Forest History Society

2025 Lecture - Forest History Society “Tomorrow’s Planet: Preparing Future Natural Resources and Forestry Leaders” with Lori Bennear, Indy Burke, Sam Cook, and Bettina Ring Join us for Tomorrow’s Planet: Preparing Future Natural Resources...

The conversation will be moderated by Bettina Ring. More details and event registration info: foresthistory.org/education/di...

Join us Tuesday November 11th at 7pm for an in-person conversation "Preparing Future Natural Resources and Forestry Leaders" bringing together 3 university natural resources leaders—Indy Burke, Lori Bennear, and Sam Cook—for discussion on the future of forestry & environmental education.

Congratulations to @hartleys.bsky.social, '24, for winning the John M. Collier Award for Forest History Journalism from @foresthistory.bsky.social. Read more about Sophie's win on our website: sciwrite.mit.edu/news-events/

Applicants Sought for Editor of Environmental History The American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society seek applicants to serve as Editor(s) and a new institutional home for the journal Environmental History for a five-year t...

Applicants Sought for Editor of Environmental History
- @envirohistory.bsky.social

@aseh.bsky.social & @foresthistory.bsky.social seek applicants to serve as Editor(s) and a new institutional home for the journal Environmental History for a 5-year term.

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President Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall view map of the envisioned national trails system after a signing ceremony for multiple conservation bills, including the National Trails System Act, on October 2, 1968

The Society of American Foresters is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year. Join us on Monday June 9th at 1pm eastern for an online discussion with historian Char Miller and FHS historian Jamie Lewis on the organization’s history, impact, and legacy.

Buttress roots on American elm, May 1933. 3.2 miles east of Bogalusa on Bogalusa-Poplarville road, Pear River County, Mississippi.

Picking Chinese elm to supply Forest Service nurseries for shelterbelt plantings, April 30, 1939. On the J. Wylie Logan farm, west of Hoisington, Kansas.

Cypress Gardens, Moncks Corner, South Carolina, April 29, 1933. Second growth cypress growing in artificial swamp.

Reminder to join us today 4/15 at 1pm eastern for a talk with Karin Tilberg, author of "Loving the North Woods: 25 Years of Historic Conservation in Maine" foresthistory.org/education/fh...

With the cypress trees in White Marsh Swamp, Columbus County, NC, 1927

Join us today at 1pm eastern for a talk with Heidi Young and Abby Hoverstock of the Denver Public Library Conservation Collection to learn more about their holdings and how you can access them foresthistory.org/education/fh...

Some of the Oregon high school planting crew who on two weekends in March 1944 planted 120,000 trees

Feb 20, 2025 library views ❄️

Today's library views ❄️

Hollywood in Flames - Forest History Society Guest Contributor Stephen Pyne originally published this essay in December 2024, just weeks before wildfires devastated the cities of Altadena and Pacific Palisades in the Los Angeles area in January ...

New post from our guest contributor Stephen Pyne, who originally published this essay in December 2024, just weeks before wildfires devastated the cities of Altadena and Pacific Palisades in the Los Angeles area in January 2025: foresthistory.org/hollywood-in...

Reminder to join us online today at 1pm eastern for the webinar “George Masa: A Life Reimagined” with Janet McCue and Paul Bonesteel. More info and registration: foresthistory.org/events/

1940 photos of the South Carolina state champion live oak tree, on the property of Joseph and Esther Kaminski at 515 Prince St, Georgetown, SC
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January 7, 1851: It's your day, Bernhard Fernow! - Forest History Society Happy birthday, Bernie! You helped bring forest management and forestry education to the United States and Canada, and we are forever grateful! Have an extra piece of cake on us! Born in Prussia on Ja...

Born on this day January 7, 1851: Bernhard Eduard Fernow. The first professionally trained forester in the United States, Fernow is a pivotal figure in early forest and conservation history: foresthistory.org/january-7-18...

In 1958, the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company started a holiday tradition that lasted half a century. Each year a new entry in the carefully curated and expertly designed Christmas Classics book series would appear: foresthistory.org/remembering-...

Northgate Center in north Seattle displays their "world's tallest Christmas tree" in December 1950 - 212 feet tall. The tree was cut on Weyerhaeuser land and transported, without branches, to the shopping center where hundreds of new limbs were wired to the trunk and thousands of lights were added

Evelyn Smith, President of Amawalk Nursery in Amawalk New York, with Representative Hamilton Fish preparing the nation's living Christmas tree (a Norway spruce) to be shipped from the nursery in NY to Washington DC for transplanting in Sherman Plaza, south of the Treasury Building, 1924.

Christmas tree sales yard, 8th St. in Oakland, California, December 1939

Christmas tree retail store in San Francisco, with trees from Tahoe National Forest, December 1939

Forgotten Characters: "Ev'rett the Friendly Evergreen" and the War on Christmas trees - Forest History Society Everyone knows Smokey Bear, Woodsy Owl, and maybe even Ranger Rick Raccoon, but there are many other forest and forestry-related fictional characters that long ago fell by the wayside. Peeling Back th...

As we enter December I'm reminded of this seasonal favorite from @foresthistory.bsky.social

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Join us Tuesday December 3rd at 1pm eastern for a virtual presentation by Will McLean Greeley, "Birdman of the Senate: Senator George P. McLean and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act."
Info and registration: foresthistory.org/events/

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High stump of Nyssa aquatica (water tupelo) about 9 ft, November 1932. Note spring board hole on stump. Logging area of Turner Lumber Co, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. This apparently wasteful method of utilization is practiced because wood in swollen stump portion is of spongy texture and inferior.