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B: Biographical Sketches
Pages 147-151

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... She is president-elect of the Ecological Society of America. She was a member of the National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology and chairs the National Research Council SCOPE Committee on Soil and Sediment Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning.
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From page 148...
... He is president of the Institute for Forest Analysis, Planning, and Policy, a nonprofit research and education organization, and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the New England Natural Resources Center, a nonprofit trust that works with other organizations on interstate natural-resources issues in New England. He was research forester, Fordyce Lumber Company, Arkansas; principal economist, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service; senior policy analyst, US Public Land Law Review Commission; research fellow, Harvard University; and executive director, New England Natural Resources Center.
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From page 149...
... Paine is a professor of zoology at the University of Washington. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has served on numerous National Research Council panels.
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... He received a BS and an MS in wildlife management from Oregon State University and Texas A&M University, respectively; and a PhD featuring emphasis on microeconomics and naturalresources policy from Oregon State University. He has written books and articles on wildlife management and is interested in the allocation of public resources and public lands and the resulting economic impacts on society.
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From page 151...
... He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has served on the Board on Biology and panels of the National Research Council. As an evolutionary biologist and systematist he is concerned with the description and preservation of biodiversity, and has been especially active in Middle America, where he has focused on salamanders.
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