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Arthur Smith Range Management Photograph Collection

Forest History Society

Idaho State Historical Society's Forest Service Photo Collection

National Agricultural Library

Rangeland Through Time: Vegetation Changes in Wyoming 1870-1986

Rocky Mountain Research Station Flagstaff Lab

The Greatest Good Centennial

Utah State History Collections

Rangers and other Forest Service personnel were required to keep a daily record during the Forest Service’s first decades. These diaries document early forest and range conditions, grazing and forestry practices, local transportation systems, building construction, and much more.

Anonymous, 1916 (Idaho forests)

Leadore Ranger District, 1921-1934 (rangers & surveyors)

Olsen, Orange

Nichols, George L.

Standing, A.R. "Barney"

Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy

Eyes of the Forest: Idaho Fire Lookouts

Idaho Smokejumping & Firefighting Oral History Project

Idaho and the CCC

Mountain West Digital Library (search “Forest Service”)

National New Deal Preservation Association

National Museum of Forest Service History

Nevada Encyclopedia

Peeling Back the Bark - Forest History Society blog

Theodore Roosevelt Association

US Forest Service History (Forest History Society)

Utah History Library & Collections

Utah History Encyclopedia

Annotated Bibliography of Books in the R4 History Collection

BLM’s General Land Office Records

Center for Research Libraries

Old Forest Service Mapping Techniques

Lands Records Research Directory

Library of Congress

National Agricultural Library

New Perspectives on the West

Records of the Forest Service in the National Archives

The Internet Archive

The Potter Diaries 1902 - Utah State University Forestry Extension

California Office of Historic Preservation

Idaho Heritage Trust

Idaho State Historical Society

Nevada & Tourism and Cultural Affairs

Preservation Utah

Utah State History

Wyoming State Historical Society

Wyoming State Parks and Cultural Resources