Forest of Time: A Century of Science at Wind River Experimental Forest

Acknowledgements

{ ix Acknowledgements In 1908 the Forest Service was a brand-new agency and forest science was just beginning in the United States. One of the first places the agency dedicated for research was the Wind River Experimental Forest in southern Washington. Looking back on a century at Wind River, we see science changing in the same way a forest changes, both in slow growth and in cataclysmic event. Many people helped us understand the perspective that can be gained by examining 100 years of science. We would especially like to thank Dean DeBell, Jerry Franklin, William Robbins, and Fred Swanson for their insightful and helpful reviews of the manuscript. Others who provided much-needed assistance were Cheryl Mack and Rick McClure, archaeologists, Gifford Pinchot National Forest; Cheryl Oakes, librarian, Forest History Society; Robert Curtis, mensurationist emeritus, Pacific Northwest Research Station; Theresa Valentine, spatial information manager, Pacific Northwest Research Station; Ken Bible, site director, Wind River Canopy Crane Research Facility; and Jerry Williams, retired historian, USDA Forest Service. ...