Wikipedia:WikiProject Forestry/History of forestry

This workpage is intended for use in directing the efforts of WikiProject Forestry towards creating a standalone article base for the prospective History of forestry article.

Ancient

• Primitive forestry - Should this perhaps be "primitive forest management"? -- Guettarda (talk)

• Shifting cultivation

· Shifting cultivation under stress

• History of forestry in China

·Forestry in the Zhou Dynasty (Chow) (1045 - 256 BCE)

·Forestry in the Qin Dynasty (Chin) (221 - 206 BCE)

·Forestry in the Han Dynasty (206 BCE - 220 A.D.)

·Forestry in the Three Kingdoms (220 - 280 A.D.)

·Forestry in the Jin Dynasty (265 - 420 A.D.)

·Forestry in the Southern and Northern Dynasties (Sung) (420 - 589 A.D.)

·Forestry in the Sui Dynasty (581 - 618 A.D.)

·Forestry in the Tang Dynasty (618 - 907 A.D.)

·Forestry in the Liao Dynasty (907 – 1125 A.D.)

·Forestry in the Song Dynasty (960 – 1279 A.D.)

·Forestry in the Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368 A.D.)

·Forestry in the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644 A.D.)

·Forestry in the Qing Dynasty (Ch'ing) (1644-1911)

·Forestry in the Republic of China (1912-1949)

• Deforestation during the Roman period - I think of <<forestry>> as some form of active or intentional forest management; perhaps there should be a separate page, History of deforestation -- DASonnenfeld (talk)
• Deforestation of Babylon, Greece, Phonecia (Lebanon) and Italy

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Early modern

Former Academy of Mining and Forestry, Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia

• Pre-mechanical forestry

• Horse-drawn logging

• History of forestry in Europe See also: History of forestry education, below. DASonnenfeld

• History of forestry in Austria-Hungary
• History of forestry in France

• Jean-Baptiste Colbert

• History of forestry in Germany
• History of forestry in Russia

See: A History of Russian Forestry and Its Leaders (1988)

• History of forestry in Sweden

• Naval forestry Absolutely no clue what to call this without it being long-winded, essentially would deal with the aims of forestry being the production of timber suitable for construction of naval ships (loosely tied to Colonial forestry)Minnecologies

Note: some good material on this topic in the book on History of Russian Forestry linked to above; see ch. 2. DASonnenfeld

• Naval stores or should we just expand on this?

• Naval stores industry

• John Evelyn (1620-1706)

• Colonial forestry or perhaps Imperial forestry? Minnecologies (talk)

• History of forestry in India
• British timber trade some good background information in here. Minnecologies (talk)
• History of forestry in Burma
• History of forestry on Java
• History of forestry in Trinidad and Tobago It's been on my 'to do' list for a long time, even if it doesn't actually have a major contribution to the main article-- Guettarda (talk)
• History of forestry in Mexico

Modern

• Forestry in Brazil
• Forestry in Chile
• Forestry in China - 1949 to present

• Mechanized forestry

• Sakari Pinomäki (?)

• Scientific forestry

• Selective forestry
• Georg Ludwig Hartig (1764–1837)
• Carl A. Schenck (1868–1955)
• Walter Bitterlich (1908–2008)
• Franklin Hough (1822–1885)
• Bernhard Fernow (1851–1923)
• Gifford Pinchot (1865–1946)
• Wise use - as opposed to the environmental movement
• Controlled burn
• Heli-logging
• Reafforestation
• Plantation forestry

• Tropical forestry

• Dietrich Brandis (1824–1907)

• Forestry during World War I

• Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, Jr. (1880-1933) - used scientific forestry to help the French address their timber shortages during WWI (which helped them win)

• Boreal forestry

Contemporary

• Urban forestry

• Plant a million trees

• Environmental forestry

• Forest aesthetics

• Kenneth Dupee Swan (1887–1970)

• George Perkins Marsh (1801-1882)
• Robert Marshall (1901–1939)
• Aldo Leopold (1887–1948)

• Land ethic

• Forest restoration

• Analog forestry

• Ecological forestry

• Károly Bund (1869–1931)
• Stephen C. Sillett (1968- )

• Illegal logging in Madagascar

Topical

• Water and Forests My specific love and hopefully one day an area of expertise. Minnecologies (talk)

• Riparian buffer

• Large woody debris
• Coarse woody debris

• Gallery forest
• Forestry in the Alps

Institutions

Forestry law

See also: List of types of formally designated forests

• History of forestry laws

USA

• Forest Reserve Act of 1891
• Multiple Use – Sustained Yield Act of 1960 required multiple use of federal forest land
• Organic Act of 1897
• Right of Way Act of 1901 An Act Relating to rights of way through certain parks, reservations, and other public lands. H.R. 11973
• Transfer Act of 1905 An Act Providing for the transfer of forest reserves from the Department of Interior to the Department of Agriculture. H.R. 8460, Public Resolution No. 34
• American Antiquities Act of 1906
• Appropriations Act Forbidding Further National Forests and renaming Forest Reserves to National Forests 1907 H.R. 24815, Public Act No. 242:2

Hong Kong

• Forests and Countryside Ordinance

India

• Indian Forest Act, 1927
• Forest Rights Act (India)

International

• International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1983
• International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1994

• Forest rights

• Right of Way Act of 1901, USA, relating to rights of way through certain parks, reservations, and other public lands. H.R. 11973
• Forest Rights Act (India)

• Illegal logging

Forestry agencies

See also: Category:Forestry agencies

• History of forestry agencies

• Canadian Forest Service (Canada)
• Indian Forest Service (India)
• Corpo Forestale dello Stato (Italy)
• Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Japan)
• Korea Forest Service (S. Korea)
• CONAFOR Comisión Nacional Forestal (Mexico)
• New Zealand Forest Service (NZ)
• Department of Forest Conservation (Sri Lanka)
• Forestry Commission (United Kingdom)
• United States Forest Service, History of the United States Forest Service (USA)

Forestry organizations

• History of forestry organizations

• Australian Forest History Society
• European Forest Institute
• Food and Agriculture Organization
• Forest History Society
• Forest Stewardship Council
• International Tropical Timber Organization
• International Union of Forest Research Organizations
• Royal Forestry Society of England, Wales, and North Ireland
• Society of American Foresters - possibly same tricky nuance here between forestry and forester - this actually raises a third, nuanced variation, <<forester>> advocacy -- DASonnenfeld (talk)

Forestry education

See also: List of historic schools of forestry

• History of forestry education

• History of forestry education in China

• History of forestry education in Europe See also: History of forestry in Europe, above. DASonnenfeld

• History of forestry education in Austria
• History of forestry education in France
• History of forestry education in Germany
• History of forestry education in Russia

See: A History of Russian Forestry and Its Leaders (1988)

• History of forestry education in the United Kingdom

• History of forestry education in India
• History of forestry education in Japan
• History of forestry education in the United States

• History of forestry schools

• Biltmore Forest School
• French National School of Forestry, Nancy, est. 1824
• History of the Imperial Forestry Institute at Oxford
• History of the New York State College of Forestry
• History of the Pennsylvania Forestry Academy
• Imperial Forestry School, Dehadrun, India
• Mining and Forestry Academy, Schemnitz, Austria-Hungary
• Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry
• St. Petersburg Forestry Institute

Forestry as a profession

• History of forestry as a profession

Forestry research

See also: List of forest research institutes

• History of forestry research

• Forest Research Institute Malaysia
• Forest Products Laboratory USA

Forest advocacy

• History of forest advocacy - tricky nuance here, between <<forest>> advocacy and <<forestry>> advocacy; come to think of it, can't think of much forestry advocacy at all beyond forestry professional organizations -- DASonnenfeld (talk)

Forestry confererences

• History of forestry conferences

• World Forestry Congress

Science and Technology

• History of silviculture Although there's definitely a difference between forestry and silviculture, I say we wait off on creating this article until after the two articles themselves evolve Minnecologies

• History of forestry technology

• History of the chainsaw
• History of the crosscut saw
• History of the mechanization of forestry
• Use of remote sensing in forestry
• Use of computer modeling in forestry

Individuals

See also: Outline of forestry and Forester

• History of foresters

External Links

• Forestry in China
• A Brief History of Forestry in Europe, the United States, and other Countries by Bernhard Furnow fully downloadable as an EPUB or PDF
• A History of Russian Forestry and its Leaders, Teplyakov et al.
• Forests and forestry in Poland, Lithuania, the Ukraine, and the Baltic provinces of Russia, John Croumbie Brown fully downloadable as an EPUB or PDF
• Tree planting, forestry in Europe: and other papers, Birdsey Grant Northrop fully downloadable as an EPUB or PDF
• Forestry: An Elemental Treatise (U.S.), Herman Haupt Chapman fully downloadable as an EPUB or PDF
• Forestry in New England: a handbook of eastern forest management, Ralph Chipman Hawley, Austin Foster Hawes fully downloadable as a PDF
• The work of the Forest Department in India, India Forest Department fully downloadable as an EPUB or PDF
• The saga of participatory forest management in India, N. C. Saxena (Center for International Forestry Research)