| Book Review | Environmental History, 11.1

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The U.S. Forest Service: A History, centennial edition. By Harold K. Steen. Durham, N.C.: Forest History Society in assocation with University of Washington Press, 2004. xxxix + 356 pp. Includes bibliographic references and index. Cloth $40.00, paper $25.00.
First published in 1976 and reissued in honor of the U.S. Forest Service's centennial, Harold K. Steen's The U.S. Forest Service: A History has long been a foundational work in forest history. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in forestry in the United States, the role of the Forest Service in public land management and the conservation movement, and environmental historiography.	1
Steen traces the administrative history of the U.S. Forest Service through successive chiefs from Bernard Fernow, Gifford Pinchot, and William Greeley to John McGuire in the 1970s. He emphasizes the visions and points of view of these leaders, weaving together three related themes. First are the policies and laws that established the Forest Service's organizational structure and mission within the federal government and its relationship to state agencies and private industry. For example, from its first incarnation in the late nineteenth century as the Division of Forestry, administrators and politicians were engrossed by struggles between the departments of the Interior and Agriculture over the agency. Steen vividly narrates events leading to legislative milestones such as the Forest Reserve Act of 1891, the Clarke-McNary Act of 1924, and the Wilderness Act of 1964.	. . .

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