I've taught FOR141/241 twice each year since 1980-that's over 40 times and 3000 students! But I still enjoy learning about trees (and continue to do so every time I teach about them), and I enjoy sharing what I know with others (and learning from them, too).

So, I still enjoy teaching these classes, even after so many years.

My primary goals in these classes are to help make you more knowledgeable about a specific set of trees, improve your ability to be a self-learner about trees in general, and to leave you wanting to continue learning about trees once this class is over.

My other responsibilities change periodically, but always revolve around teaching. Through the years I've also taught Forest Biology (FOR 240), International Forestry (FOR/FE 456), Ecology of Old-Growth Forests (FOR 499 Honors), Natural Resources Education (FOR 499/599), Flora of PNW Forests (FOR 499/599), and Shrubs of PNW Forests (FOR 499/599).

I serve as academic advisor to a few undergraduates enrolled in Natural Resources (especially those majoring in Forest Ecology and Natural Resources Education) and to a few graduate students enrolled in Natural Resources Education and Extension, a program that I created in 1991.

Beyond teaching classes, for about 10 years I served as director of two large continuing education programs for field-based natural resource specialists (the Silviculture Institute, and the Natural Resources Institute, which I helped create). For nearly 25 years I served as director of the College of Forestry's Forestry Media Center, which focused on improving teaching in the College through the use of innovative techniques and technologies. Currently, I serve as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

If you want to know more (and it's difficult for me to imagine that you do), visit my departmental web site at: http://www.cof.orst.edu/cof/fr/facultypages/jensen.php.

--Ed Jensen, December 2002