{"title":"“Not A Paying Business”: The Archival Legacy of the Canadian Forestry Service","authors":"Gabrielle Blais","doi":"10.2307/4005173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4005173","url":null,"abstract":"D uring their active lives in the files of the agencies or individuals that create them, records undergo many transformations . The amount and qu ality of information in them can be significantl y affected by legal, constitu tion al , pol itical, adm inistrative, and social changes. In particular, the records of an office wh ose mand ate and importance changed frequently are subject to considerable reorganization. This has often resulted in their dispersal, neglect, dam age, and even destruction . To locate , appraise, and conserve such tecords, as well as describe them for researchers, arch ivists find it necessary to reconstruct the history of records. And in order to understand fully the function or individual being studied, researchers must also understand the history of the records they use. This ar ticle then is a contributio n to the history of arch ival sources relating to the development of forestry pol icy in Canada since Confederation (1867). Central to this subject is the administrative evoluti on and consequent archival legacy of the Canadian Forestry Service, whose record s are among the holdings of the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa. The Forest ry Service collection consists of over three hundred linear meters of corre spondence, reports, and inventories, as well as certai n maps an d posters. It is the most important source for the study of federal forest ry policy afte r 1867. The collection is also the best histo rical source for tracing out the relationships between Canadian and U.S. forestry officials, companies, and associations. The historic al information located in the Forestry Service records is supported by a myriad of other archival records created by federal government agencies and other","PeriodicalId":246151,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Forest History","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125269126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When Good Intentions Fail: A Case of Forest Policy in the British Columbia Interior, 1945–56","authors":"M. McRoberts","doi":"10.2307/4005172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4005172","url":null,"abstract":"Public policymakers always face a conflict between the desire for economic growth and the need to protect renewable resources for future generations,' The forest industry inevitably shoulders the blame for forest resource depletion, but the actions of industry can be abetted by the action or inaction of government policymakers. However the impact of government forest policy on industrial organization has seldom been anal yzed in detail. Until historians study the effects of specific government resource policies on individual forest sectors, assigning past blame and suggesting future directions will be premature . This paper addresses that need by focusing on the reactions of the forest industry in the Williams Lake district to particular British Columbia forest regulations during the years immediately following World War II (see figure 1).","PeriodicalId":246151,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Forest History","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125070231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biblioscope","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/forhis/32.3.168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/forhis/32.3.168","url":null,"abstract":"The State Historical Society of Wisconsin's River Falls Research Center has acquired the records of the Sierra Club Upper Mississippi Task Force, 1969-76, including correspondence, subject files, and clippings. The task force was organized by local Sierra Club chapters to address federal legislation (HR 10529) establishing a Mississippi River recreational area. Also included are materials on the St. Croix River and other Mississippi River environmental issues. The Wisconsin society's Stout Research Center has accessioned the papers of Walter Ingram for 1902-76, including materials on the Rice Lake Lumber Company and the lumber industry in general.","PeriodicalId":246151,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Forest History","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133994196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Forests and Sea Power: A Vancouver Island Economy, 1778–1875","authors":"B. Gough","doi":"10.2307/4005170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4005170","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":246151,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Forest History","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127334668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Agriculture and the Lumberman's Frontier in the Upper St. John Valley, 1800–70","authors":"B. Craig","doi":"10.2307/4005171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4005171","url":null,"abstract":"I n many sections of the early nineteenth-century northeast Canadian frontier, agriculture and the lumber industry were closely interconnected,' Weknow that the interrelationships were pervasive, but we know little about the detail s, and as Graeme Wynn has pointed out, they defy generalization. Farmers' participation in the lumber industry varied by time , place, and the needs of the individu als involved.?","PeriodicalId":246151,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Forest History","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133613182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Special Issue: A Collaborative Effort on Forest History in Canada","authors":"G. Wynn","doi":"10.2307/forhis/32.3.116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/forhis/32.3.116","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":246151,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Forest History","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128960712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"That Kaibab Myth","authors":"T. Dunlap","doi":"10.2307/4005066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4005066","url":null,"abstract":"In October 1930 a Phoenix Gazette editorial, \"That Kaibab Myth;' attacked the Forest Service's management of the deer herd in the Kaibab National ForestV The \"myth' according to the writer of the editorial, was that the range was overcrowded. He claimed there were too few deer and that the Forest Service's liberal bag limit was allowing \"a steady stream of game hogs\" from California to destroy \"the greatest deer forest in the world . . . taking away from future generations the same privilege of fine hunting that we have today.\" The writer was wrong -there were too many deer, and they were overbrowsing the forest-but his headline was better than he knew. \"The","PeriodicalId":246151,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Forest History","volume":"539 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123264081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seesawing Across the Forty-ninth Parallel: The International Diffusion of a Wood-based Technology","authors":"D. Bengston, H. Gregersen, J. Haygreen","doi":"10.2307/4005068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4005068","url":null,"abstract":"T echnological innovation has been a major force influencing natural-resource use in the twentieth century. In the forest products industry, advances in technology haveoffset changes in species availability and growing stock, averting severe dislocations and scarcity. Thus technological progress has effectively thwarted the \"Malthusian\" limit on forest resources: ''As preferred species, sizes, and qualities of wood have become depleted due to increased demand, processing technologies have been adjusted to work with more abundant species and materials previously thought to be unusable,\"! One technological development that has had a profound influence on the forest products industry is the invention of structural particleboard (SPB). Structural particleboard, a reconstituted wood panel made with exterior grade resins, has properties suitable for structural and exterior applications. It can be substituted for construction-grade plywood for most uses and is available in two distinct","PeriodicalId":246151,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Forest History","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134005404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changing Technologies and Forest Consumption in the Upper Delaware Valley, 1790–1880","authors":"R. McGregor","doi":"10.2307/4005067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4005067","url":null,"abstract":"Forest clearing wasan essential and often taken-for-granted part offrontierfarming in the early nineteenth century. FHS photo collection. I n the two centuries following initial white settlement of the American Northeast, \"clearing the land\" became part of the background image of developing American society. This destruction of the wilderness has generally been viewed as a necessary and beneficial aspect of the nation's growth, and the deforestation process has consequently been understudied. The removal of the woods has been seen as simple and straightforward: trees were cut down , and cultivated fields and pastures replaced them. This uncomplicated notion disguises what was in truth a complex of subtle yet critically important relationships between human endeavors and forest ecology. The interaction between forests and the human population of New York's upper Delaware valley illustrates one aspect of the relationship between humans and nature on the early American frontier. During the era of the new republic, settlers on the northern frontier possessed a limited array of cultural and technological means to overcome nature's restrictions on economic growth. The most obvious of the natural impediments was the vast expanse of uncut forest. Initially settlers struggled to removethe woods primaril y to create new farmland. Pioneers in the upper Delaware shared in this process and experienced many of the social, economic, and environmental challenges encountered by frontier residents throughout the middle Atlantic region.","PeriodicalId":246151,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Forest History","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122836102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Legislative History of the Youth Conservation Corps","authors":"G. DiCerbo","doi":"10.2307/4005020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4005020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":246151,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Forest History","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131952612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}