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Profile of the project CONCRIS - Constant crisis: an environmental history of Czech forestry in the long 19th century. Funded by the Czech Science Foundation, based at @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social | PI: @pszaboenviro.bsky.social

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CONCRIS @concris.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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CONCRIS @concris.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A project thematically close to CONCRIS is Giacomo Bonan's INWOOD ERC Starting grant. Approaching midterm, members of the Advisory Board (@pszaboenviro.bsky.social, @simonegingrich.bsky.social, Paul Warde and John McNeill) spent a few wonderful days in Transylvania talking forests and industry!

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CONCRIS @concris.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Last week we presented the results of project at the 3rd From Forest to Heritage conference in Klagenfurt, Austria. www.from-forest-to-heritage.dendro.at Got some positive feedback, now we're busy turning the presentations into papers!

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CONCRIS @concris.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

We're proud to announce that our doctoral student Zuzana Siudová (third from the left in the pic below) won 2nd prize in the MA thesis competition of the Czech National Agricultural Museum. Congrats!👏🎉 www.nzm.cz/o-nas/aktual...

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CONCRIS @concris.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Yesterday we had a pleasant and fruitful workshop of like-minded researchers from three projects (INFEST, Vienna - CONCRIS, Brno - REFRESH, Ostrava) in Brno. Looking forward to further collaboration on 19th-century forests and forestry! @maschmid.bsky.social @simonegingrich.bsky.social

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CONCRIS @concris.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

The petitions range from sophisticated and self-assured (by wealthier peasants) to naive and desperate (by members of the rapidly expanding poorer layers of peasantry - they could usually read and write at this point, see pic, but observe how unsure much of the handwriting is)

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CONCRIS @concris.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

The first Bohemian statistical work (published in 1885) already contained maps as well.

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CONCRIS @concris.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

From the mid-1870s, the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture also started to publish official forest statistics, including details on, for example, offences against forest law. As the picture shows, in 1874 Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia gave more than one third of all cases.

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CONCRIS @concris.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Forest statistics proper (rather than descriptions of forests in tax conscriptions for example) on a larger than local basis were first prepared in Moravia with the help of questionnaires. The results were published in the journal of Moravian and Silesian foresters in the 1850.

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CONCRIS @concris.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Nonetheless, altogether they provide a huge mass of data! Here's a picture of the person behind it all: Emil Hošek (1923-2000). As the uniform also shows, he was (like most authors of individual volumes) originally trained as a forester not as a historian.

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CONCRIS @concris.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

An excellent source of information on changes in tree species composition (and other things) in the 19th-20th centuries is the unpublished volumes of the so-called Historical forest research (Historický průzkum lesů) stored at the archives of the Czech Forestry Institute. Below is an example.

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