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Books
with Canadian Content Published by FHS
- Murphy, Peter J., et al. A Hard Road to Travel: Lands, Forests and People in the Upper Athabasca Region. Durham, NC and Hinton, Alberta: Forest History Society and Foothills Model Forest, 2007. xiv + 306 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. History of forests, forestry, and human interaction with the landscape in the Upper Athabasca Region of Canada, covering three broadly defined eras: the approximately 10,000 years before the arrival of Europeans, during which various peoples passed through the landscape; the period of European influence and fur trading from 1810 until the building of the Grand Trunk Railway; and the era of increased settlement, forest management, and industry after the Railway was in place. Explores the struggle to balance resource use and conservation.
- Drushka, Ken. Canada's
Forests: A History. Forest History Society Issues Series. Montreal,
Quebec: McGill-Queen's University Press for the Forest History Society,
2003. viii + 97 pp. Illustrations, maps, further reading, index. Overview
of Canadian forest history focusing on the conservation, management,
and use of forests since the eighteenth century. Includes discussion
of industrial forestry and sustainable forestry.
- Roach, Thomas R. Newsprint:
Canadian Supply and American Demand. Forest History Society
Issues Series. Durham, N.C.: Forest History Society, 1994. vii + 56
pp. Figures, tables, suggested reading. Canadian newsprint industry,
nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- Steen, Harold K., ed. Origins
of the National Forests: A Centennial Symposium. Foreword by Robert
L. Hendricks. Durham, N.C.: Forest History Society, 1992. x+ 334 pp.
Tables, notes, list of contributors. Proceedings of the symposium "One
Hundred Years of National Forests: National Forest History and Interpretation,"
held at MissouIa, Montana, June 20-22, 1991. Contains chapter: "Canadian
Federal Forest I Reserves, 1883-1933: A Parallel Experiment" by
Peter Gillis.
- Steen, Harold K., and Richard
P. Tucker, eds. Changing Tropical Forests: Historical Perspectives
on Today's Challenges in Central and South America. Durham, N.C.:
Forest History Society, 1992. viii + 303 pp. Contains contributions
from Elizabeth Graham of York University, Herman Konrad of Calgary University,
Patricia Marchak of the University of British Columbia, and Elinor Melville
of York University.
- Gillis, R. Peter, and Thomas
R. Roach. Lost Initiatives: Canada's Forest Industries, Forest Policy,
and Forest Conservation. Contributions in Economics and Economic
History 69. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986. xiii + 328 pp. Map, notes,
bibliographical essay, index. The history of Canadian forest and conservation
policies from 1800 to the 1960s.
- Rodgers, Andrew Denny, III.
Bernhard Eduard Fernow: A Story of North American Forestry. Foreword
by R. Max Peterson. Durham, N.C.: Forest History Society, 1991. xii
+ 623 pp. Footnotes, index. Reprint of the 1951 original. Fernow (1851-1923)
headed the Division of Forestry, 1886-1898, and was a forestry educator
at the New York State College of Forestry, Pennsylvania State College,
and the University of Toronto.
- Salinger, Marion C., ed.
Prismatic Aspects of U.S. and Canadian Forest Products Industries:
Past, Present, and Future. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Center
for International Studies, 1988. 36 pp. Papers discussing various aspects
of the timber industries and timber trade in the United States and Canada
since the nineteenth century.
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