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John Reed Tarver retired as the tenured historian of the LSU Agricultural Center and now keeps busy researching and writing about the Southern forest industry.  He earned the Ph.D. degree for his study of labor relations in the early 20th century lumber industry in the trans-Mississippi South.  A veteran print journalist, he has also taught language arts at the college level, including journalism and English grammar.  He holds memberships in the History of Science Society and the Society for the History of Technology.  Over the past 25 years he has travelled frequently in China and Central Asia, visiting agricultural and forestry facilities maintained by local universities.  He also serves as president of the L&A Trail, Inc., a recreational corridor based on an abandoned railroad in North Louisiana.  He lives in Baton Rouge.