DESCRIPTION

The Forest History Society links the past to the future by identifying, collecting, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating information on the history of relationships among forests, their related resources, and people. Established in 1946 and incorporated as a non-profit educational institution in 1955, the Forest History Society has grown steadily in response to increasing public concern about our forest heritage. It is affiliated with Duke University.

SERVICE AND ACTIVITIES

FHS publishes a quarterly journal Environmental History in cooperation with the American Society for Environmental History; encourages other institutions, particularly in the United States and Canada, to save all historically significant records related to forests; collects records of national organizations in its won archives; publishes books, pamphlets, oral history interviews, and reference works; sponsors conferences; and actively seeks ways to promote the uses of history.

AREA OF CONCENTRATION

History os water use, irrigation, water rights, law & legislation, water policy

GEOGRAPHIC SCOPE OF ACTIVITES

North America within a global context

TYPE OF ORGANIZATION

educational