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Milton Monroe Mosher
Papers, 1938-1979

The Milton Monroe Mosher Papers were donated to the Washington State University Libraries in February 1979 by Professor Mosher (UA 79-7). The papers were processed by Linda Scott Lilles in June of 1980.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Milton Monroe Mosher was born on April 24, 1914 at Nanquitt, Massachusetts. He received his B.S. in 1935 and his M.S. in Forestry in 1938 from Syracuse University in New York. He began his career at Washington State University as Instructor in Forestry and Range Management in 1937. Since 1961 he held the rank of Professor of Forestry and Forest Scientist. Professor Mosher taught General Forestry, Fire Protection, Dendrology, Forest History, Forest Products, Mensuration, Policy and Administration. He set up and supervised the Professional Integration Program, a summer internship for senior Forestry majors. Participating in numerous departmental and administrative committees, he also served as Acting Chairman of the Department of Forestry and Range Management periodically from 1955 until his retirement in March 1979. Professor Mosher has been active in the Society of American Foresters since 1936. He has worked on the following committees: Membership, Program. Nominations, By-Laws, Legislation, Chapter Establishment and others. He has been an Executive Councilor since 1977. He also served on the Eastern Washington Regional Forest Practices Advisory Committee reviewing public testimony concerning the Washington State Forest Practice Act of 1974.

ARRANGEMENT AND DESCRIPTION

The Milton Monroe Mosher papers consist of a single series arranged alphabetically by subject, as per original order. The papers of Professor Mosher consist of correspondence, memoranda, committee material, reports, conference material, and ephemera relating to Professor Mosher's teaching career from 1937 to 1979 at Washington State University. The papers date from 1938 to 1979 with the bulk of the material dating from 1955 to 1979.

Major subjects in the collection are the Professional Integration Program, the Society of American Foresters, and the Washington State Forest Practices Act of 1974. The material relating to Forestry 399, the Professional Integration Program which Professor Mosher set up and directed from 1965 to 1978, includes correspondence to and from the students, course syllabi, reading lists, itineraries and interview notes. Included in the Society of American Foresters material are correspondence, committee material and directories, bylaws, and questionnaire and inventory forms dating from 1934 to 1971. The Washington State Forest Practices Act correspondence includes committee minutes, public hearing testimony, legislative drafts, and other documents dating from 1974 to 1977. For additional material concerning Professor Mosher, see Washington State University Forest and Range Management Records, 1912-1973.

CONTAINER LIST

Box	Folder	Description	# of Items
1	1	Academic Standing Advisory Council, 1960-1972	60
	2	Advancement of Education, 1950	1
	3	Advisory Board -- Departmental Status, 1956-1966	18
	4	Agriculture Student Programs Committee, 1957	1
	5	College of Agriculture: Departmental Correspondence, 1958-1966	68
	6	Continuous Forest Inventory, 1960	16
	7	Correspondence, General -- Milton M. Mosher, 1976-1978	114
	8	Counseling Center, 1957	2
	9	Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity, 1958-1962	7
	10	Dendrology, 1939-1960	13
	11	Faculty Affairs Committee, 1977-1979	123
	12	Faculty Service Reports, 1961-1973	12
	13	Faculty-Student Relations Committee, 1955-1958	4
	14	Farm Forestry Projects, 1959-1966	5
	15	Forest Practice Board: Publications, n.d.	2
	16	Forest Practice Rules and Regulations, 1974-1975	5
	17	Forest Practices Act -- Correspondence and Committee Materials, 1974-1976	36
	18	Forest Practices Advisory Committee, 1974	42
	19	Forest Practices Rules and Regulations Hearing, April 19, 1976	51
	20	Forest Practices Training Program, 1977	5
	21	Forest Technicians, 1966	1
	22	Forestry 499, 1965	5
	23-35	Forestry 399, 1966-1978	933
	36	Forestry 399 and 495, Reading List, ca. 1975	13
2	37	Forestry, Range, Wildlife, and Water Resources Advisory Board, 1955-1960	11
	38	Fraternity Information, 1958	1
	39	Graduate Seminar, University of Idaho - Abstracts, 1962	8
	40	Honors Program, 1960-1963	15
	41	Income Tax Allowance for Educational Expense, 1958	1
	42	Ingersoll Property, 1960	6
	43	Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Biennial Conference, 1959-1962	3
	44	Institute of Agricultural Sciences: Faculty Action, May-June 1959	3
	45	Inter-fraternity Alumni Advisors' Council, 1952-1958	25
	46	Library Accessions, 1964-1967	74
	47	Lion's Club, 1960	13
	48	Minority Concerns Committee, 1970-1971	12
	49	Publications, Milton M. Mosher, 1948-1975	13
	50	Quarter Century Club, 1963-1968	14
	51	Radio Material, 1939-1943	15
	52	Research Project, 1965-1968	7
	53	Sabbatical Correspondence, 1969-1971	11
	54	Senior Petitions, 1959-1970	5
		Society of American Foresters
	55	Aid to Education Committee, 1961	20
	56	Committee for Selection of Fellows, 1951-1953	87
	57	Committees, 1966-1971	21
	58	Correspondence, 1934-1960	52
	59	Correspondence, Directory, and By-Laws, 1951-1970	60
	60	Membership Committee, 1965-1967	21
	61	Nomination to Fellow and Council, 1957-1970	25
	62	Questionnaires, Heyburn Camp, 1958-1964	3
	63	Sigma Xi, 1959-1967	12
	64	Soil Classification, 1955	1
	65	Student Recommendations and Problems, 1938-1951	65
	66	Xi Sigma Pi, 1964	1
	67	Washington Forest Practices Regulation, Discussion Draft, 1974	2
	68	Washington State Pilot Forest Management Program, 1959-1965	61
	69	Washington State Pilot Forest Management Program, John P. Nagle, Correspondence, 1958-1960	34
	70	Washington State Pilot Woodland Management Plan, M. M. Mosher, Correspondence; 1958-1964	52
	71	Writing Guides, 1948-1960	9