et Comités des Assemblées.

Série E
Conseil du Roi.