Complete Book List
The Forest History Society has been a leading publisher of forest and conservation history for more than half a century, publishing books under its own imprint and in cooperation with university presses and other organizations. All FHS imprint books are distributed by the University of North Carolina Press. Individuals can order our books from their bookseller of choice or direct from our publishing partners at the links below. Retailers who would like to carry FHS books can order them through UNC Press and its fulfillment partner, Longleaf Services. For ordering and account information, visit UNC Press’s website.
Chiefs Remember: The Forest Service, 1952-2001
Steen, Harold K., ed. 2005. Hardcover & softcover.
Common Goals for Sustainable Forest Management
Sample, V. Alaric and Steven Anderson, eds. 2008. xix+399 pp. Softcover.
Conservation Diaries of Gifford Pinchot
Steen, Harold K., ed. 2001. 230 pp. Hardcover.
Cradle of Forestry in America: The Biltmore Forest School
Schenck, Carl Alwin. 2011. Edited by Ovid Butler. Published in cooperation with the Cradle of Forestry in America Interpretive Association and the U.S. Forest Service History Program. xv+224 pp. Softcover.
Forest Aesthetics
von Salish, Heinrich. 2008. Translated by Walter L. Cook Jr. and Doris Wehlau. 400 pp. Softcover.
Forest and Wildlife Science in America: A History
Steen, Harold K., ed. 1999. 455 pp. Softcover.
Forest Management for All: State and Private Forestry in the U.S. Forest Service
Bramwell, Lincoln. 2013. 103 pp. Softcover.
Forest Service and The Greatest Good: A Centennial History
Lewis, James G. 2005. 290 pp. Hardcover & softcover.
Forest Service Research: Finding Answers to Conservation's Questions
Steen, Harold K. 1998. v+102 pp. Softcover.
Ground Work: Conservation in American Culture
Miller, Char. 2007. 182 pp. Hardcover.
Jack Ward Thomas: The Journals of a Forest Service Chief
Thomas, Jack Ward. 2011. Edited by Harold K. Steen. 417 pp. Softcover.
Lands Worth Saving: The Weeks Act of 1911, the National Forests, and the Enduring Value of Public Investment
Lewis, James G. 2018. 156 pp. Softcover.
Millicoma: Biography of a Pacific Northwestern Forest
Smyth, Art. 2000. xix + 145 pp. Softcover.
Pathway to Sustainability: Defining the Bounds on Forest Management
Fedkiw, John, Douglas W. MacCleery, and V. Alaric Sample. 2004. vii+64 pp. Softcover.
Plantation Forestry in the Amazon: The Jari Experience
Posey, Clayton E., et al. 1997. ix+281 pp. Softcover.
Proceedings of the U.S. Forest Service Centennial Congress: A Collective Commitment to Conservation
Anderson, Steven, ed. 2006. 512 pp. Softcover.
Tongass Timber: A History of Logging and Timber Utilization in Southeast Alaska
Mackovjak, James. 2010. 386 pp. Softcover.
U.S. Forest Service: A History
Steen, Harold K. 2004. xvi+356 pp. Hardcover & softcover.
View from the Top: Forest Service Research
Arnold, R. Keith, Murlyn B. Dickerman, and Robert E. Buckman. Edited by Harold K. Steen. 1994. xiv+365 pp. Softcover.
Issue Series
American Forests: A History of Resiliency and Recovery
MacCleery, Douglas W. 2012. 65 pp. Softcover.
America's Fires: A Historical Context for Policy and Practice
Pyne, Stephen J. 2010. xvii+93 pp. Softcover.
America's Forested Wetlands: From Wasteland to Valued Resource
Stine, Jeffrey K. 2008. 96 pp. Softcover.
Genetically Modified Forests: From Stone Age to Modern Biotechnology
Burdon, Rowland D. and William J. Libby. 2006. 79 pp. Softcover.
Canada's Forests: A History
Drushka, Ken. 2003. viii+97 pp. Softcover.
Forest Pharmacy: Medicinal Plants in American Forests
Foster, Steven. 1995. vi+57 pp. Softcover.
Forest Sustainability: The History, the Challenge, the Promise
Floyd, Donald W. 2002. x+83 pp. Softcover.
Newsprint: Canadian Supply and American Demand
Roach, Thomas R. 1994. vii+56 pp. Softcover.
Wood for Bioenergy: Forests as a Resource for Biomass and Biofuels
Mendell, Brooks and Amanda Hamsley Lang. 2012. 77 pp. Softcover.
Other Publications
Bernhard Eduard Fernow: A Story of North American Forestry
Rodgers, Andrew Denny, III. 1991. xii+623 pp. Hardcover.
Bringing in the Wood: The Way It Was at Chesapeake Corporation
Buxton, Mary Wakefield. 1999. 187 pp. Hardcover & softcover.
Corks and Suspenders: Memoir of an Early Forester
Hagenstein, William D. 2010. Softcover.
The Duke Forest at 75: A Resource for All Seasons
Lynch, Ida Phillips. Office of the Duke Forest, 2006. Softcover.
George S. Long: Timber Statesman
Twining, Charles E. 1994. 414 pp. Hardcover.
