Daniel, Ted W.

Theodore William."Doc" Daniel was born November 16, 1907, in San Francisco to John and Margaret Daniel. He had one sibling, Margaret. Daniel married Bernice Starr in 1935 and they later divorced in 1945. In 1947, Daniel remarried Ione Spencer Bennion, who was the Dean of Women at Utah State University at the time. Ione passed away on November 22, 1997.

Daniel Studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a B.S. in Forest Management and Range Management in 1934, an M.S. in Forest Management in 1936 and a Ph.D. in Plant Physiology in 1942. He was one of the first scholars in the United States to earn a doctorate that focused on the conservation of natural resources, and he devoted his life to the field. He was an active member of the Society of American Foresters for his entire career and was elected Fellow in 1983. Daniel spent most of his professional career at Utah State University and he offered continual service at the annual, mandatory Forestry Summer Camp and at the School Forest in Logan Canyon. Daniel husbanded the school forest for fifty years, recording data changes and experiment results. He also supplemented state and university funds for the maintenance and enhancement of the forest through the T.W. Daniel Experimental Forest Operating Endowment. In 1996,."Doc" was honored by the designation of the T.W. Daniel Experimental Forest, a four square-mile section of the Cache National Forest.

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