PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

Char Miller

INTRODUCTION On Rewriting Forest History

1. Roots of Forestry

Donald J. Pisani

Forests and Conservation, 1865-1890

John F. Reiger

Wildlife, Conservation, and the First Forest Reserve

Harold K. Steen

The Beginning of the National Forest System

2. First Cuts

Richmond L. Clow

Timber Users, Timber Savers: The Homestake Mining Company and the First Regulated Timber Harvest

Robert E. Wolf

National Forest Timber Sales and the Legacy of Gifford Pinchot: Managing a Forest and Making It Pay

3. At Loggerheads

Hal K. Rothman

"A Regular Ding-Dong Fight": The Dynamics of Park Service-Forest Service Controversy During the 1920s and 1930s

Susan R. Schrepfer

Establishing Administrative "Standing": The Sierra Club and the Forest Service, 1897-1956

Stephen W. Haycox

Economic Development and Indian Land Rights in Modern Alaska: The 1947 Tongass Timber Act

Arnold W. Bolle

The Bitterroot Revisited: "A University [Re]View of the Forest Service"

4. Multiple Uses

Thomas G. Alexander

From Rule-of-Thumb to Scientific Range Management: The Case of the Intermountain Region of the Forest Service

William G. Robbins

The Social Context of Forestry: The Pacific Northwest in the Twentieth Century

David A. Clary

What Price Sustained Yield? The Forest Service, Community Stability, and Timber Monopoly Under the 1944 Sustained-Yield Act

Dennis Roth

The National Forests and the Campaign for Wilderness Legislation

EPILOGUE Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: An Environmental History of a Forest Health Crisis

Nancy Langston

ADDITIONAL READINGS

INDEX