Residence Australia Known for Scientific Forestry | Name Charles Poole | |
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Institutions Transvaal Province, Sierra Leone, Western Australia, Papua, New Guinea Died November 22, 1970, Sydney, Australia Alma mater French National School of Forestry Institution Transvaal Province, Western Australia, Papua New Guinea | ||
Author abbrev. (botany) | ||
Charles Lane Poole SCI-POP Portrait
Charles Lane Poole (16 August 1885 – 22 November 1970) was an English Australian forester who introduced systematic, science-based forestry to Western Australia.
Contents
- Charles Lane Poole SCI POP Portrait
- Western Australia
- Australian Capital Territory
- Papua and New Guinea
- References
Western Australia
He was the first Conservator of the Western Australian Forests Department, Commonwealth's first Inspector-General of Forests.
When the Western Australia authorities would not heed his advice, he resigned in protest.
Australian Capital Territory
Poole trained many of Australia's professional foresters at Australian Forestry School which he established in Canberra.
Papua and New Guinea
The Australian timber industry pressured the national government to hire Lane Poole to survey the existing timber resources in Papua, then an Australian territory, and later in New Guinea. He spent three years surveying the Papuan and New Guinea forests, from the lowlands to the highlands; he surveyed the country, measured trees, and collected specimens. Although he did not find the stands of timber that could be harvested on a large scale, his extensive notes on such forest products as resin, oils and nuts helped identify other possible avenues of commercial development. After the missionary Christian Keyser, he was one of the first Europeans to climb the Saruwaged Massif.