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Forest History Today-F99.I PUBLICATIONS OF THE FOREST HISTORY SOCIETY These are books resulting from Society programs. To purchase a Origins of the National Forests: A Centennial Symposium, Harold K. copy, contact the publisher listed below or your local bookseller. Steen, cloth $31.95; paper $16.95 Changing Tropical Forests: Historical Perspectives on Today’s Challenges FROM FOREST HISTORY SOCIETY 701 VICKERS AVENUE, DURHAM, NC 27701 in Central and South America, Harold K. Steen and Richard P. 919/682-9319 Tucker, cloth $31.95; paper $16.95 Issues Series FROM UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS Forest Pharmacy: Medicinal Plants in American Forests, Steven Foster, 330 RESEARCH DRIVE, ATHENS, GA 30602-4901 800/266-5842 $6.95 Crusading for Chemistry: The Professional Career of Charles Holmes American Forests: A History of Resiliency and Recovery, Douglas W. Herty, Germaine M. Reed, $36.00 MacCleery, $6.95 Newsprint: Canadian Supply and American Demand, Thomas R. FROM UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS Roach, $6.95 P. O. BOX 50096, SEATTLE,WA 98145-5096 800/441-4115 America’s Fires: Management on Wildlands and Forests, Stephen J. Pyne, The Forested Land: A History of Lumbering in Western Washington, $6.95 Robert E. Ficken, $25.00 Oral Histories and Other Publications George S. Long, Timber Statesman, Charles E. Twining, $30.00 Forest and Wildlife Science in America: A History, edited by Harold K. Phil Weyerhaeuser: Lumberman, Charles E. Twining, $25.00 Steen, $14.95 FROM UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS From Sagebrush to Sage: The Making of a Natural Resource Economist, 312 NORTH 14TH STREET, P.O. BOX 880484, Marion Clawson, $9.95 LINCOLN, NE 68588-0520 Plantation Forestry in the Amazon: The Jari Experience, Clayton E. 800/755-1105 Posey, Robert J. Gilvary, John C. Welker, L. N. Thompson, $16.95 This Well-Wooded Land: Americans and Their Forests from Colonial Cradle of Forestry in America: The Biltmore Forest School, 1898–1913, Times to the Present, Thomas R. Cox et al., $27.95 Carl Alwin Schenck, $9.95 FROM GREENWOOD PUBLISHING GROUP,INC. Evolution of Tropical Forestry: Puerto Rico and Beyond, Frank H. 88 POST ROAD WEST, BOX 5007,WESTPORT, CT 06881 Wadsworth, $5.50 postage and handling 203/226-3571 Forest Service Research: Finding Answers to Conservation’s Questions, Beyond the Adirondacks: The Story of St. Regis Paper Company, Eleanor Harold K. Steen, $10.95 Amigo and Mark Neuffer, $35.00 View From The Top: Forest Service Research, R. Keith Arnold, Lost Initiatives: Canada’s Forest Industries, Forest Policy and Forest M. B. Dickerman, Robert E. Buckman, $13.00 Conservation, R. Peter Gillis and Thomas R. Roach, $40.95 Forest Service Research, Carl E. Ostrom, $18.00 FROM CAROLINA ACADEMIC PRESS EPA during the Bush Administration, William K. Reilly, $18.00 700 KENT STREET, DURHAM, NC 27701 CEQ and EPA under Nixon and Ford, Russell E. Train, $19.00 919/489-7486 Archival Collections of the Forest History Society: An Annotated Guide, A Forestry Revolution: The History of Tree Improvement in the Southern Michele A. Justice, $13.00 United States, Bruce J. Zobel and Jerry R. Sprague, $14.95 Oral History Collection of the Forest History Society: An Annotated FROM UNIVERSITY OF MAINE PRESS Guide, Barbara D. Holman and Michele A. Justice, $18.00 ROOM 444, 5717 CORBETT HALL, ORONO, ME 04469-5717 207/581-1408 FROM DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Aroostook: A Century of Logging in Northern Maine, Richard W. Judd, BOX 90660, DURHAM, NC 27708-0660 919/687-3600 cloth $27.50; paper $17.95 Changing Pacific Forests: Historical Perspectives on the Forest Economy of SIMON & SCHUSTER the Pacific Basin, John Dargavel and Richard Tucker, cloth $39.95; 1230 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS paper $14.95 NEW YORK, NY 10020 800/223-2336 Forest History Museums of the World, Kathryn A. Fahl, $12.00 Encyclopedia of American Forest & Conservation History, $250.00/set North American Forest and Conservation History: A Bibliography, Ronald J. Fahl, $31.95 AVAILABLE VIDEOS First National Colloquium on the History of the Forest Products FROM FOREST HISTORY SOCIETY Industries, Elwood R. Maunder and Margaret G. Davidson, 701 VICKERS AVENUE, DURHAM, NC 27701 Proceedings, Boston, Massachusetts, May 17–18, 1966, $16.00 919/682-9319 David T. Mason: Forestry Advocate, Elmo Richardson, $8.00 Timber on the Move: A History of Log-Moving Technology, Bernhard Eduard Fernow: A Story of North American Forestry, Andrew Vester Dick (1981). Denny Rodgers III, $21.95 Up in Flames: A History of Fire Fighting in the Forest, Vester Dick Sustained-Yield Forestry, Harold K. Steen, $21.95 (1984). 62 FOREST HISTORY TODAY | FALL 1999 Cradle of Forestry in America: Evolution of Tropical Forestry: Forest Service Research: Finding The Biltmore Forest School, 1898–1913 Puerto Rico and Beyond Answers to Conservation Questions by Carl Alwin Schenck An Interview with Frank H. Wadsworth by Harold K. Steen Carl Alwin Schenck’s memoirs of his 15- Rarely does a day pass without a news- “Recently, the Forest Service has year experience at North Carolina’s paper article addressing the loss of the embarked on what could be called a voy- Biltmore Estate have been reprinted by world’s forests. Tropical forests attract the age ’beyond the maps.’ Ecosystem man- the Forest History Society and the Cradle most attention. While there is an abun- agement, sustainability, biodiversity, of Forestry in America Interpretive dance of available information and forest health—these concepts are taking Association. Timely for the centennial cel- misinformation, there are few words of the agency outside its traditional bound- ebration of the first forestry school in wisdom. In this abridged version of an aries…” Thus begins the report from the North America, the 224-page book pro- oral history interview conducted by FHS, 1995 Forest Service and Policy vides colorful accounts of Schenck’s Wadsworth reflects on the evolution of Roundtable, where “integrating science efforts to bring forestry to the estate, his tropical research, and many of the people into land management decision making relationships with Pinchot, Fernow, and and organizations involved. He covers the was the key topic.” Clearly, by the cen- Vanderbilt, and the struggle to bring status of tropical forest research and the tury’s end, the Forest Service research forestry education to the United States. successes and failures of the Tropical program was seen as an equal partner Forest Experiment Station in Puerto Rico, to the agency’s management and out- Foresters and forestry students will find UN based agencies, the Canal Zone, and reach activities, a condition that did not insights to the development of the non-governmental organizations, among hold as the century began. But the story forestry profession and lessons that are other topics. This is a must read for those begins much earlier.” pertinent to forest management issues. who want insight into the successes and Historians will gain insight into the failures of the past to better understand This new 100-page historical overview development of the early conservation today. traces the early years of Forest Service movement in America. Schenk’s vision, research efforts, how it strived for inde- energy, and enthusiasm for training Dr. Frank H. Wadsworth conducted pendence, the expansion of research young foresters a century ago give us all research on the management of tropical efforts, and how the research has related a remarkable legacy. forests for over 50 years with the US to the environment. Author Harold K. Forest Service in Puerto Rico. He is Steen takes readers on a journey around Available for $9.95 plus shipping and known as one of the world’s leading the country and through 100 years of handling from the Forest History Society. experts on tropical forest management. Forest Service challenges and contri- His recently released book, Forest butions. Production for Tropical America (USDA Agricultural Handbook 710), is testimo- Available from the Forest History Society ny to his well-earned reputation. for $10.95 plus shipping and handling. This small volume is available from the Forest History Society for the cost of shipping and handling. FOREST HISTORY TODAY | FALL 1999 63 The challenges inherent in developing a First World infrastructure in a remote location were met, largely through the innovative skills of Posey, Gilvary, Welker, and Thompson. These pioneers well represent the spirit that tradition insists was more commonplace in 19th- century America. Complicated shifts in the world’s econ- omy in the early 1980s compelled Ludwig to sell the vast enterprise to a consortium of Brazilian companies, an enterprise that operates today. Harshly The Southern Appalachians: criticized in the forestry, financial, and A History of the Landscape Plantation Forestry in The Amazon: environmental literature of the time, by Susan L. Yarnell The Jari Experience by Clayton E. Ludwig’s Jari venture appears to show Posey, Robert J. Gilvary, John C. that plantation forestry in the Amazon Welker, and L. N. Thompson; edited by is viable, but also capital-intensive. Susan Yarnell has written a compact envi- Harold K. Steen, Forest History Society ronmental history which traces the role Anyone interested in plantation forestry of humans in landscape change in the In the mid-1960s, Daniel K. Ludwig pur- in the tropics would benefit by this unique southern Appalachians from about 12,000 chased three million acres along the Jari account and window into the Jari experi- years ago—when humans first arrived— River, a major tributary to the lower ence. The lessons of one of the largest to the present. The Southern Appalachians: Amazon. During the next decade, a little plantation forestry efforts in the world are A History of the Landscape describes the less than 10 percent of the area was cleared presented from the perspective of a for- increasing and significant effect that native of its native forest and replaced with fast- est geneticist, civil engineer, forest econ- Indians had upon the land, especially with growing plantations of gmelina (Gmelina omist, and a hardwood forester who the development of agriculture/ horti- arborea), pine (Pinus caribaea hondurensis), worked on the project.
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