Directors of Research Stations in the South
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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
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