Charles ‘Henry’ Foster dies at 85
Charles H.W. “Henry” Foster, a 20-year associate of the Harvard Forest, a Harvard College alumnus, and for decades one of the nation’s leading environmental policy experts, died of cancer on Oct. 4 at the age of 85 in Needham, Mass. After graduating from Harvard College, Foster earned professional degrees in forestry and wildlife management from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in geography and environmental engineering from Johns Hopkins University. From 1945 to 1947, he served in the U.S. Army. He was the former dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. He devoted more than 15 years of his career to government, serving seven Massachusetts governors in such posts as water resources specialist, commissioner of natural resources, and, in 1971, as Massachusetts’ first cabinet-level secretary of environmental affairs. In 1986 he began a long association as a research fellow with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at...