Visiting Fellow
Forest history & forest policy
Phone: +61 2 6125 3565
Fax: + 61 (0)2 6125 0746
E-mail: john.dargavel@anu.edu.au

John has degrees from the Universities of Edinburgh and Melbourne and from the Australian National University. He has worked in state and industrial forest management planning. He has taught forest economics and management, and has researched issues of forest policy. He now works on forest history.

Professional Activities

My research interests lie in forest history and in the political economy of the forest sector. I enjoy the variety of disciplines that forest history draws me into. I have just written a biography of Charles Lane Poole who was the Commonwealth's first forester. He ran the Australian Forestry School in Canberra from 1927 to 1944. Forestry training was transferred to the new Department of Forestry at ANU in 1965, and is now part of the Fenner School.

Selected Publications

Dargavel, John. 2006. From exploration to science: Lane Poole's forest survey of Papua and New Guinea, 1922-1924. Historical Records of Australian Science 17: 71-90.

Dargavel, John 2005. Managing amidst conflict: the Huon District forests of Tasmania. In In search of excellence: exemplary forest management in Asia and the Pacific (Patrick B. Durst, Chris Brown, Henrylito D. Tacio and Miyuki Ishikawa). Bangkok: Regional Community Forestry Training Centre for Asia and the Pacific, FAO, pp. 239-250.

Dargavel John 2005. Charles Lane Poole in the transition from Empire. In Calver, Michael, Bigler-Cole, Heidi, Bolton, Geoffrey, Dargavel, John, Gaynor, Andrea, Horwitz, Pierre, Mills, Jenny, and Wardell-Johnson, Grant (eds) A forest conscienceness: Proceedings of 6th National Conference of the Australian Forest History Society Inc. Rotterdam: Millpress, pp.65-74.