Peeling Back The Bark
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New Collection: American Tree Farm System Records
By James Lewis on June 22, 2010Gifford Pinchot famously wrote in Breaking New Ground, “Forestry is Tree Farming. Forestry is handling trees so that one crop follows another. To grow trees as a crop is Forestry.” While next June marks the official 70th anniversary of the first certified tree farm, the concept of renewable forestry can be traced back to the…
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The Great Hurricane of 1938
By Eben Lehman on June 8, 2010June marks the official start of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season, which this year is forecast to be a busy one. As deadly and destructive storms, hurricanes are also major agents of landscape change and forest disturbance in many parts of the southern and eastern United States. The Forest History Society library and archival collections…
