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S.J. Hall Lectureship in Industrial Forestry
The late S.J. Hall, in whose name this Lectureship is named, was
graduated from the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse
University in 1920. He played an important role in the development
of industrial forestry in the southern United States in the 1920s
and 1930s. After World War II he moved to the West Coast. With two
partners he acquired an extensive area of cutover redwood forest
land in California and established the Gualala Redwood Company
which became a leader in the industrial management of young growth
redwood forests. Hall felt strongly that economic understanding is
basic to effective forestry and to a strong nation. He dedicated
the Forest Economics Foundation, which he established in 1965, to
contributing to such understanding. This Foundation is designed to
advance the understanding and practices of sound economic
principles among forestry students in colleges across the United
States and Canada.
The S.J. Hall Lectureship in Industrial Forestry was initiated in
Berkeley in 1969 by Mrs. Dessie Hall and the Board of the Forest
Economics Foundation. Since 1969, the Lectureship has been
presented annually on the Berkeley Campus.
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