A forester examplar (William John (Bill) Gimblett 1928-2010)

Authors: Roger Washbourn, Chris Perley
Publication: New Zealand Journal of Forestry, Volume N.Z.J.For. 2010, Issue N.Z.J.For. 55(1) 2010, pp 28-29, May 2010
Publisher: New Zealand Institute of Forestry

Abstract: If you wanted to put forward an exemplar of what it is to be a forester - set apart from the pressures to make us into radiata pine agronomists - then you couldn’t go far past Bill Gimblett. He was a man who easily straddled all the meanings associated with forests: from community to commerce; from sense experience to - yes - spirituality. Bill loved many things; land, landscape, ecology, history, the social links to places that gave them meaning, ideas, but he most especially loved people and community.