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Title |
An Interview with Richard O. Woodfin, Jr. |
Catalog Number |
2021.074.034 |
Object Name |
Recording, Video |
Scope & Content |
An Interview with Richard O. Woodfin, Jr. >>Oral history interview with Richard O. Woodfin, Jr., October 25, 2022, Sherwood, OR >>Richard O. "Dick" Woodfin was born in Denver, Colorado, in 1933. He grew up in the small town of Burlington, on the Colorado/Kansas border. His father was a county agent and his mother was a schoolteacher. After attending forestry school at Colorado A&M (now Colorado State), he began his career in Forest Service Research, studying wood science and technology. While in college, he worked several summer jobs: surveying bug-killed Engelmann spruce in the Blue Mountains for the Bureau of Land Management, doing odd jobs for Colorado State Forestry, and working in the Fraser Experimental Forest testing the experimental Wyssen Skyline apparatus. His first permanent post was in Rapid City, South Dakota, where he worked for the Rocky Mountain Research Station as a wood technologist. In 1960, he took a break to get a master's degree at the University of Washington. In 1961, he returned to the Forest Service, where he began work as a wood technologist at the "Mecca" of research at the time, the Forest Products Laboratory. While there, he was assigned to work on the National Log and Tree Grade Program. After transferring to the Pacific Northwest Research Station, he continued this work and began doing mill recovery studies across a wide geographical range spanning from Alamagordo, New Mexico, to Fairbanks, Alaska. He concluded his career as Deputy Station Director of the Pacific Northwest Research Station. PASTE LINK BELOW INTO BROWSER TO WATCH INTERVIEW https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QmJ2jK-KC6VDqAfIT0gDeBZos8_w_POD/view?usp=drive_link |
Additional File |
Click here to view transcript. |
Year Range from |
2022 |
Year Range to |
2022 |
People |
Woodfin, Richard O. Pong, Gene Snellgrove, Tom |
Subjects |
Rocky Mountain Research Station Pacific Northwest Research Station |
Search Terms |
Fire-Research Oral History Research Wood Utilization Timber-Milling |
Catalog date |
2022-11-30 |
Collection |
Oral History |