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An updated edition of the classic history of the U.S. Forest Service

Table of Contents

Illustrations

Preface to the Centennial Edition

Preface to the Original Edition

I. Forestry in Agriculture: An Accident of History

II. The Watershed of the Nineties

III. Growth and Cooperation

IV. Pinchot, the President, and the Conservation Movement

V. Administration, Cooperation, Research

VI. Reorganization, Recreation, Range, and Routine

VII. Fire and Taxes: A Cooperative Solution

VIII. New Deal Planning and Programs

IX. A Contest of Authority and Crisis of Identity

X. The War and After

XII. Multiple Use: The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number

XIII. Multiple Use Tested: An Environmental Epilogue

Appendix 1: Chronological Summary of Events Important to the History of the U.S. Forest Service

Appendix 2: Chronology of Administrations

Appendix 3: Organizational Charts of the Forest Service

Notes on Sources of Forest Service History

Index

About the Author

Harold K. Steen is former president of the Forest History Society and currently teaches conservation history at New Mexico State University.