An initial inventory of Australian foresters' lives

作者：Dargavel J^*

来源：Australian Forestry, 2016, 79(4): 265-270.

DOI：10.1080/00049158.2016.1237252

• Australian Dictionary of Biography
• Australian Forest History Society
• Australian Forestry School
• Australian National University
• Institute of Foresters of Australia
• National Centre of Biography
• obituaries Australia
• University of Melbourne
• Victorian School of Forestry
• forester
• obituary

An initial inventory of foresters' lives was prepared by entering the digitised obituaries of 186 foresters onto the National Centre of Biography's website, where they complemented the entries for a further 20 foresters in the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Obituaries were taken from forestry journals, newsletters and newspapers. The inventory includes about 8-10% of the population of Australia's past foresters, with obituaries dating from 1900 to 2015. The content of the inventory is discussed in four periods: establishing state forestry, building state forestry, post-war expansion, and fracturing. The possibility of extending the initial inventory using publications and oral histories, including those of living foresters, is discussed.

• 出版日期2016-12