Jim L. Bowyer

Dr. Jim L. Bowyer is Director of the Forest Products Management Development Institute of the University of Minnesota Department of Wood and Paper Science. A specialist in global raw-material trends and life-cycle environmental analyses of materials, he served as head of the University of Minnesota Department of Wood and Paper Science from 1984 until early 1995.

He received a B.S. degree in forestry from Oklahoma State University (1964), an M.S. degree in forest products from Michigan State University (1966) and a Ph.D. in wood science and technology from the University of Minnesota (1973). Dr. Bowyer has served as president of the Forest Products Society (1993-94) and of the Society of Wood Science and Technology (1987-88). He is a fellow of the International Academy of Wood Science.

Dr. Bowyer is chairman of the technical steering committee of the Consortium for Research on Renewable Industrial Materials, a member of the Executive Board of the Tropical Forest Foundation, and he is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Temperate Forest Foundation. He also serves on the Rocky Mountain Institute Systems Group on Forests.

Dr. Bowyer has written over 110 articles dealing with various aspects of forest products production and use, environmental impacts of domestic forest policy and he is coauthor of the leading introductory wood science textbook in North America, now in its third edition. He is a fre¬quent speaker on topics related to the marketing, distribution and use of wood, and on the subject of environmental aspects of forestry, timber harvest and wood use.