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Ernie Kolbe, left and F. Paul Keen (1890-1980) at Portland, OR, 1977. The occasion was the signing of the just-published book, Western Forest Insects, by R.L. Furniss and Val Carolin. Kolbe and Keen had been roommates after the Portland FIL opened in 1929 with Keen in charge and Kolbe was a forester with the Forest Service experiment station. Keen subsequently headed the Berkeley FIL. Keen helped to develop the forestry curriculum at U.C. Berkeley from where he graduated in 1915. Among his contributions were a bark beetle susceptibility classification and publishing of the first manual on Insect Enemies of Western Forests (1938, revised 1950), which was updated and expanded by Furniss & Carolin. Kolbe went on to be an executive with the Western Pine Assoc. and Director of the World Forestry Center in Portland where Keen and R.L. Furniss are included in the Memorial Gallery of people who have contributed to the advancement of forestry worldwide. Kolbe died a few weeks after this photo was taken. Photo by M. Furniss.

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