The University of Montana-Missoula began offering forestry courses in 1908. The Montana State Legislature approved the creation of the School of Forestry in 1913. In 2005, the Montana Board of Regents approved a name and organizational change creating the College of Forestry and Conservation. This change established the three following departments within the College of Forestry and Conservation: the Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences, the Department of Forestry Management and the Department of Society and Conservation. The college offers for major degrees including forestry, recreation management, resource conservation and wildlife biology. The College of Forestry and Conservation has always emphasized both classroom and field education. To facilitate in the field training, the College of Forestry and Conservation maintains multiple off-campus research sites. These sites include the Lubrecht Experimental Forestry, the Flathead Lake Biological Station, the Bandy Ranch, the Boone and Crocket Club’s Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Ranch, and the Montana Forest and Conservation Experiment Station, which is a statewide agency of the Montana University system.
This collection contains records from the University of Montana's School of Forestry, including subject files they maintained. These records include documentation about library purchases; articles and reports; correspondence; subject files including information about the Lubrecht Forest, the Lick Creek Timber Sale, and sawtimber cut data for Montana; faculty correspondence; scrapbooks; senior trip journals; and senior projects related to the Pattee Creek Timber Reserve and Pattee Creek Experimental Forest.
This collections is divided into three series.
Series I, Library Records, 0.25 linear feet., 1924-1965.
Series II, Subject and Correspondence Files, 0.25 linear feet, 1916-1968.
Series III, Scrapbooks, Journals and Senior Projects, 2.5 linear feet, 1923-1963.
Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of Archives and Special Collections, the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, and The University of Montana-Missoula.
Researchers are responsible for using in accordance with 17 U.S.C. and any other applicable statutes. Intellectual property rights to most of the materials in this collection are held by The University of Montana.
[Name of document or photograph number], University of Montana (Missoula, Mont.) School of Forestry Records, Archives and Special Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, The University of Montana-Missoula.
The custodial history of this collection is not documented, but it is probable that the materials were transferred from the School of Forestry directly to the University of Montana Library or to the Archives within the library.
Details concerning the acquisition by the Library and Archives of this collection were not recorded.
Materials were divided into series and then arranged alphabetically by the collection processor.
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.
This series consists primarily of documentation about acquisitions for the School of Forestry library, but it includes a" Lumberman's Library" ledger with a list of books held in what was likely the Anaconda Company's Bear Creek camp, and loaned by them to other logging camps, in the mid-1920s.
This series contains writings and correspondence from individuals associated with the school, including many professors. It also includes subject files, possibly considered to be subject or research files by the Forestry School.
Correspondence, locomotive specification cards, Willamette Logging Engines pamphlet, and parts orders related to locomotives owned by the Anaconda Copper Mining Company lumber department.
Correspondence, locomotive specification cards, Willamette Logging Engines pamphlet, and parts orders related to locomotives owned by the Anaconda Copper Mining Company lumber department.
This series contains documentation of School of Forestry activities, including reports, class trip journals, and student projects. Some of the scrapbooks and trip journals in this series include identified photographs.