The Forest History Society (FHS), located in Durham, North Carolina, is a nonprofit educational institution that links the past to the future by identifying, collecting, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating information on the history of interactions between people, forests, and their related resources — timber, water, soil, forage, fish and wildlife, recreation, and scenic or spiritual values. Through programs in research, publication, and education, the Society promotes and rewards scholarship in the fields of forest, conservation, and environmental history.

The Forest History Society's Alvin J. Huss Archives houses a wide array of primary source materials, including such items as: photographs, scrapbooks, diaries, newsclippings, reports, pamphlets, memoranda, correspondence, financial records, and audio-visual materials recorded in a variety of formats. Descriptive finding aids, summarizing the contents of collections, are searchable in the archives, and a growing number of them are accessible in electronic format through our web site.

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