Southeastern Society of American Foresters Records
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence, financial reports, notes, events, and meeting minutes for each division of the southeastern foresters including joint events. operations manuals, and by-laws for the Southeastern Society of American Foresters. It also contains copies of The Southeastern Forester, the society's quarterly journal and a book called How Forestry Came to the Southeast.
Dates
- 1916 - 2021
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for public research.
Biographical / Historical
The Southeastern Society of American Foresters was formed in 1950, as a section of the national Society of American Foresters (formed 1900). It brings together groups with interests in logging, tree growing, and conservation, and includes members in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia.
Extent
12.0 Cubic Feet (14 containers: 7 record center boxes, 6 letter-length document boxes, 1 half-sized letter-length document box)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
This finding aid is organized by accessions. Each accession represents an addition to the collection. Each accession also represents a transfer of physical and legal custody of archival materials from the donor(s) to Auburn University Special Collections and Archives.
Processing Information
Accession 08-001 processed by Michael Kief Law, January 9, 2009.
Accession 10-078 processed by David McRae, 11/22/2010.
Accession 13-047 processed by Jennifer Wiggins, May 5, 2015.
Accession 16-005 processed by Jamie Kicklighter, February 8, 2016.
Accession 19-007 processed by Jennifer Wiggins, July 11, 2019.
Finding aids for Accessions 08-001, 10-078, 13-047, 16-005, and 19-007 added to ArchivesSpace by Elizabeth Bates, 2020-04-14.
Accession 21-036 processed by Jennifer Wiggins, April 8, 2022.
- Title
- Guide to the Southeastern Society of American Foresters Records
- Subtitle
- Record Group 1021
- Status
- Under Revision
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Auburn University Special Collections and Archives Repository
Auburn University
Ralph Brown Draughon Library
231 Mell Street
Auburn Alabama 36849
334-844-1732
archives@auburn.edu
