BURT BARNES'S INFLUENCE ON FOREST MANAGEMENT IN MICHIGAN

摘要

Burt began his career at the University of Michigan in 1964 as a professor of forestry. Like many forestry professors of the time, he was expected to have background knowledge of silviculture and forest management, and he was asked to teach various courses in those areas. Throughout his career Burt considered these fields to be interesting and particularly necessary to understand for the sake of interpreting and studying forest history and investigating how ecosystems responded to past activities. But they were not his passion; he was more interested in natural areas than heavily managed areas and in understanding ecosystems rather than manipulating them. He cringed at clearcutting but marveled at the ability of a forest ecosystem to respond to it.