AWARD & FELLOWSHIP ENDOWMENTS

Awards Endowment

The endowed award program enables the Forest History Society (FHS) to recognize scholarly achievement and service to the organization and the community at large. The maintenance of high selection standards reflects equally on the Society and the recipients.  It partially supports the Leopold-Hidy Award given annually to the author of the best article in the journal Environmental History; the

Theodore C. Blegen Award presented annually to the author of the best article published in a journal other than Environmental History; and the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award given annually to the author of the best book on forest and conservation history.

John M. Collier Award for Forest History Journalism

The John M. Collier Award for Forest History Journalism is given to a journalist whose work incorporates forest or conservation history in an article or series of articles published in North America that relate to environmental issues.  John M. Collier, a longtime journalist who covered the forest industry, represented the best of the profession with thorough research, solid interpretation, and clear writing throughout his career. The award seeks to honor his work and memory by recognizing journalists who carry on his tradition of excellence.

Alfred D. Bell Travel Grants

The Forest History Society awards several Bell Travel Grants each year to researchers who use FHS resources to support their work.  Travel Grants to support travel and lodging expenses incurred by researchers conducting in-depth studies using resources in the Society's Alvin J. Huss Archives and Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Library.  FHS established the award to honor the memory of wholesale lumberman, forest industry editor, and former FHS vice president Alfred Bell, Jr., who died in 1985.

F.K. Weyerhaeuser Fellowship

Lynn W. Day (1932-1999) and her husband Stanley R. Day (1925-2002) endowed the Society's Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser Forest History Fellowship in 1986 to honor the memory of Lynn's father, F. K. Weyerhaeuser (1895-1978), to support FHS programs, and to strengthen the Society's affiliation with its affiliate.  The fellowship currently provides a stipend to Duke University graduate students pursuing research in the fields of forest, conservation, or environmental history.

Walter S. Rosenberry Fellowship

Walter S. Rosenberry (1931-2005), a long-time supporter and Forest History Society Board member, provided the Society’s first endowment in support of its awards program.  The fellowship provides a stipend to support the doctoral research of a graduate student attending a university in North America whose research contributes to forest and conservation history.