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Abstract
Long-time Southern Forest Experiment Station (SOFES) researcher and administrator Clement Mesavage, Sr., was born on October 29, 1911 in Glen Lyon, PA and received his forestry education at Pennsylvania State University. After graduating in 1936 with a bachelor’s degree (Anon. 1971), Mesavage first worked as a junior forester with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service’s Allegheny Forest Experiment Station in Huntingdon County, PA and Wilkes- Barre, PA. A precocious researcher, Mesavage’s first publication came the year he graduated with an article (Mesavage 1936) that described using the “Koch profile method” for visibility maps from topographic maps as a firefighting aid presaged both his career as a mensurationist and a practical forester working to develop new forestry tools.
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Citation
Bragg, Don C. 2023. A brief biography of Clement Mesavage. 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: 97-102.
