Intro -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Author Biographies -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. 'Fit the Tree to the Climate': The Cape Model of Forestry -- 2. Forestry in Reconstruction South Africa: Imperial Schemes, Colonial Realities, c. 1901-1905 -- 3. Educating a Nascent 'South African' Forestry Corps, 1880-1932 -- 4. Afforestation: Politics, Labour, and Science, c. 1910-1935 -- 5. Competing Agendas? Afforestation, Catchment Management and Indigenous Forests, c. 1910-1935 -- 6. 1935: The Fourth British Empire Forestry Conference in South Africa and the Origins of a Consensus Science Program -- 7. Jonkershoek as Fulcrum: The Forest Hydrological Research Program -- 8. Forest Hydrology in the Policy Domain -- 9. 1965 to 1995: Fluctuating Fortunes and Final Dividends -- 10. Devolution, Drift and New Directions, 1990-2014 -- Selected Bibliography.