Mr. Jean A. Bérard

Jean Bérard was born in Manitoba and received degrees from University of Ottawa (1949) and Laval University (1959). He served with the Royal 22nd Regiment in Canada and Korea. He worked as logging engineer for Canadian International Paper Company. He joined the Woodlands Section of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association in 1962, and appointed Assistant-Manager in 1965, and Manager in 1968.

Jean Bérard was one of the founding fathers of the Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada (FERIC) in 1975. He was named President and C.E.O. in October 1984 and retired in July 1991. He was editor of the Forestry Handbook of the Order of Forest Engineers of the Province of Quebec, a 1500-page reference manual.

Dr. D. Edward Aulerich

Ed Aulerich received a B.S. in Forest Engineering from Oregon State University (1960); an M.B.A. from Arizona State (1965); and a Ph.D. from Idaho (1971). He is a registered professional engineer in California.

Ed Aulerich, director, past president, and founder of FOREST ENGINEERING, has had a vast amount of experience in logging systems, both from the practical and academic side. He has worked over twenty years as a practicing logger and engineer and has given over 100 lectures and training sessions in Chile, Tasmania, Europe, Scandinavia, and North America. He has worked with over 5000 individual loggers, foresters, and engineers in the past 20 years through workshops and tutoring to increase their technical knowledge about forest engineering. Fifty percent of these people were from 15 countries outside the United States.

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Professor Jeremy Rickards

Professor Rickards began his career in forest engineering in 1978 when he left an industrial engineering position in private business to join the Forest Engineering Department at the University of New Brunswick. As a teacher, he had a direct effect on more than 300 undergraduate students and 10 graduate students in forest engineering. As Head of the Forest Engineering Department for 8 years, he became an advocator of the profession in Canada and around the world. He has participated in professional affairs at the local, national, and international levels. As a milestone event for the profession, Professor Rickards established the Journal of Forest Engineering in 1989 and managed it for 12 years. He is currently retired and lives in New Brunswick, Canada.

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