Jerry F. Franklin
About
Jerry F. Franklin (1936-) is a forest ecologist, professor emeritus at the University of Washington, and sometimes regarded as the father of "new forestry". He became a professor at the University of Washington’s School of Forestry in 1986. He helped study successional processes and ecosystem recovery following the Mt. St. Helens eruption, as documented in the book After the Blast: The Ecological Recovery of Mount St. Helens.