Raphael Zon

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name = Raphael Zon


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birth_date = December 1, 1874
birth_place = Simbirsk, Russia
death_date = October 27, 1956
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citizenship = United States (naturalized)
nationality = Russian
field = Forestry
work_institution = United States Forest Service
alma_mater = Cornell University
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known_for = first attempt of a systematic inventory of the earth's forests; first complete map of native vegetation of United States; technical director, Prairie States Forestry Project; pioneered studies of the relation of forests to streams and flooding
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prizes = Gifford Pinchot Medal
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Raphael Zon (December 1, 1874 - October 27, 1956) was a prominent U.S. Forest Service researcher.

Life

Raphael Zon was born in Simbirsk, Russia in 1874. He fled Russia in 1896 while on bail following arrest for organizing a trade union. Zon and companion Anna Puziriskaya, who would later marry, fled to Belgium where he studied in Liége wikiref | id= Pinchot-1945 | text= Pinchot 1945 . He spent nine months in London before emigrating to the United States in 1898 wikiref | id= Rudolf-1957 | text= Rudolf 1957 . Zon studied forestry at the New York State College of Forestry at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, earning a professional degree of Forest Engineer (F.E.) in the college's first graduating class in 1901. Upon graduation, he went to work for the U.S. Forest Service, where his career spanned 43 years as a forest researcher. A large stone memorial with placque commemorating Zon stands at the Cutfoot Sioux Experimental Forest, near where his ashes were scattered. [Adams, Mary Beth; Loughry, Linda; Plaugher, Linda, comps. 2004. Experimental Forests and Ranges of the USDA Forest Service. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-321. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station. 178 p.]

Career

* 1901. U.S. Forest Service Student Assistant and assistant to forest investigations in the East
* 1907. Chief, Office of Silvics, later Forest Investigations
* 1920. Special investigations in forest economics
* 1923. Director, Lakes States Forest Experiment Station, St. Paul, Minnesota
* 1923-1928 Director, [http://cfc.cfans.umn.edu/about/history.html Cloquet Forest Experiment Station] , University of Minnesota
* 1944. Retired, U.S. Forest Service [http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/photo/usfs/biographies/zon.htm University of North Carolina at Asheville, D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections/University Archives]

Professional Accomplishments

* 1908. Proposed the establishment of decentralized U.S. Forest Experiment Stations
* 1914. Charter member, Ecological Society of America [ [http://www.esa.org/history/ ESA History ] ]
* 1918. National Research Council, Division of Agriculture, Botany, Forestry, Fisheries and Zoology Executive Committee
* 1923-1928. Editor-in-chief, Journal of Forestry
* 1928. International Congress of Soil Science, American vice president of the subcommision of forest soils
* 1930. Charles Lathrop Pack Forest Education Board [Science 7 March 1930: Vol. 71. no. 1836, p. 258]
* 1940. New York World's Fair "Foreign-born citizens judged to have made the most notable contributions to American democracy in the past 100 years"
* Fellow, Society of American Foresters
* 1952. Gifford Pinchot Medal, Society of American Foresters [http://www.safnet.org/who/pinchot.cfm Society of American Foresters Pinchot Medal]
* 2005. U.S. Forest Service Centennial Congress Science Leadership Award [http://www.americantrails.org/resources/fedland/CentawardsUSFS.html American Trails, National Trails Training Partnership article on Federal Land Management]
* Authored or co-authored roughly 200 articles in professional journals, business and development publicaitons, or popular magazines [Schmaltz, N.J. 1980. Forest researcher Raphael Zon. Journal of Forest History 24:24-39.]

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