The Forest History Society


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The Forest History Society is a nonprofit library and archive dedicated to collecting, preserving, and disseminating forest and conservation history for all to use. The Society links the past to the future while reminding us about our important forest heritage.

As part of our mission, FHS is continually seeking innovative ways of enhancing its programs in research, publication, and education, and new methods for promoting the study of environmental history. Towards that end, you'll now find us on Facebook and Twitter and blogging at Peeling Back the Bark. We invite you to take a tour of FHS, and then explore the website and discover your forest heritage!

Forest Management for All

In Forest Management for All: State and Private Forestry in the U.S. Forest Service, Lincoln Bramwell engagingly captures the branch's history, demonstrating why State and Private Forestry was able to overcome numerous challenges to its purpose—and at times its existence—to assume leadership in providing and coordinating technical and financial assistance to landowners and resource managers.

FHS Research Portal

The new FHS Research Portal allows users to pull together a list of books, articles, photographs, dissertations, materials from the U.S. Forest Service history collection, oral histories, and descriptions of archival collections at FHS and elsewhere all into a single results page, helpfully divided into categories. Search results can be easily saved, emailed, and printed. Begin your research using the new portal today.

Schenck Film Project Underway

FHS is excited to announce we're co-developing a new documentary film. First in Forestry: Carl Schenck and the Biltmore Forest School will be the first documentary film to examine the pivotal role that the Biltmore Estate's chief forester Carl Schenck and America's first school of forestry played in American conservation history. We hope you will consider supporting the production of this documentary film with a donation.

New Forest History Today

The latest issue of Forest History Today is now available. Feature articles include the discovery of the emerald ash borer in the U.S.; the search for Aldo Leopold's "green fire" site; why the findings of the forest surveys of the 1890s still matter; and the origins of the Forest Service slogan "Caring for the Land and Serving People." History on the Road and Biographical Portrait both focus on the Crossett Experimental Forest.




*Forest Management for All* In Forest Management for All: State and Private Forestry in the U.S. Forest Service, Lincoln Bramwell engagingly captures the branch's history, demonstrating why State and Private Forestry was able to overcome numerous challenges to its purpose—and at times its existence—to assume leadership in providing and coordinating technical and financial assistance to landowners and resource managers.	FHS Research Portal The new FHS Research Portal allows users to pull together a list of books, articles, photographs, dissertations, materials from the U.S. Forest Service history collection, oral histories, and descriptions of archival collections at FHS and elsewhere all into a single results page, helpfully divided into categories. Search results can be easily saved, emailed, and printed. Begin your research using the new portal today.	Schenck Film Project Underway FHS is excited to announce we're co-developing a new documentary film. First in Forestry: Carl Schenck and the Biltmore Forest School will be the first documentary film to examine the pivotal role that the Biltmore Estate's chief forester Carl Schenck and America's first school of forestry played in American conservation history. We hope you will consider supporting the production of this documentary film with a donation.	New Forest History Today The latest issue of Forest History Today is now available. Feature articles include the discovery of the emerald ash borer in the U.S.; the search for Aldo Leopold's "green fire" site; why the findings of the forest surveys of the 1890s still matter; and the origins of the Forest Service slogan "Caring for the Land and Serving People." History on the Road and Biographical Portrait both focus on the Crossett Experimental Forest.