Research Guides: Wisconsin Agriculture and Rural Life Bibliography

Serials

*The Evergreen and Forest Tree Grower.  Sturgeon Bay, Wis. : Pinney & Co., 1871-1874. MADCAT Evergreen and Fruit Tree Grower.  Sturgeon Bay, Wis. : Pinney & Co., 1874. MADCAT The Evergreen. Sturgeon Bay, Wis. : G. Pinney, [1875-187-?] WHS USAIN MADCAT

Twin City Lumberman.  Marinette, Wis. : [s.n.], 1895-[1898?] MADCAT

Wisconsin. Conservation Dept. Survey and Map Bulletin.  Tomahawk, Wis. : Forest Protection Headquarters, Wisconsin State Conservation Dept., 1938 Aug-1939 Oct 31. WHS

*Wisconsin. State Board of Forestry. Circular.  Madison, Wis. : Office of the State Forester, [1905]-1908.
(5 issues.) WHS USAIN (Incomplete.)

The Wisconsin Lumberman.  Stevens Point, Wis. : Conery & Stout, 1863-1868. WHS MADCAT

*The Wisconsin Lumberman.  Milwaukee : Wisconsin Lumberman Publishing Co, 1873-1875. WHS USAIN MADCAT

*The Wisconsin Lumberman.  Stevens Point, Wis. : [s.n.], 1873- . (WHS has v. 1, no. 1 (Apr., 1873.)) USAIN (v. 1. no. 1.)

The Wisconsin Pinery.  Stevens Point, Portage County, Wis. : N.V. Chandler, 1853-1893. (WHS incomplete.) MADCAT

Wood Turning. Milwaukee, Wis. : H. A. Apple, 1908-1924. MADCAT Wood Working Industries. Milwaukee, Wis. : [s.n.], 1925-1932. 

Monographs

Barnard, W. D. Forest Planting in Wisconsin.  Madison, Wis. : State of Wisconsin Conservation Commission, 1916. 34 p. ( State of Wisconsin Conservation Commission Bulletin, v. 1.) WHS MADCAT

*Blaisdell, J. J. Forest and Tree Culture in Wisconsin.  Madison, Wis. : F.S. Horner, book and job printer, 1893. 46 p. WHS USAIN MADCAT

Choinski, Walter F. Map Manual.  Madison, Wis. : Wisconsin State Conservation Dept., Forest Protection Division, 1936. 93 p. WHS

Christiansen, Harry E. What Is Lumber? : As Told by the General Lumber Company, Milwaukee.  [Milwaukee, Wis. : General Lumber Company], 1919. 35 p. MADCAT

Clohisy, Matt. Wisconsin Trees. [5th ed.]  Milwaukee, Wis. : Milwaukee Journal, 1931. 148 p. MILWPUB

Conference on Reforestation, Madison Wis., 1920. Proceedings of the Conference on Reforestation by Wood-Using Industries in Cooperation with Representatives of Federal, State, and Lumber Producing Interests, Madison, Wisconsin, July 23, 1920.  [Madison, Wis.? : s.n.], 1920.

Elementary Forestry Lessons Adapted to Wisconsin Forest Conditions.  [Madison, Wis.?] : Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory Division, [1932?] WHS MADCAT

Forest Planting in Wisconsin. Rev. ed.  Madison, Wis. : State of Wisconsin Conservation Commission, 1920. 39 p. (State of Wisconsin Conservation Commission Bulletin, v. 1.) WHS MADCAT

*Forestry in Wisconsin : A New Outlook.  Milwaukee : Wisconsin Commercial Forestry Conference, 1928. 194 p. SML WHS USAIN MADCAT

c. The Wisconsin Pine Lands of Cornell University : A Study in Land Policy and Absentee Ownership.  Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1943. 265 p. MEM SML WHS MADCAT

Goodman, Robert B. A Wisconsin Forest-Farm Working Circle.  Goodman, Wis. : [s.n.], 1944. 24 p. WHS MADCAT

Handbook for Fighting Forest Fires.  [Madison, Wis. : Democrat Printing Co., 1944] 40 p. (Wisconsin Conservation Dept. Publication, v. 516.)  SML WHS MADCAT

Hotchkiss, George Woodward. History of the Lumber and Forest Industry of the Northwest.  Chicago : G.W. Hotchkiss & Co., 1898. 754 p. MADCAT

*Ingram, Orrin Henry. Autobiography, Orrin Henry Ingram : May, 1830-December, 1912.  Eau Claire, Wis. : [s.n.], 1912. 83 p. (Wisconsin lumberman.) WHS USAIN MADCAT

Ingram, Orrin Henry. Letters of a Pioneer.  [Eau Claire, Wis. : s.n., 1916]. 51 p. WHS MADCAT

Kanneberg, Adolph. Log Driving and the Rafting of Lumber in Wisconsin : A Survey.  [Madison] : Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, [1944] [105] p. ("Statutory provisions and the common law of Wisconsin pertaining to the use of navigable water for log driving and the drafting of lumber.") SML WHS MADCAT

Kaufert, Frank. Surveys of Forest Tree Diseases in Wisconsin and Neighboring States. [1937] 1 v. PLANTPATH MADCAT

Kouba, T. F. Report of Progress in White Pine Blister Rust Control in the State of Wisconsin.  [Madison : s.n.], 1932.  36 p. WHS MADCAT

*Lapham, Increase Allen. Report on the Disastrous Effects of the Destruction of Forest Trees, Now Going On So Rapidly in the State of Wisconsin.  Madison, Wis. : Atwood & Rublee, state printers, 1867. 104 p. WHS USAIN MADCAT

The Lumber Industry. 2d ed.  La Crosse, Wis. : La Crosse County Historical Society, 1937. 102 p. (La Crosse County Historical Sketches.) WHS MADCAT

MacKaye, Benton. Suggestions for Marketing Small timber.  Madison, Wis. : [Wisconsin State Conservation Commission?], 1918. 32 p. (Wisconsin State Conservation Commission Bulletin,  no. 4.) WHS MADCAT

Norton, Matthew G. The Mississippi River Logging Company : An Historical Sketch.  [S.l. : s.n.], 1912. 97 p. WHS MADCAT

Outline of General Course in Forestry for Workers in Reforestation Camps in Wisconsin.  [Madison, Wis.?] : Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory Division, [1931?] 85 p. WHS MADCAT

Pines, Power, Paper.  Green Bay, Wis. : Northern Paper Mills, [192-] 14 p. WHS MADCAT

The Rhinelander Logging Museum.  Rhinelander, Wis. : Rhinelander Logging Museum, 1940. [43] p. WHS MADCAT

Rohan, Benjamin John. Our Forests : A National Problem.  Appleton, Wis. : C. C. Nelson Pub. Co., [c1929] 187 p. (Exploratory Science Series.) MADCAT

*Roth, Filibert. On the Forestry Conditions of Northern Wisconsin.  Madison, Wis. : Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, 1898.  78 p. (Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin, no. 1.) 78 p. GEOL SML WHS USAIN MADCAT

*St. Louis and Wisconsin River Lumber Company. Charter, Prospectus and By-laws of the St. Louis and Wisconsin River Lumber Company.  St. Louis : Printed at the Dispatch Office, 1865. 11 p. WHS USAIN MADCAT

Some Facts about Forestry : Prevent Forest Fires, It Means More Timber, More Game, Waters Conserved, Better Looking Country.  Madison, Wis. : Wisconsin State Conservation Commission, [1924?] 15 p. MADCAT

Surveying and Mapping Handbook, Rangers' School, 1939.  Tomahawk, Wis. : Wisconsin Conservation Dept. Forest Protection Headquarters, 1941. [65] p. WHS MADCAT

Tables for Determining the Quantity of Boards which May Be Sawed from Round Logs, a New Edition.  Depere : Printed at the Advertiser office, 1852. 19 p. WHS MADCAT

Tiemann, Harry D. Check List : Native Trees and Shrubs of Wisconsin Including Closely Related European, Asiatic, and Other Species Foreign to America. Rev. ed.  [Washington, D. C.?] : U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory in cooperation with the University of Wisconsin, 1933. 47 p. SML MADCAT

The Timber Lands of Northern Wisconsin and Michigan Owned and For Sale by the Chicago & North-Western Railway Co.  Chicago : Rand, McNally & Co, [1898?] 48 p. WHS MADCAT

The Timber Lands of Northern Wisconsin and Michigan Owned and For Sale by the Chicago & North-Western Railway Co.  Chicago : J.F. Cleveland, Land Commissioner, C. & N.W. Ry., [1905?] 34 p. WHS MADCAT

Timbered Farming Lands on the Soo Line in Wisconsin and Michigan.  Minneapolis, Minn. : T. I. Hurd, 1896. 40 p. WHS MADCAT

*Trenk, Fred B. The County Forests of Wisconsin.  Madison, Wis. : Wisconsin Conservation Dept., 1938. 32 p. SML WHS USAIN MADCAT

*Trenk, Fred B. Forest Planting Handbook.  Madison, Wis. : State of Wisconsin Conservation Dept., 1932. 48 p. SML WHS USAIN MADCAT

Trenk, Fred B. Forest Planting Handbook.  Madison, Wis. : Wisconsin State Conservation Dept., 1937. 36 p. SML WHS MADCAT

Trenk, Fred B. Forest Planting Handbook.  Madison, Wis. : State of Wisconsin Conservation Dept., 1943. 36 p. (Wisconsin Conservation Dept. Publication, no. 506.) WHS MADCAT

Trenk, Fred B. Graybeards of Wisconsin Forestry.  Madison, Wis. : State of Wisconsin Conservation Dept., [ca. 1941] 23 p. (Wisconsin Conservation Dept. Publication, no. 503.) SML MADCAT

*Trenk, Fred B. Wisconsin Forestry Facts.  Madison, Wis. : Wisconsin Conservation Dept., [1939] 20 p. SML USAIN MADCAT

United States. Forest Service. North Central Region. Timber Management and Financial Plans for the Goodman Working Circle, Wisconsin 1938.  [Milwaukee, Wis.? : United States Forest Service North Central Region?, 1938] 84 p. MADCAT

United States. Forest Service. North Central Region. Timber management and financial plans for the Goodman working circle, Wisconsin 1938. Appendix.  [Milwaukee, Wis.? : United States Forest Service North Central Region?, 1937?] 127 p. MADCAT

The University and Wisconsin Forestry.  Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin, 1938. (University of Wisconsin. Bulletin, no. 2334.) 56 p. MADCAT

Wallace, D. A. Hardwood Timber Lands : The Peculiarities, the Characteristics, and the Possibilities of Hardwood Timber Land Heretofore Overlooked as Suitable for Agriculture.  [Chippewa Falls, Wis.] : West Pub. Co., 1906. 46 p. WHS MADCAT

Wehrwein, George Simon. The Forest Crop Law and Private Forest Taxation in Wisconsin.  Madison  : Wisconsin Conservation Dept., 1945. 97 p. (Typescript.) SML MADCAT

Wehrwein, George Simon. The Forest Crop Law and Private Forest Taxation in Wisconsin.  [Madison : Wisconsin Conservation Dept., 1946] 83 p. (Bulletin, 519) SML WHS MADCAT

Welsh, William. Sales of Indians' Pine Timber.  Philadelphia : [s.n.], 1874. 15 p. WHS MADCAT

Wilde, Sergius Alexander. Forest Soils : Origin, Properties, Relation to Vegetation, and Silvicultural Management.  Madison, Wis. : Soils Dept., College of Agriculture, University of Wisconsin, c1941. 384 p. SML USAIN MADCAT

Wilson, Fred G. Forest Trees of Wisconsin : How to Know Them: A Pocket Manual.  [Madison, Wis.] : Wisconsin Conservation Commission, 1928. 64 p. SML WHS MADCAT

Wilson, Fred G. Forest Trees of Wisconsin : How to Know Them. 3rd ed. [Madison, Wis.] : Wisconsin Conservation Commission, 1928. 64 p. WHS MADCAT

Wilson, Fred G. Forest Trees of Wisconsin : How to Know Them.  [Madison, Wis.] : Wisconsin Conservation Commission, 1936. 64 p. WHS MADCAT

Wilson, Fred G. Forest Trees of Wisconsin : How to Know Them.  [Madison, Wis.] : Wisconsin Conservation Dept., 1944. 64 p. (Publication, no. 507.) WHS MADCAT

*Wilson, Fred G. Forestry Manual.  Madison, Wis. : Wisconsin Conservation Dept., 1936. SML USAIN MADCAT

*Wisconsin Committee on Land Use and Forestry. Forest Land Use in Wisconsin : Report of the Committee on Land Use and Forestry.  Madison, Wis. : Executive Office, 1932. 156 p. MEM SML WHS USAIN MADCAT

*Wisconsin Forestry Commission. Report of the Forestry Commission of the State of Wisconsin.  Madison : Democrat Printing Company, state printer, 1898. 41 p. SML WHS USAIN MADCAT

Wisconsin. State Conservation Commission. Working Plan for Forest Lands of Peninsula State Park, Door County, Wisconsin.  Madison, Wis. : Wisconsin State Conservation Commission, 1917. 45 p. (Wisconsin. State Conservation Commission Bulletin, no. 3.) WHS MADCAT

Theses & Dissertations (in chronological order)

Reul, Matilda E. Starch Storage in Deciduous Trees and Shrubs. Thesis (M.S.), University of Wisconsin, 1889. 16 p. MADCAT

Flint, Joseph Turner. Lumbering in the Chippewa Valley. Thesis (L.B.), University of Wisconsin, 1903. 59 p. WHS MADCAT

Brandenburg, Frederick Sarles. The History of the Forest Reserve in the United States. Thesis (B.A.), University of Wisconsin, 1909. 42 p. WHS MADCAT

Miller, Lloyd D. The History of Lumbering in the Western Wisconsin River Valley. Thesis (Bachelor's), University of Wisconsin, 1914. MADCAT

Otjen, Christian John 1892. A History of the Forestry Conservation Movement in the State of Wisconsin. Thesis (B.A.), University of Wisconsin, 1914. 26 p. WHS MADCAT

Schorger, Arlie William. Contribution to the Chemistry of American Conifers. Thesis (Ph.D.), University of Wisconsin, 1916.  MADCAT

Murphy, Eleanor Janet. The Anthracnose of Oaks and Its Relation to the Sycamore Leaf Blight. Thesis (M.A.), University of Wisconsin, 1919. 43 p. MADCAT

Gerry, Eloise. Oleoresin Production: A Microscopic Study of the Effects Produced on the Woody Tissues of Southern Pines by Different Methods of Turpentining. Thesis (Ph.D.), University of Wisconsin, 1921. 46 p. MADCAT

Meyer, Anita L. The Development of Forest Conservation in Wisconsin. Thesis (Bachelor's), University of Wisconsin, 1921. MADCAT

Crownhart, Jesse George. Forestry in Wisconsin with Reference to the Work of the Forest Products Laboratory and the Wisconsin Conservation Commission, Madison. Thesis (A.B.), University of Wisconsin, 1921. MADCAT

Norris, Elva Lovina. The Identification of the Wood of the True and Pecan Hickories. Thesis (M.A.), University of Wisconsin, 1924. 56 p. MADCAT

Canuteson, Richard Lewis. The Lumbering Industry of the Black River. Thesis (B.A.), University of Wisconsin, 1925. 46 p. WHS MADCAT

Licking, Ralph Herbert. Geographic Factors Influencing the Lumber Trade of the Great Lakes Region. Thesis (M.A.), University of Wisconsin, 1926. 66 p. MADCAT

Koehler, Arthur. Cause of Brashness in Wood.  Thesis (M.S.), University of Wisconsin, 1928. 184 p. MADCAT

Kittredge, Joseph. The Interrelation of Habitat, Growth Rate, and Associated Vegetation in the Aspen Community of Minnesota and Wisconsin.  Thesis (Ph.D.), University of Minnesota, 1931. MADCAT

Hohnk, Willy. Studies on Saprolegniaceous Fungi. Thesis (Ph.D.), University of Wisconsin, 1932.  121 p. MADCAT

Pillow, Maxon Young. Structure, Occurrence, and Properties of Compression Wood. Thesis (M.S.), University of Wisconsin, 1933. 83 p.  MADCAT

Scheffer, Theodore Comstock. A Study of the Progressive Effect of the "White-Rot" Organism, Polystictus versicolor (Linn.) Fr., on the Physical and Chemical Properties of Sap Gum Wood.  Thesis (Ph.D.), University of Wisconsin, 1935. 61 p. MADCAT

Fries, Robert Francis. A History of Lumbering in Wisconsin. Thesis (Ph.M.), University of Wisconsin, 1936. 81 p. MADCAT

Eggler, Willis Alexander. The Maple-Basswood Forest Type in Washburn County, Wisconsin.  Thesis (M.S.), Univ. of Minnesota, 1936. MADCAT

Cady, John Gilbert. The Role of Green Manure Crops in the Maintenance of Forest Nursery Soils. Thesis (M.S.), University of Wisconsin, 1938. 25 p. MADCAT

Harr, John Lauren. The Timber Frontier in Wisconsin.  Thesis (M.A.), University of Chicago, Dept. of History,  1938. MADCAT

Kopitke, John Charles. The Effect of Potash Salts upon the Resistance of Coniferous Seedlings to Frost.  Thesis (M.S.), University of Wisconsin, 1939.  15 p. MADCAT

Pillow, Maxon Young. White Ash and Green Ash: Their Wood Structure and Properties as Influenced by Growth Conditions. Thesis (Ph.D.), University of Wisconsin, 1939.  MADCAT

Fries, Robert Francis. A History of the Lumber Industry in Wisconsin. Thesis (Ph.D.), University of Wisconsin, 1940. 453 p. MADCAT

Stone, Earl Lewis. Calcium Requirements of Some Coniferous and Deciduous Seedlings.  Thesis (M.S.), University of Wisconsin, 1940. 42 p. MADCAT

White, Donald Perry.  Prairie Soil as a Medium for Tree Growth.  Thesis (M.S.), University of Wisconsin, 1940. 42 p, MADCAT

Kleven, Bernhardt J. Wisconsin Lumber Industry.   Thesis (Ph.D.), University of Minnesota, 1941. MADCAT

Krumm, Charles Jo. The Composition and Effects of Fertilizer Composts in Forest Nurseries.  Thesis (M.S.), University of Wisconsin, 1941. 98 p. MADCAT

Dobyns, Lloyd F. The History of Lumbering in Marinette County, Wisconsin.  Thesis (Master's), University of Iowa, 1942. MADCAT

Rosendahl, Russell Otto. Mycorrhizae of Forest Trees: Their Nutritional, Ecological and Silvicultural Importance. Thesis (Ph.D.), University of Wisconsin, 1943. 83 p. MADCAT

Barlowe, Raleigh. The Wisconsin Forest Crop Law : An Appraisal and Evaluation. Thesis (Ph.D.), University of Wisconsin, 1945. 216 p. MADCAT

Eisemann, Carl. A Key for the Identification of Native Commercial Wisconsin Woods. Thesis (M.S.), Marquette University, 1945. MADCAT

Locations

Materials included in the bibliography may be found at various locations:

Most of the materials are included in MadCat and are available through libraries on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. This includes titles beginning with an asterisk * which indicates it has been microfilmed. Microfilmed materials are located at UW Madison Memorial Library Microforms/Media Center and United States National Agricultural Library.

Some of the materials have been digitized and are available online from the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections - http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.USAIN.

Some of the materials are located elsewhere. The locations below are indicated at the end of the citations as applicable. There may also be other locations not included in this bibliography.

  • ARCHIVES - University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives and Records Management Service, 434 Steenbock Library, 550 Babcock Dr., Madison, WI 53706; 608-262-0428 
  • GEOL - University of Wisconsin-Madison Geology and Geophysics Library, 1215 W. Dayton St., Madison, WI 53706; 608-262-8956 
  • GIANNINI - Library, The Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 248 Giannini Hall #3310, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3310; 510-642-7121 
  • MAXKADE - Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 901 University Bay Drive, Madison, WI 53705; 608-262-7546 
  • MEM - University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Library, 728 State St., Madison, WI 53706; 608-262-3193
  • MILWPUB - Milwaukee Public Library, 814 W. Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53233, 414-286-3000
  • PLANTPATH - University of Wisconsin-Madison Plant Pathology Library, 584 Russell Labs, 1630 Linden Dr., Madison, WI 53706; 608-262-8698 
  • SML - Steenbock Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 550 Babcock Dr., Madison, WI 53706; 608-262-9635
  • WHS - Wisconsin Historical Society Library, 816 State St., Madison, WI 53706; 608-264-6535