For The Trees An Illustrated History of the Ozark-St. Francis National Forests 1908-1978

Primary Sources:

Record Group 95, Records of the Forest Service, National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. Records used included: Records of the Office of the Chief and Other General Records, 1908-1947; Correspondence of the Section of Inspection, 1906-1908; Reports of the Section of Inspection, 1906-1908; Circulars and Orders from the Office of the Chief, 1903-1907; General Integrating Inspection Reports, 1937-1955; Records of the Division of Fire Control, General Correspondence, 1933-1942; Records Relating to Civilian Conservation Corps Work, General Correspondence, 1933-1942; Diaries, 1906-1944; and, Non-textual Records, Still Pictures, 1898-1945.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. The Ozark-St. Francis National Forests History File (1680), Russellville, Arkansas. This file contains a random assortment of documents, letters, old newsletters, various unpublished histories and accounts of former employees, brochures, press releases, annual reports, other reports and papers relating to forest activities, and scrapbooks. In addition the file contains more than 1,200 old photographic records, mounted, filed and cross-indexed.

Wait, James Maurice. Unpublished diaries, 1912 to 1969, intermittently. Letters and correspondence for some of these years. His books, magazines and photographs. Through the courtesy of Lola Ross, his sister, of Dover, Arkansas.

File Records from the St. Louis Federal Records Center; Ralph Huey, Francis Kiefer, H.R. Koen, and J.M. Wait.

Personal Interviews conducted in the years 1977, 1978, and 1979 with the following individuals, listed alphabetically, along with the place of interview.

Secondary Sources:

Arkansas Department of Planning. Arkansas Natural Area Plan. Little Rock, Arkansas: Department of Planning, 1974.

Ashmore, Harry. Arkansas: A History. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1978.

Bass, Sharon W. "U.S. Forest Service Photography: The Ozark National Forest Photographic Collection and the Work of James Maurice Wait." (Master's thesis, University of Texas at Austin, 1979).

Bergoffen, William W. 100 Years of Federal Forestry. Agriculture Information Bulletin No. 402. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1976.

Center for Archaeological Research. Overview of Cultural Resources in the Mark Twain National Forest. 4 volumes. Rolla, Missouri, 1979.

Citizen Handbook on Forest Management. Ozark National Forest. The Sierra Club, Newton County Wildlife Association, and the Ozark Institute, 1977.

Deane, Ernie. Ozarks Country. Branson, Missouri: The Ozarks Mountaineer, 1975.

Fleming, John. The Blanchard Springs Caverns Story. Little Rock: Gallinule Society Publishing Company, 1973.

Fletcher, John Gould. Arkansas. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1947.

Foti, Tom. Arkansas: Its Land and Its People. Little Rock: Department of Education, Environment and Conservation Office, 1976.

Gerstaecker, Frederick. Wild Sports in the Far West. Boston: Crosby, Nichols and Company, 1859.

Harington, Donald. The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks. Boston—Toronto: Little Brown and Company, 1975.

Jones, Donald R. "The National Forest and Arkansas, 1907-1933." The Ozark Historical Review. 7:1-13. Spring 1979.

Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac, with Essays on Conservation from Round River. Oxford University Press, 1966.

McDonough, Nancy. Garden Sass: A Catalog of Arkansas Folkways. New York: Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1975.

Moke, Irene. "A Geographic Survey of Arkansas." (Mimeographed), 1976.

Nuttall, Thomas. A Journal of Travels in the Arkansas Territory. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, Inc., 1966. (Originally issued as: A Journal of Travels Into the Arkansas Territory, During the Year 1819: With Occasional Observations on the Manners of the Aborigines. Philadelphia: Thomas E. Palmer, 1821.)

Page, Tate C. The Voices of Moccasin Creek, 2nd edition. Point Lookout, Missouri: School of the Ozarks Press, 1977.

Pinchot, Gifford. Breaking New Ground. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1947.

Presson, Hazel. The Story of Arkansas, 4th revision. Little Rock: Democrat Printing and Lithograph, 1963.

Riley, Smith. "The Personal Narrative of Smith Riley." (Mimeographed), March 9, 1912. Found in the files of the U.S. Forest Service History Office, Washington, D.C.

Smith, Kenneth L. The Buffalo River Country. Fayetteville, Arkansas: The Ozark Society, 1970.

Steen, Harold K. The U.S. Forest Service: A History. Seattle and London: University of Washing ton Press, 1976.

Swan, K.D. Splendid Was the Trail. Missoula: Mountain Press, 1968.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. Guide for Managing the National Forests in the Ozark Highlands. Eastern and Southern Regions. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1974.

______. Highlights in the History of Forest Conservation. Agriculture Information Bulletin 83. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976.

______. The Principal Law Relating to Forest Service Activities. Agriculture Handbook No. 453. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1974.

______. Supplement to the Principal Laws Relating to Forest Service Activities. Agriculture Handbook No. 453. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976.

______. Forest Direction Statement for Managing the Ozark National Forest. Southern Region, 1976.

______. Timber Management Plan. Final Environmental Statement. Ozark National Forest, Arkansas. Southern Region, 1978.

______. Vegetation Management With Herbicides. Final Environmental Statement. Ozark-St. Francis National Forests, Arkansas. Southern Region, 1975.

______. "When Fire Is Banished From the Land of the White Oak." Misc. Circular No. 53. Ozark National Forest, November 1925.

U.S. Department of Commerce. 1964 Census of Agriculture, Volume I, Part 5. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.

______. 1960 Census of Population, Volume I, Part 5. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Wait, J.M. and H.M. Sears. Ozark National Forest—Arkansas. 1928.

Wilkinson, G.M. History of the Ozark and St. Francis National Forests: 1908-1961. (Mimeographed), 1961.

Newspapers consulted:

The Arkansas Democrat, The Arkansas Gazette, The Baxter Bulletin, Fort Smith Times, The Courier-Democrat, Southwest American Southwest Times Record, and the Spectator.