About the Author:
Kathryn A. Kohm is an editor and writer specializing in biodiversity conservation and other natural resource issues.
Jerry Franklin is Professor of Ecosystem Analysis, College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Franklin is co-author of Conserving Forest Biodiversity, Creating a Forestry for the 21st Century, Salvage Logging and Its Ecological Consequences, and Towards Forest Sustainability, all from Island Press.
Frederick J. Swanson is a research geologist with the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, in Corvallis, Oregon, and a Forest Service lead scientist for the ecosystem research team based at the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest in the Oregon Cascade Range. He has been a leader of the National Science Foundation–sponsored Long-Term Ecological Research program based at the Andrews Forest since 1980.Throughout a thirty year career, Dr. Swanson’s research has focused on interactions of geophysical processes with forest and stream ecosystems in mountain landscapes under both natural conditions and influences of land management, including roads. His interest in interactions of science and policy is reflected in part by his co-editorship of the book Bioregional Assessments: Science at the Crossroads of Management and Policy (Island Press, 1999). He holds a bachelor’s degree from Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Oregon, both in geology.
Julia A. Jones is a professor in the Department of Geosciences at Oregon State University, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses related to spatial statistics, landscape ecology, and geographical analysis of watershed dynamics. Her research interests include the hydrological effects of road networks in National Forest land, roadside plants, physical stream processes, and the spatio-temporal analysis of ecological and physical processes at landscape to regional scales. Dr. Jones received a B.A. in economic development from Hampshire College and an M.A. in international relations and a Ph.D. in geography and environmental engineering from Johns Hopkins University. She served as a research assistant at Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C., and as associate professor in geography and environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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