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| America's Forested Wetlands: From Wasteland to Valued Resource From the darkest, most forbidding swamp to the smallest soggy bog at the side of a housing development, wetlands provide invaluable ecological services to life on earth. Yet, prior to the 1930s, few people worried about the mounting loss of these essential landscapes. America's Forested Wetlands chronicles the history of American attitudes and actions toward the ambiguous transitional areas between dry land and open water. From the clear-cutting of cypress swamps and the wholesale filling and draining of marshes and bottomlands to the growing recognition of how these lands contribute to flood control, water quality, and biological diversity and on to today's energetic political debates over "no net loss" policies designed to protect, enhance, restore, or recreate wetlands, the story involves increasing human understanding and appreciation of an important but limited resource. America's Forested Wetlands addresses one of the most persistent and contentious issues in natural resources management and offers an essential primer for landowners, teachers, students, journalists, and government decision makers and advisors. | |
| Jeffrey K. Stine is Curator for Environmental History and Chair of the Division of Medicine and Science at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. Among his other works on wetlands is Mixing the Waters: Environment, Politics, and the Building of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (1993). | |
| To order, contact the Forest History Society at 919-682-9319 or order online. | |
| Forestry in Europe and the United States shares common roots in forest management and in the institutional, legal, and policy frameworks that form the basis for sustainable forest management. It was Europe, in the late nineteenth century, that introduced the basic principles of forestry to the United States. During the 20th century, the policy framework and social conditions for forestry on the two continents developed along distinctly different lines. Now, European and American forestry institutions are focusing on many of the same concerns- sustainable wood production, biodiversity conservation, protection of water quality, climate change mitigation, and sustainable economic development in rural communities as a few examples. This reconvergence is resulting in new strategic alliances among forestry institutions on both continents. |  |
| To recognize this historic connection between European and American forestry and to set the stage for further alliances, a set of two colloquia were convened, one in Europe and one in the United States that brought together forest managers, researchers, and policymakers from both continents. The papers herein explore the convergence, divergence, and reconvergence of forest management, education, and practice in Europe and the United States. | |
ISBN Softcover (978-0-89030-070-1): $24.95 | Jointly published by the Forest History Society and the Pinchot Institute for Conservation, 2008. 399 pp., figures, tables. |
| To order, contact the Forest History Society at 919-682-9319 or order online. | |
A Hard Road to Travel: Land, Forests and People in the Upper Athabasca Region (by Peter J. Murphy with Robert W. Udell, Robert E. Stevenson, and Thomas W. Peterson) "Treating the Athabasca corridor for its entire non-Native history, A Hard Road to Travel takes its readers through two parallel histories brought together as one. It tells the stories of not just the fur traders on the transcontinental route between Hudson Bay and the Pacific Ocean, nor just the tourists, alpinists, skiers, and campers making annual pilgrimages to the mountains, but also the miners and foresters, the freighters and surveyors, the railway builders and homesteaders, the guides and wardens (horses in tow), forest industrialists and their provincial and federal government counterparts, and the forests and wildlife of the Athabasca.." ---From the foreword by I.S. MacLaren. |  |
| Peter J. Murphy is Professor Emeritus of Forest Science at the University of Alberta. He has written numerous books and articles on forestry topics, many of which contain a historical perspective. | |
ISBN Hardcover (978-1-896585-10-9): $42.95 | Published by the Forest History Society and the Foothills Model Forest, 2007. 306 pp., 154 photographs, 28 maps, timeline, index. |
| To order, contact the Forest History Society at 919-682-9319 or order online. | |
 | Ground Work: Conservation in American Culture Ground Work offers intriguing insights into American conservation history. Miller demonstrates his remarkable ability as a historian to cast new light on familiar events and figures, such as Bernhard Fernow and Gifford Pinchot, and create a deeper and richer understanding of their significance, both in their times and in our own. Ground Work is a series of vignettes rather than a chronologically continuous tale. It spans topics from the Progressive Era roots of the American conservation movement, on which Miller has proven his virtuosity in earlier works such as Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism, to new insights into the impact of documentary films on the environmental perceptions of 21st-century urban America. Advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental and forest history will find these essays stimulating, general nonfiction readers very enlightening. |
| Char Miller specializes in American environmental, cultural, and urban history at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He served as chair of the History Department from 1998 to 2004, and since 2001 has been Director of Urban Studies. His books include: Deep in the Heart of San Antonio: Land & Life in South Texas ; Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism (award winner); The Greatest Good: 100 Years of Forestry in America ; and Gifford Pinchot: The Evolution of An American Conservationist . Miller is editor of The Atlas of U.S. and Canadian Environmental History ; On the Border: An Environmental History of San Antonio ; Fluid Arguments: Five Centuries of Western Water Conflict ; Water and the Environment: Global Perspectives (With Mark Cioc and Kate Showers); Water and the West: A High Country News Reader ; American Forests: Nature, Culture, and Politics ; Out of the Woods: Essays in Environmental History (With Hal K. Rothman). | |
| ISBN Hardcover (978-0-89030-069-5) : $19.95 | Published in Durham, N.C., by the Forest History Society, 2007. 182 pp., notes, index. |
| To order, contact the Forest History Society at 919-682-9319 or order online. | |
| Proceedings of the U.S. Forest Service Centennial Congress: A Collective Commitment to Conservation (Edited by Steven Anderson) | |
| Convened in January 2005, the U.S. Forest Service Centennial Congress was more than a birthday celebration for America's oldest federal land management agency. It was an occasion to reflect on its past as a starting point for discussing the agency's future. Delegates from industry, the environmental and academic communities, all sorts of user groups, and the agency's partners in government at every level gathered to discuss what that future might hold and what their own stake in it might be. The proceedings demonstrate that there is a wealth of opinion about what the Forest Service should do with the public's land and how it should do it - and even some question of whether the Forest Service should do it. They also make clear that the public's commitment to conservation which led to the agency's creation in 1905 is alive and welll and will help guide the Forest Service as it embarks on its second century. |  |
| Steve Anderson is president of the Forest History Society. ISBN softcover (0-89030-067-1): $24.95 Published in Durham, N.C., by the Forest History Society, 2006; xviii + 494 pp., 59 photos. To order, contact the Forest History Society at 919-682-9319 or order online. | |
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| From the timbered shores of the Pacific Northwest to the marble halls of Washington, DC, the choices about how we use our natural heritage are filled with controversy. Whether it is the protection of endangered species or meeting the needs of a growing public, the fate of public lands is constantly challenged. The journey from the "wise use" of resources to the idea of a "land ethic" has defined the evolution of the Forest Service. The Greatest Good is a story of America's land-a story told in the new film, The Greatest Good, and the companion book, The Forest Service and The Greatest Good: A Centennial History. It is a story of the public land we all own and where we resolve our conflicting interests. Since 1905, the United States Forest Service has been at the forefront of this ongoing experiment of democracy on the ground. An experiment that asks: What is the greatest good? | |
| The Greatest Good 3-Disc DVD Set
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| The Greatest Good: A Forest Service Centennial Film Disc 1: The Feature Film: The Greatest Good * Letterbox format Discs 2-3: Bonus Materials include featurettes on: | The Forest Service and The Greatest Good: A Centennial History The Companion Book to the Film by James G. Lewis The Forest Service and the Greatest Good: A Centennial History traces the agency's development from its beginnings as a one-man research outfit to today's broad-based operation of over 30,000 employees overseeing 191 million acres of public land. Richly illustrated, The Forest Service and the Greatest Good provides an entertaining and informative account of the Forest Service's first one hundred years as it enters a new century of service. |
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