Herbert Horst Stoevener is recognized nationally and internationally as a scholar, researcher, educator, and administrator. His scholarly achievements, his nonauthoritarian style of management, his consultative style of administration, and his wise counsel have earned him many important leadership roles.

He was awarded, at an early age, a competitively earned one-year Marshal Plan-funded scholarship supplemented by funds provided by the National Grange. These resources enabled him to travel from his native Germany to the United States where he was introduced to the agricultural community throughout the state of New York. He subsequently earned a B.S. degree from Cornell University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois. Upon joining the faculty at Oregon State University, he contributed to the development of a natural resources economics program at that institution.

Stoevener's career achievements are well known. His seminal work extended the application of economic theory to problems of environmental quality and demonstrated the potential for managing water quality through monetary valuation of nonmarket services. This work earned his first quality-of-research award in 1973, and helped open a new field in agricultural economics: nonmarket valuation methods and their application.

Working with his Oregon State colleagues, he contributed to further advances in research methods by synthesizing and clarifying the debate on nonmarket evaluation of publicly-provided outdoor recreation resources. This work earned his second quality-of-research-discovery award in 1977, and a subsequent publication earned the quality-of-communication award in 1982.

Using reasoned arguments, he persuaded a regional natural resources economics research committee to organize itself in an innovative way that became a model adopted nationally. His effectiveness as an educator is further revealed through his graduate students, numerous refereed articles and other publications, and establishment of natural resources economics program in three education institutions in India.

His record of achievement in the areas of natural resources management, economic theory, and regional economic led to many opportunities to contribute to his profession's development, to advise governments, and to review domestic programs and international projects; these activities led ultimately to administration. In his role as department head, he provided truly extraordinary leadership, by building a department that encompasses a balance of scholarship devoted to commercial agriculture, natural resources, rural development, and econometric analysis. His ability as an administrator to inspire others to strive for new heights of productivity as scholars and educators is admired by his department colleagues and respected throughout academe and his profession. As an administrator, he also encourages the agricultural economics profession to apply economic theory to international agricultural development and the emerging field of rural development.

The influence that Herbert Horst Stoevener has had on scholars, scholarship, educators, educational institutions, governments, foundations, and the lives of undergraduates and graduate students has been exceptional.