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George Henry Hepting
George Henry Hepting
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He devoted his remarkably energetic life to learning, understanding, and teaching how trees survive disease stresses induced by biotic and abiotic agents in forest nurseries, as individual trees, in young sapling stands, in naturally regenerated and planted stands, in old-growth forests, and in landscapes and watersheds. Hepting focused his innovative spirit, curiosity, and high intelligence in seeking the ways to use this understanding to develop practical management practices that would reduce or minimize disease losses and deterioration of wood in service.
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White pine blister rust, the Dutch elm disease, and many others were well on their way to destroying millions of dollars worth of timber and street trees in a matter of a few years. Here was something for me.
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with the Forest Service's Washington office from 1962 to 1971 (assignee! mainly to the Southeastern Forest Experiment Station in Asheville, North Carolina)
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This bulletin was user! extensively by the Civilian Conservation Corps as a guicleline for management of federal forests, and it still serves as a basic guide for foresters in management of hardwood!
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By the time of World War II, there was a critical shortage in aircraft metals. Most of the available light metals were to go into combat planes bombers and fighters so that the great bulk of thousands of training planes would have to be made of wood.
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their research to a series of problems affecting forest trees in the south. Littleleaf disease of southern pines prover!
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a number of previously unclescribec! diseases that were damaging southern tree species, inclucling the pitch-canker disease of southern pines, en c!
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Acticlione also was testec! in the Southeast for the control of fusiform rust, a clestructive disease of southern pines similar to white pine blister rust in its effects on pine trees.
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as an innovative control measure clesignec! to save the highly valuable white pine stancis of the western Uniter!
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sharp wit as one of the highlights of their graduate education. He was a cofounder of the Southwicle Forest Disease Workshop, which is still the outstanding forum for forest pathologists in this region.
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for Achievement in Cost Recluction for clevelopment of an effective electronic literature retrieval system for forest pathology ( 1 967) , the Delta Airlines "Flying Colonel" Awarc!
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sense. In making an assessment of his career he stated: It seems to me that there can be few walks of life in which a man following a specific occupation would lead a more varied existence than he would as a forest disease researcher.
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Kent Kirk, Robert Zabel, Arthur Verrall, Charles Berry, William Waters, Glenn Snow, Robert Patton, Tames Stewart, Tohn Skelly, Tohn Rishbeth, Kathleen Moore, and Arthur Schipper.
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1375. Reducing losses from tree diseases in eastern forests and farm woodlands.
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Managing short-leaf pine in littleleaf disease areas. Southeastern Forest Experiment Station Paper, no.
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In 1964 FAO/ICFRO Symposium on Internationally Dangerous Forest Diseases and Insects 2:1-8. 1968 Diseases of forest and tree crops caused by air pollutants.
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