April 21, 2006
How a Graduate Student Kindled a Firestorm in Forestry Research
Treatment of a scientific paper on logging after wildfires raises issues of academic freedom and industry influence
It's not often that a graduate student plays the leading role in writing a paper that lands in the journal Science, triggering an avalanche of critical questions from professors at his own university, not to mention a U.S. congressman.
And it's even less often that the work ofa 29-year-old pursuing a master's degree prompts his university to reflect publicly about
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