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Fred Swanson, a Forest Service research geologist, became involved in the Andrews Forest program in 1972 and succeeded Jerry Franklin as Principal Investigator in 1986. His work focused on interactions of landforms and geophysical processes with…

Julia Jones, Professor of Geography at OSU and long-time participant and leader in the Andrews Forest LTER program, has specialized in landscape ecology and analysis of long-term records, and has led several inter-disciplinary education and research…

Sherri Johnson arrived at Andrews Forest in 1996 to be a post-doc, having worked previously at the Luquillo LTER site (Puerto Rico). She joined the Pacific Northwest Research Station in 2001 as Scientist-in-Charge of the Andrews and has been a leader…

Mark Harmon began his work at Andrews Forest in the early 1980s and created an indelible mark with establishment of the 200-year log decomposition experiment in 1985 while a graduate student at Oregon State University working with Jerry Franklin.…

Jerry Franklin had a long history with the Andrews Forest, as described in his several other oral histories in the Voices collection. He began working there as a student intern in 1957, and as a Forest Service scientist he rose to a leadership role…

Barbara Bond, professor of forest ecology and ecophysiology at Oregon State University, served as Principal Investigator of the Andrews Forest Long-Term Ecological Research program 2008-2014. She begins the interview by outlining her early days…

Jean Rothacher (Jack Rothacher’s widow) and Ted Dyrness (a family friend and co-worker with Jack in the Pacific Northwest Research Station of the US Forest Service) carried out this oral history with Max Geier on Aug 29, 1997. Dyrness participated…

Richard (Dick) Iverson, a landslide specialist with the US Geological Survey based at the Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Washington, spent more than 30 years as the creator, manager, and leader of research at the large debris flow…

Terry Cryer was the Trades Maintenance worker at the Andrews Experimental forest for many years and in this role he led construction of many of the buildings, field research facilities, kept the large, complex infrastructure functioning, and added…

The interview begins with discussion of various forms of records of Jerry’s personal life and career, and he explains that he has not been attentive to keeping a full record, because doing so would reflect conceit. However, so much of his work was…