Historical Resources
Research and Development in the South

Timeline -- USDA Forest Service Experiment Stations in the South
Directors of Research Stations in the South

Note about documents below:
Most of the following documents are in files in our Publications database. They are likely to have typographical errors, especially those scanned from old typewritten materials; fewer errors occur in the pristine versions which are a much larger file size.
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Anniversary Report 1921-1946 Appalachian Forest Experiment Station
The territory assigned to the Appalachian Station included lands in Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, eastern Kentucky, eastern Tennessee, and northern Georgia.

Appalachian Station: 1921-1934

History of Early Settlement and Land Use on the Bent Creek Experimental Forest Buncombe County, NC

Speech -- Forest Research in the Southeast -- 1951

A Guide to the Hitchiti Forest Research Center -- 1952

Tree Planting at the Bent Creek Experimental Forest -- 1953

Southern Forest Experiment Station Annual Report -- 1954
1954 SFES Color Map

The Alexandria Research Center -- 1954

The Southern Appalachian Research Center -- 1956

The Calhoun Experimental Forest -- 1958

Forest and Forest Range Research in South Florida -- 1959

Research at the Southeastern Forest Experiment Station -- 1963
By the 1960's, recreation, wetlands, and economics research topics had joined the Station's timber, watershed, and range studies.

A Biassed History of the Southern Forest Experiment Station Through Fiscal Year 1933 -- 1964

The Crossett Story: The Beginning of Forestry in Southern Arkansas and Northern Louisiana -- 1980

A History of Forestry Research in the Southern United States --1989

Thirty-Two Years of Forest Service Research at the Southern Forest Fire Laboratory in Macon, GA -- 1993

Introduction to the Southern Research Station -- 1996
In 1995, the Southern FES, New Orleans, and the Southeastern FES, Asheville, were combined into the Southern Research Station, headquartered in Asheville, with research responsibility for 13 southern States.
Chief Thomas at Bent Creek -- Photo

Long-term Ecological Research: Coweeta History and Perspectives -- 2001, Swank , et al.


Margaret Stoughton Abell

Historical Photos -- 1920's-1980's -- Vol. I

Historical Photos -- 1916-1966 -- Vol. II

Photo of USDA/FS Station Directors --1988

USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station Photograph Collection 1897-1952 -- at UNCA

Biographies

Charles R. Hursh; Hydrologist; Founder, Coweeta Hydrological Lab

Keith W. Dorman; Silviculturist; Pine Improvement Pioneer

George H. Hepting; Plant Pathologist; Forest Disease Research

Special Topics

Naval Stores - Turpentining

A Report of the Secretary of Agriculture in Relation to the Forests, Rivers, and Mountains of the Southern Appalachian Region -- 1902 (Excerpts)
Because of the age and size of this book, only the main text, many of the photos, and parts of some of the appendices are in this pdf.

Watershed Research -- Oxford, Mississippi

For a list of online publications which relate to history of forest resources and research:Publications and type history in the Title block.
For current information about the Southern Research Station:SRS Organization

Forest Service 100-Years of Service Celebration

Meet the Forest Service

Archives of Forest Service History

Forest History Society

National Museum of Forest Service History