CARE
Conservation Education
Online Exhibits
Traveling Exhibits
Events
Research
Volunteer
Forest History Links

Research

Selected research papers on the Forest Service and its history.

Mining and the U.S. Forest Service
Cautious Support: Relations Between The Mining Industry and The Forest Service, 1891-1991, Presented by Stanley Dempsey at the Origins of the National Forests Symposium, a Forest Service sponsored conference held in Missoula, Montana, on June 20-22, 1991, and republished by the Forest History Society.

The 1911 Weeks Act
The Weeks Act was signed into law by President William Howard Taft on March 1, 1911, allowing the national forest system to become truly national by enabling the Forest Service to purchase land. Learn more in the article below.

The 1911 Weeks Act: The Legislation That Nationalized the U.S. Forest Service authored by Forest Service Chief Historian Lincoln Bramwell. 

Forest Products Lab
2010 marks one century for the U.S. Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, WI. Read the research papers below to learn more about the Forest Service's innovation center.

The U.S. Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory: 1910-2010, A Century of Research Working for You, by James T. Spartz, graduate student, Department of Life Sciences Communication, University of Wisconsin - Madison 

Forest Products Laboratory: Supporting the Nation's Armed Forces with Valuable Wood Research for 90 Years, by Christopher D. Risbrudt, Robert J. Ross, Julie J. Blankenburg, and Charles A. Nelson