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...

Series Scope and Content Summary The series consists of general hazard tree correspondence and memoranda and records pertaining to more specific hazard tree mitigation projects. When trees are identified as hazardous to people or property within the park, foresters may decide to cut them down depending on the circumstances. Cutting down trees in a national park may seem to contradict park values, but in reality it has been a common function of the Forestry and Vegetation Management Branches of national parks...