Closing remarks: A visit to Dr. Stout's and Dr. Murphy's forest health clinic

Abstract

Two years ago I attended a camp with fellow silviculturists in central North Carolina. Camp Kanuga provided all kinds of fun activities. We described ecosystems and designed silvicultural systems for a variety of objectives; and as our camp scribe (Phil Aune) noted, the central camp theme evolved into ecosystem management. I am not sure exactly how or what happened but Phil Aune, Andy Youngblood, Nelson Loftus, and I rudely woke the sleeping giant of ecosystem management. However, as often happens in these circumstances, only one individual gets blamed for the deed. After Camp Kanuga, Phil went back to Redding, Andy to Bend, and Nelson to Washington, DC. I was the unfortunate silviculturist caught with my hands in the cookie jar so-to-speak, and was sentenced to a minimum of 18 months in Walla Walla, WA with the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project (Graham and others 1994b).

Parent Publication

• Forest health through silviculture: Proceedings of the 1995 National Silviculture Workshop

Citation

Graham, Russell T.; Jain, Theresa B. 1995. Closing remarks: A visit to Dr. Stout''s and Dr. Murphy''s forest health clinic. In: L. G. Eskew, comp. Forest health through silviculture: proceedings of the 1995 National Silviculture Workshop, Mescalero, New Mexico, May 8-11, 1995. Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-GTR-267. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station: 236-243