Biographical Information about Norm Johnson

Norm Johnson is Professor, Department of Forest Resources, Oregon State University. He received his B.S. in Forest Management from the University of California at Berkeley, M.S. in Forest Economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Ph.D. in Forest Management from Oregon State University. From 1975-1985, he was on the faculties of Utah State University and Colorado State University teaching forest management and developing forest planning models for the US Forest Service. In 1985, he returned to the OSU, and now teaches undergraduate and graduate forest policy. Norm has studied management of federal and nonfederal forests for much of his career.

He was co-author of the “Beuter Report”, an assessment of timber availability in Oregon, and of an update of the Beuter Report; forestry advisor to the Governor of Oregon in the mid 1980s; member of the “Gang-of-Four” which undertook a Congressionally-mandated study of alternatives for management of old growth forests and streams on federal lands of the Pacific Northwest; leader of the group that estimated sustainable harvest levels and short-term sale levels for FEMAT; and member of the Science Team for the Oregon State of the Environment Report, with the assignment of evaluating the ecological health of Oregon’s forests.

He currently is co-leader of the Coastal Landscape Assessment and Management Study (CLAMS), an interdisciplinary effort to evaluate policy options for management of Oregon’s coastal forests, streams, and watersheds.