Leslie, Alfred

"The past is never fully gone. It is absorbed into the present and the future. It stays to shape what we are and what we do."
Sir William Deane, Governor-General of Australia, Inaugural Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture, August 1996.

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Alfred John Leslie

A VSF Graduate of 1941. After postings to Neerim, Taggerty, Woods Point, Delatite and Gellibrand (as DFO Otway West) he resigned from the FCV on the 15/3/1951. He was with APM Forests from 1951-1958; Melbourne University from 1958-1964 as a lecturer and senior lecturer; the University of Ibadan (Nigeria) from 1964-1966 as senior lecturer; from 1966-1968 in Canberra as OIC of regional stations at the Forest Research Institute; from 1968-1974 at the FAO Rome as Forest Economist; from 1974-1976 he was a Reader at Canterbury University (New Zealand); from 1977-1981 Director of Forest Industries at FAO, Rome; from 1981-2008 a consultant for FAO and ITTO.

"Let us regard the forest as an inheritance, not to be destroyed or devastated, but to be wisely used, reverently honoured and carefully maintained. Let us regard the forest as a gift, entrusted to any of us only for transient care, to be surrendered to posterity as an unimpaired property, increased in riches and augmented in blessings, to pass as a sacred patrimony from generation to generation."

Baron Ferdinand von Mueller - Suggestions on the Maintenance, Creation and Enrichment of Forests (1879)

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