The Southern Forest: Geography, Ecology, and Silviculture

Laurence C. Walker, as a research forester for government, universities, and industry, worked extensively on herbicide use, nutrient fertilization, and policy matters. For 13 years, he was dean of the school of forestry (now the Arthur Temple College of Forestry) at Stephen F. Austin State University. Subsequently, he served as the Lacy Hunt professor of Forestry, retiring with emeritus rank in 1988. Dr. Walker held degrees from Pennsylvania State, Yale, and Syracuse universities. Consulting assignments on every forested continent included association with the U.S. Forest Service, Peace Corps, private environmental agencies, the Conservation Foundation, the National Plant Food Institute, the National Park Service, colleges, forest landowners, the wood-suing industry, attorneys, and state agencies. Among his honors were Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Fellow, SAF; Fellow, the American Scientific Affiliation; and Distinguished Eagle Scout (for service to one's profession for men who were Eagle Scouts as youths). His publications included eight books and more than 150 journal articles and textbook chapters. During the final preparation for this book, on July 28, 1999, Dr. Laurence C. Walker, its senior author, died. Brian P. Oswald is Associate Professor of Fire Ecology, Silviculture, and Range Management at the Arthur Temple College of Forestry, Stephen F. Austin State University. He earned a BS in Forestry from Michigan State University, an MS in Forestry from Northern Arizona University, and a Ph.D in Forestry, Wildlife, and Range Sciences from the University of Idaho. Prior to joining the faculty at SFA, he was Assistant Professor of Forest Ecology and Silviculture at Alabama AandM University, and spent five years teaching forestry and range management at a community college on the Navajo Reservation. Dr. Oswald has published some 10 refereed articles and more than 10 proceedings manuscripts.Laurence C. Walker is the author of 'The Southern Forest: Geography, Ecology, and Silviculture', published 1999 under ISBN 9780849313073 and ISBN 0849313074.