General Publications

Electronic Library:

• Forest Reserve Manual, 1902.

• 1905 Use Book

• A Primer of Forestry (Parts I and II), 1903 and 1905.

• Forest Service Circular No. 35 (Portions of Addresses Delivered at the American Forest Congress, Washington, January 2 to 6, 1905)

• The Use of the National Forests, 1907.

• Information Regarding Employment on the National Forests, 1907 [PDF]

• Purchase of Land Under the Weeks Law, 1911 [PDF]

• The Place of Forestry Among Natural Sciences, a paper by Henry S. Graves, 1914.

• A Policy of Forestry for the Nation, 1919 [PDF]

• Handling Sheep on the National Forests, 1920 [PDF]

• Recreational Development on the Superior NF, ca. 1921 [PDF]

• Eastern and Southern National Forests, 1932.

• Forest Trail Handbook, 1935

• The Trailer Menace, 1935 [PDF]

• CCC Forestry, 1937.

• 1938 Lookout Cookbook

• Taming Our Forests, 1938.

• What Forests Give, 1938.

• Forest Outings by Thirty Foresters, 1940.

• National Forest Vacations, 1940.

• New Forest Frontiers (for: Jobs, Permanent Communities, A Stronger Nation), 1941.

• Forests and National Prosperity: A Reappraisal of the Forest Situation in the United States, 1948.

• Your Water Supply and Forests, 1966.

• Highlights in the History of Forest Conservation, 1976.

• Bergoffen, William W. 100 Years of Federal Forestry, 1976.

• History of Smokejumping, 1980.

• Gray, Gary Craven. Radio for the Fireline: A History of Electronic Communication in the Forest Service, 1905-1975, 1982. (Originally scanned by the Amateur Radio Fire Lookout Tower Association)

• The Forest Service and The Civilian Conservation Corps: 1933-42, 1986.

• West, Terry L. "Research in the USDA Forest Service: A Historian's View," 1990. [PDF]

• West, Terry L. Centennial Mini-Histories of the Forest Service, 1992.

• Fedkiw, John. Managing Multiple Uses On National Forests, 1905-1995, 1998.
  (A PDF version of this publication is also available on the U.S. Forest Service website)

• Grosvenor, John R. A History of the Architecture of the USDA Forest Service, 1999.

• Williams, Gerald W. The USDA Forest Service: The First Century, 2005.