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Craig Shinn - Canby, Oregon
shinnc@pdx.edu
Term Expires: January 2011
Craig Shinn, a Portland State University faculty member, serves as director of the Public Administration and Policy, Ph.D Program and as associate director of the Executive Leadership Institute and Mark O. Hatfield School of Government. Dr. Shinn (B.S., University of Maine; M.P.A., Lewis & Clark College; Ph.D., University of Washington) finds opportunities where people and the environment intersect. Craig works on environmental and natural resource policy and administration through teaching, research and professional outreach. His research interest focuses on how policy agreement is created and sustained in society, including administrative aspects of adaptive management, social aspects of sustainability, civic capacity building, and inter-jurisdictional administration of natural resources. He coauthored Rural Resource Management (1994) with Sandra Miller and William Bentley and co-managed the Oregon State of the Environment Report (2000)
Dr. Shinn is regularly involved in the community of practice, providing applied workshops, consulting services, and outreach in the region and across the nation and globe. Craig chaired the ad-hoc Advisory Committee for the Sustainable Forest Indicators Project for the Oregon Board of Forestry, and serves as a member of the Advisory Board for The Resource Innovation Group and for the Institute for Natural Resources.
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Gary Springer - Corvallis, Oregon
springer@starkerforests.com
Term Expires: July 2010
Gary Springer was raised in Harlan on the Springer family tree farm. For 30 years, he operated a small logging company with his father. In 1979, he purchased a part of land that had been owned by the Springer family since 1919. Today, Gary works part-time for Starker Forests.
Actively engaged in the Oregon Small Woodlands Association for several years, Gary has served on their Executive Committee. Currently, he is the chair of both the Benton County Chapter of the Oregon Small Woodlands Association and the Mary’s Peak Chapter of the Oregon Society of American Foresters. In addition, Gary has served on numerous ODF committees for the past fifteen years.
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Rick Barnes - Roseburg, Oregon
rbarnes@barnesinc.com
Term Expires: July 2011
Rick Barnes is a professional consulting forester and founder of Barnes & Associates in Roseburg.
He is the current President of the Douglas Forest Protective Association Board, and is a member of Douglas Small Woodlands Association, Oregon Small Woodlands Association, American Tree Farm System and the Douglas County Woodland Advisory Committee. Barnes recently completed a four-year term on the Douglas County Planning Commission. Rick Barnes graduated from Oregon State University in 1978 with a BS degree in Forest Management and completed his MBA at Southern Oregon State University in 1981. Rick is a Certified Forester by the Society of American Foresters.
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Ned Livingston - Bonanza, Oregon
froghill@starband.net
Term Expires: July 2010
Ned Livingston owns and manages 2,400 acres of forest and pasture east of Klamath Falls. Previously, he was an architect who owned a furniture studio. Ned’s public service includes serving on the Klamath County Planning Commission from 1988 to 1994. Since 1985, he has worked with the Klamath/Lake Forest Health Partnership and the Klamath Forest Protective Association. Ned also serves on the Eastern Oregon Regional Forest Practice Committee.
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Susan Watkins - McMinnville, Oregon
Term Expires: September 2011
Susan Watkins moved to Oregon following a thirty-year career in municipal law in California and Washington State. After Susan and her husband planted a small forest in Yamhill County in 1994, Susan became a Master Woodland Manager and is responsible for managing her family woodland. As landowner representative, Susan helped found the Family Forest Project, the public-private initiative that produces the "Ties to the Land" succession planning materials for landowning families.
Susan serves on the Board of the Yamhill County Small Woodlands chapter and was an early member of Women Owning Woodlands Network. In 2007, Susan testified on behalf of small forest owners before the Economy Work Group of the "Big Look" land-use planning task force. Susan received both her BA and JD from Stanford University.
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Sarah Deumling - Rickreall, Oregon
Term Expires: July 2011
Sarah Deumling grew up on farm and forest land in the Cascade foothills east of Molalla. She earned a BA in Political Science at Whitman College in Walla Walla and her MAT at Reed College in Portland. Sarah has spent three years teaching and many years as a mother, homemaker, gardener, and farmer. Sarah is a family forest owner; in 1987, Sarah and her husband took over management of the 2000-acre Zena Forest in the Eola Hills. Sarah’s husband died in 1996 and she assumed sole responsibility for forest management of Zena. Zena Forest attained FSC certification in 1998, and remains certified today. Currently, one of Sarah’s son is home, running a small sawmill on the forest property.
Sarah is a member of Northwest Sustainable Timber Growers, Build Local Alliance, Forest Guild, Women Owning Woodlands (WOWnet), and the Farm Bureau. She also participates in Willamette University’s sustainability seminar, using Zena Forest as a working example of sustainable forestry. Sarah considers herself, first and foremost, a forest manager interested in the long-term health and vitality of Oregon’s forests.
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Weyerhaeuser Company
Greg Miller - Salem, Oregon
greg.miller@weyerhaeuser.com
Term expires: July 2011
Greg Miller is the Oregon public affairs manager for Weyerhaeuser Company. He works with company business managers representing Weyerhaeuser on key company initiatives, public policies and other external issues affecting business operations. He manages legislative affairs and relations, political and ballot measure contribution programs, and regulatory affairs related to legislative outcomes. He is the company liaison for statewide elected officials, state legislators, regulators, local elected officials and community leaders. Greg has been with Weyerhaeuser since 1995, and in 1998 received the Weyerhaeuser President’s award.
Prior to joining Weyerhaeuser, he was a staff director for Oregon Forest Industries Council, executive vice president of Southern Oregon Timber Industries Association, manager of forestry issues for Northwest Timber Association and forest policy analyst for Associated Oregon Loggers. Greg started work in the forest industry in 1974 as a forestry crewmember for International Paper Company and held forest operation positions in Oregon.
Greg holds a Bachelor of Science degree in forest management from Washington State University (1977) and a Master of Science degree in natural resource management from the University of Idaho (1983). He is a board member of Oregon Forest Resources Institute. He is an active participant on various committees for associations such as Oregon Forest Industries Council, Associated Oregon Industries, Northwest Pulp and Paper Association, Oregon Business Council, Oregonians for Food and Shelter (Board member), Capitol Club (Board member) and the AF&PA California Working Group. Greg has been a member of the Society of American Foresters since 1977; he is also a SAF Certified Forester..
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Director of Forestry for the Oregon Forest Resources Institute (OFRI)
Mike Cloughesy - Portland, Oregon
cloughesy@ofri.com
Mike Cloughesy is the Director of Forestry for the Oregon Forest Resources Institute (OFRI), which was created by the Oregon Legislature to provide public education about forest practices and promote sound forest management. Mike develops and implements OFRI’s forestry education programs for landowners and the general public, regularly serving as a liaison with the forestry and forest science communities.
Prior to joining OFRI, Mike was director of outreach education, assistant leader of the Forestry Education program and a forest resources professor at Oregon State University College of Forestry. Earlier in his career, he held teaching, research and forester positions with tribal forests in Oregon, Washington and the San Juan National Forest in Durango, Colorado.
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Rex Storm, Associated Oregon Loggers
Salem, Oregon
rexstorm@oregonloggers.org
Rex is Forest Policy Manager for Associated Oregon Loggers (AOL), a statewide trade association based in Salem. He works with harvest & allied forest contract businesses and represents them in forest regulatory affairs, industry relations, and professional accreditation. Prior to joining AOL in 1995, his career included positions in Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming and Wisconsin working with American Pulpwood Association, the US Forest Service, and Louisiana-Pacific. Rex began forestry work in 1975 as a firefighter with the US Forest Service in Utah.
He owns and manages forestland located in Columbia County. Rex holds a BS in forest management from Colorado State University, MBA from the University of Oregon and certificates from Forest Engineering Institute, Certified Silviculturist, and Leadership Oregon. He is a member of the Oregon Small Woodlands Association, Society of American Foresters and a Certified Forester.
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Oregon State University, Extension Forestry
Brad Withrow-Robinson - McMinnville, Oregon
brad.w-r@oregonstate.edu
Brad Withrow-Robinson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Forest Science at Oregon State University and Extension Forester serving Marion, Polk and Yamhill Counties. He has degrees in Horticulture and Forestry, including a Ph.D. from OSU. Brad has served the three-county area for six years, building a program to serve a diverse population spread across a broad ecological and social landscape. Audiences that he serves include private family forest landowners, forestry workforce, conservation groups and teachers.
Brad has done research and teaching internationally. Current topics of interest include Family Forestland Succession Planning, conservation and restoration management of oak, prairie and riparian areas, stand development and agro-forestry.
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Chief of the Private Forests Division, Oregon Department of Forestry
Jim Paul - Salem, Oregon
jim.t.paul@state.or.us
Jim Paul became Chief of the ODF Private Forests Division in May 2008. Paul was appointed Assistant State Forester leading ODF’s Forest Management Division in June 2006, overseeing the management of about 780,000 acres of Oregon’s state-owned forestlands. Paul was then named State Forests Division Chief in January 2008 during an organizational realignment of Forestry’s services.
Paul has worked for the Department of Forestry since 1996. He previously served as the statewide operations manager for state forests, helped lead the Private Forests Program with policy and interagency coordination, and served as ODF’s hydrologist from 1999-2004. Jim earned a master’s degree in forest hydrology from the University of Washington, College of Forest Resources along with forestry master’s program work at Duke University. Paul received a bachelor’s degree in political science from Whitman College.
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