Series Scope and Content Summary

The series consists of correspondence and reports pertaining to all functions of the Forestry and Vegetation Management Branch. These files could not be separated out into more specific series because they address too many disparate activities of the Forestry and Vegetation Management Branch.

Series Scope and Content Summary One of the Forestry Branch’s principle functions was to undertake ecological restoration. From 1947 – 1972 there was a revolutionary change in priorities of management in the national parks. Science became the leading voice, replacing landscape architecture as the new motivator. This both stemmed from and caused the park’s reappraisal of resource management. The priority became ecosystem preservation and moved away from visitor use. In Giant Forest, visitor use was taking a toll on the big...