Skills	Forest Planning, Conservation, Management and Administration Natural Resources Inventory,  Environmental Monitoring and Data Analysis Geographic Information Systems, Remote Sensing & Applied Research Urban and Community Forestry Project Organization and Management
Education	Yale University, New Haven, CT   Master of Forestry    May 1981 University of California, Berkeley, CA  B.S. Forestry   June 1972 Washington University, St. Louis, MO   Biology     1968-70
Summary of Qualifications	Consulting Forester since 1978.  Principal and owner of East-West Forestry Associates, Inc., a forestry consultancy founded in 1983, based in New York and Northern California.
Professional experience	IQC Federal Contractor for Forest Inventory & Analysis since 1995.    US Forest Service Region 5    Sacramento, CA My company has an ongoing project to provide consistent & high quality inventory data for 20 million acres of Region 5 Forest lands on 18 national forests and BLM lands.   We have a flexible and positive working relationship with US Forest Service personnel. 25 Years in Forestry and Wildland Management1978 - 2003    East-West Forestry Associates, Inc.  I have 25 years experience as an independent consultant forester.   As principal of East-West Forestry Associates, Inc., a forestry consultancy based in New York and Northern California, I have been involved in innumerable projects involving ecologically sustainable management of private, industrial and public forests.  These include development of forest conservation easements, participation on FSC forestland certification teams (and also as a FSC Certified Resource manager), management planning and compliance documents, administering ecologically-based management and fire hazard mitigation projects, urban and community forestry, agroforestry, minor forest products, marketing, plantation development. (For detailed project list see www.forestdata.com/recent.htm). 23 Years of GIS.    I have been working in all phases of electronic mapping and GIS database development since 1980 on projects ranging from programming a vector GIS system BaseMap 2000 to a hands-on regional analysis of the Sierra Nevada for use in developing a California Sierra-Nevada Conservancy in 2002.
Professional Memberships	Registered Forester #1776, California Board of Forestry. Current Vice-President California Oak Foundation.   Treasurer-Environmental Action Committee of West Marin, Member-California Urban Forest Advisory Council.  Amigos de las Americas Board and Travel Coordinator.   Former chapter president of Partners of the Americas (since 1981).  Forest Stewards Guild member.  Formerly FSC (Smartwood) Certified Resource Manager.  Society of American Foresters member since 1978. California Licensed Foresters Association.  Active member of International Oak Society.
Languages	Moderate French, Spanish and (in the distant past) Norwegian.
International Experience	1981-2001    Partners of the Americas    San Francisco/Mexico City §    Provided leadership, developed membership and participation, wrote and administered grants, and helped attain 501c(3) status for our local non-profit chapter. §    Developed educational bi-directional exchange programs involving more than 100 youth, and a number of non-profits. §    Designed and developed Solar Lumber Drying Kiln Technology in the Caribbean §    Developed and participated in agroforestry projects in Haiti and Dominica §    Developed a large number of professional forestry and environmental exchange programs. 1973-2003    Visited forestry projects in 50 countries throughout Asia, South America, Europe, Pacific Islands, Australia, New Zealand and   Caribbean regions. 1984   Oxford Forestry Institute Summer Modules, Oxford, UK 1973    Tree-improvement staff of Forest Resource Institute,Rotorua, NZ.
References	Upon Request