Forest History Society
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The Forest History Society is a nonprofit educational institution affiliated with Duke University. Founded in 1946, it advances historical understanding of humankind’s interaction with the forest environment through programs in research, publication, service, and library and archival collecting.
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Address: 701 Wm. Vickers Ave., Durham, NC 27701-3162
Phone:(919) 682-9319
Fax: (919) 682-2349
E-mail: coakes@duke.edu
Web page: http://www.foresthistory.org
Online Finding Aids: http://www.foresthistory.org/Research/databases.html
President: Steven Anderson
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The Forest History Society archival program has two key elements: placing archival material of regional significance in appropriate repositories throughout the United States and Canada and maintaining a relatively small but rich collection of national importance in its own archives. The society holds four major collections and many smaller ones. The major collections are those of the American Forestry Association, a citizen’s conservation group founded in 1875; the American Forest Council, the forest industry’s educational arm, founded in 1941; the National Forest Products Association, now called American Forest and Paper Association, the forest industry’s primary trade association, founded in 1902; and the Society of American Foresters, a professional group founded in 1900. In addition, the society maintains a computerized archival guide listing more than 7,000 groups of records in 450 repositories across North America. The Forest History Society’s library has approximately 9,000 books, 240 journal titles, 1,200 maps, and 600 manuscripts dealing with all aspects of forest and conservation history. It also houses the U.S. Forest Service Headquarters History Collection. The library maintains a photograph collection of some 25,000 images that is particularly rich in photos of early lumbering techniques and equipment. A small portion of the photograph collection is searchable on the society’s web site.
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