About John Marshall

In 1994, John Marshall began an extensive photographic landscape study to follow what happens to forests following fires, an endeavor that will continue until at least 2014. Marshall’s interest in forest fires began in childhood while picking huckleberries at old burn sites on Mt. Hood. The son of a wildlife biologist, he came to understand at an early age that wildfires were important to wildlife in the same era Smoky Bear was telling the public that fires were bad. Marshall has a bachelor’s in fishery science from Oregon State University and a master’s in wildlife resources from the University of Idaho. Marshall began his career as a photographer with the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, which he photographed for National Geographic magazine. His recent work having to do with fire ecology is supported by the U.S. Forest Service.

Marshall currently lives in Wenatchee.

2012-14 Speakers Bureau: John Marshall from Humanities Washington on Vimeo.