http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/news/calendar/2012-09-27/beyond-spotted-owls-
and-logging-forest-and-ecosystem-management-today-jerry

Beyond Spotted Owls and Logging: Forest and Ecosystem Management Today -
Jerry Franklin

Date: Thursday, September 27th, 2012 

Start: 8:00 pm 

Location: Great Hall, ISU Memorial Union, Ames, Iowa 

Contact: Janice Berhow,  <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]

Jerry Franklin is one of the country's leading authorities on sustainable
forest management. He is widely known for his participation on President
Clinton's Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment Team (FEMAT), established
during the spotted owl controversy in the American Northwest. He is a
professor of ecosystem analysis at the University of Washington.

This is the 2012 Paul L. Errington Lecture, presented in the ISU Department
of Natural Resource Ecology and Management.

A native of Oregon, Jerry Franklin received his BS and MS in Forest
Management from Oregon State University as well as a PhD in Botany and Soils
from Washington State.

His professional achievements include fourteen years as a Forest Service
research forester in the Pacific Northwest, two years as director of the
National Science Foundation Ecosystem Studies Program and sixteen years as
the Forest Service's chief plant ecologist in the Pacific Northwest.

He has received numerous honors, including The Wilderness Society's 1988
Olaus and Margaret Murie Award for meritorious government service, the 2005
Heintz Award for the Environment, and an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws
from Simon Fraser University, British Columbia.

Franklin's books include Salvage Logging and Its Ecological Consequences;
The Olympic Rain Forest: An Ecological Web; Conserving Forest Biodiversity;
and Creating a Forest for the Twenty-First Century.

Related information

 <http://www.nrem.iastate.edu/errington/index.php> More about the Errington
lecture series [ISU NREM website]

 

 


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