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Lars Ketil Strand (11 May 1924 – 12 March 2020) was a Norwegian
forester A forester is a person who practises forestry, the science, art, and profession of managing forests. Foresters engage in a broad range of activities including ecological restoration and management of protected areas. Foresters manage forests to ...
. He was born in
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in May 1924. He took the Dr. Agric. degree in 1959, and worked at the
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from 1965. He was then a professor at the
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from 1968 to 1990. He served as
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there from 1971 to 1977. He also has an
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from the
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. He died in March 2020 at the age of 95.


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1924 births 2020 deaths Forestry academics Academic staff of the Norwegian College of Agriculture Norwegian foresters Scientists from Oslo Rectors of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences 20th-century Norwegian botanists {{forester-stub