Minutes and reports of annual meetings and committees, financial reports, membership lists, circular letters, surveys, pamphlets, articles, scrapbook and photographs. Also, material concerning forest fires, pest damage and control, and legislation affecting the forest industry, the "Keep New York Green" Committee and use of wood as fuel during World War I.

Includes Arthur B. Recknagel papers (formerly collection #1891). Monthly reports, minutes, printed material, and a transcript of an interview with Recknagel concerning his career in forestry education and management.Included are Recknagel's monthly reports for the St. Regis Paper Company and related materials on the management of St. Regis lands, research, conservation, government policies, and other matters of interest to the forest products industry; snapshots of the St. Regis River area and forest operations in New Hampshire; pamphlets, reports, minutes, programs, clippings, and other mimeographed and printed materials concerning forestry management in general and meetings of various forestry and conservation associations, including the Forestry Committee of the American Paper and Pulp Association, the Forest Industries Council, the Society of American Foresters, the Fourth American Forest Congress, and the Western Forestry and Conservation Association; and a transcript of an interview (1958) in which Recknagel discusses his work with the U.S. Forest Service, his career at Cornell, and related subjects.

Also, letters from Bernard Recknagel from the University of Virginia to his father, 1932, 1934; University of Virginia commencement program, 1934; funeral program and condolence letters on the death of Mary Thomas Miller Recknagel, Sept. 23, 1945.