Complete Book List
by the Forest History Society

Listed below are books resulting from Forest History Society (FHS) programs. To purchase a copy, contact the publisher listed below or your local bookseller. You may order publications with an FHS imprint directly from the Society by mail (order form [PDF]) or online. FHS members receive free shipping.

Forest History Society, 701 William Vickers Ave., Durham, NC 27701;
919/682-9319; fax 919/682-2349

Issues Series

• Burdon, Rowland D. and William J. Libby. Genetically Modified Forests: From Stone Age to Modern Biotechnology, 2006. 79 pp. $8.95.
• Drushka, Ken. Canada's Forests: A History, 2003. viii + 97 pp. $8.95.
• Floyd, Donald W. Forest Sustainability: The History, the Challenge, the Promise, 2002. x + 83 pp. $8.95.
• Foster, Steven. Forest Pharmacy: Medicinal Plants in American Forests, 1995. vi + 57 pp. $8.95.
• MacCleery, Douglas W. American Forests: A History of Resiliency and Recovery, 2002. 58 pp. $8.95.
• Pyne, Stephen J. America's Fires: Management on Wildlands and Forests, 1997. 54 pp. $8.95.
• Roach, Thomas R. Newsprint: Canadian Supply and American Demand, 1994. vii + 56 pp. $8.95.
• Stine, Jeffrey K. America's Forested Wetlands: From Wasteland to Valued Resource, 2008. 96 pp. $8.95.
  

Oral History Interviews

• Beck, Leigh. An Interview With Leigh Beck. OHI by Jacqueline S. Reinier. Durham, N.C.: Forest History Society, 2002. ix + 105 pp. $23.00.
• Bergen, Geri Vanderveer. An Interview with Geri Vanderveer Bergen. OHI by Jacqueline S. Reinier. Durham, N. C.: Forest History Society, 2001. [5] + iii + 136 + [3] pp. $25.00.
• Dombeck, Michael P. An Interview With Michael P. Dombeck. OHI by Harold K. Steen. Durham, N.C.: Forest History Society, 2004. ix + 190 leaves. $29.00.
• Herrett, Wendy Milner. An Interview with Wendy Milner Herrett. OHI by Jacqueline S. Reinier. Durham, N.C.: Forest History Society, 2001. iii + 150 pp. $26.00.
• Holmes, Beverly C. An Interview with Beverly C. Holmes. OHI by Carol C. Severance. Durham, N.C.: Forest History Society, 2002. v + 64 pp. $19.00.
• Ostrom, Carl E. An Interview with Carl E. Ostrom [re Forest Service Research]. OHI by Harold K. Steen. 1994. v + 119 leaves. $18.00.
• Johnson, Clara. An Interview with Clara Johnson. OHI by Jacqueline S. Reinier. Durham, N.C.: Forest History Society, 2002. vi + 141 leaves. $25.00.
• Posey, Clayton E. An Interview with Clayton E. Posey [re forestry development in the Amazon]. OHI by Harold K. Steen. 1995. iv + 108 leaves. $18.00.
• Posey, Clayton E., Robert J. Gilvary, John C. Welker, and Lawrence N. Thompson. Plantation Forestry in the Amazon: The Jari Experience. Oral history interviews by Harold K. Steen. 1997. ix + 281 pp. $12.95.
• Reilly, William K. An Interview with William K. Reilly [re the EPA during the Bush Administration]. OHI by Harold K. Steen. 1995. iii + 76 leaves. $18.00.
• Thomas, Jack Ward. An Interview With Jack Ward Thomas. OHI by Harold K. Steen. Durham, N.C.: Forest History Society, 2002. v + 135 pp. $24.00.
• Train, Russell E. An Interview with Russell Train [re the Council on Environmental Quality and the EPA under presidents Nixon and Ford]. OHI by Harold K. Steen. 1993. v + 81 leaves. $19.00.
• Wadsworth, Frank H. The Evolution of Tropical Forestry: Puerto Rico and Beyond. OHI by Harold K. Steen. 1993. iv + 119 + [3] leaves. $21.00.

Other Books

• Anderson, Steven, ed. Proceedings of the U.S. Forest Service Centennial Congress: A Collective Commitment to Conservation, 2006. 512 pp. Softcover $24.95.
• Arnold, R. Keith, Murlyn B. Dickerman, and Robert E. Buckman. Edited by Harold K. Steen. View from the Top: Forest Service Research, 1994. xiv + 365 pp. Softcover $13.00.
• Buxton, Mary Wakefield. Bringing in the Wood: The Way It Was at Chesapeake Corporation, 1999. 187 pp. Hardcover $29.95, softcover $19.95.
• Fedkiw, John, Douglas W. MacCleery, and V. Alaric Sample. Pathway to Sustainability: Defining the Bounds on Forest Management. vii + 64 pp. $8.95.
• Lewis, James G. The Forest Service and The Greatest Good: A Centennial History, 2005. 290 pp. Hardcover $30.00, softcover $20.00.
• Miller, Char. Ground Work: Conservation in American Culture. 182 pp. Hardcover $19.95.
• Murphy, Peter J., et al. A Hard Road to Travel: Land, Forests, and People in the Upper Athabasca Region. Published by the Foothills Model Forest and the Forest History Society. 306 pp., 154 photographs, maps. Hardcover $42.95, softcover $29.95.
• Posey, Clayton E., et al. Plantation Forestry in the Amazon: The Jari Experience, 1997. ix + 281 pp. Softcover: $ 12.95.
• Sample, V. Alaric and Steven Anderson, eds. Common Goals for Sustainable Forest Management, 2008. xix + 399 pp. Softcover $24.95.
• Schenck, Carl Alwin. Cradle of Forestry in America: The Biltmore Forest School, 1898-1913, 1998. Edited by Ovid Butler. Published by the Forest History Society in cooperation with the Cradle of Forestry in America Interpretive Association and the Forest Service History Program. xiv + 224 pp. $10.95.
• Smyth, Art. Millicoma: Biography of a Pacific Northwestern Forest, 2000. xix + 145 pp. Illustrations. Softcover $12.95.
• Steen, Harold K. The Chiefs Remember: The Forest Service, 1952-2001, 2005. 156 pp. Ill., index.
• Steen, Harold K., editor. The Conservation Diaries of Gifford Pinchot, 2001. 230 pp. Ill., names index.
• Steen, Harold K., editor. Forest and Wildlife Science in America: A History, 1999. 455 pp. Illustrations. Softcover $14.95.
• Steen, Harold K. Forest Service Research: Finding Answers to Conservation's Questions, 1998. v + 102 pp. Illustrations, selected bibliography, index. Softcover $10.95.
• Steen, Harold K. The U.S. Forest Service: A History, 1976 and 2004. xvi + 356 pp. Hardcover $40.00, softcover $25.00.
• Thomas, Jack Ward. Jack Ward Thomas: The Journals of a Forest Service Chief, 2004. Edited by Harold K. Steen. 417 pp. $30.00.
• von Salish, Heinrich. Forest Aesthetics, 2008. Translated by Walter L. Cook, Jr. and Doris Wehlau. 400 pp. $24.95.

Films/Videos

• Dick, Vester, narrator. Timber on the Move: A History of Log-Moving Technology, 1981. 34 minutes. VHS copy $25.00. DVD $20.00.
• Dick, Vester, narrator. Up in Flames: A History of Fire Fighting in the Forest, 1984. 29 minutes. VHS copy $25.00. DVD $20.00.

• Dargavel, John, and Richard Tucker, eds. Changing Pacific Forests: Historical Perspectives on the Forest Economy of the Pacific Basin, 1992. vii + 156 pp. Hardcover $39.95, softcover $14.95.
• Fahl, Kathryn A., comp. Forest History Museums of the World, 1983. vii + 75 pp. $12.00.
• Fahl, Ronald J. NNovember 12, 2008, 1977. 408 pp. $31.95.
• Hutchinson, W. H. California Heritage: A History of Northern California Lumbering, 1983. [33] pp. $5.00.
• Maunder, Elwood R., and Margaret G. Davidson, eds. First National Colloquium on the History of the Forest Products Industries, Proceedings, Boston, Massachusetts, May 17-18, 1966, 1967. vii + 221 pp. $16.00.
• Richardson, Elmo. David T. Mason: Forestry Advocate, 1983. xiv + 125 pp. $8.00.
• Rodgers, Andrew Denny, III. Bernhard Eduard Fernow: A Story of North American Forestry, 1991. xii + 623 pp. $21.95.
• Schenck, Carl Alwyn. The Birth of Forestry in America: Biltmore Forest School 1898-1913, 1974. 224 pp. $10.95.
• Steen, Harold K., ed. History of Sustained-Yield Forestry: A Symposium, 1984. xviii + 470 pp. $21.95.
• Steen, Harold K., ed. Origins of the National Forests: A Centennial Symposium, 1992. x + 334 pp. Hardcover $31.95, softcover $16.95.
• Steen, Harold K., and Richard P. Tucker, eds. Changing Tropical Forests: Historical Perspectives on Today's Challenges in Central and South America, 1992. viii + 303 pp. Hardcover $31.95, softcover $16.95.

• Steen, Harold K., ed. The Conservation Diaries of Gifford Pinchot, 2001. 240 pp. Hardcover $29.00, softcover $19.00.

• Reed, Germaine M. Crusading for Chemistry: The Professional Career of Charles Holmes Herty, 1995. xiii + 474 pp. $45.00.

• Ficken, Robert E. The Forested Land: A History of Lumbering in Western Washington, 1987. xv + 324 pp. $25.00.
• Steen, Harold K. The U.S. Forest Service: A History, 1976 and 2004. xvi + 356 pp. Hardcover $40.00, softcover $25.00.
• Thomas, Jack Ward. Jack Ward Thomas: The Journals of a Forest Service Chief. Edited by Harold K. Steen. 417 pp. $30.00.
• Twining, Charles E. George S. Long, Timber Statesman, 1994. xiv + 414 pp. $30.00.
• Twining, Charles E. Phil Weyerhaeuser: Lumberman, 1985. 401 pp. $25.00.

• Cox, Thomas R., Robert S. Maxwell, Phillip Drennon Thomas, and Joseph J. Malone. This Well-Wooded Land: Americans and Their Forests from Colonial Times to the Present, 1985. 325 pp. $27.95.

• Amigo, Eleanor, and Mark Neuffer. Beyond the Adirondacks: The Story of St. Regis Paper Company, 1980. xi + 219 pp. $35.00.
• Gillis, R. Peter, and Thomas R. Roach. Lost Initiatives: Canada's Forest Industries, Forest Policy and Forest Conservation, 1986. xiii + 328 pp. $40.95.

• Zobel, Bruce J., and Jerry R. Sprague. A Forestry Revolution: The History of Tree Improvement in the Southern United States, 1993. xi + 161 pp. $14.95.

• Judd, Richard W. Aroostock: A Century of Logging in Northern Maine, 1989. xiii + 351 pp. Hardcover $27.50, softcover $17.95.

• Davis, Richard C., ed. Encyclopedia of American Forest & Conservation History, 2 vols., xxx + 871 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, index. $250.00/set. The most comprehensive reference work in the field.

• Massell, David. Amassing Power: J. B. Duke and the Saguenay River, 1897-1927, 2000. 302 pp. $39.95 U.S., $49.95 Canada.