Forest History Society Inc

Research and pulications - 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, and "environmental history", the leading scholarly journal in the field. Its issues series books have reached over 25,000 classrooms, households, and natural resource managers and are used in teacher education across the united states. The recent film, "america's first forest" was broadcast over 5,000 times, on 450 pbs stations, in 47 states, with over 5 million viewers. The fhs has published dozens of book-length publications and is currently working on a book about private family forests.

Awards & education - the fhs provides travel grants to researchers in need in order to access the fhs collections. To encourage scholarly work in forest and conservation history the fhs offers awards for the best wrting in journals, books, and the popular press. Two annual fellowships support graduate students studying forest history. To convey an understanding of forest history to a wide variety of publics, fhs provides the free online "if trees could talk" curriculum for middle school students that reaches hundreds of teachers and thousands of students. A live-streamed lectureship in collaboration with duke university reaches thousands annually and the general public is served by a variety of social media outlets including the award-winning blog "peeling back the bark."