celebrating natural resources Winter 2004 | Volume 21 Number 1 UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO | C o l l e g e o f N a t u r a l R e s o u r c e s

Winter 2004 |1 celebrating natural resources Winter 2004 | Volume 21 Number 1

UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO College of Natural Resources What’s Inside Magazine Staff 4 From the Dean 5 Editor and Development Note The College of Natural Resources’ magazine is published biannually Forest Service — A Legacy of Partnership for alumni of CNR. Subscription 6 Roosevelt’s Historical Legacy is free. The magazine also is avail- 7 Shattuck — First Four-Year forestry Degree Program able online in its entirety 7 McArdle, Bingham and Wellner 10 Student Leadership on the college’s Web site 10 Forest Service Awards http://www.cnr.uidaho.edu/cnr. 11 Alumni Leadership: Bosworth, Bay, Quinn and Richmond Steven Daley Laursen, Dean 15 UI and Forest Service Research Alton Campbell, Associate Dean 16 Continuing Education Partnerships Sue McMurray, Editor/Writer 17 Moscow Forestry Sciences Lab 18 The Evolution of Public Policy Diane Holick, Alumni Board 20 University Role in Conservation Mark Hermanson, Development College and Alumni Affairs CNR Alumni News 21 Scholarships to Support Quality Students University of Idaho 22 DeVlieg Cabin P.O. Box 441142 23 CNR Alumni Board of Trustees 24 Alumni Notes Moscow, ID 83844-1142 27 In Memoriam E-mail: [email protected] 27 CNR Quick Facts 28 Resource Recreation and Tourism Name Change 29 Faculty 2005 Highlights Cover photo President Theodore Roosevelt at the 32 2004 Awards University of Idaho. 32 Donor Roll UI Special Collections, #6-007-11

2| Celebrating Natural Resources 7 28 22 18 6 “There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of giant sequoias and the redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado, the Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Three Tetons; and our people should see to it that they are preserved for their children and their children’s children forever, with their majestic beauty all unmarred.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, “Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter 1905” 16 8 17 11

Winter 2004 |3 From the Dean

Dear Alumni and Friends: early 20th century by visionaries arlier this fall, Dianne and I had the such as President Theodore Epleasure of hosting Paul and Nancy Barker Roosevelt and the first chief at a Vandal football game in the Kibbie Dome. We sat of the Forest Service, Gifford in the President’s box and reminisced about our good Pinchot, who interfaced with old days at the University of Idaho and our respective state and federal leaders to set Steven Daley Laursen careers in natural resource management. Dianne and landmarks in conservation policy. Paul reflected together on their time as employees You also will see a few examples of the U.S. Forest Service. Paul remarked about his of honors bestowed on UI-CNR alums, like current education at CNR and the excellent preparation UI Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth, for exemplary provided for his Forest Service career. leadership, support and program development Paul started his Forest Service career on the St. between our two institutions. Joe National Forest, spent time as a regional forester As we inch our way into the 21st century, the and forest supervisor in California, and did a stint at dynamics of our cultural, economic and ecological the national office in Washington, D.C. Like so many systems create new challenges but also new CNR graduates who went to work for the Forest opportunities for our organizations to cooperate and Service, Paul and Nancy lived in many quality places lead for a future of sustainable natural resource and made significant contributions as leaders in the management. Idaho is a flagship public lands state; organization. We’re proud of the many and varied there is a real need for constructive ties between partnerships and connections between our college and science and public lands policy, and the support for the Forest Service. our college’s research and education programs will The Forest Service will be celebrating its 100- increasingly be tied to federal sources. As I write year anniversary in 2005. We decided to dedicate this column, the leaders of the Forest Service and much of this winter alumni magazine to this natural resource colleges nationwide are actively centennial anniversary with special emphasis on discussing new forms of partnership in research, some UI/CNR alums that were and are leaders in education and technology transfer. We will continue the agency and made significant contributions to the to build ties between our college, the Forest Service conservation of our nation’s natural resources. The and other federal agencies in order to ensure quality Forest Service will celebrate its centennial year with management of our nation’s forests, rangelands and a series of 11 regional forums this fall, a centennial waterways. Congress in Washington, D.C. in January, and many We extend hearty congratulations to all of our other events throughout 2005. alums in the Forest Service for reaching the 100- In this issue of our magazine, you’ll learn about year milestone. We look forward to the growth of our a few CNR alums whose leadership made a difference partnership in the future. in the National Forest system, in Forest Service Research Stations and in State and Private Forestry. We bring you special features and guest columnists who share about the influences of the Forest Service on our college’s development, and about innovative Steven Daley Lauren collaborations between our two leading organizations. This reflects a legacy of partnership between the Forest Service and CNR that was founded in the

4| Celebrating Natural Resources Editor and Development Note

his issue recognizes the importance of the relationship between the U.S. Forest Service Tand the University of Idaho. Thanks to the contributions of some of our alums and faculty, you will read several articles that reflect the depth of the partnership between this agency, the UI and the college, from the earliest days of the Department of Forestry to the College of Natural Resources as we know it today. Pages six through 20 provide a sampling of Sue McMurray some key people, programs and facilities that have played significant roles in leadership and conservation efforts throughout the last 100 years. Special thanks are due to writers Jay O’Laughlin, professor of forest resources; Dennis Ferguson, project manager, U.S.F.S. Rocky Mountain Research Station; Roger Bay, retired Forest Service director of the Intermountain and Pacific Southwest Research Stations; Dale Bosworth, chief of the U.S. Forest Service; and Alumni Board of Trustees president, Chip Corsi. I also want to give special acknowledgement to the magazine advisory group who consulted on the overall thematic layout of the magazine and provided resources, contacts and personal recollections. Participants included: Dave Adams, Roger Bay, Paul Barker, Steve Daley Laursen, Jim Fazio, Jo Ellen Force, Russell Graham, Mark Hermanson, Steve Hollenhorst, Del Jaquish, Charles Johnson, Fred Johnson, Penny Morgan, Jim Saveland and Al Stage.

his fall marks a watershed year for the College Tof Natural Resources in terms of achieving our vision for the college. We received many generous gifts from alumni and friends, support which has provided us with the resources to provide a quality education and experience for our students. I’m proud to announce the establishment of two new facilities that will further enhance our quality programs. In July, we had the good fortune to be able to open a new Center for Research on Invasive Species and Small Populations which Mark Hermanson help us bring together some of the finest minds in the state as well as the newest biotechnology to work on problems fundamental to the traditional mainstays of Idaho’s economy. In September, we held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the newly built DeVlieg Cabin at Taylor Ranch, a beautiful living and learning structure for interns, faculty and researchers (see full story on page 22). We also had opportunity to increase our visibility within the state and region by putting on two successful research programs for Idaho Senators Mark Crapo and Larry Craig. We would like to give a special thanks to all of our alums and associates who participated in these events or lent support to their preparation, and also to everyone who has contributed to our college in some way to make a difference in what we offer our students. As you consider your year-end giving, please remember how much your contribution counts. With the combined support of our many alumni and friends, together with the quality of our faculty, staff and students, we can forge ahead to continue the outstanding reputation of our college.

Winter 2004 |5 The U.S. Forest Service

By Sue McMurray

he cover photograph on this issue marks an important A Legacyevent in the history ofof the UniversityPartnership of Idaho. The Tphoto depicts President Theodore Roosevelt planting the first tree in the UI Presidential Grove during a visit to the Moscow campus in 1911. It was during Roosevelt’s presidency Dwight Smithson Jeffers (Dean, College of Forestry, that the department of forestry was founded at the University of 1935-1953) and Eleanor Roosevelt. Planting tree in Idaho in 1909. the Presidential Grove, Administration Building Roosevelt, a champion of forest conservation, was deeply lawn. University of Idaho. committed to the preservation of public lands. He recognized the need to consolidate under one unit the various forestry programs Discover a legacy of historical and that were then scattered under the Department of Interior’s recent leadership that built a partnership General Land Office, the Geological Survey and the Bureau of Forestry. On February 1, 1905, Pres. Roosevelt transferred from between CNR and the U.S. Forest Service Division of Forestry to the Department of the Interior to the The College of Natural Resources has a Department of Agriculture. Gifford Pinchot was appointed as the longstanding history of a close working first chief of the new agency, the United States Forest Service. relationship with the U.S. Forest Service. Roosevelt’s focus on preserving the country’s natural This bond was forged in the earliest heritage led to some of his greatest accomplishments. The years of the college’s existence, when forest reserves of the United States went from approximately it began in 1909 as the Department of 43 million acres to about 194 million acres under Roosevelt’s Forestry within the College of Agriculture. leadership. This represents an increase of more than 400 During the last 95 years, there have percent. The area of forest reserves he established is equal in been numerous individuals to whom the acreage to all the states on the Atlantic coast from Maine to college owes its current success as a Virginia plus the states of Vermont, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. This is a greater area than France, Belgium and The UI flagship for research and science in Netherlands combined. the area of environmental and natural The Reclamation Act of 1902 established irrigation and resource sciences. In this section, we’ll other services for Western lands. One of the many tangible present a small sampling of some past monuments to his program was the Roosevelt Dam, built by and present figures whose connection the Reclamation Service, near Phoenix, Ariz. Roosevelt’s regard with the Forest Service provided key for natural resources and other aesthetic and practical aspects leadership toward developing the of conservation inspired him in 1908 to convene a “Congress of college’s mission statement: to provide Governors” of all the states, plus many experts and legislators, to leadership, knowledge and technology discuss national policy. to sustain ecological integrity and the Though many commercial and other interests favoring well-being of people, organizations and unrestricted exploitation of natural resources opposed him, Roosevelt remained steadfast in his view that the President of communities in a changing landscape. the United States is a steward of the people and should take whatever action necessary for the public good unless expressly forbidden by law or the Constitution. 6| Celebrating Natural Resources Shattuck — the first four-year forestry degree program

he College of Natural Resources’ history Twith the Forest Service started with the first head of the Department of Forestry. Charles H. Shattuck, Charles Houston who led the department from Shattuck (College of 1909-1917, came to the UI after Forestry, University pursuing postdoctoral studies of Idaho, 1909-1917). with professor Carl A. Schenck Arboretum with “I” tank in background. University of Idaho. at the Biltmore School of Forestry in North Carolina. Shattuck was appointed dean of the UI College of McArdle — Liaison to the Forest Service Letters and Science in 1914 but retained his forestry Richard E. McArdle served the shortest term of responsibilities. any of the college’s 10 deans, only one year, 1934- During his tenure, he developed UI’s first 1935. Yet during his brief stay, McArdle proved to be four-year forestry degree program that included one of the earliest liaisons between the Forest Service forestry, grazing and wood utilization curricula, and the college. He began his career with the Forest thus establishing the basic cornerstones of forestry Service in 1924 and soon advanced to the position curriculum used today to prepare students for work of silviculturist, and in the 1930s, wrote the first in the Forest Service. He held a strong belief in yield tables for Douglas fir. hands-on learning experiences and kept the early After his tenure as dean forestry students actively involved in site visits to of UI’s School of Forestry, forests, logging camps and mills to learn the facts he returned to the Forest upon which they would base their careers. Service as director of the Shattuck attributed the success of the newborn Rocky Mountain Forest department to several collaborators, in particular, Experiment Station, and Maj. Frank Fenn, then supervisor of the Bitterroot then moved on to other National Forest. Fenn influenced the department’s directorships. In 1944, he establishment by offering lectures when there was no became assistant chief of funding to bring in special speakers and by providing the Forest Service and in horses and equipment for field trips and studies. 1952, was named chief This early bond with the Forest Service took roots Richard Edwin McArdle of the Forest Service, a as the department grew and produced in 1915 its position he held for 10 first Master of Forestry student, Clarence E. Favre. years. Under his tenure, the landmark Multiple During his career, Favre served as supervisor of three Use-Sustained Yield Act of 1960 established policy national forests and as chief of the Intermountain for the broad development and administration of Range and Wildlife Division. the national forests in the public interest. He also Other benchmarks accomplished during was instrumental in upgrading Forest Service Shattuck’s service included the first UI nursery and personnel, hiring new specialists to handle intensive arboretum, which are still used today for campus management and increasing professionalism of barbecues, strolls and other events. employees. He improved relations with the timber industry by withdrawing from earlier proposals to regulate timber harvesting practices on private lands. continued on next page Winter 2004 |7 McArdle received numerous distinctions and heavily infected stands were genetically resistant to recognitions during his career, including honorary blister rust. In 1950, Bingham and colleagues J.W. degrees from the University of Michigan, Syracuse Duffield and A.E. Squillace began a program to test University and the University of Maine. He was his theory and found his hunch was correct. Bingham awarded the USDA’s Distinguished Service Award, and colleagues bred disease-free trees with each the Rockefeller Public Service Award, and the other, finding that many of the seedlings resulting President’s Gold Medal. He was fellow and three-time from the crosses were resistant to the rust. Their member of the Council of the Society of American research demonstrated genetic control of blister rust Foresters, director of the American Forestry resistance. Officially, Bingham became part of Region Association and president of the World Forestry 1 staff but was housed in Spokane, so a cooperative Congress held in Seattle in 1960. agreement was formed between Region 1 and Priest River Experiment Station to build a genetics center Richard T. Bingham — for the rust resistance program on the University of Blister Rust Control Program Idaho Moscow campus. In 1957, the group established In the years following a breeding orchard using the most resistant seedlings McCardle’s short term, many from their crosses. The orchard began producing changes occurred to help small seed crops in about 1970. In the 1980s, the site propel the School of Forestry was converted to a seed orchard, managed for high toward becoming the College levels of seed production. It produced its first seed of Forestry. Curricular crop in 1985. In 1999, the orchard was dedicated and reorganization brought new renamed the R.T. Bingham White Pine Seed Orchard. flexibility and significant growth in research during Charles A. Wellner — the next 30 years. The blister Pioneering the Research rust resistant breeding Natural Areas of Idaho program was one particularly Idaho has the most Richard T. Bingham important research focus. extensive network of research In 1948, the Division of natural areas (RNAs) on Forest Pathology charged federal lands of any state its scientists to begin research on the disease. in the nation. This network These investigators used the Priest River Forest primarily resulted from the as their headquarters, and within a few years, vision and leadership of formed a cooperative effort to solve the disease. Charles (Chuck) Wellner, who Partners included the University of Idaho, Division started this work more than of Forest Pathology, Division of Forest Insect 60 years ago. Investigations, Division of Blister Rust Control, Wellner attended the UI Canadian Laboratory Forest Biology, National Forest from 1929 to 1933, graduating Charles A. Wellner Administration and the Northern Rocky Mountain with a bachelor’s degree in Station. forestry. As a young forester, Research on blister rust continued as a major he began working with the Forest Service and cooperative genetics program between the Office of became an accomplished silviculturalist and research Blister Rust Control, the Office of Forest Pathology, scientist, often recognized by his peers as a “forester’s Region 1 of the Forest Service and the Priest River forester.” Wellner worked for the Forest Service for Experiment Station formed to develop white pines 40 years and was division chief and assistant director resistant to blister rust. Richard Bingham (M.S. For. of the Northern Rocky Mountain and Intermountain Pathol. 1942), a forest pathologist with the Bureau Forest and Range Experiment stations. During an of Entomology and Plant Quarantine in Spokane, educational leave in 1937-1938, he earned a master’s Wash., suspected that the occasional blister rust- of forestry degree from Yale University and also free white pines he encountered among otherwise served as an aerology (weather) officer in the U.S. 8| Celebrating Natural Resources Highlights20s and 30s 1924 1926 1927 1931 1935 • State Land Board • Clarke-McNary • Extension Forestry • Wood Chemistry • School of Forestry offers Grant provided UI Act – Secretary of established in Laboratory forest production, wood School of Forestry with Agriculture extends connection with established through utilization and range an experimental forest, federal aid to states the Forest Nursery special legislative management production and 640 acres located seven to improve and renew and through the appropriation. • A drops the logging engineering miles north of Moscow. valuable forest growth cooperation of the two-year forestry curriculum because it is too • Forest Services opens and useful timber Forest Service and UI’s curriculum overseen limited and specialized, and Priest River Forest crops. • Through an Extension Division. by the UI School of demands for men trained Experiment Station agreement with the • Arthur (Art) Forestry is instituted only for logging is limited. • Potlatch continues to Forest Service, the Sowder is Idaho’s first at the UI Southern allow school personnel UI School of Forestry extension forester. Branch (later Idaho 1939 free access to its forests could supply forest State University). • School of Forestry holds and facilities. planting stock. 1928 first Summer Camp. • The • UI expands the Idaho Forest 1932 Forest, Wildlife and Range Forest Nursery and Experiment Station is • Potlatch Corp. Experiment Station of the arboretum areas to established in response presents 3,630 State of Idaho replaces some 40 acres. to requests from acres of forest land the earlier Idaho Forest industry, state agencies northeast of Moscow Experiment Station, and is and the Forest Service. to the UI, followed directed by the dean of the by later gifts of 6,515 School of Forestry – acts as additional acres. research arm of the college School of Forestry and will play a key role in now has a “real” the state’s natural resources- 1909 Department of Forestry, Morrill Hall experimental forest. related industries and activities. • The Associated 1917 School of Forestry Foresters begin tradition of Timeline 1953 College of Forestry Forestry Week. 1963 College of Forestry, Wildlife, and Range Sciences 1972 College of FWRS Building 1979 Departments established 2000 College of Natural Resources

Navy aboard the U.S.S. Boxer in the Pacific at the National Forest and Bureau of Land Management close of World War II. planning efforts. For 18 years, he spent summer As a strong believer in integrated research, months scouting for potential RNAs all over Idaho. Wellner worked with several professors to establish In the winters, he wrote establishment reports for the Continuing Education in Forest Ecology and more than 120 RNAs and many letters to rangers Silviculture program (CEFES). He was particularly and other responsible agency officials. Wellner’s known for his ability to work with all types of efforts increased the RNAs from less than 20 to more people across disciplines to facilitate cooperative than 100 areas proposed or on the books by the early relationships. 1990s. The current RNA system in Idaho is due in After retiring from the Forest Service in 1973, large part to his vision, dedication and tireless hard he began a second career as a Forest Service work. volunteer, to establish a system of Research Natural His influence extended beyond the field and Areas (RNA) in Idaho. He and Fred Johnson, into the classroom where he served on numerous emeritus professor of forest resources, organized and graduate committees and led instructional programs established the Idaho Natural Areas Coordinating for silviculture students from across the country. His Committee INACC, a group of volunteer scientists colleague and emeritus professor of forest resources, and specialists who set about identifying and Dave Adams, reflects, “His depth of knowledge of establishing a natural areas network to preserve northern Idaho forests was unsurpassed and in many examples of natural diversity in Idaho. Under ways felt in our programs. Chuck’s presentations Wellner’s leadership, the INACC worked quickly and on forest ecology of the region were used for years effectively to identify natural areas for inclusion in afterwards as the example for others to follow.” Winter 2004 |9 A Sampling of Forest Service Employees who have received CNR or UI Awards

CNR Honor Alumnus Award — Paul Barker CNR Honor Alumnus Award — Roger Bay CNR Achievement Award — Wendel Hann CNR Honor Alumnus Award — Robert Harris Lyle Award — E. Delmar Jaquish Silver and Gold Award — Charles Johnson CNR Achievement Award — Bruce Rieman Awards for Excellence Faculty — John Schwandt CNR Honor Alumnus Award — Carl Wilson CNR Honor Alumnus Award — Alma Winward.

A sampling of activities the club will participate in during the 2004-2005 school year include:

Community service activities Priest River, Deception Creek, or UI Experimental Forest project or study Garbage cleanup on timberland Habitat for Humanity Adopt a Highway Fun trips Camping trip Hunting trip Snow camping Student Leadership Ski trip (alpine or cross country) The Society of American Foresters (SAF) is the Fishing trip national scientific and educational organization Educational representing the forestry profession in the United Deciduous forest field trip States. Founded in 1900 by Gifford Pinchot, it is the Nursery trip largest professional society for foresters in the world. Trip to a special project site The student chapter at UI is led by President Jonathan Natural Resources Week Field Day Ludlow. Fund raising In the past year, club members have burned slash Bake/soup/food sales piles at advisors Ron Mahoney’s house after the Moscow Pancake feed Mountain fire. Members also held an annual wreath sale Projects with forest practices folks- e.g. slash piling at Christmas and attended a regional SAF conference in Projects with state parks Sandpoint, where they helped with the Forester’s Fund Christmas wreath and swag sales auction and raffle. While there, members also listened Christmas tree sales to local experts, many of whom were affiliated with the Raffles (fishing rods, chain saws) UI, and met many professionals in the natural resource Guest speakers topics field. The club sold food and polo shirts for fund raising What career options exist after graduation and participated in the CNR Natural Resources Week. Forestry careers Four members traveled to the SAF National Convention Tree parasites in Buffalo, N.Y. last year, and five members will go to Archeology/paleontology the joint convention with the Canadians this year in Local geology Edmonton, Alberta. 10| Celebrating Natural Resources Alumni leadership

Dale Bosworth ale Bosworth, a 1966 forest Dmanagement alumnus of CNR, is the 15th chief of the Forest Service and oversees 192 million acres of forest. He began his 37-year career in the Northern Region as a forester on the St. Joe National Forest, now the Idaho Panhandle, and later served on the Kaniksu, Colville and Lolo National Forests. He was the regional forester in the Northern Region for more than three years, heading 12 national forests and four national record ever. He also was recognized for working grasslands in Montana, Idaho, North Dakota and tirelessly to build an effective national leadership South Dakota. He also served as regional forester of team, implementing more than 30 changes to the the Utah-based Intermountain Region. Senior Executive Service cadre in the Forest Service. He received the 2003 President’s Distinguished In spite of a hectic schedule and living across the Rank Award, which the President of the United country, Bosworth makes time to stay connected to States bestows on a select group of career members CNR. Since becoming chief in 2001, he continues to of the Senior Executive Service (SES) who have extend his leadership and counsel to natural resource provided exceptional service to the American people students and the UI community by giving seminars over an extended period of time. These senior and lectures nearly every year on the Moscow executives are outstanding leaders, who consistently campus. In 2002, he was the keynote speaker for the demonstrate strength, integrity, industry and a 2002 McClure Lecture on Science and Public Policy, relentless commitment to public service. Through sponsored by the UI Department of Political Science their personal conduct and results-oriented and Public Affairs. In 2003, he participated in a leadership, they have earned and kept a high degree leadership class sponsored by the U.S. Forest Service, of public confidence and trust. CNR and the University of Montana, conveying Bosworth was commended for helping to to students his personal views of what leadership establish the President’s Health Forest Initiative and means and how to develop leadership capabilities bring the Forest Service’s wildland fire suppression in the Forest Service. He plans to participate in the organization up to its highest level of readiness in leadership series again in Spring 2005. recent history. As a result, despite one of the worst He and his wife, Carma, live in Arlington, Va., fire seasons in history, the Forest Service controlled and have two grown children, Kristy and Neil. 99 percent of all fires at very small sizes, its best

Winter 2004 |11 leadership leadership

Alumni leadership

Roger R. Bay Roger Bay, CNR 1994 Honor Alumnus, Hawaii and the islands of the western retired from the Forest Service after a Pacific. He also served as the Forest Service distinguished career in the Forest Service representative to the western Agriculture research organization. He began his career Experiment Station Directors organization to on the Flathead National Forest in 1954 help coordinate research efforts in agriculture but soon transferred to the North Central and forestry. Research Station where he served as Roger Bay After retiring from the Forest Service, Bay research hydrologist and project leader worked part time for five years as a consultant for watershed research for 14 years. He with the University of Hawaii College of wrote a number of papers on peatland hydrology, Agriculture, involved in tropical natural resource including presentations at international conferences. program development in Hawaii and the land grant He transferred to the Washington Office of the Forest colleges in American Samoa, Guam, Micronesia Service and became responsible for national program and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana leadership in watershed research. He also served Islands. He was instrumental in developing research, as assistant to the deputy chief of extension and teaching priorities for research and had special assignments He graduated from these institutions. as U.S.D.A. representative on an the UI in 1953 with a Bay graduated from the UI in interagency program dealing with bachelor’s degree in 1953 with a bachelor’s degree in forest mining problems in the northern Great management and later earned his Plains. His assignments included forest management and master’s and doctoral degrees in forestry watershed specialist to the FAO Latin later earned his master’s and watershed management from the America training in Argentina, and and doctoral degrees in University of Minnesota. While at UI, member of the U.S.-Japan Committee forestry and watershed he worked summers in forest insect on Natural Resources with joint visits survey and as a smokejumper in Region to Japan and U.S. forestry operations. management from the 1 of the Forest Service. In school, he In 1974 he was appointed director University of Minnesota. was in Xi Sigma Pi, vice president of the of the Intermountain Research Associated Foresters and editor of the Station, Ogden, Utah, a Forest Service 1953 Idaho Forester. He later served senior executive position. He was a number of years on the CNR Alumni responsible for Forest Service research programs Board, including two years as president. During this in Idaho, Montana, Utah and Nevada and western time, the board established the Alumni Association Wyoming, including the Moscow Forest Sciences Student Fund, which now is an endowed fund for the Laboratory. He was co-chair of a major Forest Service benefit of CNR students. He currently is on the Board and university cooperative planning effort to develop of Directors of the National Museum of Forest Service forest and rangeland research priorities for the West. History and recently finished six years on the board In 1983, he became director of the Pacific Southwest of Bridger Bowl, Inc. (two years as president), a well- Research Station in Berkeley, Calif., responsible to known community ski area near Bozeman, Mont. the chief for Forest Service research in California,

12| Celebrating Natural Resources Thomas P. Quinn Tom P. Quinn (M.S. For. Mgmt. 1985) where he had similar duties from 1983 to is the forest supervisor for the Stanislaus 1987. He was then promoted to the forest National Forest in Sonora, Calif., which planning team leader position on the covers almost one million acres in the central Olympic National Forest in Washington Sierra Nevada mountain range. He was State. In 1991, he accepted the district assigned to the position in January 2003. ranger position on the Santa Catalina Forest Service officials attribute Tom’s Tom Quinn Ranger District of the Coronado National appointment to his high-quality work with Forest in Tucson, Ariz., where he focused communities, interest groups and local, state on community collaboration and building and national elected officials combined with his broad partnerships. During Quinn’s tenure, the district career experience and skills. was recognized with an award from the chief as the “His interests in working with communities, top unit in the Forest Service in volunteer program combined with his knowledge of resource issues and management. success as a district ranger, staff officer and acting In 1997, he began serving as primary staff forest supervisor, will be of great value to the public, officer for recreation, lands, minerals, planning our employees and these important and engineering on the Santa Fe public lands,” said Jack Blackwell, “It is difficult to express just National Forest in New Mexico, and Pacific Southwest Region forester in how honored and thrilled I was selected for a six-month detail December 2002. to the deputy forest supervisor and am to be selected for this Upon accepting his position, Quinn acting forest supervisor positions. said, “It is difficult to express just how job. I’m looking forward He was promoted to the Washington, honored and thrilled I am to be selected to helping the forest and D.C. office in 1999, where he oversaw for this job. I’m looking forward to the community continue the implementation of the new helping the forest and the community “payments to states” legislation. continue to work together on addressing to work together on “Under that law, Resource the issues of mutual concern.” addressing the issues of Advisory Committees (RACs) After graduating from Rutgers mutual concern.” play a vital role in strengthening University in 1977 with a bachelor’s relationships between the Forest degree in natural resource management/ Service and local communities,” forestry, Quinn worked as an urban forester in New Quinn said. “I had the pleasure of visiting Sonora Jersey. In addition to work in green space protection, with my son and attended a meeting of the Tuolomne he developed and implemented conservation County RAC. I was very impressed with their education programs for youth and adults. While at cooperative spirit, which fits well with my personal the UI working on his master’s degree, Quinn served philosophy of shared responsibility for management initially as a research/teaching assistant and then for of the public’s national forests.” This visit led to Tom’s a year as instructor for Economics of Conservation. interest in the supervisor job on the forest. He later earned a Ph.D. in natural resource policy, Since arriving on the Stanislaus nearly two management and administration from Michigan years ago, Tom has continued to focus on community State University. involvement and collaboration. Quinn joined the Forest Service in 1981 on the Tom and his wife, Sue (M.S. Agric. Econ, 1985), Malheur National Forest in Oregon, where he helped have two boys, Will, 15, and Michael, 7. They all enjoy develop the forest’s management plan as well as spending as much time outdoors as possible. planning for a wide array of site-specific projects. From there, Quinn went to the Boise National Forest, leadership Winter 2004 |13 leadership

Alumni leadership

Robert M. Richmond Bob Richmond earned a bachelor’s National Recreation Area (HCNRA). degree in range management in 1961 and Decisions included elimination of domestic began his 36-year career in the U.S. Forest sheep grazing from HCNRA and restrictions Service as a range conservationist. His of jet boat use on the Wild and Scenic Snake first assignment was on the Little Missouri River. These decisions were later upheld National Grasslands, administered by the in federal court. During this time, he also Custer National Forest. His experience in Bob Richmond served on the Faculty and Advisory Board the Northern Region included: assistant for the Fire in Resource Management Course ranger on the Beaverhead National Forest; taught annually at the Interagency Training district ranger on the Sheyenne National Grassland Center in Marana, Ariz. This fire management course and the Rocky Mountain Front country west of changed the way federal agencies attacked wildfires Choteau, Mont., on the Lewis and Clark National by incorporating improved ecosystem management Forest; Dakotas planning team leader practices specific to protection of on the Custer Forest at Dickinson, For nearly ten years, he soil, water, fishery, wildlife, air and N.D.; and deputy forest supervisor of served as forest supervisor vegetation resources. the Custer National Forest in Billings, Bob served on the CNR Alumni Mont. with responsibilities that Board of Trustees and currently enjoys The regional forester in Portland, included completion and a very active “retirement” including Ore., selected Richmond to serve as implementation of the extensive charitable work associated director of Range Management for the with the Oregon Masonic Lodge and Forest Plan as well as the Pacific Northwest Region beginning the Order of the Eastern Star. He in January 1980. Two years later, he update of the controversial wrote an updated history of Eastern assumed the additional responsibilities Comprehensive Star for the period 1976-2003 which for watershed management. Management Plan for was published in January 2003 and Following a three-year stint distributed throughout the U.S. and as program manager for Resources Hells Canyon National Canada. Planning at Forest Service Recreation Area (HCNRA). Richmond believes that the solid Headquarters in Washington, D.C., education he received at the University Richmond became forest supervisor of Idaho always served him well. He of the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest in Baker and his wife, Joyce, share fond memories of their City, Ore. For nearly 10 years, he served as forest UI years when Joyce worked as secretary to the supervisor with responsibilities that included Registrar, Donald D. DuSault, and Bob janitored at a completion and implementation of the Forest Moscow grade school. Plan as well as the update of the controversial Comprehensive Management Plan for Hells Canyon

14| Celebrating Natural Resources Charles Houston Charles Wellner Richard Bingham Dean Wohletz George Jemison Joseph Pechanec Robert Harris Shattuck

University of Idaho College of Natural Resources and Forest Service Research

By Roger Bay, Retired Director, Intermountain Research Station

rom the early days of the Forest Service Over the years, a number of UI graduates research organization, CNR faculty and pursued careers in Forest Service research and Fgraduates have played major roles as research administration. George Jemison (For. ’31) scientists and administrators. The Priest River worked first as a student then as a Forest Service Experimental Forest in northern Idaho, established scientist at Priest River. Years later, he became by the Forest Service in 1911, was one of the earliest director of the Northern Rocky Mountain Research experimental forests, Idaho deans Shattuck and Station in Missoula, the Pacific Southwest Station Miller were early visitors and cooperators. As the at Berkley, Calif., and in 1965, was appointed the research program expanded, professors such as deputy chief for research in the Washington Office, E. E. Hubert (forest pathology) began cooperative responsible for one of the world’s largest forestry studies on the forest followed by many other faculty research organizations. and graduate students over the years. In 1950’s the After the Northern Rocky Mountain Station was North Idaho Forest Genetics Center was established absorbed into the Intermountain Station in Ogden, on campus jointly sponsored by the Forest Service Utah, cooperative range and watershed research and CNR. Later expansion of the Forest Service with CNR in southern Idaho received additional research program led to the building of the new emphasis, and the dean’s office worked closely with Forest Sciences Laboratory (FSL) and additional the new station office. For 21 consecutive years, the cooperative programs with UI professors in various director of the Intermountain Research Station was a disciplines. Charles Wellner (Forestry ’33, ’38) and CNR graduate – Joseph Pechanec (Range ’32) 1962 to Richard Bingham (For. Prod./Path. ’40, ’42) and Dean 1971; Robert Harris (Range ’41) 1971 to 1974; Roger Wohletz were leaders in this effort. This also provided Bay (For. ’53) 1974 to 1983. This may have been a opportunities for FSL scientists to enroll in CNR record for Forest Service station directors from one graduate degree programs. university! All three also were directors at other research stations in their careers. A number of other alumni in various disciplines pursued very productive careers in the Forest Service research organization throughout the U.S., continuing the close relationship between CNR and the Forest Service.

Winter 2004 |15 Continuing Education Partnerships

ne example of the many successful collaborative Oventures established by the College of Natural Resources and the Forest Service was the Continuing Education in Forest Ecology and Silviculture (CEFES) program, established as part of a required certifi cation program for silviculturalists. Federal, state and private agencies coordinated with the UI, the University of Montana and Washington State University to set up a continuing education program of intensive short courses and fi eld experiences. Professionals spent three weeks at each of the three Professionals spent university campuses to learn about three weeks on each science and application of natural resource southern Rockies and management. Many of the participants Pacifi c Northwest of three different earned credit toward graduate degree regions. university campuses to programs. Employers paid the costs for A complimentary learn about science their employees to go through this unique program titled silvicultural training program and worked Continuing Education and application of together to serve natural resource managers Fire Management natural resource in the northern Rockies region. (CEFM) was management. Successful completion of CEFES was, established following for Forest Service employees, a prerequisite much of the same to taking the Silviculture Certifi cation impetus as CEFES, examination. This exam was similar to a offering short, graduate level courses for fi re masters’ oral defense and was partially managers in federal and state agencies and other based on a prescription prepared on the organizations. CEFM ran for about fi ve years and candidate’s district. Other agencies and was headed by Leon Neuenschwander, who was then companies used the CEFES program in a professor in the forest resources department. Under different ways. his leadership, students became more knowledgeable The program later became known about the breadth and science of natural resources as Continuing Education and Ecosystem through three demanding, two-week study rotations. Management (CEEM). CNR participated in The University of Montana and Colorado State these joint educational endeavors for more University jointly offered this program. than 20 years. CEEM is still active in the

16| Celebrating Natural Resources 1963 Dedication

Moscow Forestry Sciences Laboratory

By Dennis Ferguson Project Leader, Rocky Mountain Research Station

he history of the Moscow Forestry Sciences Laboratory (FSL) on the T Left to right: James Kimmey, division chief for forest University of Idaho campus dates to Dick Bingham at ground disease research with the Intermountain Forest and breaking, 1962. 1957 when Dick Bingham conducted Range Experiment Station; Ernest Wohletz, dean of research on genetic resistance the College of Forestry; Donald Theophilius, president of western white pine to white of the University of Idaho; Reed Bailey, director of the pine blister rust. In August 1957, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. Natural Resources Bingham’s field trials near Fernwood, and the FSL have Idaho, showed that blister rust been many and resistance in western white pine was under strong varied. They include genetics, silviculture, ecology, genetic control. Bingham needed a few acres for a mensuration, watershed, entomology, pathology, fire, small office building and greenhouse space, plus 40 remote sensing, wildlife and range management. acres for a breeding arboretum. College of Forestry The benefits of cooperation are extensive. Dean Ernie Wohletz found 40 acres for a breeding Undergraduate students were employed during the arboretum on campus against the Washington-Idaho summer; graduate students often found funding, state line. Also, a few acres were research topics and members for available in the southeast corner of their graduate committees at campus along Main Street for office the FSL; many FSL employees and greenhouse space. In 1958, the furthered their education at the Northern Idaho Forest Genetics UI; and professors and scientists Center opened. collaborated to obtain funding During the 1960s, there was and conduct research projects. a concerted effort to move Forest Cooperation between the CNR and Service research scientists near the FSL has touched the lives of university campuses. It was, and many people at both institutions, still is, a wonderful idea. Forest including, in 1984, a young Ph.D. Service scientists and university student named Steven B. Laursen. professors can share expertise, pool funding and hire Today, the FSL employs 18 scientists, a staff of students to assist with research studies. A larger about 40 and several CNR students. We changed office-laboratory-greenhouse facility at Moscow was our name from “Intermountain Forest and Range designed, and plans were made to move the Spokane Experiment Station” to “Rocky Mountain Research office to Moscow. The groundbreaking ceremony for Station” in 1997. Three research work units conduct the FSL was in 1962. Dedication ceremonies were research on forest ecosystem processes, microbial held on May 23, 1963. The highway sign announced processes and soil and water engineering. Visit the “In cooperation with University of Idaho.” Station’s Web site at www.fs.fed.us/rm and click on Cooperative efforts between the College of “Moscow.”

Winter 2004 |17 The Evolution of Public Policy National Cooperative Efforts By Jay O’Laughlin, Director, Policy Analysis Group Forest health today is an integrative term that applies to all factors affecting he Forest Service and most land-grant universities created by provisions of forests including air quality, climate Tthe Morrill Act of 1862 – including change, disease and insects, fire, the University of Idaho (1889) – are engaged in human variables and management forestry research. Scholarly inquiry organized along practices impacting forest productivity, disciplines is a central mission of our universities. Such research efforts are an integral part of soil-water relationships, water quality, university educational programs and further our wildlife habitat, insect and disease scientific base. outbreaks and extreme wildfire Since 1876, federal agencies have been gathering behavior. Following the landmark fire facts upon which to base forest management actions. Shortly after Congress created the Forest Service season of 2000, when 8.3 million acres in 1905 to manage the national forests, Chief burned across the U.S., including 1.8 Gifford Pinchot began to establish a network of million acres in Idaho (more than in any federal forestry research facilities. One of the first, designated in 1911, was northern Idaho’s Priest River other state), the National Fire Plan was Experimental Forest, where researchers established conceived for the purpose of reducing permanent growth plots and undertook fertilization, wildland fire risks, especially on federal genetics, tree disease and watershed studies. When lands. As the plan’s institutional the Forest Service established its research branch in 1915, research efforts were consolidated for framework continues to evolve, with coordination purposes. new policies such as the Healthy Forests With the Clark-McNary Act of 1924, Congress Restoration Act of 2003, CNR is involved assigned the Forest Service a leadership role in in nationally-recognized cooperative cooperative efforts with the states to improve conditions on the nation’s private forest lands through efforts on several components of the joint monitoring and control of fire and reforestation plan, including fire ecology and risk efforts. To enable Idaho to take advantage of the assessment. The following article by provisions of the act, the North Idaho Chamber of Commerce and the Southern Idaho Commercial Clubs Forest Resources Professor and Director appointed a committee chaired by School of Forestry of the Policy Analysis Group, Jay Head Francis G. Miller to formulate policy in line O’Laughlin, gives an historic overview with the act. of the changes in policy and decision To investigate fire and reforestation problems in the northern Rocky Mountain region associated making that led to current land with white pine blister rust disease, in 1926 the management practices. Forest Service established a committee that included (CNR) School of Forestry faculty. Also created were

18| Celebrating Natural Resources annual Western White Pine Blister Rust Conferences support and funding over the years through in which pathology Professor Ernest E. Hubert was cooperative agreements with the Forest Service. In heavily involved and the school helped sponsor. At 1963, construction of the Moscow Forest Sciences that time, (CNR) the School of Forestry required Laboratory adjacent to the UI campus enhanced that faculty spend two months each year working cooperation with CNR. Cooperative research provides on research, so cooperative blister rust projects were a means of developing advanced degree graduates in created, some of which continue today. Later, in 1934, emerging scientific fields to meet the agency’s future the federal government and the School of Forestry research needs. At times, such agreements have established research labs and a greenhouse to deal represented as much as with projects toward the control of white pine blister 10 percent of the research rust. funds appropriated In accord with the Clark-McNary Act and the to the Forest Service. United States Department of Agriculture, the office Such research generally of Extension Forester was created in the Extension targets specific problems Division of the University of Idaho on April 16, 1927, for which the agency and Arthur M. Sowder of the School of Forestry was lacks personnel or appointed extension forester. facilities. The McSweeney-McNary Act of 1928 gave Forest Social science Service research a prominent and expanded role. It applications, integrating conferred legal status on the regional experiment knowledge from stations and directed them to focus on determining behavioral science the best methods of reforestation and of growing, and socio-cultural managing and utilizing timber, forage and other systems into biological forest products, of maintaining favorable conditions conceptions of forests, of water flow and the prevention of erosion, and of is one area where protecting forests from fire, insects and disease. the Forest Service The act reaffirmed a policy of cooperation between has recognized its agency research units and their various clients. In shortcomings. To better addition, it established a nationwide forest survey understand societal to inventory all forest ownerships. The act laid a concerns, the Forest solid foundation for an enviable record of research Service has supported CNR studies of social change accomplishment by the Forest Service. Early that in Idaho’s rural resource-dependent communities. same year, the Idaho Board of Education created the In the mid-1970s, the Forest Service responded Idaho Forest Experiment Station, which still operates to changing social values and congressional mandates in CNR, conducting research projects in cooperation with a “new forestry” philosophy that included with the U.S.F.S., some of which are funded by that attention to an array of “forest health” concerns. The organization. notion of land health is derived from Aldo Leopold’s In the 1960s, the public became more aware classic essay “The Land Ethic.” In the early 1990s, of forestry’s effect on the environment and was as “new forestry” evolved to “new perspectives” and especially concerned about large-scale clearcut timber an ecosystem management program, forest health harvests on the national forests, the result of post- broadened in scope and became a widely accepted World War II directions from Congress to increase idea. the annual allowable cut. Congress responded in Over the years, CNR researchers and educators the 1970s by overlaying forest policies with various have cooperated with the Forest Service on many environmental and planning laws. To reflect these aspects of forest health, work that continues today as considerations, the McSweeney-McNary Act was the agency embraces sustainable forest management updated and replaced by the Forest and Rangeland concepts. Renewable Resource Research Act of 1978. Universities have received forestry research Winter 2004 |19 University Role in Conservation

By Dale Bosworth, chief, U.S.D.A. Forest Service

rom the outset of conservation, universities have been key. Gifford Pinchot, the first FForest Service chief, got his schooling in Europe because no forestry school existed here in the United States. His wealthy family fixed that by founding a forestry school at Yale. Such forestry schools launched most careers in the early Forest Service, including those of Arthur Carhart, Aldo Leopold, Bob Marshall and most Forest Service chiefs. So it was a no-brainer for me, when I decided to join the Forest Service, to look for a good forestry school to start me on my way. I came to the University of Idaho in the fall of 1962 on the advice of someone I highly respected, Charlie Connaughton, a UI graduate who served as a regional forester for the Forest Service. It was a good choice, but if I had my college years to do over again, I would do things a little differently. When I started college, all I wanted was a degree and a Forest Service job. By the time I graduated, there was still a lot I needed to learn. Dale Bosworth, chief, U.S.D.A. Forest Service. I now know that I could have used my time more productively while at UI. Not that practical learning isn’t important. of the ordinary in recent years because so many of Natural resource-related summer jobs are vital in our forests, both public and private, are overgrown building a foundation of knowledge and experience. and unhealthy. Every day, invasive species take Although I don’t have a Ph.D., I do have 38 years away another piece of our natural heritage, and of practical experience in land and resource globalization constantly threatens us with new management. I think the Forest Service needs leaders introductions. Whenever we lose a working forest or with that kind of hands-on management experience ranch to development, we lose habitat for wildlife and as well as with higher degrees. a piece of our cultural heritage. And we have got to But my experience has taught me the need to get a handle on outdoor recreation that isn’t managed know things that go way beyond dirt forestry. Today’s well enough to prevent the user conflicts and resource Forest Service is about community-based forestry— damage that we see all too often these days. about ecosystem management and collaborative I believe that future Forest Service employees governance on a watershed scale. The agency needs will build entire careers around solving problems like employees with the ability to think critically, to delve these. We will need employees with the right training into issues and to collaborate with others. Employees to do so, and their success will depend on strong need to know the science behind their areas of support from the science community. Just as they expertise as well as something about various other have for a century now, UI and other universities will natural resource disciplines. If a student today asked play a key role in educating our future employees me for advice, I might recommend earning a higher and in collaborating with our research units. degree, perhaps after working a few years in the field. Gifford Pinchot wouldn’t be surprised — the role of The challenges facing the Forest Service today universities in conservation is still as strong as ever. are huge. We’ve seen fire effects that are way out 20| Celebrating Natural Resources College and Alumni Affairs

Finley McNaughton and Dean Steve Daley Laursen are seen standing in front of a beautiful yellow pine as they discussed their shared passion for making a difference in the management and conservation of our natural resources.

Scholarships to Support By Mark Hermanson Quality Students ith a gift of $25,000, Finley McNaughton, a Students’ success depends largely class of 1942 UI forestry alumnus, established on a large network of support Wthe Finley and Jean Chandler McNaughton they receive when they arrive at Excellence Scholarship Endowment in the College of Natural college. CNR is rated as one of the Resources. The purpose of this endowment is to provide scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students who most friendly, accommodating are enrolled in CNR and are interested in a career in public colleges on campus by its service — federal, state agency or military. students because of the support McNaughton had a 26-year career with the Forest Service provided by faculty, staff, donors, and also served in World War II. His World War II service friends and alumni. It is evident concluded with an assignment to the Philippine Islands as by our student success rate that a member of the U.S. Army Training Group (USATG). In Dale Bosworth, chief, U.S.D.A. Forest Service. quality begets quality. In the last what may be the first occasion of its kind in U.S. military six years, CNR has produced 10 history, the full complement of 950 officers and men of the Udall Scholars, and many other USATG received individual decorations from the Philippine students have captured national government. The Military Merit medal is the second highest and university level awards. award that can be bestowed by the Philippine Commonwealth and corresponds roughly with the U.S. Legion of Merit. CNR strives to continually grow In the late 1930s and early 1940s, his wife, Jean, now its full ride packages and other deceased, worked in the UI’s President Harrison Dale’s office partnerships to help our students and as secretary to Dean Jeffers in the College of Forestry. attain their goals. The following This gift honors their longstanding relationship with the UI section illustrates the important College of Natural Resources. role stakeholders play in helping Finley established this endowment, in part, in memory of the college maintain an important his beloved wife Jean. Jean shared Finley’s interest in forestry part of its mission. The next two and was quite knowledgeable about natural resource issues. articles focus on two latest While Finley attended UI as a forestry student, he met and collaborative efforts to bolster fell in love with Jean. She shared his passion towards forestry our ability to provide programs and making the world a better place to live. Together they raised three children, David, Linda and Kathleen, and enjoyed and facilities to help our students their grandchildren. develop leadership, knowledge Finley also is honoring his time spent in the military as and technology skills necessary well as his career with the Forest Service. Finley is proud to sustain ecological integrity of the fact that he has the opportunity to give back and help and the well-being of people, future generations of students realize the dream he has organizations and communities. lived—a career filled with service. Winter 2004 |21 Support Alumni Board of Trustees DeVlieg Cabin College of Natural Resources Dean Steven Daley Laursen described the moment as a springboard By Sue McMurray to the future. “This new building was conceived and erected through an authentic public-private n September, CNR celebrated the opening of partnership, the type of partnership that will fuel a new multipurpose cabin at its Taylor Ranch higher education and research in the future. And, IWilderness Field Station, a beautiful and with its unique experimental setting and high quality versatile structure that replaces the cookhouse and working conditions, the Taylor Ranch of the future bunkhouse that were lost in the fire of 2000. It also will attract a special cadre of scientists and students expands housing for researchers and classes. from around the world.” Janet DeVlieg Pope, president of the DeVlieg Jim Pope first began flying helicopter missions in Foundation, and resident field station managers Jim and out of Taylor Ranch during Maurice Hornocker’s and Holly Akenson, organized the day of celebration cougar study in the 1960s and continued with wildlife at Idaho’s most unique laboratory. Janet and her surveys requested by state and federal agencies. For husband Jim Pope, provided endless, energetic the completion of the DeVlieg Cabin, he and Janet support ranging from funding and concept design to coordinated with Panhandle Helicopters of Post months of physical labor. Falls, to airlift 91,000 pounds of materials and heavy Several chartered flights landed at Taylor equipment from the main Salmon River staging area Ranch’s small airstrip, bringing in special guests, 35 miles away, to the cabin site. friends, relatives and UI personnel to participate in Hornocker, whose early research was a deciding special programs developed by the summer interns factor in UI’s decision to acquire Taylor Ranch, spoke and other invited speakers in honor of the aptly to the benefits the cabin will bring to students whose named DeVlieg Cabin. research passions lead them to Taylor Ranch, where As guests arrived, the Akensons gave tours and they have opportunity as undergraduates to mature “mule introductions” to those who had not visited and learn wilderness skills as they tackle their own the station before. During an opening ceremony research questions. Taylor Ranch holds at least one in the Lanham Lab Building, Jim and Holly both research trademark in that its science “pioneers” like spoke about historical perspectives and important Hornocker, wildlife Professor James Peek and Idaho donor contributions that have helped establish State University stream ecologist Wayne Minshall new research and educational programs at Taylor established early datasets that provide comparative Ranch. Recent examples include a four-year large analysis for current students studying data in the carnivore research project on wolves and cougars same areas more than 20 years later. and the DeVlieg undergraduate research program During the ribbon cutting ceremony, students that provides self-initated research opportunities for and guests gathered along the wrap-around deck outstanding CNR undergraduates. of the cabin as DeVlieg Pope acknowledged the UI Vice President for Research Charles Hatch support of the DeVlieg Foundation board members recognized the DeVlieg Foundation’s partnership and and Jim and Holly’s care and enthusiasm during influence in the long-term research that is conducted the building completion. With one chop of a broad at Taylor Ranch. axe that once belonged to homesteader Dave Lewis, “Without partners like the DeVlieg Foundation who constructed the first log cabins at the site, the today’s gathering would be a very different gathering, ceremony was complete. and our future would likely result in a very different Just inside the door of the cabin, a plaque outcome,” he said. “Because of the facility we are summarizing the benefactors’ sentiments reads, “A dedicating today, in very large part due to the place where the wilderness is your classroom.” DeVlieg Foundation, the University of Idaho will be “I think of our new cabin as a meeting place, a able to strengthen its nationally recognized programs sharing place, a new home for this, flat in the middle in natural resources management and conservation of the wilderness that has so much history in this Big biology,” he added. Creek Canyon. We dedicate this cabin to all curious students of our natural resources,” DeVlieg Pope said. 22| Celebrating Natural Resources Support Alumni Board of Trustees

News & Updates College and alumni affairs are the driving force of this publication. In this section you At recent Alumni Board meetings, we’ve had will read about the changes in the lives of the opportunity to get a glimpse into some of the your classmates and friends, observe the very exciting programs and research going on accomplishments of our outstanding faculty, at the college. CNR remains a world leader in developing the scientific basis for enlightened natural and discover what’s new in the college. resource stewardship. CNR professors are working You will see a tribute to one of our students cooperatively with one another, faculty from other who died in action in Iraq and catch up on colleges on campus, and with other universities, Alumni Board of Trustees activities. Here we agencies and industries to provide the knowledge recognize those alums and friends who have and tools society needs to make informed, rational contributed to the college, and provide you decisions for conserving our precious natural an opportunity to share your news by filling out resources. the alumni update section on the enclosed Board members also interact and work with return envelope. We encourage you to keep students at board meetings. The quality of CNR us informed and make our college grow. students is incredible. The energy, enthusiasm, leadership and commitment CNR students demonstrate is certainly cause for the type of hope Stegner describes, and it’s refreshing to be around allace Stegner, one of these future leaders. the great authors in The Alumni Board provides an important WAmerican literature, support role for students by providing fiscal wrote, “Angry as one may be at resources for travel to professional society meetings what heedless men have done and competitions. This fall, more than $4,000 was and still do to a noble habitat, allocated from the ABT Student Travel Fund to one cannot be pessimistic about support student activities. Student clubs compete for the West. This is still the native Chip Corsi, funds, and in the process, students gain experience home of hope. When it fully learns president, CNR writing proposals. that cooperation, not rugged Alumni Board The results are impressive, with CNR students individualism, is the quality that of Trustees traveling to professional conferences, winning and most characterizes and preserves placing highly in competitions, and more importantly, it, then it will have achieved itself having the opportunity to interact and participate in and outlived its origins. Then it professional conferences where new information is has a chance to create a society to match its scenery.” discussed. Often, the contacts they make lead to job I find these hopeful words take on renewed and or continuing education opportunities. enhanced meaning every time I return to the college, New board officers take on duties this fall. and particularly so since becoming involved with the They are: Sam Wear, secretary and Ara Andrea, college’s Alumni Board of Trustees. Board members vice president as well as my role as president. Many represent a cross section not only of the natural thanks to past president Murray Feldman for his resources field but a diversity of professions, and leadership and continued commitment to the college, gatherings provide a forum for interaction with one and congratulations to Murray as recipient of the another, students and faculty. Ideas are exchanged, 2004 CNR Award. I encourage all alums to consider philosophies discussed, and we learn from each other. how they can best give something back to the college; I think it’s safe to say I continue to get more from please contact me if the Alumni Board is something the college than I am able to give back, but I suspect you would be interested in. that’s true for a great many college alums. Have a great winter!

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1940s 1960s at Kitty Hawk and led in the John Chess (B.S. RRT 1985) D. Norman Grey (B.S. For. Gary Evans (B.S. For. Res. recovery from Hurricane Isabel is development officer at the Prod. 1940) lives in San 1964; M.S. Rnge. Mgmt. 1967) damage to the Outer Banks Cape Tamastslikt Cultural Institute, Diego, Calif. He writes that lives in Potomac Falls, Va., Hatteras National Seashore. which is owned and operated by he remembers working in and is director of the Natural the Confederated Tribes of the the summer of 1936 on the Resources Distance Learning Jesse R. Dobbs (B.S. RRT 1978) Umatilla Indian Reservation. eradication of blister rust disease Consortium in Alexandria, enjoys biking the Chesapeake by eliminating it’s alternate host, a recently established joint and Ohio Canal from Donna Chickering (M.S. RRT the currant plant. His note was venture agreement between Cumberland, Md. to Washington, 1983) is the director of special in response to a UI Friday Letter Virginia Tech. University and D.C. projects at Wildlife Images article featuring the newly the Forest Service. The program Rehabilitation and Education Bob Etzel (B.S. RRT 1978) has established Center For Research provides an opportunity for Center, Grants Pass, Ore. served as director for the Tama on Invasive Species and Small natural resource employees at County Conservation Board Populations. local, state and federal levels to Bonnie (Lambers) Ecker since April 1979. He says he pursue graduate training and (B.S. RRT 1987) is still with the truly enjoys administering a John A. Rowe Jr. (M.S. Wood degree programs at Virginia Seattle District of the U.S. Army mid-sized county conservation Util. 1949) lives in Ouray, Tech. Evans also teaches Corps of Engineers as the senior program which includes multi- Colo., where he is chairman landscape ecology and urban outdoor recreation planner, and use parks, river access areas, of Ouray County and LEPC. forestry at Virginia Tech.’s has three passions outside of small wildlife areas, and yes, He is an instructor for a northern Virginia campus. work: mushrooms, motorcycles variety of subjects including a dreaded roadside park. Iowa and thimbles. She also is the hazmat, wildfire mitigation and John R. Herbst, (M.F. Nat. Res. has the most comprehensive Washington State’s American suppression, and more. He has 1968), is the chair of the Oregon and active county conservation Motorcyclist Association participated in four medical Society of American Foresters, system in the U.S. He also enjoys legislative representative, the mission trips to South America one of the largest units in the the activities of his high school secretary for the road side, AMA and Latin America. He is a Society of American Foresters. and college aged children and Congress rep and an AMA field registered professional engineer Herbst presented several hikes frequently. representative. Her husband, and was the oldest finisher in a awards to deserving Oregon SAF Dan, works for Boeing. Cliff Mitchell (M.S. RRT 17-mile day run from Ouray to members at this year’s annual 1978) is the forest plan revision Telluride. His wife has published meeting in Ashland. Scott Eckert (B.S. RRT 1986) eight books and is a portrait specialist for the Nez Perce is outreach specialist - regional artist and concert pianist; they David Van Lear, (Ph.D For. Sci. and Clearwater NFS. He will Web manager, Pacific Region, have three grown children. John 1969) received the prestigious be the revision specialist and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, is retired but actively volunteers Society of American Forester’s recreation/wilderness/wild and and also is acting national in his community. Barrington Moore Memorial scenic rivers specialist on the service Web manager. Award. The award recognizes forest plan revision analysis outstanding achievement in team. The revision team will Jeanne Higgins (B.S. For. Res. 1950s complete new plans for the Mgmt. 1988) is district ranger for Harry Brizee (B.S. Wldlf. biological research leading to the advancement of forestry. Van Clearwater and Nez Perce the Bitterroot National Forest Mgmt. 1954) lives in Lanham, national forests. and serves as deputy supervisor Md., and is retired form the Lear was recognized at a special ceremony at the 2003 SAF of the Nez Perce National Forest U.S. Army as a Lieutenant Rich Patterson, (B.S. Fish. National Convention Oct. 25-29, while the Forest Service looks for Colonel. He also is retired Mgmt. 1971) was elected third 2003, in Buffalo, N.Y. He also a new supervisor. She is a ranger director of contracts at Melwood vice president of the Outdoor received the Charles H. Flory of the Stevensville District on Horticulture Center. He has Writers Association of America Award for advancing the forestry the Bitterroot forest. received two Legion of Merit (OWAA). He will become profession through outstanding awards. He writes that his president in three years and James Saveland (M.S. For. contributions as a teacher and stepdaughter, Abby, was married, chairman of the board in four. Res. 1982; Ph.D. Nat. Res. 1989) researcher. Van Lear is the and his son, Allen, teaches at the OWAA is an international lives in Ft. Collins, Colo. He Robert Adger Bowen professor University of Maryland. professional organization volunteered to be on the advisory of forest resources at Clemson of about 1,800 educators, board for the CNR alumni University and is credited with Ralph D. Lindberg (B.S. For. authors, photographers, artists, magazine. research that has broadened the 1957) lives in Palm Desert, videographers and others. Calif., and continues to market understanding of the ecological Dan White (B.S. RRT 1980) is forest products. He spends basis of forestry. Rebecca Wooden (M.S. RRT a consultant for the U.S. Forest summers at his tree farm in 1977) works at the Minnesota Service, after some 20 years northern Wisconsin. 1970s Department of Natural with that agency. He designs Lawrence Belli (M.S. RRT Resources in St. Paul. and maintains Web sites, as William Leavell (B.S. For. 1977) is superintendent, Outer well as administers a Web-based 1952) and wife, Helena, live Banks Group, for the National 1980s helpdesk application. In his free in Canby, Ore. They have two Park Service, i.e. Cape Hatteras time, he does woodworking as a grandchildren attending UI, Michaela (Touhey) Ahearn National Seashore, Fort Raleigh (B.S. RRT 1985) is senior writer sideline business, and says, “I and one is studying fishery NHS, Wright Brothers National still get out to enjoy that outdoor resources. William retired from and publications director at the Memorial. He directed the University of Pennsylvania, wildland recreation that I construction in 1986 and now planning of the First Flight studied so hard for at UI.” operates a small farm. Office of Development Centennial celebration of the and Alumni Relations Wright Brother’s first flight Communications. 24| Celebrating Natural Resources Alumni Notes Alumni Notes

Bruce Young (M.S. RRT 1984) Jim Devereaux (B.S. RRT Laura Garcia-Tagliani (M.S. Malia Leithead (B.S. RRT works for Argonne National 1999) is working for the King RRT 1998) is working on several 1999) was a crew leader on a Laboratory in Utah. County Department of Natural projects in the field of local rural Fisher/Martin monitoring project Resources. He conducts water development with the Latin in the Sierra Nevada Mountains quality monitoring for the American Center for Human in 2003. In the winter of 2003- 1990s 04, he traveled in the U.S. and Mark Barlow (B.S. RRT 1995) environmental lab and works Economy in some areas of Mexico - climbing, surfing, is a captain in the U.S. Army. as a project manager for the conservation value in Uruguay. hiking and soaking in some hot In 2003, he commanded a firing county’s “Green Building Team.” She coordinates the community- springs. battery in Iraq with the 101st based rural/ecotourism Stephen Edwards (M.S. RRT Airborne Division. He currently component. She travels on 1998) is tourism specialist for Meribeth Lomkin, (B.S. is a student at the Defense business to remote, beautiful the Andes Region (covering Rnge. Res 1998) received the Language Institute in Monterey, areas. She also teaches some Venezuela, Colombia, President’s Award from the Calif., and will attend either short courses on interpretation, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia) for Idaho Section of Society for the University of Washington ecotourism and protected areas Conservation International. He Range Management. The award or the University of Colorado at the Universidad Católica and is supporting and implementing recognizes assistance in setting to begin work on a master’s in other education institutions. ecotourism projects and policies up the annual section meeting international studies. in protected areas and at the Eric Garton (B.S. Wldlf. Res. and contributions to other section activities. Wendy (Amador) Berrett national scale throughout the 1998) was married in 1998 to region. wife, Jamie, and they moved (B.S. RRT 1997) was married Jonathan Mahar (B.S. RRT in September 2001 and has to Phoenix in 1999. Eric was a Marla Fischer (M.S. For. Res. 1998) is assistant general a baby, Mia Elizabeth. She biologist for the Forest Service 2004) enjoys her job with the manager at a hotel in Phoenix. works as a 911 dispatcher and Coronado National Forest, Forest Service conducting forest volunteers with the Moscow Fire studying endangered Mexican surveys throughout the Rocky Chris Maranto (B.S. For. Department and Ambulance. Spotted Owls and Mount Mountain region. “Leaving Res. Mgmt. 1990; M.S. For. Graham Red Squirrels. In Res. 1990) is the California Travis Bosworth (B.S. academia doesn’t mean I’ve 2001, he was employed with the stopped learning!” she said. Department of Forestry and RRT 1992) is a manager for Desert Botanical Garden and Fire Protection Sustained Yield Sportsman’s Warehouse, a retail “Here’s what I’ve learned on the is currently special programs job. One, when I was told I would forester and is responsible for business centered on hunting, coordinator. He coordinates evaluating and monitoring fishing, camping, hiking, etc. be ‘in travel status 100 percent of public education workshops and the time’ they REALLY REALLY implementation of industrial interpretation for the garden’s and non-industrial timberland Mirna Lissett Carranza meant it. I will be traveling so water and energy efficient model sustained yield plans. Chris (M.S. RRT 1996) is academic much that the government is home, the “Desert House.” He lives in Sacramento and says it coordinator of the Eastern willing to pay for food and hotel also teaches summer kids’ camp, is challenging to examine the University Center of San on the weekend. And two, Utah acts as a guide, teaches and plethora of ownerships and their Carlos de Guatemala. She has moose!” gives special tours. varied strategies for making an is responsible for enrolling assessment of sustainability. students, coordinating faculty Sara Focht (B.S. RRT 1998) Connie Grant (B.S. RRT 1998) attends the Teton Science and administering tests to is a seasonal park ranger for Danny Markus (M.S. RRT prospective students. School Professional Residency Wallowa Lake State Park, and in environmental education- 1993) after graduating, helped performs as Lucy Marks (the launch a new nature center Nina Chambers (M.S. RRT graduate program. mother of Captain Meriwether in upstate New York and 1993) is project manager for Lewis) in living history events worked as a park manager the Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Luis Furlan (M.S. RRT around the country. for Arizona State Parks. He Program in the Sonoran 1995) currently works as is now Lower Colorado River Institute’s Tucson office. Her a translator and teacher Joel Hanson (B.S. RRT 1994) Resource Conservation and work focuses on landscape and also is a whitewater is assistant director of the North Development coordinator with conservation of the Sonoran rafting guide in Colorado and Dakota State University Career the U.S.D.A. Natural Resource Desert which includes the Guatemala. Previously, he Center and loves working with Conservation Service. His wife is integration of social science worked in communications / students every day. an eye doctor with Indian Health and biodiversity conservation; information management with Service and travels to several site-specific, community-based the Regional Environmental Eric Hudelson (B.S. RRT 1996) nearby reservations. They conservation; partnerships Program for Central America is in his twelfth year working as enjoy spending as much time as with federal land management (PROARCA) of the U.S. Agency a river guide for OARS-DORIES possible on their houseboat on agencies in coordinated for International Development INC. in Idaho. He spends the off- Lake Havasu. management; and strategies (USAID) for four years. He season working towards a B.S. in has taught undergraduate elementary/special education. for invasive plant management Jon Meier (B.S. RRT 1997) is a — the greatest ecological threat ecotourism and master’s level Yong-Ha Kim (M.S. RRT 1994) new homeowner and works for to the Sonoran Desert. Nina, courses at the Universidad works for the Korea Forest the U.S. Forest Service. her husband, Stuart, and their del Valle de Guatemala and Service as a director of Division two yellow labs live happily in an environmental education of Forest Recreation & Urban Sean Meissner (B.S. RRT 1995) Sonoita, Ariz. workshop to United Nations Forestry. lives in Sisters, Ore., and works Development Program at FootZone, a running store Neemedass “Chan” Chandool volunteers. He and wife, Bianka, in central Oregon. He writes, (B.S. RRT 1993) is working on have a daughter, Ashley, and a “I continue to learn more all a Ph.D. at Washington State son, Luis David. University. Winter 2004 |25 Alumni Notes

the time about feet, running- Web site. His wife, Jennifer, Yusuke Saito (B.S. RRT Renee Bruestle (B.S. RRT related injuries, running shoes, teaches Spanish at a local middle 2000) works for the Policy and 2002) is conservation coordinator biomechanics and other running school. They have a daughter, Coordination Division in the at the HeadWaters Land topics.” He participates in ultra- Ana Maria. Nature Conservation Bureau Conservancy. She handles running and runs marathons, located in the Ministry’s office management, monitoring including the Bighorn 100 in the Tara Verenna (B.S. RRT 1999) Headquarter Office in Tokyo’s conservation easements, baseline Bighorn Mountains near Dayton, and Justin O’Connor (B.S. metropolitan area. reports and gathering photos Wyo., and the 50-k Peterson RRT 1999) were married on and land protection stories from Ridge Rumble. Priest Lake in July 2003 and live 2001 landowners. She also serves on within two hours of Telluride, Amy Drumm (B.S. RRT 2001) the budget committee and writes Fred Noland (B.S. RRT 1998) Mesa Verde National Park. lives in Colorado with husband, grants. She married husband, is an environmental technician They both teach eighth grade Tim, and hopes to pursue Kristopher, in June 2003, and in the recreation section of in Cortez, Colo., and finished medical school. they live in Grayling, Mich. the Environmental Affairs master’s degrees in education in Department of Idaho Power May 2003 from the University Tim Drumm (B.S. RRT 2001) James R. Hartley (B.S. For. Company. He handles data of Arizona. Justin coaches is in the Urban and Regional Res., Wildl. Res. 2002) was management, coordinates a field wrestling and football, and Tara Planning Program in Denver. honored by the Alpha Gamma crew, provides grant writing coaches girls’ basketball. Rho fraternity during its 58th assistance and manages a Jenny Ludwig Langois (B.S. annual National Convention Procite library. Matt Wedeking (B.S. RRT For. Res. 2000) and husband and celebration of 100 years as 1998) is park ranger at the William Langois (B.S. For. a fraternity. Hartley is employed Russ Schnitzer (B.S. RRT Chugach Park, Alaska State Prod. 2000) work for the by the Washington Department 1999) works for Trout Unlimited Parks. Campbell Group. Jenny is a of Natural Resources as a and has relocated to Boulder, silviculturalist and William is a wildland firefighter and works Bryan Wilkins (B.S. RRT 1994) Colo., to take a new position harvester. out of Spokane, Wash. He has his is office manager and client as western field director for own forestry consulting business service manager for the Flying abandoned mineland restoration Jeremy Scott (B.S. RRT and works with his father. He is B Ranch, a year-round hunting campaigns. He spends most of 2001) is currently working for married and enjoys the outdoors. his free time fly fishing, running, and recreation destination WestCoast Hospitality Corp. climbing and mountain biking. property outside of Kamiah. He in Spokane, Wash., as an ADS Dan Keller (B.S. RRT 2002) and other staff provide quality channel manager, overseeing 21 lived in Germany and travels Dottie Shuman (Ph.D. RRT wingshooting, fishing, big hotels and their revenue efforts in Europe whenever he can. 1995) teaches at a small game hunting and recreation in the online booking arena. He currently lives in Vilseck, Christian college, Montreat experiences for individual He is in his third year now and which is in the south in Bavaria. College, in North Carolina. enthusiasts, families and also has worked in sales and He is a tank platoon leader in She is currently acting as corporate groups. He and wife, operations for the company charge of about 20 soldiers and department chair and completed Kristina ’98 live in Kamiah and before beginning his most recent currently getting ready for a a promotion to associate have a son and a daughter. position in September 2003. deployment to Iraq. Then he will professor. Her husband, Jeff, return to Germany, for another Breck Young (B.S. RRT 1995) works as a carpenter for a local two years. contractor. They have two sons, lives in Stanley. He is a law 2002 Dennis Becker (Ph.D. RRT Eric and Adam. enforcement officer with the U.S. Alicia Pinto (M.S. RRT 2002) works for the Forest Forest Service on the Sawtooth 2002) holds two temporary Service, Pacific Northwest Andrea Stewart (M.S. RRT National Recreation Area and is jobs in Seattle. She teaches Research in Flagstaff, Ariz. 1999) lives on Long Island and a member of the local volunteer environmental studies to He works on small diameter is an outdoor recreation planner. fire department and Search and children 4-12 on the Puget timber utilization issues as She plans to function more in Rescue. He and wife, Krista, Sound at Seattle’s state they relate to community an outreach/public relations have a baby girl, Aspen Raen. managed Discovery Park. She development, wildfire risk role and tackle some touchy also works with American reduction, community and management issues in the next Rivers organization on research 2000 forest health monitoring, and few years. Her husband, Bill, is and outreach for their lower Naoki Amako (M.S. RRT 2000) collaborative planning. His wife, deputy manager for the National Snake River and Puget Sound works in a 26th-floor office in Hydee, and he organize the Wildlife Refuges. They have a watershed campaigns. She is Tokyo. Flagstaff Community Supported daughter, Janie, and son, Paulie. engaged to be married, and is Agriculture (CSA) program and Matthew Davis (M.S. RRT going through Doula certification coordinate the distribution of Dave Sutherland (M.S. 2000) works as the associate with the Pacific Association of fresh, locally-grown organic RRT 1991) has worked for regional representative for the Labor Support. Her words of produce direct from the farmer the city of Boulder, Colorado’s Appalachian Trail Conference’s advice to alums — don’t give up to the consumer. Dennis also Department of Open Space and Deep South region. He provides hope in a far-from-perfect job is on the board of directors Mountain Parks since 1996 as skills training for volunteer trail market. an interpretive naturalist and clubs in Georgia, North Carolina for an active, local non-profit education specialist. He leads and Tennessee; administers two organization committed to Jason Shaw (B.S. RRT 2002) nature hikes for the public and volunteer trail crews; supervises the quality of life of Flagstaff worked as a naturalist at school groups, including many ridgerunner/caretaker staff residents and the surrounding Grand Teton National Park in Spanish, and writes and and facilitates an open area environment. The couple hopes in Wyoming. From there, he designs the interpretive signs, management program. to stay in Flagstaff and raise a moved to Colorado to work as a brochures, publications and the family there. park ranger at Rocky Mountain 26| Celebrating Natural Resources College News

In Memoriam On Sept. 12, the college lost one of its graduates, U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Alex Wetherbee, who was serving in Iraq. Alex, 27, was a platoon commander leading a unit from the 3rd Assault Amphibian Battalion, 1st Marine Division Expeditionary Force, near Fallujah. He served in combat during the drive from Kuwait to Baghdad in March and April 2003 and was with his unit on a second deployment in Iraq when he was killed. Wetherbee was a 2001 graduate of forest resources and an active member of our CNR student body and the ROTC Marine Program. While in college, he was active in the outdoor and forest fi re control programs. He attended recruit training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, where he was platoon honorman and was promoted meritoriously to lance corporal. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant through the Naval Reserve Offi cer Training Program (Marine Option) after graduating from the University of Idaho. One of the distinguishing characteristics of Alex’s young life was his love of the outdoors and his passion for sharing that love with others, particularly Alex and Heather Wetherbee young people. He understood that the outdoors helps develop self-reliance, During his military career, determination, discipline, selfl essness and confi dence. His own experiences in Alex was awarded: the outdoors contributed greatly to his becoming the outstanding young man Purple Heart Medal he was. Combat Action Ribbon His death is a great loss to us all. He is survived by his wife, Heather, who Presidential Unit Citation was a graduate of Forest Resources in 2002. They met in the CNR House. Navy Meritorious Unit Citation Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal Heather has asked that donations be sent to the Alex Wetherbee Sea Service Deployment Ribbon with bronze star Scholarship that has been established through Outward Bound. Children National Defense Service Medal of those who gave their lives in military service to their country will be eligible for this scholarship. If you would like to donate, send contributions to: Outward Bound West, Attn. Nigel Gregory, 910 Jackson St., Golden, CO 80401.

National Park for the summer of 2003. He now lives in Avon, CNR Quick Facts Colo., and works for the Beaver • CNR has the fastest growing Research on Invasive Species the potential to bolster UI Creek Ski Resort in winter. interdisciplinary degree and Small Populations enrollment by 10,000. He completed Navy Basic program at UI and has the (CRISSP). Participants from Training and is scheduled to be fourth highest enrollment of CNR included: Cort Anderson, • CNR recently had the a corpsman in the Navy for fi ve any natural resource school Steven Brunsfeld, Stephen privilege of presenting two years. in the U.S., experiencing a 28 Bunting, Ken Cain, Oz informative programs to UI percent increase over the last Garton, Paul Gessler, Steven President Tim White and Chad VanOrmer (M.S. RRT fi ve years. Daley Laursen, Gary Machlis, U.S. Senators Mike Crapo 2002) works as a recreation Christine Moffi tt, George and Larry Craig, who visited planner for the Forest Service • CNR’s Laboratory for Newcombe, Penny Morgan, the UI campus individually on the Green Mountain and Ecological and Conservative Janet Rachlow, Kerry Reese, in August and September. Finger Lakes National Forests. Genetics (LECG) now houses Mike Scott and Lisette Waits. Several CNR faculty worked He previously was stationed at a new research center focused together to give Sen. Crapo a the Tongass National Forest in on the biology of invasive • CNR now offers the only briefi ng on CRISSP and a tour Alaska. species – such as white pine online certifi cation class in the of the Aquaculture Research blister rust, spotted knapweed nation to land managers who Institute. Sen. Craig attended 2003 and whirling disease in trout are required by federal law and participated in a fi re Sue Izard (M.S. RRT 2003) – and on management of small to learn fi re fuels treatment symposium put on by faculty provides outreach services or declining plant and animal management. The Fire across UI colleges and several on behalf of the Jane Goodall populations. UI scientists Regimes Condition Class CNR students to celebrate Institute at the Bramble Park recently won a nearly $1 (FRCC) is available through UI’s 25 years as a leader in Zoo in Watertown, S.D. million grant from the the College of Natural fi re research. Watch for a Idaho Board of Education’s Resources’ Department of feature story on the CNR Web Higher Education Research Forest Resources and has site under News & Events. Council to fund the Center for Winter 2004 |27 Announcements Faculty Highlights

UI Department of Resource Recreation and Tourism Changes Name to Conservation Social Sciences

fter an extensive planning process, the University of Idaho Department of Resource ARecreation and Tourism has changed its name to the Department of Conservation Social Sciences. The name change is a critical element of the department’s strategy to focus on the “people side” of conservation and environmental protection, said Steven Hollenhorst, department chair. The change reflects the idea that conservation is CSS students in the Grand Tetons. a social endeavor. Conservation is initiated by people, designed by people, and intended to modify human behavior to achieve environmental goals. The first two represent traditional strengths of the The change positions CSS to stay nationally and department while the others represent areas where the globally competitive and helps place UI at the forefront department hopes to grow. of the conservation sciences. The department will retain its current bachelor’s CSS will focus on four areas of expertise: and master’s programs in resource recreation and • Parks, protected areas and wilderness conservation tourism and doctorate in natural resources. • Environmental communications (education, Students also may minor in parks, protected interpretation and communication) areas, and wilderness conservation and environmental • Conservation planning, policy and law (conservation communications. CSS also continues to partner with policy formation and implementation) the Division of Health, Physical Education, Recreation • Conservation leadership (organizational and Dance to offer minors in outdoor recreation administration) leadership and sustainable tourism and leisure enterprises. The department’s new Web address is www.cnrhome.uidaho.edu/css/

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Steve Hollenhorst Jim Fazio Troy Hall Sam Ham Nick Sanyal Stephanie Hampton

Recent Training Center’s session at of National Forests and Levels China. Co-authors for the the University of Washington’s of Reported Methamphetamine presentation were Christopher Department Charles Lathrop Pack Activity: The Role of Peery, research faculty, and Demonstration Forest, near Subculture in Economically Chris Caudill and Tami Highlights Eatonville, Wash. She also Depressed Forest–Dependent Clabough, also from the UI presented three talks at the Communities.” FERL group. Wilderness Stewardship in the Rockies conference and FISH/WILDLIFE George LaBar, recently retired CONSERVATION department head, presented a convened a small workshop of The Department of Fish paper on the migratory behavior SOCIAL SCIENCES researchers studying sense of and Wildlife Resources has of bull trout at the International Steve Hollenhorst, place in recreation and tourism three new faculty members. Conference on the Ecology and department head, participated in Portland. She later presented Stephanie Hampton, assistant Behavior of Freshwater Fishes in several natural resource to the Forest Service Recreation, professor, brings new areas of in Silkeborg, Denmark. The and environmental education Lands and Minerals staff for emphasis within aquatic ecology paper described the extensive conferences in the last year, the Pacific Northwest Region on and expertise in biological and complex migrations of including organizing six CSS research collected on wilderness informatics. She will teach the threatened bull trout in the students to participate in the visitors. undergraduate upper division North Fork, Clearwater River, Idaho Environmental Education limnology. Brian Kennedy, Sam Ham, professor, gave Idaho watershed, including the Association annual conference. assistant professor, will begin several keynote addresses and Dworshak Reservoir. He has an article that will be workshops in other countries Jan. 1 and is well known among published in the Journal of on thematic interpretation and fish ecologists worldwide for his Christopher Peery, research Eurasian Research, and he presented “The Psychology of use of geochemically-derived assistant professor, was recently received a $25,000 grant from Giving” at the International tracers to reconstruct the interviewed by National Public the Steele-Reese Foundation Conference on Traveler’s environment history of fish. His Radio’s Earth and Sky program, to support the McCall Outdoor Philanthropy at Stanford primary undergraduate teaching a science-focused radio series Science School. University. He also finalized emphasis is fish ecology. Kerri broadcast through the U.S. Vierling, assistant professor, and beyond. Peery spoke on Jim Fazio, professor, took his negotiations for Australian is an avian ecologist teaching the subject of how stream flow special topics on all-day field trip $120,000 two-year contract with undergraduate courses in affects salmon migration. He to explore a portion of the Lewis Tourism Tasmania and continued ornithology and wildlife ecology. cited the Columbia River in and Clark trail in Idaho. Guest negotiations with the Academy the Pacific Northwest as one speakers in the field included: for Educational Development for Nancy Wright and George example. Peery co-leads the Allen Pinkham, who gave the an 18-month contract in Panama Naughton, researchers from UI Fish Ecology Research Nez Perce perspective on the concerning ecotourism planning the Department of Fish and Laboratory (UI FERL) in the expedition, and Norm Steadman, for Soberanía National Park. Wildlife Resources presented Department of Fish and Wildlife mayor of Weippe and local a paper entitled “Identifying Nick Sanyal, assistant Resources. The research group historian, who showed campsites Migratory Salmon Behavior professor, was awarded a UI is currently conducting a series and travel routes Lewis and and Critical Habitats: Using seed grant for research on of research projects to address Clark used in the Weippe Prairie Radiotelemetry, Acoustic Doppler methamphetamine on public multiple factors affecting fish area. Fazio also published a and GIS in the Columbia River, lands, “Using Differential Theory populations within the Columbia book review in the Journal Pacific Northwest, USA” at the to Model the Relationship River basin. of Environmental History on th Between Geographic and 4 International Symposium on “Forest Fires: The Story of a Demographic Characteristics Mobile Mapping Technology held War.” March 29-31, 2004 in Kunming,

Troy Hall, associate professor, taught eight hours of a workshop on “Creating Interpretation and Education Plans for Wilderness” at the Carhart National Wilderness Kerri Vierling Nancy Wright George Naughton Christopher Peery Chris Caudill Winter 2004 |29 Faculty Highlights Faculty Highlights

Tami Clabough George LaBar Janet Rachlow J. Michael Scott Lisette Waits Tom Gorman

Janet Rachlow, assistant Waits gave an invited talk Han Sup Han, assistant meeting in Grand Rapids, Mich., professor, along with at Kansas State University professor, co-hosted the 21st and the Society of Wood Science collaborators from the USFS as part of a National Science Forest Engineering Conference, and Technology meeting. Pacific Northwest Research Foundation-funded women in a major outreach effort for forest Station, were awarded $280,000 science seminar series. engineering programs. The FOREST RESOURCES from the Joint Fire Science conference is an annual event Steve Cook, research scientist Program for “Effects of Fuel FOREST PRODUCTS in Moscow and provides a stage and entomologist, attended the Reduction Treatments on Rocky The CNR Department of Forest for presenting and sharing new Governor’s Summit on Invasive Mountain Elk.” Products is the largest forest information on forest equipment, Species, a gathering of people products program in the U.S. innovative methods for forest around the state. He participated J. Michael Scott, professor and In the last three years, forest harvesting, road construction in the forest and urban system leader of the Idaho Cooperative products faculty have secured six and environmental impacts from breakout session, concentrating Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, U.S. Department of Agriculture forest management activities. on invasive species that are or presented three talks on the National Research Initiative Han also traveled to several potentially will impact Idaho’s topics of ecological viability and grants and currently have three other conferences and gave oral forests. Other participants infrastructure, and conservation ongoing contracts with the U.S. and poster presentations. included Karen Launchbaugh planning at the Annual Meeting Department of Defense’s Office and Steve Daley Laursen. Cook of the Society for Conservation Armando McDonald, of Naval Research, researching also attend the Western Forest Biology held at Columbia associate professor, traveled high performance composite Insect Work Conference, an University, New York City. He to Alexandria, La., to attend materials. international professional group also was an invited speaker at the Southern Research Station that meets annually to discuss the School of Public Affairs and Technical Advisory Visit meeting Tom Gorman, department research and management of Policy Assessments at Indiana to assess past five-and future head, had two manuscripts forest insects that are of concern University and gave a seminar five-year directions and goals. recently accepted for publication to western North America. on biological health, integrity in the Forest Products Journal. He attended wood fiber-plastics and diversity in the National Gorman has been instrumental meetings and bioenergy Lauren Fins, professor, went Wildlife Refuge System at the educating the public and natural meetings throughout the year to West Yellowstone to attend Indiana School of Law. resource scientists about the and presented papers with his a workshop on blister rust in uses of small diameter wood. He graduate students. Through Whitebark Pine. Lisette Waits, associate consulted in the construction of collaborative efforts, he was professor, led her students a suspension bridge made from awarded more than $200,000 in Jo Ellen Force, department into a cooperative learning small diameter timber that will grants for his research. head, attended the International experience with the Lava Lake be used as part of a Lewis and Symposium on Society and Land and Livestock Company Steve Shook, associate Clark exhibit at the Traveler’s Resource Management in near Sun Valley and The professor, presented a marketing Rest State Park in Missoula, Colorado with several students. Nature Conservancy’s Zumwalt function seminar for the Mont. In April, he completed All presented papers. Forest Prairie Reserve in Oregon, on Entrepreneurial Program at a Joint Venture Agreement resource graduate student conservation issues. CNR faculty Washington State University. He for $50,000 for collaborative Josh Berning won one of two members Bill McLaughlin and also participated in the Vision research on small diameter Honorable Mention awards Mike Scott also collaborated and Resource Task Force. tree utilization with the Forest for his paper, “Economic in these efforts. Waits also Impact of the Lewis and Clark Products Laboratory. Fran Wagner, professor, is past teamed with math professor Bicentennial on Communities chair of the UI Faculty Council Paul Joyce to develop statistical in North Central Idaho.” In and this summer attended the approaches to be used in wildlife addition to Berning, graduate Forest Products Society Annual conservation research. Recently, students Max Nielsen-Pincus,

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RANGELAND ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT Karen Launchbaugh, head of the rangeland ecology and management department, delivered an invited address recently in Nashville, Jo Ellen Force Kathleen Kavanagh Tim Link Charley McKetta Tenn., at the Second Annual Conference on Grazing Lands. Brian Riley and Teresea Kubo to forests and the College of and Canada. Specifically, Launchbaugh’s presentation also attended. Force also was an Forestry. Additionally, she the project will investigate was entitled “Managing invited speaker for the Industrial and Christopher Peery were interactions between vegetation, Grazing Behavior to Accomplish and Systems Engineering invited to present “Can We Set topography and snowcover in Livestock Production and Graduate Seminar Series at Ecologically Defensible Goals snow-dominated mountain Environmental Goals.” She is The Ohio State University, for Pacific Salmon?” at the basins. The improved ability currently on sabbatical in the and the International Union of Annual Meeting of the Society to predict snowmelt runoff Chuahauhan desert, working Forestry Research Organization for Conservation Biology held at for northern regions should with researchers at the USDA- Workshop on the science/policy Columbia University, New York substantially benefit seasonal ARS Jornada Experimental interface, held in Birmensdorf, City. water resource and climate Range in Las Cruces, N.M. She Switzerland. predictions. Tim Link, forest hydrologist, is is working on several projects to learn more about how livestock Katy Kavanagh, forest working on a multi-institutional, Charley McKetta, professor can be used in range restoration resources associate professor, international project to evaluate emeritus, was named Tree to create working landscapes. received the 2004 Distinguished how snow distribution and melt Farmer of the Year by the Alumnus Award from Oregon are influenced by vegetation and Forest Stewardship Program at Lee Vierling, assistant State University in recognition topographic structure at three the Idaho-Washington Forest professor, is a newly hired of her outstanding contributions different sites in North America Owners Field Day June 26 in applied spatial ecologist who Troy. specializes, among other things, in rangeland ecology and fire. George Newcombe, associate He teaches undergraduate professor, has been invited to landscape ecology. He also teach a weeklong course in co-created the Earth Systems December at the Biotechnology Connections (ESC) curriculum Centre of the Universidad as a K-5 supplementary de Talca in Chile. They are math and science curriculum interested in learning more through a grant from the NASA about disease resistance in Earth Science Enterprise. At poplar plantations that are being present, 7,000 copies have established in Chile. been distributed to elementary George Newcombe Karen Launchbaugh Lee Vierling teachers nationwide.

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2004 Awards

ALUMNI AWARDS: Honor Alumni Award—Norman R. McClure. Honor Alumni Award—Frederic D. Johnson. Alumni Achievement Award—Stefany B. Bales. Alumni Achievement Award—Timothy H. Tear. Honor Associate Alumni Award—Joseph M. Hinson. Mid- Career Alumni Achievement Award—Brian P. Oswald. Mid-Career Alumni Achievement Award—Dudley W. Reiser. 2004 Alumni Hall of Fame Award—Albert W. Franzmann. 2004 UI Silver and Gold Award—Charles E. Poulton. OUTSTANDING FACULTY, Donor Roll STAFF and STUDENT AWARDS: UI Outstanding Employee Award 2004, Secretarial/clerical—Lynaire M.H. Banks, Academic Support and Transfer Specialist. UI Athena Woman of the Year We would like to take this (Administration)—Jo Ellen Force, Head, Forest Resources. UI Award for Advising Excellence—Karla D. Makus, Academic & opportunity to thank the many Administrative Services Coordinator, Fish and Wildlife Resources. alumni and friends who made UI Award For Excellence in Outreach—James R. Fazio, Professor, Conservation Social Sciences and David Wenny, gifts from July 1, 2003 to June 30, Professor, Forest Resources. UI Vandal Pride Award—Nick 2004. Your support has provided Sanyal, Assistant Professor, Conservation Social Sciences. CNR Outstanding Research Award—Lisette P. Waits, Associate us with the resources to provide a Professor, Wildlife Resources. CNR Outstanding Adviser quality education and experience Award—William J. McLaughlin, Professor, Conservation Social Sciences. CNR Outstanding Instructor Award—John D. for our students. Please accept Marshall, Professor, Forest Resources. CNR Outstanding Staff our heartfelt thanks to all the Award—Lynaire M.H. Banks, Academic Support and Transfer Specialist. CSS Outstanding Achievement Award—Sheila J. supporters of CNR. We truly Koerner. CSS Outstanding Leadership Award—Meagan P. wouldn’t be the college we are Jones. Idaho Treasure Award—James M. Peek, Professor today without you. Thank you! emeritus, Wildlife Resources, and Pat C. Peek. U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers—Timothy As you consider your year- Link, Assistant Professor, Forest Resources. OUTSTANDING end giving, please think of us. SENIOR AWARDS: Fishery Resources—Eric R. Larson. Wildlife Resources—Seth M. Harju. Forest Products—Tye M. Sundt. With the combined support of Forest Resources—Sara E. Rouse. Natural Resource Ecology and our many alumni and friends, Conservation Biology—Jenifer E. Clawson. Rangeland Ecology and Management—Georgjanna F. Pokorney. Conservation Social coupled with our quality faculty, Sciences—Dana R. Elliott. Outstanding Senior in the College— staff and students, we will make a Dana R. Elliott, Eric R. Larson. OUTSTANDING GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS: Fishery Resources—Wade P. Cavender. difference. Wildlife Resources—Jeffrey L. Beck. Forest Products—Matthew B. Wheeler. Forest Resources—Remko A. Duursma. Rangeland Ecology and Management—Aaron D. Roth. Conservation Social Sciences—AnneMarie Lankard Moore. Outstanding Graduate Student in the College—AnneMarie Lankard Moore.

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Leadership Circle CORPORATIONS, Shawver, Dorothy J. Barker, Phil Lory, ’76 and Becky Alumni and friends who made FOUNDATIONS AND Thomas, Gerald W., ’41 Bauer, Cheryl Ann, ’81 annual gifts and pledges of ORGANIZATIONS and Jean E. and James F. $20,000 or more in FY04; BMC West Corporation Trojanowski, James C., ’62 Bay, Roger R., ’53 and Ruth Ann corporations, foundations and Region 1 Law Enforcement Group and Donna J., ’62 Beal, Andrew Jackson organizations that made annual and Cathy A. gifts and pledges of $50,000 or Bronze Circle CORPORATIONS, Beck, Bryce L., ’53 and Darla more in FY04. † deceased Alumni and friends who made FOUNDATIONS AND Bigelow, Charles A., ’48 Adams, Henry P., ’74 annual gifts of $1,000 to $2,499 ORGANIZATIONS Bliss, Richard Lee, ’80, ’83 Berklund, Curt and Adele in FY04. Gem State Fly Fishers, Inc. and Kirstan Lewis Clark Building Bohning, John W., ’48 Bleak, Clara R., ’46 Bruins, Franklin B., ’50 Contractors Association and Arline L. McNaughton, Finley H., ’42 Cochrane, Robert B., ’62 NHE/NAHB Bozzini, Michael L. Monnett, Wallace P., ’33 † and Kathryn A. Scholarship Foundation Brizee, Harry A., ’54 Pope, Janet DeVlieg and Jim Corrao, Vincent Paul, ’81 North Idaho Fly Casters and Rebecca A. Wright-Brizee Reveley, Thomas L., ’59 and Teita and Diane M. Temple-Inland Foundation Campana, Richard J., ’43 Stillinger, Robert J., ’44 Daley Laursen, Steven B., ’80, ’85 and Jean M. and Lois L. and Dianne K. Campbell, Donald P., ’50 Evans, Gary R., ’64, ’67 Idaho Associates and Frances M. CORPORATIONS, and Sandra H., ’55 Alumni and friends who made Campbell, Van Arthur, ’78 FOUNDATIONS AND Force, Jo Ellen and Ronald W. annual gifts of $250 to $499 in and Teresa A. ORGANIZATIONS Gilles, Brian Kevin, ’81 FY04. Carson, Robert Graham, ’85 The DeVlieg Foundation Hatch, Charles R. and Cheryl M. Barker, Paul F., ’58 and Nancy J. and Diane L. Polscer Hixon, Joseph M. Delbrueck, Brian, ’87 and Natalie DeMeyer, John R., ’60 Gold Circle King, Janet C., ’63 Galbraith, Allan W., ’40 and Joanne G. Alumni and friends who made Miller, Thomas B., ’71, ’77 Helle, John H., ’58, ’61 Dillon, Francis H., ’43 annual gifts and pledges of and Janet E., ’77 and Marilyn D. and Martha O. $10,000 to $19,999 in FY04; Nokes, Herald, ’50 and Donna Jo Hunt, John D., ’59, ’61 Dudley, Robert R., ’55 corporations, foundations and Sharp, Rose Marie and Kristin DeNure Hunt and Loris Jones Dudley organizations that made annual Steigers, Kenneth J., ’62, ’63 Jaquish, E. Delmar, ’53 Dumas, Brett Colby, ’92 gifts and pledges of $20,000 to and Linda M., ’64, ’78 and Beverly Jo and Roxanne $49,999 in FY04. Swanson, Thomas G. LaBar, George W. and Joan Eller, Douglas D., ’68 and Sandra L. Mallet, Jerry L., ’59, ’63 and Nancy K., ’68 and Charlotte A., ’61 CORPORATIONS, Evers, Louisa, ’88 CORPORATIONS, Mallory, Walter A., ’40 FOUNDATIONS AND Ferguson, Judy L., ’96 FOUNDATIONS AND Myers, Edward D., ’67 ORGANIZATIONS Finley, John H., ’72 and Evelene R. ORGANIZATIONS Robel, Robert J., ’59 Berklund Foundation Foucar, K. Allen, ’52 and Barbara Chevron Texaco Corporation Saveland, James M., ’82, ’90 Fraenzl, John B., ’74 Gilles Consulting and Claire L. Silver Circle and Debra Lynn Idaho Chapter - The Wildlife Shook, Steven R. and Mary Alumni and friends who made Gardner, Brian Ray, ’83 Society Silvernale Shook annual gifts and pledges of $5,000 Gleaves, William W., ’53 Idaho Fish & Game / Spores, David M., ’64 and Judy A. to $9,999 in FY04; corporations, and Laura H. Magic Valley Region Wear, Sam Teel, ’79 foundations and organizations that Grabmiller, Phillip A., ’81 Idaho Panhandle Chapter and Daryl Burbank-Wear made annual gifts and pledges of Grifantini, Michael C., ’73 Trout Unlimited $5,000 to $19,999 in FY04. and Gail Merrill Lynch & CORPORATIONS, Griswold, Edson, ’65 ’72 Company Foundation, Inc. FOUNDATIONS AND Anonymous and Virginia C. Northwest Management, Inc. ORGANIZATIONS Heady, Harold F., ’38 Guenther, Keith S., ’71 OX Ranch Biological Sciences Institute Klaue, David A. and Joan E. Southern Idaho Chapter of Canon USA McHale, Eugene A. and Alice J. Guernsey, James C. and Wendy J. American Society of Range Idaho Section Society for Purdy, Leonard N. and Ruth M. Hahn, Robert E., ’71 and Ryn M. Management Range Management Halbrook, Lee Richard, ’93 ’94 CORPORATIONS, and Alyson A. FOUNDATIONS AND University Fellows Regents Club Hallisey, Judy Eileen, ’94 ORGANIZATIONS Alumni and friends who made Alumni and friends who made Hansen, Edward D., ’64 and Jan Klaue Family Foundation annual gifts of $500 to $999 in annual gifts of $100 to $249 in Hardesty, Daniel T., ’74 and Linda Trout Unlimited, Inc. FY04. FY04 Hardesty Powell, ’74 Bottger, Richard F., ’72, ’74 Andrews, Ronald D. Harris, Robert W., ’41 Garnet Circle and Rita and Charla Mae Hauver, Richard N., ’72 All contributors who made Brown, Mark Wendell, ’77 Austin, Douglas W., ’73 Hedrick, Howard F., ’75 annual gifts of $2,500 to $4,999 Harrison, Kenneth E., ’59 and Diane L. and Antonia L. in FY04. Howe, Jeffrey G., ’74 and Susan L. Bachmann, Roger W., ’58 Helle, Joe T., ’54, ’60 and Agnes A. MacPhee, Dorothy M., ’68 Bailey, John C., ’99 Hermanson, Frances M., ’82 Dale, John W. ’74 and Craig and Deborah L. and Mark A. Myers, Robert L., ’54 Bakken, Stephen Richard, ’81 Higgins, Bruce Douglas, ’87 Perez, Ronald C., ’56 and Deborah S. Brewer and Jeanne Mae, ’88 and Catherine J. Winter 2004 |33 Donor Roll

Hompland, Gary Lee, ’78, ’81 Nelson, Jack Raymond, ’70 Wooten, Gregory Lee, ’91 Burton, Douglas Ray, ’92 and Mary J. and Juanita and Bobbi J. Butts, Todd Allen, ’91 Horton, William D., ’71 Nygren, Ken Alan, ’89 Wyatt, William B., ’72 and Marcella Joanne and Rhonda J. and Karen Louise, ’89 Zhang, Lianjun, ’91 Cadwallader, Benjamin David, ’00 Hunt, Melvin Otis, ’75 Obermeyer, Edmund L., ’70 and Yang Yufeng Camp, Harry W. and and Joyce M. and Diane J. Myrna Anderson Jain, Bradley Richard and Oliver, Michael Patrick, ’80 CORPORATIONS, Chickering, Donna Kay, ’84 Theresa Jain Benavidez, ’94, ’01 Olney, Warren B., ’59 FOUNDATIONS AND Cholewa, Anita F., ’77 Johnson, Frederic D., ’52 Oswald, Brian Paul, ’92 ORGANIZATIONS Christenson, Gene L., ’65 and Jinny and Tina A. Appraisal West, Inc. and Joanne B. Johnson, Dean W., ’66 and Jeanne Patton, Robert F. ’42 † Good Fir Yew Christianson, Steven Peter, ’83 Johnson, Keith A., ’66 Pekovich, Andrew W. ’64 Idaho Power Company Clark, John Robert, ’76 Johnson, Robert A., ’52 and Janet L. Marketime Drugs Clason, James P., ’55 and Gayle and Lucille A. Perez, Gerald S. ’65, ’69 Micron Technology Cline, Carrel D. Johnston, Richard A., ’53 and Karri Trahin Foundation, Inc. Cole, Gene F., ’57 and Judy L. and Marlene N. Phillips, Donald Stewart, ’81 North American Wholesale Conard, Jay G., ’49 and Eleanor B. Jones, Lucy, ’95 Piper, Frank C., ’39 Lumber Association, Inc. Connery, Bruce Alan, ’78 Kapel, Frank J., ’38 Pizel, Robert E., ’59 and Dixie A. Northwestern Mutual Life Cover, Jack E., ’64 and Judy Kastberg, Russell P., ’67 Pochelon, Remy, ’76 and Mary Foundation, Inc. Crane, William Mark, ’81, ’82 and Linda A. Hathaway McDonald and Jennifer Kasworm, Wayne, ’77 Powell, Janet K. Alumni and Friends who Crawford, Frank R., ’48 Kellogg, Elizabeth Ann, ’77 and Lawrence W. made annual gifts up to $99, and D. Jeane and Peter F. Stevens Pratt, Allyn R., ’71 FY04 Crawford, John E., ’60 and Arline S. Khraishi, Tariq A. H., ’94, ’96 Rana, M. Carl, ’77 Adams, Benjamin Harold, ’80 Culp, Trygve H., ’69 and Janet C. and Elsa Maria, ’99 Castillo Randolph, Terry B., ’62 and Diane Elizabeth, ’80 Kiffmann, H.O., ’64 Raney, George R., ’72 Albrecht, Terry L. and Pennee K. Curtis, Harry J., ’68 Kindschy, Robert R., ’58 Richards, Thomas Martin, ’81 Anderson, Arthur W., ’67 Cuvala, Steven John, ’76 and Peggy L. and Elizabeth A. and Tracy Echanove-Richards Aulerich, Dean E., ’71 Dankel, David Allen, ’91 Klott, James H., ’83 and Rineholt, James Franklin, ’86 and Sylvia C. Anita L., ’84 Vail-Klott Robinson, Loren E., ’50 Bailey, Gary C., ’74 and Diane M. and Alicia I. Knoerr, Kenneth R., ’52 and Virginia L. Ball, James M., ’74 and Lee Ann Darbyshire, Robyn Lea, ’79 and Jerry L. and Aspasia Robinson, Walter L., ’50 Ballard, Louis Arthur, ’81 Koskella, Howard R. ’58 and Aliene S. and Tanya R. Davis, Thomas L. Roth, ’77 and Victoria L. and Ethel A. Rose, Kathy Lea, ’96 Bard, George L,. ’66 Deal, Jerry W., ’94, ’95 Krausman, Paul Richard, ’76 Rowe, John A., ’49 Bartlett, Lynne M., ’99 and Sharon L. and Carol L. Rowe, Michael Jay, ’77 Basile, Joseph V., ’52, ’54 DeBerry, James Kemp, ’75 Krinard, Willough G. Runberg, Donald E., ’61 and Hilda C. Lafferty, George E., ’42 and Doris Sanders, Kenneth D. and Julie Bates, Kyle C., ’47 Demetriades, Theodore, ’75 Dewoody, T. Sorrells, ’78 Lannan, Robert J., ’63 Sanner, Carol Jo, ’75 Bates, Robert W., ’51 Lardy, Michael Edward, ’81 Savage, Carmen C. and Marjorie R. Dingee, Brad Earle, ’80 and Cindy L. Seidensticker, John C., ’73 Beard, J. Austin, ’40 and Teresa M. Lathrop, Robert G., ’65 and Joy R. and Susan Lumpkin Beier, Richard J., ’62 Dixon, Gerald E., ’58 and Ruth E. Launchbaugh, Karen Lynn Shuhda, Thomas H., ’77, ’79 Berg, Erik C., ’74 Dubbels, Lowell G., ’60 Laurent, Thomas H., ’50 and Leslie and Wilamena J. ’74 and Eleanor N. and Helen Space, James C., ’62 and Helen E. Berntsen, Carl M., ’50 and Mary F. Eby, Bradley Wayne, ’81 Lefebvre, John P., ’69 and Kristin Spencer, Marshall E., ’43 Bettge, Arthur Donald, ’76 and, Debra Fryberger-Eby Lewicki, Joseph John, ’75, ’77 and Virginia Larose Bingham, Richard T., ’40, ’42 Edlefsen, James L., ’53 and Donna L. Lindberg, Ralph D., ’57 Stage, Morgan Randall, ’82, ’86 Bizeau, Elwood G., ’51 Egger, Bruce E., ’51 and Leora L. Lohman, Richard G., ’68 and Debra D. ’82 and Jean M. Elliott, Valerie R., ’72 and Cheryl L. Stephens, Colleen Marie, ’94 Boothe, Norris John, ’78 Lyon, L. Jack and Natalie A. Stere, David H., ’62 and Bonnie J. and Julie K. Farrell, Patrick James, ’89 Faulkner, David R., ’62 Magee, Maurice W., ’73 Stroebele, Jerald A., ’67 Bosworth, Dale N., ’66 and Carma Feary, Karen Marie, ’97 Martin, Warren L., ’58 and Mary Fuller Leykom Boucher, Joseph Henry, ’81, ’83 Fitzgerald, Stephen Arthur, ’83 McClure, Norman R., ’56 Stroup, Stanley W., ’59 ’64 Bradetich, Douglas P., ’81 and Karen A. and Dorothy E. and Paula and Mindi R. Milot, Joanne Westberg Taylor, William D., ’38 Brady, Paul J., ’55 Focht, Richard Lee, ’78 ’84 Mizuki, James H., ’47 and Aiko and Mildred E. and Constance T. ’52 and Dayna Ann Foster, William L., ’65 Naab, Walter Peter, ’53 and Tewes, Michael Edward, ’87 Brede, Anthony Lloyd, ’90 Nancy A. Thaldorf, Lynn H., ’65 and Kaisie M. Francis, Thomas Magnus, ’76 Naylor, Kirk Stewart, ’84, ’89 Tipple, Nicolas E., ’60 Brislain, Donal W., ’48 and Charla Meacham Nellis, Carl, ’62 and Town, Sherman D., ’42 Broekemeier, David Lee, ’80 Fraser, James D., ’75 and Nina S. Jane Nellis Hansen and Ellen K. Buettner, Edwin, ’75, ’88 Froeming, Dennis K., ’64 ’74 Froerer, Arthur I., ’56 Nelson, Arthur William, ’38 Williams, Ann R., ’81 Bullock, Arnold E., ’64 and Ruth V. and Thomas O. and Viola June Gansel, Charles R., ’56 and Laura R. Nelson, Dennis, ’66 and Gordon Wilson, Carl C., ’39 Bunch, Gordon Donald, ’82 Garten, Roy E. and Margaret, ’67 Nelson, Gail V. and Barbara B. and Charlene A. Wilson, A. Irene, ’37 34| Celebrating Natural Resources Donor Roll

Gibbons, Charles W., ’62 Kimpton, David R., ’64 Pratt, Kenneth Leonard, ’89 Ward, Rickard Earl, ’78 Gillette, Ruth M. Kipp, Henry W. and Elaine J., ’60 and Lanette Vevay and Jane L. Granillo, Kathleen Ann, ’85 Kiryu, Yasunari Pyke, Ronald W., ’64 and Watkins, Shayne L., ’94 and Alane and Luis Knispek, William P., ’64 Kathyern S. Weesner, Margaret Wood, ’91 Greene, James F. ’82 and Jane A. Rankinen, Richard W., ’64 Welsted, Richard Irving, ’80 and Jeanne K. Kochert, Michael N., ’72 and Mary Ann Wenschhof, Edward R. Greer, Richard David, ’83 and Phyllis Rethlake, Kent K. and Lisa Ann and Jeanne Kottkey, Kirk Mathew, ’94, ’98 Richmond, Robert M., ’61 Wentworth, Nancy R. Grosch, William C., ’50 and Monica Rae and Joyce B. Werner, Lloyd W., ’70 and Bette G. Kuennen, Louis J., ’65, ’66 Ritchie, Brent W., ’69 and Janis J. and Norma J. Gustafson, John R., ’68 and Bette A. Robertson, David W., ’93 West, Wayne W., ’40 and Connie J. Kulhavy, David L., ’74, ’78 and Faith Fischer White, Jeffrey Stewart, ’86 Guy, Danny L., ’71 and Pamela K. Robison, Thomas A., ’70 ’72 and Annette C. and Judy L. Leavell, William G., ’52 and Brenda M. Whitlach, Heidi, ’94 Haag, William S., ’66 and Helena C. Rogers, Robert Gay, ’76 Wicks, Della D., ’99 Hahn, Herbert D., ’63 and Bonita Len, Daniel Richard, ’79 and Lorilyn F. Willhite, Mark Dennis, ’79 Hall, Troy Elizabeth Lester, Steven Mark, ’79 Rudd, William Joseph, ’78 and Elizabeth A. Ham, Sam H. and Barbara A. and Linda and Lorrain T. Wilson, George Robert, ’90, ’96 Hanley, Donald Philip and Kris Levenick, Daniel A. Ruediger, Robert Alan, ’81 and Carrie Gayle Hansen, John Eric, ’78 and Denise Suzanne May and Joan L. Wilson, Steven C., ’73 and Helen I. Leverick, Michael Wayne, ’80 Rummer, Robert Bruce, ’80 ’82 and Barbara A. Hanson, Joel J., ’94 Lorentz, Shirley Karen, ’93 and Jean M. Windle, Leaford C., ’60 and Nan Haren, Steven E., ’72 and Sandy Lorenz, Charles W., ’69 Sader, Steven Alan and Kristi Su Wonnacott, Bertrum W., ’75 Harry, Lee Weston, ’95, ’96 and Elizabeth J. Sankovich, Paul Michael, ’95 ’96 and Barbara Hartmann, Robin L., ’88 Lother, Paul D., ’73 and Toni M. Sanyal, Nick, ’85 Woods, Paul T., ’64 and Oralee Hatch, Roger C., ’58 Lukens, James Robert, ’79 and Ella Ruth Inglebret Woods, David Jeffrey, ’79 Heck, David W., ’62 Lynch, Patrice Marie, ’86 Sather, Eric, ’82 and Karen and Amy Jane and Margaret H. and Edward J. Schumaker, John Raymond, ’60 Wright, Linda Perelli, ’79 Heezen, Keith L., ’60 and Edith D. Mahon, Mark Thomas,’97 and Vera H. and Christopher J. Heffner, Phillip M., ’62 and Clarice and Sandra Lynn Scott, Dennis James, ’92 Yogerst, Norman W., ’63 Heimgartner, Allen W., ’73 Mason, William H. and and Lucille J. and Judith M. and Jacalyn Castle Margareta O. Scott, Jeffrey Lester, ’84 Zowada, Larry P., ’73 Heinz, Guenter, ’73 and Mindy D. Matzke, Vance G., ’65 and and Sharon C. Hengesh, John William, ’79 Jerrilyn J. Seidel, Robert L., ’71 and Judith A. CORPORATIONS, Hertel, James P., ’63 McCoy, Scott Dean, ’95 ’96 Sherrod, John C., ’80 FOUNDATIONS AND and Jacqueline Gail McElwain, Kaye Frank and Bobbie C. ORGANIZATIONS Higgins, Daniel W., ’94 and Diane, ’60 Shields, Michael D., ’65 Potlatch Corporation and Diana L. McGuire, Sean Paul, ’78 and Elaine B. Science Applications Hill, William Norbert, ’81 McGuirk, M. Terry, ’80 and Sigler, John William and Betty J. International Corporation and Brenda K. S. K. Pearlstein Smart, Robert A., ’64 and C. B. The Boeing Company Hogander, Geoff, ’70 McKeel, Diane Lynn, ’95 Soeth, James R., ’69 The Country Caretaker Hollenhorst, Steven J. Merigliano, Michael F., ’81 Speth, John W., ’56 and Janice A. Newmont Mining Corporation and Mary Joan and Linda Lee Stone, John A. Zapf-Hollenhorst Messick, John P., ’71 and Nancy L. and Kristine Ablin-Stone Holsteen, Mark Alan, ’77 Moate, Robert Thomas, ’76 Stoszek, Karl J. and Milena J. and Traci B. and Kathy K. Stratton, Merle W., ’50 Hoppus, Michael Leemon, ’83 Mondich, Peter L., ’58 and I. Grace Horn, Joseph Evans, ’83 Moore, James A., ’79 Strobel, Vincent S., ’55 and Rita E. Hoss, Steven A., ’68 and Morgan, Katherine Marie, ’94 Sturdy, Carl Harry,’79 Anne J. Mosley, Jeffrey C., ’84 and Carrie and Peggy A.L. Irving, John Spencer, ’80 Mullins, William H., ’75 Sutman, Frank J., ’82 and Chris A. and Colleen K. and Lillian A. Lawless Irwin, Robert Duayne, ’76 Nagle, William P., ’53 and Duretha Sutrick, John S., ’69 and Anita K. Jackson, Glen Lawrence, ’80 Naughton, Vincent John, ’62 Swanson, Daniel Joel, ’99 Jacobson, Max Quinn, ’75 and Robin Finley and Anita M. and Sandra Neef, Theodore Carl, ’62 Taylor, Harry J. ’48 and Darlene James, M. R., ’40 and Leona E. Treiber, John Kettler, ’78 Jeffries, LaVay W., ’69 Nieto, Robin Lynn, ’92 VanLear, David H., ’69 and Candice G. Oakley, W. Christian and Judith A. and Carolyn C. Johnson, Charles G., ’67, ’72 Owens, M. Keith, ’77 and Verenna, Tara Lynn, ’99 and Angelica G. Mia Elizabeth Vitolins, Augusts, ’57 Johnson, Bradley Jerome Palmer, Albert N., ’49 and Wagner, Eric Josef, ’88 Johnson, Thane J., ’50, ’56 Frances Norene and Maureen A. Jones, Charles Dennis, ’94 Parr, Candace Mae, ’85 Wagner, Robert Francis, ’99 Judd, Steven L., ’72 and Janet R. Peddicord, Herbert Francis, ’83 Wall, Christopher James, ’95, ’96 Katz, Robert Joel, ’80 and Pam Pfister, Steve, ’86 and Joy and Ellen Harter

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