Grant Sharpe

Grant Sharpe grew up in Silverton, Wash., where his deep interest in plants and animals began. He joined the U.S. Navy in 1943 after graduating from high school. He served in the South Pacific Theater on the CVE Marcus Island until it was decommissioned in 1946. With help of the G.I. Bill of Rights, Grant enrolled in the College of Forestry at the University of Washington and eventually chose Outdoor Recreation as his major. After earning his Ph.D.

Robert Zahner

 Robert “Bob” Zahner (1923-2007) joined the Forestry Department faculty of SNR in 1959.  He left U-M in 1973 and returned to Highlands, N.C., and the Southern Appalachian Mountains where he continued his distinguished career in forest ecology and conservation of 54 years. Bob was an innovator and a leader in every aspect of his long career as a scientist, teacher and activist in such areas as tree physiology and plant-water relations, forest ecology and silviculture, soils and conservation biology, and ecology.

By Jim Diana

Frank Hooper, former professor at the School of Natural Resources at the University of Michigan, as well as a former employee at the Institute for Fisheries Research/Michigan Department of Natural Resources, died on March 6, 2009. (View images of Frank Hooper ...)

September 5, 2009

 A little more than 50 years ago I came to the School of Natural Resources as a transfer student from a small junior college in Chicago.  I wanted to become a National Park Ranger and in those days a forestry degree was a good thing to have in what (at the time) was stiff competition for a very desirable job.