Staff Historian
Forest History Society
James Lewis has been the staff historian at the Forest History Society since 2003. He is the author of two books on the USDA Forest Service and published numerous articles on different aspects of forest history. For the last fifteen years, he has served as the editor of the Society’s magazine Forest History Today and its blog Peeling Back the Bark. He is one of the executive producers and a co-writer of the Emmy Award–winning film about Carl Schenck and the Biltmore Forest School called America’s First Forest. His next book will be a history of the Yale School of the Environment.
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
4:00pm - 5:00pm PST