📢First Call for Papers for the

🌱2026 IUFRO Small Scale Forestry and Forest History and Traditional Knowledge Joint Conference
🗓️21-23 July 2026; 📍Nairobi, Kenya
⚡️Submission deadline: 16 March 2026

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#ForestScience #ForestResearch #SmallScaleForestry #ForestHistory

📢First Call for Papers for the

🌱2026 IUFRO Small Scale Forestry & Forest History and Traditional Knowledge Joint Conference
🗓️21-23 July 2026 📍Nairobi, Kenya
⚡️Submission deadline: 16 Mar 2026

➡️ www.iufro.org/events/2026-...

#ForestScience #SmallScaleForestry #TraditionalKnowledge #ForestHistory

Transforming the “Wonderful”: Forest Plantation and Displacement in Bvumba (Chirara), Zimbabwe, 1948-1970 In his dissertation, Mathew Ruguwa sought to illustrate the endurance of the family in times of trouble.

"Households developed a number of strategies to the evictions including, migrating to nearby urban areas or reserves, crossing the border to Mozambique, or settling as 'squatters' on the edge of the plantation." - Mathew Ruguwa

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#envhist #foresthistory #aghist

New Book Launch: Mountain Timber: The Comox Logging Company in the Vancouver Island Mountains. 24 October 2009 - Launch and book signing for Richard Mackie's new book, Mountain Timber: The Comox Logging Company in the Vancouver Island Mountains.

Throwback to Richard Mackie's 2009 book tour for Mountain Timber: The Comox Logging Company in the Vancouver Island Mountains. Who got a copy during that tour?

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#envhist #books #bchistory #foresthistory #cdnhist

📢 Last call: Abstract submission is open for the conference:

🌲From Forest to Heritage III
🗓️19-22 May 2026; 📍Klagenfurt, Austria

🚨 Submission deadline: 31 January 2026

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#ForestScience #ForestResearch #ForestHistory #dendrochronology

📢 Abstract submission is open for the conference:

🌲From Forest to Heritage III
🗓️19-22 May 2026; 📍Klagenfurt, Austria

🚨 Submission deadline: 31 January 2026 🚨

➡️ www.from-forest-to-heritage.dendro.at/call-for-pro...

#ForestScience #ForestResearch #ForestHistory #dendrochronology #ForestEducation

CAL FIRE Assists Wailaki Tribe in Receiving Old-Growth Redwood Log for Traditional Canoe A rare old-growth redwood log from Humboldt Redwoods State Park will be hand-carved by Wailaki tribal members into a traditional open-water canoe for a future intertribal cultural gathering.

🔗 Read more here: bit.ly/CF_Wailaki

#Redwoods #ForestHistory

Woodlands of Antiquity: A millennium of dendrochronological data on forest exploitation and timber economy between the Alps and the Atlantic | PNAS The Roman Empire dominated large parts of western and central Europe for over half a millennium, leaving a lasting cultural imprint on the continen...

🌳How the Roman Empire Reshaped Europe's Woodlands🌳

More than 20,000 (!!!) tree-ring dated archaeological timbers tell the story of dramatic deforestation and forest recovery, for over a millennium (300 BCE–700 CE).

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#dendrochronology #Roman #archaeology #ForestHistory

📢 Abstract submission is open for the conference:

🌲From Forest to Heritage III
🗓️19-22 May 2026; 📍Klagenfurt, Austria

🚨 Submission deadline: 31 January 2026

➡️ www.from-forest-to-heritage.dendro.at/call-for-pro...

#ForestScience #ForestResearch #ForestHistory #dendrochronology #ForestEducation

What can fall foliage tell us about a forest’s history??

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#ecology #envhist #foresthistory

📢 Abstract submission is open for the conference:

🌲From Forest to Heritage III
🗓️19-22 May 2026; 📍Klagenfurt, Austria

🚨 Submission deadline: 31 January 2026

➡️ www.from-forest-to-heritage.dendro.at/call-for-pro...

#ForestScience #ForestResearch #ForestHistory #dendrochronology #ForestEducation

How do you tell if a forest has never been cleared?

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#envhist #aghist #ecology #foresthistory #forests

📢 Abstract submission is open for the conference:

🌲From Forest to Heritage III
🗓️19-22 May 2026; 📍Klagenfurt, Austria

🚨 Submission deadline: 31 January 2026

➡️ www.from-forest-to-heritage.dendro.at/call-for-pro...

#ForestScience #ForestResearch #ForestHistory #dendrochronology #ForestEducation

Muddy Lines and Murky Waters: The Making of a Colonial Deltaic Forest, 1816–1828 | Environmental History Abstract This article focuses on the extensive, low-lying mangrove forests in the lower Gangetic Delta, commonly called the Sundarbans, in the early decades of the nineteenth century. The English East...

Ahead of new print alert! You can now read Sabujkoli Mukherjee's "Muddy Lines and Murky Waters: The Making of a Colonial Deltaic Forest, 1816–1828" from the October 2025 issue. #envhist #envhum #foresthistory #IndianHistory

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Over, Up, and Shut: Considering North American Environmental History Across the US-Canada Border This is the fourth in the series Outside Looking In, about the experiences of teaching and researching Canadian environmental history – from scholars working outside Canada. As an American studying...

"The trade in newsprint – and not in the trees themselves, by specific policy design – was made a duty-free, and after that, as far as US newspapers were concerned, the border did not matter..." - Michael Stamm

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#uscanadaborder #foresthistory #envhist

Adapting to the End of the Forest Commons in the 19th century Kingdom of Hungary Throughout the 19th century, countless numbers of communities had to address, confront, and adapt to changing notions of appropriate interactions between states, lands, and landowners. This piece exam...

Today we have "Adapting to the End of the Forest Commons in the 19th century Kingdom of Hungary" by Róbert Balogh

The 2nd post in our Historicizing Adaptation series edited by @stundenbower.bsky.social.

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The environmental changes that have occurred on our globe in the last few hundred years affect practically every element of the environment. One of the main elements of this matrix is forest areas. A key aspect of describing the transformation period in forest management is to illustrate the long-term consequences of the environmental changes which humans have caused and continue to cause. The objective of our study is not only to discuss the interactions and changes occurring in the genetic resources of the primary forest-forming species in Polish forests but, more importantly, to demonstrate how past decisions can influence events in the near or distant future. In the context of forest research, it is essential to clarify that the lifespan of a tree has no relation to the lifespan of a human being. This simple fact not only influences the life cycle of individual stands and the mechanisms of timber mass production but, above all, highlights that we are hostage to the decisions (and knowledge) of our ancestors, who managed the forests according to the ideas of the Enlightenment. In this essay, we emphasize an element we believe is underrepresented in the discourse on forest transformations in the 19th and 20th centuries: forest genetic resources, which are fundamental to the resilience and adaptation of managed forests in response to ongoing climate change.

Pinus silvestris from the Holly Cross Mts. Poland

Our leading author Prof. Pawel Przybylski in his laboratory working on the Pinus genes!

Pinus silvestris from the Białowieża Primeval Forest, Poland.

Our review on research perspectives in joining genetic analysis and environmental history of Pinus silvestris in Central Europe was published finally in the "Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene" 🌲🌲🌲🔬🧬 online.ucpress.edu/elementa/art... #envhistory #foresthistory

The Big Tree, Forestry in New Brunswick, and the Value of Nature In Victoria County, New Brunswick, there is a certain tree which the locals refer to as the “Big Tree.” This particular tree sits atop a knoll alongside the Trans-Canada Highway, approximately 10 kilo...

"The Big Tree is a reminder of how badly New Brunswick’s forests have been managed." - Mark McLaughlin

"The Big Tree, Forestry in New Brunswick, and the Value of Nature" is our ninth most-read article of all time!

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#envhist #cdnhist #foresthistory

Wild Smoke: Forest Fires and Air Pollution in BC since 1950 Now the smoke is rolling back into our lives, we need to develop a more sophisticated smoke palate.

#NationalForestWeek

"Could we think of smoke from the forests in the same way that we thought about coal smoke? How are the harms associated with wildfire smoke entangled with colonialism?" - Mica Jorgenson

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#envhist #firehistory #foresthistory

The Golden Spruce and the man who killed him youtu.be/rPvDAgr_fQ0?...

#envhist #bchistory #cdnhist #foresthistory

Arbor Day in Quebec: A Brief Early History Quebec City was a hive of activity on the morning of May 16, 1883, when farmers began arriving before daybreak to sell young trees to people planning to plant them that day. Shortly after 10:00 a.m. t...

#ArborDay "is historically important because it marks the first large-scale attempt to raise public consciousness about the crucial importance of trees..." - Jack Little

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#envhist #cdnhist #foresthistory

Seeing the Forests for the Timber: Reflections on the Timber Colonialism Conference Prior to this conference, I did not know that scholars got together to share works in progress.

For #InternationalDayofForests, let's revisit Sam Huckerby's reflection on this past fall's Timber Colonialism Conference.

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#envhist #foresthistory #commodities #timber

Seeing the Forests for the Timber: Reflections on the Timber Colonialism Conference Prior to this conference, I did not know that scholars got together to share works in progress.

In our latest piece, Sam Huckerby reflects on the Timber Colonialism Conference that took place in Uppsala, Sweden in November.

"Seeing the Forests for the Timber: Reflections on the Timber Colonialism Conference"

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#envhist #foresthistory #timber

Virtual Conference - At the Vanguard of Colonialism: Global Perspectives on Timber Colonialism durin... 9 - 10 November 2023 - Virtual Conference - At the Vanguard of Colonialism: Global Perspectives on Timber Colonialism during the Age of Industrialization

Virtual Conference – At the Vanguard of Colonialism: Global Perspectives on Timber Colonialism during the Age of Industrialization

9 – 10 November 2023
Zoom link in post:

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#envhist #foresthistory #globalhistory #colonialism