Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Herring, Richard M.
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Other form(s) of name
- Herring, Dick
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Description area
Dates of existence
1931-2012
History
Richard ("Dick") M. Herring was born April 27, 1931 in New York City, to parents Frederick M. Herring and Constance Herring Harrison.
He graduated from high school in 1948 in Newtown, Connecticut, and went on to earn a degree from the University of Michigan School of Forestry. He served in Korea with the US Marine Corps and the Black Watch.
Over the course of his professional forestry career he worked as a logger, forester, prospector, senior executive, and consultant. His work took him all over the world, from the tropics to the forests of Alaska, British Columbia, and the high Arctic. He worked in Alaska for Alaska Lumber and Pulp, and then for Canadian Forest Products Ltd., first as Woodlands Manager in Chetwynd, BC, and then as Manager of Mainland Logging Division on the coast. After leaving CFP he worked as a consultant, first for Stewart Ewing and Associates and then independently. He was a long-standing member of the Canadian Institute of Forestry.
In addition to travelling extensively, he enjoyed bagpiping, sailing, hunting, fishing, and shooting. He championed the conservation of wildlife and the preservation of First Nations culture. Other interests included military history, food, wine, and whiskey.
He died April 15, 2012 in Vancouver, BC.