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Professor Hoover's Washington D.C.

Sabbatical

University Professors are expected to be creative and scholarly at all times. This comes naturally to new Ph.D.'s and lasts at least until tenure is awarded. After that, the sabbatical is used to revive the creative juices.

I was rejuvenated by a six-month sabbatical in Washington, D.C. 1 provided perspectives from "outside the beltway" to the staffs of two host organizations. Both thought I might contribute something because of my tax expertise. Don't ask what psyching out the IRS has to do with scholarship. The National Forest Product Association's American Forest Council (AFC) was one host. AFC runs the American Tree Farm Program and, since I write a tax column for their principal organ, they kept me around to answer tax questions from Tree Farmers. The other host, the Forest Industries Committee on Timber Valuation and Taxation (FICTVT, pronounced "Fie Tiv") is housed with NFPA on Connecticut Avenue. They kept me around to do policy analysis to backup their legislative efforts. It's easy to judge my effectiveness. A differential capital gains tax rate didn't pass congress.

The entire Hoover clan went into temporary residence in one of the bedroom communities north of the District. Silver Springs, Aspen Hill to be exact, Maryland was home for six months. We were concerned about what to do with our gerbil, but Sussie "conveniently" died one week before our departure. We lived in one of the

"garden" apartment complexes. It featured all of the usual amenities -­outdoor pool, 5 year old shade trees, lots of parking within 1/4 mile of your door, and a rapist. They caught the guy after we left. He never explained why he preferred the ladies in this particular complex. I told my wife that he simply had good taste but she didn't see the humor.

By the way the vultures fly, it was 18 miles from the apartment to the office. By the way the bureaucrats crawl, it was a mere one hour commute each way. I drove to the nearest METRO station and caught the train for a 45 minute trip to DuPont Circle, and a two block walk. I tried taking the bus to and from the Metro, but that added a half hour each way. The economic lesson was that the marginal value of one hour of my time exceeded the wear and tare on my personal vehicle.

Fifty percent of us live within 50 miles of the coasts. It's easy to understand why. The Eastern Shore of Maryland is beautiful in January with a dusting of snow and waterfowl every

The ponies and other wildlife of Assateague and Chincoteage Islands

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Faculty Staffing and Curricula Review

by Dennis C. Le Master

Considerable time was spent during January and February 1990 preparing a ten-year faculty staffing plan. In the process, much thought and discussion were given to the educational and research programs of the department: where they are and where they should be going.

One premise on which faculty agreement seemed to be virtually u nan i m o u s i s t h at de part m e n t a I undergraduate programs be well grounded in the biological sciences. Both experience and statistical evidence indicate that natural resource professionals change jobs several times during their careers like many other professional groups, and the broader and more rigorous their undergraduate education, the more successful they are likely to be in the second and third jobs of their professional careers.

After review of existing departmental undergraduate programs, research priorities of pertinent public agencies, and public interest in the environment, as well as lengthy discussions with faculty colleagues, I took the position in the ten-year staffing plan that ecology will become the scientific discipline around which the department's functional activities will increasingly revolve. It is, after all, the common thread in all but one of the current undergraduate programs, the exception being forest products. It is what the largest portion of the faculty study and teach and the science upon

which much of their research is based.

Ecology is also the principal link between departmental programs and programs of the School of Agriculture, the parent unit of the department. Forest management, wildlife management, and fisheries management are fields of applied ecology, and so is agriculture when on understands it as a set of highly altered ecosystems, quite necessary for human existence as we know it. And ecology is the science to which agriculturalists are returning because of environmental problems associated with many current practices.

My perspective on the relative importance of ecology is also strongly influenced by my experience to date in a joint project with the Conservation Foundation reviewing national forest planning (as provided for in the National Forest Management Act of 1976). This review is in its final stages and will be completed in April 1990. It consists in part of seven regional workshops, held across the nation during the fall of 1989, in which some 150 people participated. The purpose of the workshops was to identify concerns in national forest planning by people who participated in it during the past several years.

One of the most frequently expressed concerns was doubt whether the Forest Service was "taking care of the land" in its planning activities, taking care of it in the sense the resource yields contained in the plans are sustainable and within

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1989 John S. Wright

Forestry Conference by Trent Seager

Many faculty, students and staff attend the John S. Wright Forestry Conference every year, but some still do not realize how the conference originated or how the title was chosen.

The faculty of the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources came up with the idea for a Forestry Conference to 1'provide a forum for the delivery of knowledge and information and the exchange of ideas, opinions, and opportunities" on topics that concern not only forestry but the entire natural resource field itself.

A 1892 graduate of Purdue donated many gifts to the trustees fund. John Shepard Wright's donations went toward the establishment of a fund for the promotion of forestry in Indiana. When the John S. Wright Forestry Fund began in 1964, it was only fitting that the conference be named after the man who made it all possible. This is how the conference and its name originated.

The program committee chose "Managing Indiana's Forest Resources for People" as the conference title for 1989. This conference was deemed special for Purdue University was celebrating 75 years in forestry education at the same time.

The conference was held at Stewart Center on October 12-13. People from across the nation came to

West Lafayette to discuss their views on how forest lands should be managed. These opposing views made the conference a very interesting one.

The views ranged from Congressional Research Service and Indiana's Division of Fish and Wildlife to private organizations such as the National Wildlife Federation and The Nature Conservancy. The different opinions and ideas on Indiana's forest made this conference a true open forum.

The program was broken into five parts. The opening discussion was Perspectives on Current and Future Trends of Managing Forest Resources to Meet People's Needs. This was followed by Indiana's Department of Natural Resources and their views on the State of Affairs of Indiana's Forest Resources. The last presentation for the day was Perspectives on the State of Affairs of Indiana's Forest Resources. To conclude the day's program, all were invited to attend Environmental Impressions, an art display designed by the faculty in the department and presented at Krannert.

The second day opened with ideas on Managing Indiana's Forest Resources for People -- Emerging Roles. The conference ended with a summary perspective with ideas that hopefully let our department re-evaluate itself and look for some improvements.