This archive publishes and preserves short and long-term research data collected from studies funded by: Forest Service Research and Development, Joint Fire Science Program, and Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute. Collection includes data from a number of Forest Service Experimental Forests and Ranges. Each archived data set (i.e., “data publication”) contains at least one data set, complete metadata for the data set(s), and any other documentation the researcher deemed important to understanding the data set(s). The data catalog entries present the metadata and a link to the data. In some cases the data link is to a different archive. Studies that include GIS data are marked as such.

For over 60 years the Forest History Society (FHS) has monitored the world of publishing for books, articles, and dissertations written as history and dealing with the utilization, management of natural resources and and appreciation of nature. Originally the information was kept on index cards, then in 1977 was published in North American Forest and Conservation History: A Bibliography by Ronald J. Fahl (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO Press, 1977). Since the early 1980s FHS has maintained the bibliography in a computer database, which is continually updated and searchable. The Bibliography contains over 45,000 annotated citations to books, articles, and dissertations published from 1633 to the present and is updated online quarterly. Approximately 1,000 citations are added each year. Recent additions also appear quarterly in the “new scholarship” section of the journal Environmental History.