Annual Reports from the Archives

While we work to identify and gather our collection of Division of Forestry, Department of Forestry, CalFire annual reports along with newsletters and other documents detailing the important events (and some not-so-important events) in our history, we have discovered that much of the story of Cal Fire is already out there scattered from place to place. Below is a list of links to significant foundational Cal Fire documents available from other online sources for those who want to delve in to the nitty-gritty of How We Came to Be.

• First Biennial Report of the California State Board of Forestry, for 1885/86
• Second Biennial Report of the California State Board of Forestry, for 1887/88
• Third Biennial Report of the California State Board of Forestry, for 1889/90
• Fourth Biennial Report of the California State Board of Forestry, for 1891/92

The original Board of Forestry was abolished by the State legislature in 1893. In 1903, amid growing public interest to preserve and protect the State’s natural resources, a joint State/Federal study of the forest and brush covered lands of California was funded and a new effort to form a Statewide policy to protect the watershed lands of California was begun.

• First Biennial Report of the State Forester, 1905/06
• Second Biennial Report of the State Forester, 1907/08
• Third Biennial Report of the State Forester, 1909/10
• Forest Fire Report and Voluntary Fire Wardens, 1911, California State Board of Forestry
• Fourth Biennial Report of the State Forester, 1911/12
• Annual Fire Report, 1913, California State Board of Forestry
• Fifth Biennial Report of the State Forester, 1913/1914

• Sixth Biennial Report of the State Forester, 1915/16 from the University of California
• Seventh Biennial Report of the State Forester, 1917/18 from the University of California
• Eighth Biennial Report of the State Board of Forestry, 1919/20 from the University of California
• Ninth Biennial Report of the State Board of Forestry, 1921/22 from the University of California

• Annual Fire Report, Calendar year 1933 – 1937, from the University of Michigan
  • 1934 Annual Fire Report starts on page 87 same link as above
  • 1935 Annual Fire Report starts on page 149 same link as above
  • 1936 Annual Fire Report starts on page 237 same link as above
  • 1937 Forest Fire Summary starts on page 333 same link as above
• 1945 Activities of the State Division of Forestry, from the University of Michigan

1967 – The State Forester’s Report