Bob Tarrant Oral History Interview

After fighting in WW II, Bob Tarrant began working in the PNW Station as a forestry researcher in 1946 at a time when forest biology was just becoming a subject of Forest Service research. His science career was again interrupted by military service – the Korean War in 1950-1952 – but then continued until retirement as PNW Station Director in 1979, when he began working for OSU, including stint as chair of the Forest Science Department. His personal research touched on a variety of important topics, such as soil biology, effects of red alder on soil fertility, and the fate of pesticides in the environment and in terms of worker health. As an administrator, he was a very important supporter of the Andrews Forest program which was complicated by differences between the OSU and PNW Station home institutions of many people in the program.

See also Field Visit Group interview.