Jerry Franklin Oral History Interview on the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest - Part 1

Jerry Franklin has been a cornerstone of ecosystem research at the Andrews Forest. He first arrived in the winter of 1957, completed BS and MS degrees in forest management at OSU and then a PhD in botany in 1996 at Washington State University. He was central to brining IBP to Andrews in the 1970s and then helping Andrews join the first cohort of LTER sites in 1980, before departing for a professorship at University of Washington in 1987. But, he remained connected with the Andrews group thereafter. He has been a leader in science (forest ecology, old growth, dead wood), forest policy (Northwest Forest Plan), forest management (New Forestry, ecological forest management), organization of major research enterprises (Long-Term Ecological Research), and designation of research properties (Research Natural Areas, Man and the Biosphere sites).

See also oral histories in the IBP and Field Visit Group interviews.