The Woody Plant Seed Manual - University of Rhode Island

Dedication
This handbook on the seeds of woody plants would not be possible if not for the pioneering work of many individuals in
past years. They worked without the modern laboratory and information retrieval services that we now routinely use and
take for granted. Their early efforts in the first half of the 20th century solved many seed problems and pointed the way for
later research on numerous subjects. Without them, our body of knowledge about the seeds of woody plants would not be
what it is today. Many contributed, but for their extensive work and leadership, we dedicate this book to the following
pioneers:
George S. Allen Canadian Forestry Service & University of British Columbia
Henry I. Baldwin New Hampshire Forestry Department
Lela V. Barton Boyce Thompson Institute
Claude E. Heit New York Agricultural Experiment Station
Nikolas T. Mirov USDA Forest Service
Paul O. Rudolf USDA Forest Service
Charles F. Swingle USDA Bureau of Plant Industry
W. R. Van Dersal USDA Soil Conservation Service
Philip C. Wakeley USDA Forest Service
Acknowledgments
The development and publication of this book was supported by the USDA Forest Service’s Research and Development
(R&D) and State and Private Forestry (S&PF) National Offices as well as by R&D’s Southern and Northeastern Research
Stations, which supported Dr. Bonner and Ms. Nisley, respectively. We especially thank Drs. Jerry Sesco and Robert Lewis,
Deputy Chiefs (retired) for Research and Development; Dr. Peter Roussopoulus, Director of the Southern Research Station;
Dr. Michael T. Rains, Director of the Northeastern Research Station; and Debra Dietzman, Communications Director at the
Northeastern Research Station, for their continued financial and personal support.
We also thank John K. Francis (retired after many years at the International Institute of Tropical Forestry), Robert P.
Karrfalt (S&PF, Regeneration, Nurseries, and Genetics Resources National Team), Susan E. Meyer (Rocky Mountain
Research Station), Peyton W. Owston (retired from the Pacific Northwest Research Station), and John C. Zasada (retired
from the (North Central Research Station), the regional coordinators who solicited and organized the authors of the 236
genera.
We are grateful to Dr. Stanley R. Krugman for getting this effort going and sharing his experiences from the production of
AH 450, Seeds of Woody Plants in the United States (1974). Sharon Friedman, Jacob L. Whitmore, Calvin Bey, Sam Foster,
and Marilyn Buford served as our liaisons to the R&D National Office; Karl Dalla Rosa and Hal Brockman were the
liaisons to S&PF; and Frank Burch to National Forest Systems. Becky Loth, at the National Seed Laboratory served
admirably as the webmaster of our interim website, and Laura Cricco, Phyllis Grinberg, Jean B. Holland, Pamela Huntley,
Barbara Johnson, and Kathy McManus, all of the Northeastern Research Station, provided much appreciated administrative
and computer support.
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