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Born:
        Altura (Winona County), Minnesota ............  September 9, 1920

Education:
        Grade school (one-room schoolhouse: one teacher)        1925-1931
        High school  (Altura, 9th to 11th; Lewiston, 12th)      1931-1935
        College: Augsburg College, Minneapolis, Minnesota       1936-1937
        B.Sc. degree: University of Minnesota                   1937-1941
        M.S. degree:  University of Minnesota                   1941-1942
                Major: Plant Ecology; Minor: Animal Ecology
        Ph.D. degree: University of Nebraska                    1946-1951
                Major: Botany; Minor: Soil Science
 
 

Employment:
        Farming on home family (summers)                        1934-1940
        Ecology teacher, University High School, Mpls.          1940
        Third Medical Laboratory, U. S. Army,
                Austrailia, New Guinea, Phillipine Islands      1942-1946
        Teaching Assistant, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln          1947-1948
        Jr. Range Conservationist, Soil Conservation Service    1942
        Asst. Specialist, California Agric. Expt. Station       1949-1952
        Assoc. Specialist, Calif. Agric. Expt. Station          1952-1955
        Specialist, California Agric. Expt. Station             1955-1965
        Miller Specialist for Basic Research in Science         1963
        Professor, School of Forestry & Conservation            1965-1991
        Professor Emeritus (on recall)                          1961- infinity
 
 

Consulting work:
        Nature Conservancy Council, Bangor, Wales               1934-1940
        Bureau of Reclamation, U. S. Department ofInterior      1977
        United Nations Environmental Programme, Narobi, Kenya
                (Environmental Education Section)               1977-1978
        University of Nairobi, Kenya    (forest ecology)        1977-1978
        Center for Environmental Education, Desert Institute,
                Ben Gurion University of the Desert, Israel     1978
        International Biological Program, Tundra Biome          1975-1979
        University College of North Wales                       1983
        Dept. of Agricultural Engineering, Technion
                (Israeli Inst. of Tech.), Haifa, Israel         1983
        The Ladakh Project, Leh, Ladakh                         1983
        Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences, Prague             1983
 

Inventions:
        Artificial Population Model for Teaching Purposes,
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