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32 Proudly Devoted to a career of service. It began in the closing lines of an obituary: “In lieu of flowers, please send contributions to The University of Montana College of Forestry and Conservation.” That seed of a suggestion, published in April 2006, has grown into the Phil Janik Graduate Scholarship. When fully funded, the scholarship will help a UM graduate student work toward a master’s degree in forestry. Having earned a B.S. degree in forestry from UM in 1967, Janik later completed a master’s in wildlife science at Oregon State University. These studies formed the foundation of his career. His biography is studded with major accomplishments in his field, including the Distinguished Alumni Award. But at the top of the list for Janik was a revision to the most controversial forest plan ever developed by the U.S. Forest Service: the Tongass National Forest Plan Revision. Encompassing 17-million acres, the Tongass National Forest in southeastern Alaska is the nation’s largest national forest. During some 20 congressional hearings, the revision stirred heated controversy, pitting extreme conservationists, opposing any changes to the original 1979 document, against giant timber companies, wanting to harvest as much as possible of the vast, old-growth rainforest. His widow Pat recalls how Janik did this. “As regional forester in Alaska,” she explains, “when Phil was called upon to draw up a revision, he wisely integrated science and scientists into the process at the outset.” When congressional hearings were scheduled, the scientists were called to testify. Their statements in support of the revision added credibility to the Forest Service’s position, and Janik’s unique, science-based conservation strategy forms the core of the Tongass Plan. “That so many individuals came together to create the graduate scholarship,” Pat comments, “is a tribute to Phil, the Great Collaborator, who brought together individuals with diverse concepts and goals to work for the common good.” His actions express the Forest Service’s mis sion: Caring for the land and serving people.
Phil Janik t Received UM Alumni Association Distinguished Alumni Award. t Led effort to focus on importance of state and private forest land and to identify nonregulatory methods to assist state, private, and tribal entities in forest management. t Oversaw fiscal remedies to help the Forest Service improve fiscal accountability nationwide. Career achievements t Increased emphasis on the Service’s international affairs program. t Chaired the Washington, D.C., Forest Sustainability Roundtable. t Served as one of six senior executives on the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, which authorized the use of an approximately $650million settlement. About half the monies went to research projects Left to right: Scenes from the Tongass National Forest. for injured fish and wildlife, and half went to land acquisitions and conservation easements. t Led development of the habitat strategy for salmon and steelhead throughout the Bureau of Land Management and Forest Servicemanaged lands in the Western U.S. t Chaired an American Fisheries Society committee to determine actions to increase visibility of fisheries resources and science. t Led development of the Forest Service RisetotheFuture National Fisheries Action Plan, leading the Service to emphasize fisheries habitat management and research. t Served as chief operating officer and deputy chief for state and private forestry before his retirement in 2004. 33
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