Forest History Society

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Forest History Society
founding 1946
Seat Durham , North Carolina ( ⊙ coordinates: 36 ° 0 ′ 3.8 ″  N , 78 ° 56 ′ 29.8 ″  W )
motto "By understanding our past, we shape our future" (Eng. "By understanding our past, we shape our future")
main emphasis Environmental history , forests , forestry , natural resources
method Research, publication, education, library, archives
Action space worldwide
Website foresthistory.org

The Forest History Society is a US non-profit organization dedicated to protecting forests and the history of that protection. The company was founded in 1946 and recognized as a non-profit in 1955.

Fields of action and goals

The Forest History Society is headquartered in Durham , North Carolina . It includes the Alvin J. Huss Archives and the Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Library , which together constitute a comprehensive compilation of materials related to the organization's goals. The archives house large collections from various national organizations and companies such as the Society of American Foresters , the American Forest and Paper Association , the American Forestry Association , the American Tree Farm System and the Weyerhaeuser Company, as well as many other smaller collections of national or international importance. In addition, the Forest History Society maintains a publication program that publishes Environmental History magazine, Forest History Today magazine , a series of reports, and environmental and environmental / conservation-focused monographs; there is also an educational program aimed at building understanding and acceptance of human interactions with nature; it continues to perform a role that brings scientists, politicians and landowners together. The company also works to promote and reward academic research in the fields of forests, conservation and environmental history.

history

A small group of historians and forestry representatives came together in 1946 to create an organization dedicated to the preservation of the documented historical heritage of North America. The Forest Products History Foundation was established and started as a program of the Minnesota Historical Society .

In the following decade, source material was collected for the archive, a history interview program was created, and a quarterly scientific journal was initiated. In 1955, the company was recognized as a non-profit organization under the second managing director Elwood Rondeau "Woody" Maunder under the new name Forest History Foundation . Four years later, in 1959, the name was changed to Forest History Societ .

The organization left Minnesota in 1964 and moved to the campus of Yale University in 1964, and then again to the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1969 . In 1984 the company moved to its current headquarters in Durham (North Carolina) and established a collaboration with Duke University and the Nicholas School of the Environment .

In 1996 the Forest History Society and the American Society for Environmental History became partners . This relationship helped to expand society's goals beyond the boundaries of forest and conservation history and to include issues of much broader environmental history.

Presently, Steven Anderson is President and CEO and James G. Lewis is historian.

Publications

The Forest History Society is editor of Forest History Today magazine and co-editor of Environmental History magazine (jointly with the American Society for Environmental History ). A regular series of reports on environmental issues on current issues such as fire, wetlands and forests is also published. Individual special books on important research on forests, conservation and environmental history are also published. The society also offers financial, editorial and scientific assistance to other authors who deal with the subject of environmental history.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b “Forest History Society”. Echo Project. Center for History and New Media, George Mason University. http://echo.gmu.edu/node/144
  2. ^ "Changing Roles of the Forest History Society: New Approaches to Environmental History in North America." Methods and Approaches in Forest History . Agnoletti, Mauro, et al., Eds. Wallingford, England: CABI Publishing, 2000, p. 22.

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