A Contested Past: Forestry Education in the United States, 1898-1998

Authors

Char Miller, Pomona CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Department

Environmental Analysis (Pomona)

Publication Date

1999

Keywords

forestry, forestry education, technical forestry, natural resource management

Abstract

Many of today's arguments about forestry education proceed on the assumption that the past was glorious, the present is bleak, the future is doomed. In fact, foresters have disagreed about the proper balance between academic and practical training since the days of Bernhard Fernow, Gifford Pinchot, and Carl Schenck. The two main option for education--depth in technical forestry and breadth in natural resource management--reflect equally old, and fundamentally opposing, views of forestry and the profession's place in society.

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Copyright © 1999 Society of American Foresters

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Recommended Citation

Miller, Char and Lewis, James G. “A Contested Past: Forestry Education in the United States, 1898-1998,” Journal of Forestry, September 1999: 38-43.