Participant Info
- First Name
- Rachel
- Last Name
- Kline
- Country
- United States
- State
- CO Colorado
- racheld.kline@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- USDA Forest Service
- Website URL
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-d-kline-30160a97/
- Keywords
- Women's environmental history, inclusive history, rethinking narratives
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a second-generation Forest Service employee, working as a project manager and supervisor in history and knowledge management for the last 14 years with the USDA Forest Service. I hold a Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire, where I explored the history of women in conservation and forestry within the Forest Service, as well as an M.A. in Public History from Colorado State University. I have researched forest management from the Reserves and Custodial Era (1890s) through the 1990s, including forest policies, programs, and recreation, and particularly, women’s experiences within conservation and land management. I have taught at the collegiate level and offered numerous webinars on forest history, women’s roles, and related topics. I serve as the Forest History Society– Forest Service Liaison and volunteer on my local historic preservation commission. I am currently working with a university press to publish my manuscript We Feminine Foresters. I am passionate about uncovering an inclusive past to inform an inclusive present by enlarging context, rethinking narratives, and increasing historical accessibility.
- Recent Publications
Forest History Society | Online 2023 | “The History of the Two-Fisted Ranger: From Myth to Reality.”
Women’s Forest Congress | Minneapolis, MN, October 2023 | “Women’s Legacy and Future in Forestry: Paving the Way for Progress.”
“‘How Great the Gain!’: Women and the Forest Service,” Western Forester 66, no. 3 (July/August/September 2021) with James Lewis.
Forest History Society | Online 2022 | “What Did She Say? Restoring Women’s Voices to the Land Ethic Narrative.”
“‘We Feminine Foresters”: Putting Forest Service Wives in Historical Context” in What Did We Get Ourselves Into, Episode 1, 2022. National Museum of Forest Service History. https://forestservicemuseum.org/oral-history-program/podcasts/
“Women’s Suffrage and the Conservation Cause.” Inside the Forest Service, March 6, 2020.
“Making History HERstory,” Inside the Forest Service, October 9, 2019.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- United Kingdom, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- Medieval, 18th century, 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Art & Architectural History, Environment, Government, Public History, Women
