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Title
Bob Tarrant Oral History Interview
Description
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.
See also Field Visit Group interview.
Creator
Bob Tarrant
Source
H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest Oral History Collection (OH 28)
Publisher
Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries
Date
July 24, 1997
Contributor
Max Geier
Format
Digitized Microcassette
Language
English
Type
Oral History
Identifier
oh28-tarrant-bob-19970724
Oral History Item Type Metadata
Interviewer
Max Geier
Interviewee
Bob Tarrant
Location
Tarrant residence, Corvallis, Oregon
Original Format
Microcassette
Duration
1:41:31
OHMS Object
Interview Format
audio