Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds
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Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds (Born June 9, 1912 in Arkansas) was an American ecologist, biologist and author of "Not Just Trees". Notable for her study of the Sattleback Mountain research site from 1938-19__
Dirks was born in the Ozarks of Arkansas in 1912, the youngest of ten children.
Early Life
In the prologue of her book Not Just Trees: The Legacy of a Douglas-fir Forest, she notes an early love of the Northwest’s forests; this admiration carried her through her academic years.. Dr. Dirks-Edmunds attended Linfield College from 1932-1937, where she received her B.S. in Biology. After graduating from Linfield, Dirks-Edmunds immediately left for the University of Illinois, where she was a graduate teaching assistant in Zoology. In 1941, she earned her PhD. Her thesis, “A Comparison of Biotic Communities of the Cedar-Hemlock and Oak-Hickory Associations.”
References
- "Not Just Trees"