Theodore C. Blegen Award Previous Winners

The Forest History Society's (FHS) Theodore C. Blegen Award recognizes the best scholarship in forest and conservation history published in a journal other than Environmental History. FHS initiated the award in 1972.

Previous Recipients

2001 Blegen Award Andrew H. Fisher. "Working in the Indian Way: The Southwest Forest Firefighter Program and Native American Wage Labor," Arizona History, Vol. 41, No. 2, (Summer 2000):121-148.
2000 Blegen Award Stacy Mitchell. "Union in the North Woods: The Timber Strikes of 1937," Minnesota History, Vol. 56, No. 5, (Spring 1999): 262-277.
1999 Blegen Award Taylor, Joseph E., III, "El Nino and Vanishing Salmon: Culture, Nature History, and the Politics of Blame" in Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 4, (Winter, 1998):437-457.
1998 Blegen Award Fisher, Andrew H. "The 1932 Handshake Agreement: Yakama Indian Treaty Rights and Forest Service Policy in the Pacific Northwest" in Western Historical Quarterly , Vol. 28, No. 2, (Summer 1997): 187-217.
1997 Blegen Award Outland, Robert B., III. "Slavery, Work, and the Geography of the North Carolina Naval Stores Industry, 1835-1860" in Journal of Southern History , Vol. 57 (February 1996): 27-56.
1996 Blegen Award Mccullough, Robert I. "A Forest in Every Town: Vermont's History of Communal Woodlands" in Vermont History , Vol. 64 (Winter 1996):5-35.
1995 Blegen Award Pyne, Stephen J. "Nataraja: India's Cycle of Fire" in Environmental History Review , Vol. 18 (Fall 1994): 1-20.
1994 Blegen Award Rajala, Richard A. "The Forest as Factory: Technological Change and Worker Control in the West Coast Logging Industry, 1880-1930" in Labour/Le Travail , Vol. 32 (Fall 1993): 73-104.
1993 Blegen Award Cronon, William J. "A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative" in Journal of American History , Vol. 78 (March 1992): 1347-1376.
1992 Blegen Award Duncan, Colin A.M. "On Identifying a Sound Environmental Ethic in History: Prolegomena to Any Future Environmental History" in Environmental History Review , Vol. 15 (Summer 1991): 5-30.
1991 Blegen Award Dilsaver, Lary M. and Douglas H. Strong. "Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks: One Hundred Years of Preservation and Resource Management" in California History , Vol. 69 (Summer 1990): 98-117.