Forest History Today Magazine

Spring/Fall 2016 Issue

View the table of contents for the Spring/Fall 2016 issue below.

Feature articles in the Spring/Fall 2016 issue include discussion of the role of the lumber industry in influencing African American migration patterns; the work of American forester Benjamin Avery in Ontario; the role of women in forest conservation in Florida; the history of Timber REITs and TIMOs; the establishment of the Texas Forest Service; the life and work of Fujikazu Nakagawa; and a look at Puerto Rico’s El Yunque National Forest.

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Contents

[i] “Message from the President: Expanding the World’s Collective Wisdom” [PDF]
2 “Editor’s Note” by James G. Lewis [PDF]
Features
4 “‘I Wanted to Get Up and Move’: The Arizona Lumber Industry and the Great Migration” by Jack Reid [PDF]
14 “An American Forester, a Canadian Paper Company, and the Spanish River: Benjamin F. Avery and His Silvicultural Program in Ontario” by Mark Kuhlberg [PDF]
23 “Florida’s ‘Municipal Housekeepers’ and Their Advocacy for Longleaf Pine” by Leslie Kemp Poole [PDF]
32 “From Cigar Tax to Timberland Trusts: A Short History of Timber REITs and TIMOs” by Brooks Mendell [PDF]
38 “Bringing Forestry to Texas: The First Quarter-Century of the Texas A&M Forest Service” by Ronald F. Billings [PDF]
Photo Essay
46 “Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Photos from the American Forests Photograph Collection” by James G. Lewis [PDF]
Departments
58 “Biographical Portrait: Fujikazu Nakagawa (1920-1968)” by World Forestry Center [PDF]
61 “History on the Road: El Yunque National Forest” by Char Miller | Photographs by Tim Palmer [PDF]
64 Books and Films of Interest by James G. Lewis, Eben Lehman, and Jason Howard [PDF]
Society News
73 Mark Your Calendar [PDF]
74 Contributions and Project Sponsors [PDF]
76 Welcome to New Members [PDF]
76 Honor Roll of Members 25+ Years [PDF]
77 Gifts to the Forest History Society Library [PDF]
78 Awards and Fellowships [PDF]
80 Publications of the Forest History Society [PDF]
82 Back Cover [PDF]