Honoring Jack
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge Photo by Jack D. Culpepper Jack D. Culpepper March 2, 1959 - April 21, 2018 Eulogy by J.D. Bricken Wildlife Refuge Manager Pee Dee National Wildlife Refuge Jack the Forester Jack served as the forester for Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge and Pee Dee National WildlifeRefuge , and I had the opportunity to work with him for 11 years. Jack loved his job. Not only did he care about the forest as a whole, but he seemed to care about each tree. He oversaw the timber harvest of thousands of acres at the Sandhills refuge and hundreds of acres at the Pee Dee refuge. His strategy for thinning timber was always based on the overall health of the forest and improving the habitat for wildlife. photo credit: unknown Jack the Forest Ecologist photo by Cliff Berger/USFWS When Jack first came to help at Pee Dee NWR, we were eager to harvest several tracts of timber. My