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Forest History Today, Spring/Fall 2013 A PUBLICATION OF THE FOREST HISTORY SOCIETY SPRING/FALL 2013 VOL. 19, NOS. 1 & 2 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Saving Manuscripts Has Always Challenged Preservationists STEVEN ANDERSON his month I started reading Bracciolini’s discoveries and transcription Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve: efforts enabled the distribution of manu- T How the World Became Modern. It scripts that changed the world. Similarly, is about a book finder, Poggio Bracciolini, in preserving, making accessible, and help- who in the 1400s seeks out the ancient ing researchers interpret forest and con- manuscripts transcribed in monasteries servation history, the Forest History over the previous thousand years. He Society is aiding the evolution of public recovers a great number of classical Latin discourse about natural resources man- manuscripts, many decaying and at risk, agement and policy. in German, Swiss, and French monastic The Forest History Society is the libraries. In particular, he locates and national archives for, among many other arranges for a transcription of Lucretius’ organizations, the Society of American poem On the Nature of Things, a literary Foresters, the American Forest & Paper work that inspired humanists and others Association, the Association of Consulting during the Renaissance and certainly con- Foresters, the American Tree Farm System, tributed to modern thought. and American Forests, the oldest citizens’ One amusing passage describes the conservation group in the United States, extent to which monasteries went to pro- with records that extend back to 1875. tect books that had become scarce and valuable during the With a multitude of other individual, company, and organiza- Dark Ages. On occasion scribes would place a curse on such tional collections, including the U.S. Forest Service National manuscripts. “For him that stealeth, or borroweth, and retur- Headquarters History Reference Collection, the Society is the neth not, this book from its owner,” one wrote, foremost location for students, teachers, journalists, and others to start their research. The breadth of these complementary let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him collections enriches their research experience, and the Society’s be struck with palsy, and all his members blasted. Let him lan- professional staff—librarian, archivist, historian, and forester— guish in pain crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease help them hone their ideas and dig deeper into the history and to his agony till he sing in dissolution. Let book worms gnaw its meaning. No organization or location can provide more at his entrails in token of the Worm that dieth not, and when immediate public access and outreach to such a range of mate- at last he goeth to his final punishment, let the flames of Hell rials about the historical relationship of humans and their forests. consume him forever. This is why our staff and leadership are taking the recent electrical fire at the Society’s headquarters with utmost seri- Soon after, the invention of the printing press led to much ousness and attention. Although our archives were not affected, wider dissemination of books, which for five hundred years the extent of smoke in the administrative parts of the building remained the main form of distribution of ideas. In the second has forced the Society’s staff into temporary quarters for several half of the twentieth century, the development of computers months. With your help we will emerge from this disruption portended the technological shortcut to the sharing of ideas stronger than ever. Even before the fire, our board of directors and the publication of books—a change that defines our lives had been working toward securing new facilities for the Society. in the early twenty-first century. The planned new building will provide expanded areas for Of course, saving books and other manuscripts and printed preservation of materials, new spaces for students and materials remains a challenge for libraries and archives today. researchers, and additional capacity to accommodate new The Forest History Society, though a small nonprofit educa- technology and formats of materials that we will be asked to tional and research organization, plays a significant role in such preserve in the future. We hope you will support this effort preservation for the forest and conservation community. and partner with us in these pursuits.. contents spring/fall 2013 Forest History Today 4 14 30 A PUBLICATION OF THE FOREST HISTORY SOCIETY FEATURES DURHAM, NC Vol. 19, Nos. 1 & 2 4 Derecho! The Forgotten Windstorm Spring/Fall 2013 that Changed the Ozarks Published April 2014 DENISE HENDERSON VAUGHN 14 The Rise and Fall of the Gulf Coast Tung Oil Industry JEFFREY B. ROBB AND PAUL D. TRAVIS 23 Forestry Education in Quebec: The First 50 Years CYRILLE GÉLINAS 30 From the Mountains to the Prairies: Reflections on My 21 Months with AmeriCorps CHRISTINE E. AMORESANO 23 34 Lessons from Harvard Forests and Ecologists: Bob Marshall’s Plot EDITOR James G. Lewis DAVID R. FOSTER 42 Making Common Cause for Conservation: EDITORIAL CONSULTANTS Sally Atwater and Dianne Timblin The Pinchot Institute & Grey Towers National Historic Site, 1963–2013 CONTRIBUTING EDITORS CHAR MILLER Andrea Anderson, Steven Anderson, Kathy Cox, DEPARTMENTS Eben Lehman, Cheryl Oakes, and Maggie Porell 52 Biographical Portrait: DESIGN The Mattoons and McLeans—Deep Forestry Roots Zubigraphics ANDY MASON 55 History on the Road: Forest History Today is published by the Forest History Society to keep Charcoal and Utah’s Early Mining Industry readers apprised of the best forest DOUGLAS H. PAGE JR., SARAH E. PAGE, THOMAS J. STRAKA, history writing and FHS activities. AND NATHAN D. THOMAS Please send article proposals to 64 Books and Films of Interest Jamie Lewis, 701 Wm. Vickers 52 EBEN LEHMAN AND JAMES G. LEWIS Avenue, Durham, NC 27701, 919/682-9319 or e-mail to: 71 Mark Your Calendar [email protected]. ANNUAL REPORT ON THE COVER Logger Bob May loads timber 72 From the Chair in August 2013. 73 Treasurer’s Report Courtesy of Denise Vaughn 74 Contributions and Project Sponsors Articles appearing in this journal are abstracted and indexed in HISTORICAL ABSTRACTS and 55 76 Gifts to the Forest History Society Library AMERICA: HISTORY AND LIFE. 78 Awards and Fellowships 80 Publications of the Forest History Society EDITOR’S NOTE by James G. Lewis nniversaries help us mark the passage of time. They can lot of good for the country and its citizens during its brief exis- be times of joyful celebration or of somber reflection. tence. Initially, however, no minorities could join, and women A Regardless of why it is being observed, an anniversary were never allowed in this army. Sixty years after Franklin often prompts us to examine the legacy of the event it commem- Roosevelt established the CCC came the AmeriCorps National orates. Fifty years has passed since President John F. Kennedy ded- Civilian Community Corps, which was modeled on the CCC. icated the Pinchot Institute for Conservation Studies. His This tree army has welcomed men and women of any race. The September 1963 visit to Grey Towers, the ancestral home of goals are largely the same: to transform the land while transform- Gifford Pinchot, was the first stop on his national conservation ing the people who work the land. That is certainly apparent in tour and commanded national press attention. The tour came as From the Mountains to the Prairies, Christine Amoresano’s the modern environmental movement was finding its footing reflections on her stint in AmeriCorps. and issues, some of which Kennedy’s tour stops unwittingly I find anniversaries curious. Why is the 50th more cause for pointed to: hydroelectric power, nuclear facilities, and protected celebration than the 20th or 80th or 90th? Is there more cause? In landscapes. April 2014 it will be 90 years since Richard Fisher wrote a letter In his new book, Seeking the Greatest Good: The Conservation to Robert Marshall in which the director of the Harvard Forest Legacy of Gifford Pinchot, Char Miller helps us understand what invited the young forestry student to come study an old-growth happened during the half-century that followed Kennedy’s visit. forest on Pisgah Mountain in New Hampshire. Marshall accepted It was published in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the the invitation to attend Harvard, but he chose to study a different establishment of the Pinchot Institute and the Pinchot family’s parcel of land, one that later became known as Bob Marshall’s donation of Grey Towers to the federal government. During Plot. Ninety years after it was written, is this letter less important Gifford’s life, Grey Towers was the center of much activity and because of Marshall’s decision? Read David Foster’s Lessons from conversation regarding the future of America. His son wanted Harvard Forests and Ecologists: Bob Marshall’s Plot and decide to ensure that the discussion about conservation continued by for yourself. offering the estate as the headquarters for the Pinchot Institute How should we mark an anniversary of a natural disaster that and a meeting place for the U.S. Forest Service, which his father initially caused extensive destruction but seems to have brought had established. Miller’s Making Common Cause for Conser - about positive change in its wake? In May 2014, it will be five years vation is adapted from his book. since a major windstorm, called a derecho, swept across the Ozarks. Also at the dedication of Grey Towers was “Sam” Mattoon, Many people in that region are still unaware of the extent of dam- the wife of John Mattoon, a longtime federal government age done by the storm, as Denise Henderson Vaughn notes in employee and champion of conservation in his own right. Her her article, Derecho! The Windstorm That Changed the husband had a major role in coordinating events for the Forest Ozarks.
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