Forest engineer in India, professor of forestry at University of Washington.

John Kenneth Pearce was born 1898, died 1991. He received a B.S.F., University of Washington, 1921, and became a registered professional engineer in Washington, 1936. He taught logging engineering in the College of Forestry, University of Washington. From 1923-1933 he held various logging engineering positions in India, including assistant commissioner & superintendent of lumbering operations, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Government of India, 1930-1933. While a professor at U.W. he was also chief of lumber production in eleven western states, War Production Board, Washington, D.C., 1942-1943; consultant to West Coast Lumbermen's Association and to forest industry corporations, summers, 1944-1950; advisor on Forestry, World Bank Mission to Surinam, 1951; Acting Technical Director, Institute of Forest Products, U.W., 1952-1953; advisor on Forestry, World Bank Mission to Paraguay, 1957; forester, general, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, summers, 1957-1960. Pearce held memberships in Society of American Foresters, International Society of Tropical Foresters, and Puget Sound Engineering Council, chair in 1949.