Synergy Forestry Panel

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The Synergy forestry discussion, featuring Northwest Certified Forestry's South Sound Director Kirk Hansen, Richard Bigley from the WA Department of Natural Resources, Scott Royer, Chuck Chambers, and Miguel Perez-Gibson is brought to you by SEED.

The discussion will take place Friday May 8th, from 5-7 PM in Seminar 2 building B1105.

Kirk is a small forest landowner with a 30-acre tree farm near Oakville, Washington where he manages a regenerating forest and develops experimental agroforestry systems. Kirk has worked on strategies for combining rural economic development with environmental enhancement in the Pacific Northwest for over 10 years. In 1996 Kirk founded Permaculture West, a non-profit organization that provided educational and training programs on sustainable forest and farm management for private landowners. In 1999 Kirk worked with a private fisheries consultancy on Critical Areas Ordinance issues pertaining to farming and riparian areas in the Skagit Valley. In 2000 Kirk began work with the Small Forest Landowner Office in the Washington State Department of Natural Resources where he currently assists family forest landowners across the state in finding financial and technical assistance. Kirk graduated from The Evergreen State College in 1995 with a B.S. in Sustainable Resource Management. His professional affiliations include the Washington Farm Forestry Association, Forest Guild and Family Forest Foundation.

Topics will include: Northwest forestry issues, forest products marketing, forest management planning, identifying government and non-government conservation funding sources, referrals to high quality consulting foresters and loggers, and carbon credit market development. Kirk can also answer landowners’ general forest management questions.

http://www.nnrg.org/news-events/news/ncf-offers-free-on-site-consultation-to-small-woodland-owners/