Forestry is the science and craft of creating, managing, playing, using, conserving and repairing forests, woodlands, and associated resources for human and environmental benefits. Forestry is practiced in plantations and natural stands. The science of forestry has elements that belong to the biological, physical, social, political and managerial sciences.
A forester is a person who practices forestry, the science, art, and profession of managing forests. Foresters engage in a broad range of activities including ecological restoration and management of protected areas. Foresters manage forests to provide a variety of objectives including direct extraction of raw material, outdoor recreation, conservation, hunting and aesthetics. Emerging management practices include managing forestlands for biodiversity, carbon sequestration and air quality.
The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) is a specialized, doctoral-degree granting institution in Syracuse, New York. It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system. ESF is immediately adjacent to Syracuse University, within which it was founded, and with which it maintains a special relationship. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity".
Morristown–Beard School is a coeducational, independent, college-preparatory day school located in Morristown, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. Serving students in sixth through twelfth grades, the school has two academic units: an Upper School (9-12) and a Middle School (6-8).
Yale School of the Environment (YSE) is a professional school of Yale University. It was founded to train foresters, and now trains environmental leaders through four 2-year degree programs and two 10-month mid-career programs. YSE strives to create new knowledge that will sustain and restore the health of the biosphere and emphasizes the possibility of creating a regenerative coexistence between humans and non-human life and the rest of the natural world. Still offering forestry instruction, the school has the oldest graduate forestry program in the United States.
Henry ("Harry") Solon Graves was a forest administrator in the United States. He co-founded the Yale Forest School in 1900, the oldest continuous forestry school in the United States. He was appointed Chief of the United States Forest Service in 1910 and served in this position until 1920.
Joseph Trimble Rothrock was an American environmentalist, recognized as the "Father of Forestry" in Pennsylvania. In 1895, Rothrock was appointed the first forestry commissioner to lead the newly formed Division of Forestry in the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. Two of his major accomplishments as commissioner were his land acquisition program and the creation of a forest academy to train foresters for state service.
The Forest History Society is an American non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of forest and conservation history. The society was established in 1946 and incorporated in 1955.
The New York State College of Forestry, the first professional school of forestry in North America, opened its doors at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, in the autumn of 1898. It was advocated for by Governor Frank S. Black, but after just a few years of operation, it was defunded in 1903, by Governor Benjamin B. Odell in response to public outcry over the College's controversial forestry practices in the Adirondacks.
Henry Ernest Hardtner was a Louisiana businessman and conservationist regarded as "the father of forestry in the South." He founded and named the town of Urania in La Salle Parish and served single terms as a Democrat in both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature. In 1900 he was the Republican candidate for Louisiana's 5th congressional district, losing to future U.S. Senator Joseph E. Ransdell of Lake Providence in East Carroll Parish.
Ralph Clement Bryant, Sr. was an early American professor of forestry, the author of the pioneer textbook and other books and notes in forestry. Logging (1913)
George Henry Hepting was an American forest scientist and plant pathologist. He was educated at Cornell University with an undergraduate degree in 1929 and a Ph.D. in 1933. US Forest Service called Hepting a "pioneer leader in forest pathology". He conducted seminal research on the role of ozone as causes of diseases in forests. He was also noted for creation of the first computerized system for information retrieval in forestry. Hepting was Chief Plant Pathologist at Southeastern Forest Experiment Station of US Forest Service and a member of the National Academy of Sciences
David Martyn Smith, a United States forester and educator, was a founder of the field of forest stand dynamics. He was the Morris K. Jesup Professor of Silviculture at Yale University, the manager of the university’s forest holdings, and an author of a widely used forest management text.
Charles Ingersoll Arnold (1915–2004), better known as Ingersoll Arnold, was an American forester and an ice hockey coach and player. Arnold directed the Russ Forest nursery at Michigan State University, and he later headed the State Forestry Nursery in New Hampshire. Arnold also helped lead the development of youth hockey in the state. In 2010, New Hampshire Legends of Hockey, the state hall of fame, inducted him as a coach.
William Buckhout Greeley was the third chief of the United States Forest Service, a position he held from 1920 to 1928. During World War I he commanded U.S. Army forest engineers in France, providing Allied forces with the timber necessary for the war effort.
Nathaniel Hillyer Egleston was an American clergyman and forester who served as the second chief of the United States Division of Forestry, which would later become the U.S. Forest Service. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, he graduated from Yale College in 1840, continuing to study theology at the Yale Divinity School. He helped found the American Congregational Union in 1853 and was one of the founders of the Chicago Theological Seminary, and an editor of the Congregational Herald. In 1882 he became a vice president of the American Forestry Association, and served as chief of the Division of Forestry from 1883 to 1886.
Clement Clarke Moore was an American architect and soldier who was prominent in New York society during the Gilded Age.
James Toumey (1865-1932) was a pioneer in American forestry, an influential botanist, and a distinguished educator at the Yale School of Forestry.
Edward P. Cliff served as the ninth Chief of the United States Forest Service (USFS) of the Department of Agriculture, from March 17, 1962 to April 29, 1972.
John R. McGuire served as the tenth Chief of the United States Forest Service (USFS) of the Department of Agriculture, from April 30, 1972 to June 30, 1979.
