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Abstract
Much to the chagrin of its long-time (founding) Project Leader and first scientist Russell R. Reynolds, the Southern Forest Experiment Station (SOFES) began planning to close the Crossett Experimental Forest (CEF) in the late 1960s. The Station’s leadership had decided that the work on uneven-aged southern pine silviculture conducted at Crossett since the 1930s was no longer vital to their research portfolio, and other projects in tree improvement and genetics could be done elsewhere. The isolated, aging facility in southeastern Arkansas was also remote from the rest of the agency and thus was logistically challenging—and relatively expensive—to support.
Parent Publication
Citation
Bragg, Don C. 2023. Closure crises for the Crossett Experimental Forest. In: Bragg, Don C., ed. Celebrating 100 years of forest science: an abridged history of the Southern Research Station. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-272. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station: 19-24.
