Hardy L. Shirley was a well-known forester, author and dean of the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
Shirley taught at the University of Nevada and Boyce Thompson Institute in Yonkers.
[1] From 1945 to 1952 Shirley was the assistant dean of the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
From 1952 to 1967 Shirley was dean of the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
During his tenure as Dean of SUNY ESF, graduate enrollment more than tripled, the college became the first to offer bachelor's and, master's degrees in landscape architecture and the Hugh P. Baker Wood Products Lab-oratory was constructed on the college's main campus in Syracuse, New York.