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, [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
More about the Errington lecture series [ISU NREM website]