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TheCroatian Forestry Society (Croatian:Hrvatsko šumarsko društvo) has its origins in the Croatian-Slavonian Agricultural Society, founded at the initiative of foresters inZagreb in 1841. The Society's forestry section was created on the December 26, 1846, inPrečec near Zagreb; this marks the beginning of the Croatian Forestry Society.

The Forestry Society is responsible for many of the accomplishments of forestry practice, education and science in Croatia, including:

• Enactment of theLaw on Forests in the year 1852, and its strict application six years later;
• Founding of theRoyal Agriculture and Forestry College (today theCollege of Agriculture) inKriževci in 1860;^[1]
• Publishing of the first scientific forestry-specialized publication in southeast Europe,Šumarski list ("Journal of Forestry"), beginning on January 1, 1877, which has since been continuously published to this day;
• Preparation and participation in theBudapest Millennium Exhibition in 1896, where theKingdom of Croatia-Slavonia had its showroom, and forestry andwood processing its own special pavilion;
• Construction of the Croatian Forestry House (in today'sIvan Mažuranić Square, Zagreb) in 1898, home to theForestry Academy (Šumarska akademija) beginning on 20 October. The Forestry Academy was the fourth institution of higher education at theUniversity of Zagreb.

The Forestry Society now numbers around 2700 members.

• Šume u Hrvatskoj (Forests of Croatia) (in Croatian). Zagreb: Šumarski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu (Faculty of Forestry & Croatian Forests). 1992. p. 291.OCLC 34478451.
• "Značajniji događaji iz povijesti šumarstva u Hrvatskoj" [Important events in the history of forestry in Croatia](PDF).Šumarski list (in Croatian).136 (3–4). April 2012. Retrieved16 March 2017.

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