After three centuries of forest policy that put the interests of the state above locals, the French are realizing that a more inclusive policy is better for both people and forests. The dispatch arrived in haste at the prefect’s office in June 1843. “Sergeant Ruty, state forest officer in the Forêt de Chaux, has been […]
Author Archives: Kieko Matteson
Kieko Matteson, a native daughter of Vermont, is an assistant professor of history at the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa. In 2013 she will be a fellow at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich, Germany, where she will finish edits on her book manuscript, " ‘Masters of Their Woods’: Conservation, Community, and Conflict in Revolutionary France, 1669–1848."