Orians, Gordon H. Interviewer. 1990. "New forestry" and the old-growth forests of northwestern North America: a conversation with Jerry F. Franklin. The Northwest Environmental Journal. 6: 445-461.
Jerry F. Franklin is a specialist on the structure and function of naturalforest ecosystems, especially old-growth forests. His areas of expertise indude the successional processes following catastrophic disturbances; effectsof changing environmental conditions on forest processes; and silviculturalsystems for forest treatment.
Franklin received his B.S. in forest management from Oregon State Uni-versity in 1959; his M.S. in forest management from Oregon State Universityin 1961; and his Ph.D. in botany (minor in soils) from Washington StateUniversity in 1966. He has been a research scientist for the United StatesDepartment of Agriculture Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Sta-tion, since 1959 and currently is chief plant ecologist. From 1973 to 1975,he was director of the Ecosystem Studies Program for the National ScienceFoundation. Franklin also is Bloedel Professor of Ecosystem Studies in theCollege of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle. He co-au-thored Natural Vegetation of Oregon and Washington with C. T. Dyrness in1973, which was revised and reprinted in 1988.