Causes: Environment, Forest Conservation
Mission: To preserve and help people use the documents of forest history. The Forest History Society identifies, collects, interprets, and disseminates historical information on the relationship of humans and forests, contributing to informed natural resource decision-making.
Results: After a successful, $7.11M capital campaign and new building opening, the FHS is working on the digitization of historic documents and photographs and digital exhibits enabling us to reach more people around the world. Our educational webinar series launched in 2020 has now reached over 6,000 attendees. Our near future plans include expanding our archival collection program and identifying collections at risk including materials where a paucity exists at FHS or elsewhere including urban forests, mid-sized operations and marginalized groups such as African Americans, Native Americans and other under-represented groups. Other plans include: Ensuring effective, transparent governance of FHS; strengthening our financial resources; expanding programming and publications and strengthening our visibility and engagement with a variety of communities and allied partners.
Target demographics: Our mission is to preserve and help people use the documents of forest history. The Forest History Society identifies, collects, interprets, and disseminates historical information on the relationship of humans and forests, contributing to informed natural resource decision-making.
Geographic areas served: FHS will remain the recognized leader in forest history and the primary contact for inquiries from around the world. Its archives will remain unsurpassed. Its outreach efforts to make history relevant to current forest policy and management will become its hallmark.
Programs: Library- to develop and maintain the foremost collection in the world of forest and conservation history books, journals, and other materials; to develop bibliographies, archival guides, encyclopedias, and other source material for researchers; and to conduct oral histories of leaders and workers in forest industry and conservation.
Research and Publications- conduct research and promote writing and publications that synthesize the substantial historical literature in forest and conservation history. The society's impressive list of publications includes the forest history today magazine, the issues series booklets, dozens of book-length publications and films.
Awards and Fellowships - The endowed award and fellowship programs enable the Forest History Society to recognize scholarly achievement and service to the organization and the community at large.
Presentations and Discussions - FHS sponsors presentations, discussions, and lectures at its headquarters in Durham, at conferences, and online. Presenters from varied backgrounds give talks on unique and provocative topics.
Journal- to co-publish with the American Society of Environmental Historians, the journal Environmental History, the journal of record in forest and conservation history.
Oral History Interviews - Oral history interviewing is a documentary technique that preserves the cultural heritage of people from all economic and social classes by recording individuals' reminiscences about events that impacted their lives. The sound recordings and their transcriptions produce a rich body of primary resource material that can be a useful tool for historians, genealogists, and other researchers.
Digital Exhibits - Digital Collections provide direct access to a selection of the rich primary source materials held by the Forest History Society. Photograph Collection - The Forest History Society's Alvin J. Huss Archives maintains a rich collection of over 30,000 photos, slides, negatives, plates, and films documenting the history of human interaction with the environment.
Educational Outreach - Part of the mission of FHS is to educate students of all ages about the history of human interaction with the forested environment. By using our library and archival materials, publications, and films, we disseminate information in innovative ways.
Mission: To preserve and help people use the documents of forest history. The Forest History Society identifies, collects, interprets, and disseminates historical information on the relationship of humans and forests, contributing to informed natural resource decision-making.
Results: After a successful, $7.11M capital campaign and new building opening, the FHS is working on the digitization of historic documents and photographs and digital exhibits enabling us to reach more people around the world. Our educational webinar series launched in 2020 has now reached over 6,000 attendees. Our near future plans include expanding our archival collection program and identifying collections at risk including materials where a paucity exists at FHS or elsewhere including urban forests, mid-sized operations and marginalized groups such as African Americans, Native Americans and other under-represented groups. Other plans include: Ensuring effective, transparent governance of FHS; strengthening our financial resources; expanding programming and publications and strengthening our visibility and engagement with a variety of communities and allied partners.
Target demographics: Our mission is to preserve and help people use the documents of forest history. The Forest History Society identifies, collects, interprets, and disseminates historical information on the relationship of humans and forests, contributing to informed natural resource decision-making.
Geographic areas served: FHS will remain the recognized leader in forest history and the primary contact for inquiries from around the world. Its archives will remain unsurpassed. Its outreach efforts to make history relevant to current forest policy and management will become its hallmark.
Programs: Library- to develop and maintain the foremost collection in the world of forest and conservation history books, journals, and other materials; to develop bibliographies, archival guides, encyclopedias, and other source material for researchers; and to conduct oral histories of leaders and workers in forest industry and conservation.
Research and Publications- conduct research and promote writing and publications that synthesize the substantial historical literature in forest and conservation history. The society's impressive list of publications includes the forest history today magazine, the issues series booklets, dozens of book-length publications and films.
Awards and Fellowships - The endowed award and fellowship programs enable the Forest History Society to recognize scholarly achievement and service to the organization and the community at large.
Presentations and Discussions - FHS sponsors presentations, discussions, and lectures at its headquarters in Durham, at conferences, and online. Presenters from varied backgrounds give talks on unique and provocative topics.
Journal- to co-publish with the American Society of Environmental Historians, the journal Environmental History, the journal of record in forest and conservation history.
Oral History Interviews - Oral history interviewing is a documentary technique that preserves the cultural heritage of people from all economic and social classes by recording individuals' reminiscences about events that impacted their lives. The sound recordings and their transcriptions produce a rich body of primary resource material that can be a useful tool for historians, genealogists, and other researchers.
Digital Exhibits - Digital Collections provide direct access to a selection of the rich primary source materials held by the Forest History Society. Photograph Collection - The Forest History Society's Alvin J. Huss Archives maintains a rich collection of over 30,000 photos, slides, negatives, plates, and films documenting the history of human interaction with the environment.
Educational Outreach - Part of the mission of FHS is to educate students of all ages about the history of human interaction with the forested environment. By using our library and archival materials, publications, and films, we disseminate information in innovative ways.
Environment
Durham
