Forestry

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Industrial buildings and bull dozers on gravel with water tower
Anthony Timberlands, Inc.
Formed by John Ed Anthony in 1974, Anthony Timberlands, Inc. (ATI) operates five mills in southern Arkansas an...
Arkansas Forestry Association
The Arkansas Forestry Association (AFA) is a private association of firms and individuals in the forestry indu...
African-American man with tools and hard hat in forest
Arkansas Forestry Commission
The Arkansas Forestry Commission (AFC) was established by Act 234 of 1931 and amended by Act 48 of 1939. Its i...
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Crossett Experimental Forest (CEF)
Established in 1934, the Crossett Experimental Forest (CEF) of the United States Department of Agriculture (US...
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Crossett Lumber Company
The Crossett Lumber Company (CLC) was Arkansas’s largest and most influential lumber company from its foundi...
Multistory buildings with four smokestacks and train tracks in the foreground
Herman Dierks (1863–1946)
Herman Dierks was the co-founder and two-time president of the Dierks Lumber and Coal Company, supervising its...
Desolate forest with bare trees with signs nailed to a tree
Forest Management and Conservation
The Dictionary of Forestry defines “forest management” as the application of biophysical and socioeconomic...
Ozan Lumber Company
The Ozan Lumber Company operated a number of mills across southwestern Arkansas from the late nineteenth centu...
White man in tie kneeling between two trees in wooded area
Leslie Klett (Les) Pomeroy (1896–1976)
Although Sierra Club founder John Muir championed forest conservation by setting aside large acreages, it was ...
Mixed group of loggers carrying a large log using poles to support its weight
Timber Industry
The timber industry in Arkansas developed in all directions after the Civil War. The abundant forests of the s...
"Timberfest" lumberjack mural with crossed ax and saw sign and business logos on the side of a brick building
Timberfest
Timberfest is held the first weekend of October every year on the courthouse square in Sheridan (Grant County)...
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Sidney Albert Umsted (1876–1925)
aka: Sid Umsted
Sidney (Sid) Albert Umsted, known as the “Father of the Smackover...
Newspaper clipping with headline "Death of Peter Van Winkle"
Peter Van Winkle (1814–1882)
Peter Van Winkle was a prominent lumberman and sawmill owner in northwestern Arkansas who came back from losin...
Woman ringing bell from wood frame porch with sign "Yale Forestry Camp Crossett - Arkansas"
Yale Camp
Approximately one mile east of Crossett (Ashley County), just off U.S. Highway 82, is the site of what was onc...