University of North Carolina at Asheville
D.H. Ramsey Library
Special Collections/University Archives

Wilbur R. Mattoon
(1875 – 1941)

 He graduated in forestry from Yale University in 1904 after which he embarked upon his extensive study and work in forestry in the South. He was a forestry pioneer in the South where he researched historical records of the management of southern commercial trees and made many advancements in forestry management for commercial uses. He also conducted the first experiments in the South on reforestation. Overall, Mattoon's contributions to forestry were in the area of farm forestry and he is remembered as the most prominent contributor to progress in forestry and farm living in the South than any other professional in his field. He was a scholarly man with extensive forestry knowledge and spent a quarter of a century applying his knowledge to practical uses in farming, forestry and better living standards for people in the rural south. 

Bibliography

Mattoon, Wilbur R. The Southern Cypress. US Department of 
Agriculture Bulletin # 272, September 1915.               
{This is highly recommended by David Stahle, a dendrochronologist at the University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, AR}

* Mattoon, Wilbur R. Twenty Years of Slash Pine. Journal of Forestry (SAF), June 1916.  (34:562-570)

* Mattoon, Wilbur R. and Rosenkrans D. B. Forest Trees of South Carolina. Clemson College, South Carolina, 1923.       
{at Biological Sciences Library – Duke University}

* Mattoon, Wilbur R. Common Forest Trees of Florida: How to Know Them. Florida Forestry Association in cooperation with the US Forest Service, 1925 [1930 - 1967]. 
{at Biological Sciences Library – Duke University}

Munns, E. N. and Brown R. M. Volume Tables for the Important Timber Trees of the United States. USDA-Gov. Print. Office, 1925.  
{Part II - Eastern Conifers has three of Mattoons’s tables}

The Editors. Who’s Who in Forestry. Alabama Forest News, May 1931.  
{photo & brief description of W. R. Mattoon}          
{at Perkins Library – Duke University}

Mattoon, Wilbur R. Symposium on William Willard Ashe. US Forest Service, June 1932.  
{a tribute to Ashe by Mattoon}

Baker, Frederick S. Theory and Practice of Silviculture. McGraw Hill Book Company, 1934.  [bibliography]

Mattoon, Wilbur R. Forest Trees and Forest Regions of the United States. USDA - Government Printing Office (Miscellaneous Publication # 217), January, 1936 [revised June 1940].

Maughan, William. A Guide to Forestry Activities in NC, SC, and TN. Society of American Foresters, 1939. [bibliography]  
{W. R. Mattoon is on pg 280}  
{at Pack Library – Asheville, NC}

Appalachian Section of SAF. Second Cumulated Index for the Journal of Forestry. (Jan. 1930 [vol. 28] – Dec. 1939 [vol. 37]), SAF, 1940. 
{at Duke University Biological Sciences Library} 
{six articles by W. R. Mattoon are listed}

Munns, E. N. A Selected Bibliography of North American Forestry (Volume I). USDA - Government Printing Office (Miscellaneous Publication # 364), 1940. 
{twenty publications by W. R. Mattoon are listed in the Authors Index}

Williams, W. K. Pathfinders in Southern Forestry: Wilbur R. 
Mattoon. American Forests (AFA), May 1944.

Harrar, Elwood S. and Harrar J. G. Guide to Southern Trees. Dover Publications, 1946 [1962]  [bibliography]

Note: a) the National Agricultural Library in Maryland has a large collection of published work by W. R. Mattoon.

b) the Forest History Society has 3 Guide to Environmental History Archival Collections with material concerning Mattoon.

c) the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) lists 8 publications by W. R. Mattoon.

d) Duke University lists 14 publications by W. R. Mattoon, including forest tree guides in many states.