About Phil Dougherty

Phil Dougherty was raised on a dairy and vegetable patch farm in NE Texas. After leaving home, Phil acquired BS, MS, and PhD degrees in wildlife management, tree physiology and ecophysiology from Texas A&M and the University of Missouri.

After college, Phil worked on regeneration research in Washington State before and after the eruption of Mount St. Helens from 1977-1981; worked on genetic seed source movement, competition control, and tree responses to drought in SE Oklahoma from 1981 to 1985; taught silviculture, worked on the popular Forest Regeneration Manual (Duryea and Dougherty) and worked on additional tree responses to environmental factors at the University of Georgia from 1986 to 1990; worked on tree responses to fertilization, elevated carbon, and precipitation while employed by the US Forest Service in NC from 1991 to 1995; worked as Pine Productivity Leader at MeadWestvaco in Summerville SC and subsequently for ArborGen working on Pine Seedling Deployment Systems from 1996 to 2012; and since 2012 has worked with Dougherty & Dougherty Forestry’s Center of Forestry Research and Applied Management in the Athens, GA area. Throughout his career, Phil has personally invested in pine plantation production on his own timberland.