John Dargavel Australian National University (Bulding 48) Fenner School of Environment and Society Canberra, ACT 0200 AUSTRALIA John.Dargavel@anu.edu.au

Dr John Dargavel is an honorary Visiting Fellow in the Fenner School for Environment and Society at the Australian National University where he is actively engaged in forest history research. He has degrees in forestry from the Universities of Edinburgh and Melbourne. His doctorate from the Australian National University presented a radical analysis of the development of the Tasmanian wood industries. He worked as a forester in government and industry for over twenty years, before moving to the Australian National University in 1978. He has been researched and taught in the areas of forest economics, politics and history. He is the immediate past President of the Australian Forest History Society. He is the author of more than 70 published papers covering forest management, industrial and labour history, trade, forest and environmental politics, and cultural aspects of landscape and remembrance. He has edited 10 books of conference proceedings on forest policy and history. His book on Australian forest history, Fashioning Australia's Forests (Oxford University Press) was published in 1995 and his biography, The Zealous Conservator: a life of Charles Lane Poole (University of Western Australia Press) is being published in 2008.