How do you tell if a forest has never been cleared?
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How do you tell if a forest has never been cleared? #forest #tree #trees #nature #history #short
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October 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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For #InternationalDayofForests, let's revisit Sam Huckerby's reflection on this past fall's Timber Colonialism Conference.
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Seeing the Forests for the Timber: Reflections on the Timber Colonialism Conference
Prior to this conference, I did not know that scholars got together to share works in progress.
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March 21, 2024 at 4:01 PM
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Happy Birthday, Civilian Conservation Corps! RT @foresthistory: Photos: http://bit.ly/d8Z5t5
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December 11, 2024 at 11:17 PM
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"The trade in newsprint – and not in the trees themselves, by specific policy design – was made a duty-free, and after that, as far as US newspapers were concerned, the border did not matter..." - Michael Stamm
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Over, Up, and Shut: Considering North American Environmental History Across the US-Canada Border
This is the fourth in the series Outside Looking In, about the experiences of teaching and researching Canadian environmental history – from scholars working outside Canada.
As an American studying...
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March 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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📢 Abstract submission is open for the conference:
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September 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Virtual Conference – At the Vanguard of Colonialism: Global Perspectives on Timber Colonialism during the Age of Industrialization
9 – 10 November 2023
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9 – 10 November 2023
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9 - 10 November 2023 - Virtual Conference - At the Vanguard of Colonialism: Global Perspectives on Timber Colonialism during the Age of Industrialization
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October 31, 2023 at 4:26 PM
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In our latest piece, Sam Huckerby reflects on the Timber Colonialism Conference that took place in Uppsala, Sweden in November.
"Seeing the Forests for the Timber: Reflections on the Timber Colonialism Conference"
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"Seeing the Forests for the Timber: Reflections on the Timber Colonialism Conference"
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Seeing the Forests for the Timber: Reflections on the Timber Colonialism Conference
Prior to this conference, I did not know that scholars got together to share works in progress.
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January 16, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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We were just alerted that it is #NationalForestWeek!
We've got a lot of #foresthistory on our site, but why not start with "Wild Smoke: Forest Fires and Air Pollution in BC since 1950" by Mica Jorgenson: niche-canada.org/2023/03/01/w...
We've got a lot of #foresthistory on our site, but why not start with "Wild Smoke: Forest Fires and Air Pollution in BC since 1950" by Mica Jorgenson: niche-canada.org/2023/03/01/w...
Wild Smoke: Forest Fires and Air Pollution in BC since 1950
Now the smoke is rolling back into our lives, we need to develop a more sophisticated smoke palate.
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September 22, 2023 at 6:42 PM
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"Could we think of smoke from the forests in the same way that we thought about coal smoke? How are the harms associated with wildfire smoke entangled with colonialism?" - Mica Jorgenson
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"Could we think of smoke from the forests in the same way that we thought about coal smoke? How are the harms associated with wildfire smoke entangled with colonialism?" - Mica Jorgenson
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Wild Smoke: Forest Fires and Air Pollution in BC since 1950
Now the smoke is rolling back into our lives, we need to develop a more sophisticated smoke palate.
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September 28, 2024 at 4:10 PM
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What can fall foliage tell us about a forest’s history??
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What can fall foliage tell us about a forest’s history?? #tree #trees #forest #nature #woods #short
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October 31, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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"The Big Tree is a reminder of how badly New Brunswick’s forests have been managed." - Mark McLaughlin
"The Big Tree, Forestry in New Brunswick, and the Value of Nature" is our ninth most-read article of all time!
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"The Big Tree, Forestry in New Brunswick, and the Value of Nature" is our ninth most-read article of all time!
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The Big Tree, Forestry in New Brunswick, and the Value of Nature
In Victoria County, New Brunswick, there is a certain tree which the locals refer to as the “Big Tree.” This particular tree sits atop a knoll alongside the Trans-Canada Highway, approximately 10 kilo...
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December 21, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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Thrilled to win Blegen award from @foresthistory for piece on sylvan literacy in #americanhistoricalreview #envhist!
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November 9, 2024 at 7:55 PM
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Today we have "Adapting to the End of the Forest Commons in the 19th century Kingdom of Hungary" by Róbert Balogh
The 2nd post in our Historicizing Adaptation series edited by @stundenbower.bsky.social.
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The 2nd post in our Historicizing Adaptation series edited by @stundenbower.bsky.social.
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Adapting to the End of the Forest Commons in the 19th century Kingdom of Hungary
Throughout the 19th century, countless numbers of communities had to address, confront, and adapt to changing notions of appropriate interactions between states, lands, and landowners. This piece exam...
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March 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Our review on research perspectives in joining genetic analysis and environmental history of Pinus silvestris in Central Europe was published finally in the "Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene" 🌲🌲🌲🔬🧬 online.ucpress.edu/elementa/art... #envhistory #foresthistory
February 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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#ArborDay "is historically important because it marks the first large-scale attempt to raise public consciousness about the crucial importance of trees..." - Jack Little
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Arbor Day in Quebec: A Brief Early History
Quebec City was a hive of activity on the morning of May 16, 1883, when farmers began arriving before daybreak to sell young trees to people planning to plant them that day. Shortly after 10:00 a.m. t...
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April 26, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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Ahead of new print alert! You can now read Sabujkoli Mukherjee's "Muddy Lines and Murky Waters: The Making of a Colonial Deltaic Forest, 1816–1828" from the October 2025 issue. #envhist #envhum #foresthistory #IndianHistory
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Muddy Lines and Murky Waters: The Making of a Colonial Deltaic Forest, 1816–1828 | Environmental History
Abstract This article focuses on the extensive, low-lying mangrove forests in the lower Gangetic Delta, commonly called the Sundarbans, in the early decades of the nineteenth century. The English East...
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July 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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The Golden Spruce and the man who killed him youtu.be/rPvDAgr_fQ0?...
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The Golden Spruce and the man who killed him
A sacred tree, and a man on a downward spiral. This is the story of the Golden Spruce and the man who killed him. Twitter: https://twitter.com/landandlorevids Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/landandlorevideos/ Sources: The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed - John Vaillant Big Lonely Doug: The Story of One of Canada's Last Great Trees - Harley Rustad H.R.: A Biography of H.R. MacMillan - Ken Drushka Haida Gwaii - Sacred Land Film Project Tree Farm License No. 39 - The Province of British Columbia Woodlot Management - Home Study Program A Walk In the Forest - MacMillan Bloedel Limited The Biggest Clearcut - Westland Trends in Timber Harvest in B.C. - Environmental Reporting BC The State of British Columbia’s Forests, Third Edition - Ministry of Forests, Mines, and Lands MacMillan Bloedel Sold to Americans - Jennifer Hunter B.C.’s Old-Growth Forest: A Last Stand for Biodiversity - Karen Price, Ph.D., Rachel F. Holt, Ph.D., R.P.Bio and Dave Daust R.P.F., M.Sc. The Story of K’iid Kiyaas: Hazel Wilson and the Golden Spruce Music from the Youtube Audio Library in order of appearance: Future Rennaisance - Godmode Your Suggestions - Unicorn Heads Dream Escape - The Tides Asleep with the Sun - Unicorn Heads TrueArtRealAffectionPart4 - Noir Et Blanc Vie Ether Oar - The Whole Other QuangerineCream - Noir Et Blanc Vie AnalogueCabin - Noir Et Blanc Vie Melting Sands - ELPHNT 2020 - Dyalla Sinister Cathedral - Asher Fulero Smokey Eye - Cheel Anxious - Sextile Lucid Haze - Amulets Dolphin-esque - Godmode Humble Proofreading - pATCHES Melancholia - Godmode Oceans, Rivers, Canyons - ELPHNT Nocturnally - Amulets The Hungry Ghost - I Think I Can Help You Subterranean Howl - ELPHNT Traversing - Godmode Orbiting Knowhere - The Whole Other Badlands - ELPHNT Devoid - ELPHNT Ammil - The Tides Seclusion - The Tides Cattle - Telecasted Low Poly Pine Trees model by luka712 is licensed under CC. Available at https://skfb.ly/6Ao6W Low Poly Pine model by Afloat Above the World is licensed under CC. Available at https://skfb.ly/6VoOK 00:00 The forests for a tree 02:17 Green gold 15:32 Roots in the earth 26:51 If a tree falls in the forest… 38:22 …and no one’s around to hear it… 50:21 …does it make a sound?
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📢 Abstract submission is open for the conference:
🌲From Forest to Heritage III
🗓️19-22 May 2026; 📍Klagenfurt, Austria
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October 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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