Early Days at the Yale School of Forestry: A Pictorial History of the 1913 and 1914 Field Seasons

Dan Perlman's grandfather, Solomon Perlman, was a Yale School of Forestry graduate, class of 1914. He was also an avid amateur photographer, and left an annotated scrapbook that covered both his 1913 summer field camp experience in the Tahoe National Forest and the 1914 spring camp near Columbia, Mississippi, with Prof. Chapman. Dan Perlman will take us on a walk back through time to the early days of F&ES, with a slide show presentation of his grandfather's historical photographs.

Dan Perlman has a Ph.D. from Harvard in the field of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. He teaches courses in Evolutionary Ecology, Conservation Biology, Animal Behavior, Field Biology, and Tropical Ecology and has researched and written in all these fields. He is interested in creating new methods for setting priorities in the practice of conservation biology. Recent work also focuses on helping ecologists and conservation biologists work with land use planning and design professionals to improve land use, both for humans and natural ecosystems. He has furthered this work through workshops and lectures for professionals and publications such as Practical Ecology for Planners, Developers, and Citizens (2005, Island Press).