FHS Publications with Canadian Content

Books with Canadian Content Published by FHS

• Murphy, Peter J., et al. A Hard Road to Travel: Lands, Forests and People in the Upper Athabasca Region. Durham, NC and Hinton, Alberta: Forest History Society and Foothills Model Forest, 2007. xiv + 306 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. History of forests, forestry, and human interaction with the landscape in the Upper Athabasca Region of Canada, covering three broadly defined eras: the approximately 10,000 years before the arrival of Europeans, during which various peoples passed through the landscape; the period of European influence and fur trading from 1810 until the building of the Grand Trunk Railway; and the era of increased settlement, forest management, and industry after the Railway was in place. Explores the struggle to balance resource use and conservation.

• Drushka, Ken. Canada's Forests: A History. Forest History Society Issues Series. Montreal, Quebec: McGill-Queen's University Press for the Forest History Society, 2003. viii + 97 pp. Illustrations, maps, further reading, index. Overview of Canadian forest history focusing on the conservation, management, and use of forests since the eighteenth century. Includes discussion of industrial forestry and sustainable forestry.

• Roach, Thomas R. Newsprint: Canadian Supply and American Demand. Forest History Society Issues Series. Durham, N.C.: Forest History Society, 1994. vii + 56 pp. Figures, tables, suggested reading. Canadian newsprint industry, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

• Steen, Harold K., ed. Origins of the National Forests: A Centennial Symposium. Foreword by Robert L. Hendricks. Durham, N.C.: Forest History Society, 1992. x+ 334 pp. Tables, notes, list of contributors. Proceedings of the symposium "One Hundred Years of National Forests: National Forest History and Interpretation," held at MissouIa, Montana, June 20-22, 1991. Contains chapter: "Canadian Federal Forest I Reserves, 1883-1933: A Parallel Experiment" by Peter Gillis.

• Steen, Harold K., and Richard P. Tucker, eds. Changing Tropical Forests: Historical Perspectives on Today's Challenges in Central and South America. Durham, N.C.: Forest History Society, 1992. viii + 303 pp. Contains contributions from Elizabeth Graham of York University, Herman Konrad of Calgary University, Patricia Marchak of the University of British Columbia, and Elinor Melville of York University.

• Gillis, R. Peter, and Thomas R. Roach. Lost Initiatives: Canada's Forest Industries, Forest Policy, and Forest Conservation. Contributions in Economics and Economic History 69. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986. xiii + 328 pp. Map, notes, bibliographical essay, index. The history of Canadian forest and conservation policies from 1800 to the 1960s.

• Rodgers, Andrew Denny, III. Bernhard Eduard Fernow: A Story of North American Forestry. Foreword by R. Max Peterson. Durham, N.C.: Forest History Society, 1991. xii + 623 pp. Footnotes, index. Reprint of the 1951 original. Fernow (1851-1923) headed the Division of Forestry, 1886-1898, and was a forestry educator at the New York State College of Forestry, Pennsylvania State College, and the University of Toronto.

• Salinger, Marion C., ed. Prismatic Aspects of U.S. and Canadian Forest Products Industries: Past, Present, and Future. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Center for International Studies, 1988. 36 pp. Papers discussing various aspects of the timber industries and timber trade in the United States and Canada since the nineteenth century.