UK Plant A Tree Today Foundation Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Rainforest Action Network Rainforest Alliance Rainforest Foundation Fund RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests Resource Extraction Monitoring Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil Sustainable Forestry Initiative Taiga Rescue Network Tropenbos International United Nations REDD Programme United Nations Forum on Forests World Rainforest Movement Forestry publications List of forestry journals – academic journals in forestry and related fields Notable people John Evelyn (1620–1706) – known for his knowledge of trees, and his treatise Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber (1664) (1763–1832) – Austro-Hungarian founder of the , 1809, later to become the Mining and Forestry Academy, in what today is Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia Heinrich Cotta (1763–1844) – German silviculturist and pioneer of modern scientific forestry, founder of the Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry Georg Ludwig Hartig (1764–1837) – prominent forest manager, author, and founder of one of the first dedicated schools of forestry in Europe; affiliated in his later years with the University of Berlin Alfonse Romanovich Vargas de Bedemar (1816–1902) – "one of the founders of the Russian school of forest mensuration" Franklin B. Hough, MD (1822–1885) – chief of the United States Division of Forestry, the "father of American forestry" Sir Dietrich Brandis (1824–1907) – considered the "father of tropical forestry" Sir William Schlich (1840–1925) – founder of Oxford University's forestry program Bernhard Fernow (1851–1923) – laid the groundwork for the United States Forest Service, founding dean of the first professional forestry school in the United States Gifford Pinchot (1865–1946) – first chief of the United States Forest Service and proponent of the Wise Use Movement Carl A. Schenck (1868–1955) – responsible for incorporating German scientific management techniques into American forest management, and founder of Biltmore Forest School, the first forestry school in the United States Károly Bund (1869–1931) – early academic and practical forester whose work in the Hungarian National Forestry Association increased treeplanting and intensified efforts to protect natural forests, indigenous tree species, and forestry workers in Austria-Hungary Robert Scott Troup (1874–1939) – founder of Oxford's Imperial Forestry Institute Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, Jr. (1880–1933) – used scientific forestry to help France address timber shortages during World War I Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) – cofounder of The Wilderness Society along with Robert Marshall (below), prominent naturalist writer and environmental ethicist Kenneth Dupee Swan (1887–1970) – notable photographer for the USDA