Region 8 (Southern)
Region 8 encompasses national forests and grasslands in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
Electronic Library
- Message from the President of the United States Transmitting A Report of the Secretary of Agriculture in Relation to the Forests, Rivers, and Mountains of the Southern Appalachian Region, 1902 (Senate Document 84). [PDF]
- Haasis, Ferdinand W. Forest Plantations at Biltmore, N.C. - Miscellaneous Publication 61, 1930. [PDF]
- Huberman, M. A. Illustrated Summary of Stuart Forest Nursery Practice and Research, circa 1935. [PDF]
- USDA Forest Service. Ouachita National Forest, 1937. [PDF]
- USDA Forest Service. Florida National Forests, 1939. [PDF]
- USDA Forest Service. National Forests of the Southern Appalachians: North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, 1940. [PDF]
- USDA Forest Service. Women...Your Challenging Role in Forest Conservation, circa 1950. [PDF]
- Reynolds, R. R. The Crossett Story: The Story of Forestry in Arkansas and Louisiana, 1980. [PDF]
- Bass, Sharon M. W. For the Trees: An Illustrated History of the Ozark-St. Francis National Forests 1908-1978, 1981. [PDF]
- Mastran, Shelley Smith and Nan Lowerre. Mountaineers and Rangers: A History of Federal Forest Management in the Southern Appalachians, 1900-1981, 1983. Chapters 1-2; Chapters 3-4; Chapter 5 (Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Blue Ridge Parkway); Chapters 6-8, Bibliography. [PDF]
- DeLeon, Mark F. Cultural Resources Overview for the National Forests in Mississippi, 1983. [PDF]
- Steen, Harold K. Oral History Interview with Frank Wadsworth, 1992. [Employee of the U.S. Forest Service: director (1956-78) and research forester, Institute of Tropical Forestry, Puerto Rico. Wadsworth discusses tropical forestry; international forestry; Tropical Forest Experiment Station; tropical forestry research; forestry associations and organizations. [PDF]
- Burns, Anna C. and Ronald W. Couch. A History of the Kisatchie National Forest, 1994. [PDF]
- Brandeis, Thomas J.; Turner, Jeffery A. Puerto Rico's Forests, 2009. [PDF]
