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NEFSC (Northeastern Forest Soils Conference)

• HF-ID: HF2010-42
• Category: Research Files
• Creator:
  • Safford, Larry O.

• Date: 1939-2014
• Location: Northeastern Canada, Northeastern United States
• Media: Mixed media
• Contents:
  • paper, mixed media, photo, records of NEFSC meetings. 3 archival boxes. 10.5"x12.75"x16.5".

• Keywords: soil, conservation
• Abstract:
  • NEFSC was established in 1939 at Harvard Forest. Annual meetings were held in one of the Northeastern states or Eastern Canadian provinces until 2008. W.H. Lyford (Harvard Forest Soils Scientist) was the first elected Historian for NEFSC, then D. Mader, then L.O. Safford.
  
  
  • Box 1 contents: NEFSC Correspondence, NEFSC Meetings 1948-1979, Photographs 1952, North American Forest Soils Conference 1-4
  
  
  • Box 2 contents: NEFSC meetings 1980-1996, Photographs 1988, 1989, 1996, The Great Lakes Forest and Soil Conference (1996) in conjunction with NEFSC meeting of 1996
  
  
  • Box 3 contents: NEFSC meetings 1997-2007, 10th North American Forest Soils Conference (2003), 2014 Joe Arcoleo Soil Scientist, death notice.

• Related Items:
  • HF 1975-15 Historical Materials Relating to the Northeastern Forest Soils Conference 1939-1975

• Archives Location: Middle Room, archival boxes on top of file cabinets
• Access: Active
• Provenance: Northeastern Forest Soils Conference materials donated by NEFSC, 2011.