Cage 425 Guide to the Milton Monroe Mosher Papers 1938-1979 Mosher (Milton M.) Papers Finding aid prepared by Linda Scott Lilles Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections © 2012
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Finding aid encoded by Mark O'English 2003 Finding aid written in English. Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
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Cage 425 Mosher, Milton Monroe Milton Monroe Mosher Papers 1938-1979 2 containers. 2 linear feet of shelf space. 2300 items. 2 ft. Summary Correspondence, memoranda, committee material, reports, conference papers and ephemera relating to his teaching, particularly an intern program he established, professional activities for the Society of American Foresters and material relating to the Washington State Forest Practices Act of 1974. Collection materials are in English

Milton Monroe Mosher was born on April 24, 1914 at Nanquitt, Massachusetts. He received his B.S. in 1935 and his M.S. in Forestry in 1938 from Syracuse University in New York. He began his career at Washington State University as Instructor in Forestry and Range Management in 1937. Since 1961 he held the rank of Professor of Forestry and Forest Scientist. Professor Mosher taught General Forestry, Fire Protection, Dendrology, Forest History, Forest Products, Mensuration, Policy and Administration. He set up and supervised the Professional Integration Program, a summer internship for senior Forestry majors. Participating in numerous departmental and administrative committees, he also served as Acting Chairman of the Department of Forestry and Range Management periodically from 1955 until his retirement in March 1979. Professor Mosher has been active in the Society of American Foresters since 1936. He has worked on the following committees: Membership, Program. Nominations, By-Laws, Legislation, Chapter Establishment and others. He has been an Executive Councilor since 1977. He also served on the Eastern Washington Regional Forest Practices Advisory Committee reviewing public testimony concerning the Washington State Forest Practice Act of 1974.

The papers of Professor Mosher consist of correspondence, memoranda, committee material, reports, conference material, and ephemera relating to Professor Mosher's teaching career from 1937 to 1979 at Washington State University. The papers date from 1938 to 1979 with the bulk of the material dating from 1955 to 1979.

Major subjects in the collection are the Professional Integration Program, the Society of American Foresters, and the Washington State Forest Practices Act of 1974. The material relating to Forestry 399, the Professional Integration Program which Professor Mosher set up and directed from 1965 to 1978, includes correspondence to and from the students, course syllabi, reading lists, itineraries and interview notes. Included in the Society of American Foresters material are correspondence, committee material and directories, bylaws, and questionnaire and inventory forms dating from 1934 to 1971. The Washington State Forest Practices Act correspondence includes committee minutes, public hearing testimony, legislative drafts, and other documents dating from 1974 to 1977.

The Milton Monroe Mosher papers consist of a single series arranged alphabetically by subject, as per original order.

This collection is open for research use.

[Item Description]. Cage 425, Milton Monroe Mosher Papers . Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

The Milton Monroe Mosher Papers were donated to the Washington State University Libraries in February 1979 by Professor Mosher (UA 79-7).

For additional material concerning Professor Mosher, see Washington State University Forest and Range Management Records, 1912-1973.

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Mosher, Milton M. --Archives Society of American Foresters Forestry law and legislation--Washington (State) Forestry schools and education--Washington (State) Logging Washington (State)

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

1 1 Academic Standing Advisory Council 1960-1972 60 items. 1 2 Advancement of Education 1950 1 item. 1 3 Advisory Board--Departmental Status 1956-1966 18 items. 1 4 Agriculture Student Programs Committee 1957 1 item. 1 5 College of Agriculture: Departmental Correspondence 1958-1966 68 items. 1 6 Continuous Forest Inventory 1960 16 items. 1 7 Correspondence, General--Milton M. Mosher 1976-1978 114 items. 1 8 Counseling Center 1957 2 items. 1 9 Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity 1958-1962 7 items. 1 10 Dendrology 1939-1960 13 items. 1 11 Faculty Affairs Committee 1977-1979 123 items. 1 12 Faculty Service Reports 1961-1973 12 items. 1 13 Faculty-Student Relations Committee 1955-1958 4 items. 1 14 Farm Forestry Projects 1959-1966 5 items. 1 15 Forest Practice Board: Publications undated 2 items. 1 16 Forest Practice Rules and Regulations 1974-1975 5 items. 1 17 Forest Practices Act -- Correspondence and Committee Materials 1974-1976 36 items. 1 18 Forest Practices Advisory Committee 1974 42 items. 1 19 Forest Practices Rules and Regulations Hearing, April 19 1976 51 items. 1 20 Forest Practices Training Program 1977 5 items. 1 21 Forest Technicians 1966 1 item. 1 22 Forestry 499 1965 5 items. 1 23-35 Forestry 399 1966-1978 933 items. 1 36 Forestry 399 and 495, Reading List ca. 1975 13 items. 2 37 Forestry, Range, Wildlife, and Water Resources Advisory Board 1955-1960 11 items. 2 38 Fraternity Information 1958 1 item. 2 39 Graduate Seminar, University of Idaho - Abstracts 1962 8 items. 2 40 Honors Program 1960-1963 15 items. 2 41 Income Tax Allowance for Educational Expense 1958 1 item. 2 42 Ingersoll Property 1960 6 items. 2 43 Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Biennial Conference 1959-1962 3 items. 2 44 Institute of Agricultural Sciences: Faculty Action May-June 1959 3 items. 2 45 Inter-fraternity Alumni Advisors' Council 1952-1958 25 items. 2 46 Library Accessions 1964-1967 74 items. 2 47 Lion's Club 1960 13 items. 2 48 Minority Concerns Committee 1970-1971 12 items. 2 49 Publications, Milton M. Mosher 1948-1975 13 items. 2 50 Quarter Century Club 1963-1968 14 items. 2 51 Radio Material 1939-1943 15 items. 2 52 Research Project 1965-1968 7 items. 2 53 Sabbatical Correspondence 1969-1971 11 items. 2 54 Senior Petitions 1959-1970 5 items. Society of American Foresters 2 55 Aid to Education Committee 1961 20 items. 2 56 Committee for Selection of Fellows 1951-1953 87 items. 2 57 Committees 1966-1971 21 items. 2 58 Correspondence 1934-1960 52 items. 2 59 Correspondence, Directory, and By-Laws 1951-1970 60 items. 2 60 Membership Committee 1965-1967 21 items. 2 61 Nomination to Fellow and Council 1957-1970 25 items. 2 62 Questionnaires, Heyburn Camp 1958-1964 3 items. 2 63 Sigma Xi 1959-1967 12 items. 2 64 Soil Classification 1955 1 item. 2 65 Student Recommendations and Problems 1938-1951 65 items. 2 66 Xi Sigma Pi 1964 1 item. 2 67 Washington Forest Practices Regulation, Discussion Draft 1974 2 items. 2 68 Washington State Pilot Forest Management Program 1959-1965 61 items. 2 69 Washington State Pilot Forest Management Program, John P. Nagle, Correspondence 1958-1960 34 items. 2 70 Washington State Pilot Woodland Management Plan, M. M. Mosher, Correspondence 1958-1964 52 items. 2 71 Writing Guides 1948-1960 9 items.