Mike Kerrick Oral History Interview

In the summer of 1952 Mike Kerrick, an undergraduate forestry student at the University of Minnesota, helped build the stone monument to support the plaque renaming the Blue River Experimental Forest to honor H.J. Andrews. Thus, began a career trajectory culminating with the position of Supervisor of the Willamette National Forest. Throughout his career, he strongly backed the partnership with the Andrews Forest research community, and this was particularly significant in the hiring decisions he made for District Rangers Steve Eubanks and Lynn Burditt during the period of great change in federal forestry in the late 1980s and early 1990s. These rangers, Kerrick, Rolf Anderson, and their staff were critical in advancing the research and showing how it could be applied on the ground, and then co-hosted with researchers thousands of visitors, including members of Congress, on field tours to discuss the future of Federal lands forestry.

See also the Ed Anderson individual interview.