Land Use History of Black Rock Forest In 1994, the Black Rock Forest Consortium awarded a Small Grant to Neil M. Maher to write an environmental history of the Forest prior to its establishment as a research forest by Ernest Stillman in 1928. The report he produced is entitled Black Rock's Hidden Past: A History of Land Use Practices Prior to the Creation of Black Rock Forest. Dr. Maher is an associate professor in the Federated History Department at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Newark, where he teaches environmental history. He has published several articles on the Hudson Highlands region, including "'A Very Pleasant Place to Build a Towne On:' An Enivornmental History of Land Preservation in New York's Hudson Highlands" in The Hudson Valley Regional Review, 16, no. 2 (September 1999) and "Changes in the Park: A Study of the Ecological and Cultural Transformations Associated with the Creation of Bear Mountain State Park" in The Hudson Valley Regional Review, 11, no. 2 (September 1994). He is also the author of a book, Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Conservation Movement (Oxford University Press, 2008) and is writing a book on the environmental history of NASA and the space race.
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