Mark Cioc | from the editor | Environmental History, 12.1

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Mark Cioc | from the editor | Environmental History, 12.1 | The History Cooperative

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IN 1957, THE FOREST History Society began publication of the Forest History Newsletter, precursor to Forest History, Journal of Forest History, and Forest & Conservation History, which merged with the Environmental History Review to become Environmental History in 1996. In honor of the Newsletter's fiftieth anniversary, I asked Brian Donahue to reflect on the journal's most widely cited forestry essay, Hugh Raup's "View from John Sanderson's Farm," published in 1966. Raup was about to step down as director of Harvard Forest, and he used the occasion to provoke a lively debate about forest conservation. Donahue's carefully crafted essay offers not only a "new view" from Sanderson's farm but also a nuanced appraisal of Raup's contribution to the fields of ecology, silviculture, and history. A major part of his legacy was to inject a healthy dose of skepticism toward contemporary forestry practices. As Donahue notes, Raup's main complaint against Harvard foresters was that they had been "misled by half a century of fuzzy ecological thinking and were trying to induce sustained yield from managed versions of stable, climax ecosystems that had never been there in the first place."

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