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Arkansas
Gurdon
Hoo-Hoo International Forestry Museum
207 Main Street
PO Box 118
Gurdon AR 71743
Phone 870 353-4997
Web Site www.aristotle.net/~russjohn/hoohoo.html
Alt Web www.hoo-hoo.org/
Description small log cabin with lumber museum
Type of Resource Specialty Museum
Primary Focus Industrial
Industry Profession Forestry
Collection N-Z Woodcarving

DC
Washington
American Tree Farm System
1111 19th Street, NW
Suite 780
Washington  DC 20036
Phone   202 463-2462
Web Site http://www.treefarmsystem.org/
E-mail mailto:info@treefarmsystem.org
Description promotes private forestry, lists of contacts
Type of Resource   Nature
Primary Focus Industrial
Nature of Group or Site Outdoors
Industry /Profession Forestry
New or Updated:  3/5/2004

Florida
Perry
Forest Capital State Cultural Museum
204 Forest Park Drive
Perry FL 32348
Phone 850 584-3227
Web Site http://www.dep.state.fl.us/parks/district2/forestcapital/index.asp
Description Geodesic dome features map of Florida tree types, Cracker Homestead Interpretive Site, exhibits on wood products
Type of Resource Specialty Museum
Primary Focus Industrial
Industry Profession Forestry

MA
Petersham
Harvard U Fisher Museum at Harvard Forest
326 N Main Street
PO Box 68
Petersham MA 01366
Phone 508 724-3302
Alt Phone 617 724-3285
Web Site http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/museum_fisher.html
Description dioramas, built in the 1930's, of forest change and progression. A historical sequence follows one site from 1730-1930
Type of Resource Museum
Field of Study/Science Facility Ecology
Industry /Profession Forestry
Research /Reading Library
New or Updated: 10/08/2003

Durham

Forest History Society

701 William Vickers Avenue

Durham NC 27701

Phone 919 682-9319

Web Site http://www.lib.duke.edu/forest/Research/ohiguide.html

E-mail mailto:recluce2@duke.edu

Description over 200 oral history interviews with individuals important to the history

of forests and forestry

Type of Resource History Related Organization

Primary Focus History Resource

Nature of Group or Site Association

Field of Study/Science Facility Oral History

Industry /Profession Forestry

New or Updated: 11/18/2006

OR
Portland
World Forestry Center Museum
4033 SW Canyon Road
Portland OR   97221
Phone   503 228-1367
Web Site http://www.worldforestry.org/museum.html
Description trees, forests, ecosystems, talking tree, rainforests
Type of Resource   Museum
Primary Focus Industrial
Industry /Profession Forestry
New or Updated: 3/9/2004

Last Update: 03/03/2010

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