“WHEREAS, the document printed at the behest of this Board in 1955 and titled California's Forest Regeneration Problems was To him for the writing of some 45 technical papers and two valuable textbooks of silviculture, and “WHEREAS Fred Baker contributed much to the deliberations of this board and to the profession of forestry which is indebted Of appreciation from which the following is quoted: During these eight years he served as an ex-officio member of the California State Board of Forestry,Ĭontributing so effectively to their deliberations and program, that in January 1965 the Board passed a lengthy resolution Leadership in this capacity during a very important developmental period until his retirement on July 1, 1956, when he was Published under the title Principles of Sylviculture and it is still used by many schools of forestry.īaker became the second Dean of the School of Forestry in 1947 on the retirement of Walter Mulford, and demonstrated effective Science is not going to help you much or prove you wrong until you are very old indeed.” In 1950 an extensive revision of his textbook was His silvicultural advice to students was, “Use what sense you have, observe well, go ahead and guess your That silviculture is an art though based on science, and that application of research to field conditions has lagged tremendously They also learned that the forest is a complicated community, Of careful observation as the basis for silvicultural knowledge. Particularly when he carried on written arguments with his alter ego, “Derf Kaber.” However, his students learned the importance He was always unorthodox in his methods and his dry humor was effective in emphasizing his point of view, He wrote many articles for the Journal of Forestry and in 1934 his authoritative textbook, The Theory and Practice of Silviculture, was published. Of growth and reproduction of California tree species, their ecological relationships and their requirements for light and Himself to generations of students who knew him familiarly and belovedly as “Bake.” His research added greatly to the knowledge Thus Fred Baker began a long and rewarding career of thirty years with the University of California during which he endeared Sampson who had subsequently been made a member of the forestry staff at the University of California. His call to the University of California resulted primarily from his former association Staff of the University of California in May 1926 with assignment of teaching and research work in silviculture, but handlingĪ number of other courses as well. After servingĪs Assistant Regional Forester in charge of public relations for Region 4 of the U.S. Forest Service andĬompiled data on results of seeding and planting and the distribution of tree species throughout this region. Returning to Utah he supervised silvicultural research for the entire Rocky Mountain District of the U.S. In this assignment he became familiar with forest conditions throughout the southeasternĪnd middlewestern states, and authored a publication on American Black Walnut. In 1918 he was called to Washington on war-time problems of wood fuel and the securing ofīlack walnut for airplane construction. Thus he became thoroughly acquainted with forestry Sampson, then at the Forest Experiment Station at Ephraim, Utah. Service on the Pike, Uinta, and Manti National Forests and in studying aspen and other tree species under the direction ofĭr. With the degree of Forest Engineer from this institution in 1912, he spent the next fourteen years on work with the Forest Timber reconnaissance and other field work for the United States Forest Service in the Rocky Mountain area. That fall he entered the forestryĬourse at Colorado College, where he not only pursued the prescribed course of instruction, but also spent each summer in When he graduated from high school in 1908 he went to Milford, Pennsylvania,įor a summer course introductory to forestry conducted by the Yale University Forestry School. Of whom were enthusiastic amateur botanists. Young Baker had an introduction to trees, flowers and the out-of-doors from his parents, both The first of the Baker line came to Ipswich in Massachusetts Bay colony Of Louis Harrington Baker and Evelyn Storrs Baker. He was born at Bridgeport, Connecticut, on June 3, 1890, the son University of California: In Memoriam, April 1966įrederick Storrs Baker, Forestry: Berkeleyįrederick Storrs Baker came from sturdy New England stock.
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