Harvard Forest history: reports and manuscripts
- HF-ID: HF1933-05
- Category: Research Files
- Creator: Fisher, R.T.
- Date: 1934
- Location: Harvard Forest
- Media: Paper
- Contents:
- Keywords: economics, education and policy, harvard forest history, land use history, planted trees, silviculture, wildlife
- Abstract:
- • Harvard Class of 1898 Records: Richard Thornton Fisher, Charles Chauncey Stillman, Oakes Ames
- • Harvard College Class of 1898 Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Report 1898-1923
- • Report, “The School of Forestry”
- • “The Harvard Forest” by R.T. Fisher, 1932. Typewritten draft, with handwritten notes, describing the Harvard Forest, requirements for admission and conditions of graduate study
- • Fisher, R.T. 1918. Silviculture for country roadsides. Massachusetts Forestry Association Bulletin No. 123: 4. (also typewritten manuscript and photocopy of same)
- • New Hampshire Lumber Survey -- Letter to Lumbermen and Wood Users, July 20, 1925 from The New Hampshire Lumbermen’s Association and The Harvard Forest
- • Utilization and Round-Edge Lumber by R.T. Fisher, draft for Proceedings of the Society of American Foresters, vol. XI, No. 4, October 1916
- • Undated drafts: Academic Year by R.T. Fisher; study of wood used by Springfield industries; page 2 of report on lumber survey
- • “The Practice of Forestry in Central New England”, typewritten report dated March 26, 1924 with penciled notation “Retail Lumbermen’s Journal”
- • Stenographic report of extemporaneous Speech made at the Products, Conference in Washington, Nov. 18, 1924, subsequently corrected and amended for publication in USDA circular 39, Report of the National conference on utilization of forest products, New national museum, Washington, D.C., November 19 and 20, 1924. “Close Utilization in New England”
- • Forestry Survey: newspaper article clipping dated 2/1/25
- • Raising Our Own Timber – Republican newspaper article clipping dated 2/1/25
- • Report of the Committee on Forest Taxation to the Executive Committee of the Massachusetts Forestry Association: An Act for the Taxation of Forest Products and the Classification and Taxation of Forest Lands. – Corrected copy to November 18, 1921
- • House No. 1490 The Commonwealth of Massachusetts. House of Representatives, March 29, 1922 An Act Providing for the Taxation of Forest Products and the Classification and Taxation of Forest Lands
- • “Some Conditions Which Prevailed in The Industry Making Associated Activity Necessary. No Market Nor Production Statistics Available.” Typewritten report with attached notation “RTF’s Business School papers”
- • Typewritten report about Harvard Forest publishing a bulletin study of the advantages of forest crops containing mixtures of hardwoods, or broad-leaved trees, with pine, as compared with the ordinary pure stands of white pine. sent to Hampshire County Improvement League 4/23/25 [Harvard Forest Bulletin No. 8]
- • Typewritten report, “The Canvass of Springfield Lumber Users by The Harvard Forest: Market Study as a Basis for Promoting Forestry” [published as Fisher, R.T. 1925. Marketing Massachusetts forest products. The Hampden 7: 1-2.]
- • Corrected stenographic report of address given at the New England Council meeting in Hartford October 1926
- • Typewritten report: An editorial for the Traveller, November 26, 1926.
- • Typewritten report: “Primeval Forest Given to Harvard” with penciled notation “sent to O. M. Butler Am. Forestry Assn 4/14/27 [published as Fisher, R.T. 1927. A Museum of Forest Antiquity. American Forests and Forest Life 33: 348.]
- • Typewritten report: “How to Make Woodlands Pay” with penciled notation”Written to give over the radio at Medford Hillside Jan. 1925? but not delivered. Sent to the Barre Gazette, Mar. 17, 1927. Delivered over WNAC April 24, 1927”
- • Report of Speech by R.T. Fisher before the Massachusetts Forestry Association, December 8, 1927
- • Pine Plantations and New England Forestry -- written by R.T. Fisher for Journal of Forestry, 1928
- • Prospects for Utilization of Land for Timber in New England -- Resume of speech given before the New England Research Council on Marketing and Food Supply Dec. 7, 1928
- • Harvard: Written by Tom Gill and edited by R.T. Fisher for the 1929 Forestry Almanac, Dec. 1928
- • The Management of the Harvard Forest Part II, 1920-1928 -- outline by RTF
- • “The Harvard Forest”, penciled notation “sent to Dr. Wheeler 1/8/29 for the Harvard history”
- • “New England Forest History and Bird Life” - Summary of Address by R.T. Fisher delivered before the New England Bird Banding Association, January 15, 1929.
- • Typewritten copy of Fisher, R.T. 1929. Our wildlife and the changing forest. The Sportsman March: 34-46.
- • Plan for Research in the Utilization of New England Pine -- by R.T. Fisher (Penciled notation, “Written to be presented at the meeting of the Social Science Research Council Committee on March 14, 1929. Revised in May 1929”
- • Plan for Research in the Utilization of New England Pine –- by R.T. Fisher, May 1929
- • Typewritten draft with penciled notes, “written for the Am. Geographical Soc. Sept. 1930 as a chapter in a book. Revised copy sent May 1931”. Draft for: Fisher, R.T. 1933. New England Forests: Biological Factors. New England's Prospect: 1933. American Geographical Society Special Publication 16: 213-223.
- • “The Harvard Forest: As a Demonstration Tract” - sent to W. E. Hiley for the British Forestry Quarterly. Published April 1931: Fisher, R.T. 1931. The Harvard Forest as a demonstration tract. Quarterly Journal of Forestry 25: 130-139.
- • “Harvard Forest Plantations” - sent to the Albany Meeting of the NE Forest Research Council, Feb. 5, 1931
- • “Foreword” written 6/16/31: draft for Cline, A.C., MacAloney, H.J. 1935. Progress report of the reclamation of severely weeviled white pine plantations. Journal of Forestry 33: 932-935.
- • “Harvard Forest Passes Its Twenty-fifth Birthday” written Nov. 1933, written for Forestry News Digest
- • “Silvicultural Experience with White Pine on the Harvard Forest” written Dec. 1933 by Ward Shepard for Review of World’s Forestry
- • “Abandoned Farms and Pine Woodlots” written for Farmers' Almanac, April 1934
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