Talking Forests

Jessica Carr started working in marketing when she was 18 at Utah Valley University's Entrepreneurship Institute as the Marketing and Events Coordinator. That same year she became the youngest ambassador for Google in the world (to her knowledge) as the Organizer for the Utah Google Developer Group. She then went on to be a project manager, product manager, and marketing consultant until she went on an adventure to become a tour bus driver in Fairbanks Alaska. Today Jessica owns Expedition Web Studio and helps small businesses build marketing focused websites. She also works for IBS implants, a global dental implant manufacturing company. Jessica is also finishing her Bachelors at Utah Valley University in Data Analytics. In her free time, she loves to be outdoors doing whatever she can outside. She also loves participating in Agility with her dog Sophie and competing in the equestrian sport, Three-Day Eventing.  

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Jordan Gross and I e-met on our favorite platform LinkedIn, we had a great idea to bring you guys value and so we interviewed him! 

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Jordan is a Northwestern and Kellogg School of Management graduate, a two-time startup founder, a TEDx speaker, and a #1 best-selling author. His upcoming book, The Journey to Cloud Nine, provides a new approach to the personal development world by using fictional storytelling to reveal some of life's most meaningful principles. Jordan has been asking hundreds of people around the world how they live their lives on cloud nine, and he cannot wait to share this with all of you!

Jordan provided a testimony of our podcast: "This podcast is great, because the conversation is guided by such a  knowledgable, conversational, and inquisitive host. The host garners  insight from each guest, and then does a really nice job of relaying it  both to her own personal experience, as well as experience of those in  the forest industry. This creative approach to a traditional world is  exactly what is necessary to further grow, develop, and spread awareness  for a worthwhile cause!" 

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Christian Kirsch has 22 years of solid experience in forestry. 15 years of experience running a small forestry business. He has in-depth knowledge of the principles and practices of forestry, including best management practices, water quality, tree and shrub selection, planting, pre-commercial thinning, harvesting, and sustainability.  

He also owns Kirsch Forest Management  Location Coeur d Alene Idaho where he has done:

• Managed timberland for private land owners, which entailed procurement, marketing, cruising, property line identification, sustainable harvest management plans and following the best management practices for water quality.

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Christine and I have a connection as we have both worked in forest policy and communications roles.  She gives us professional insight from her role in  with EACOM Timber Corporations, one of Canada’s largest softwood lumber producers.   Her most valuable tip: " Don’t be afraid to share your perspective at  school/work, or your story on social media. If you keep it positive and  respectful, then you can say what’s on your mind."    Follow her on  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-leduc-ba73065a/ or Twitter: https://twitter.com/leducchr   Christine obtained  a Bachelor of Sciences and a Master of Forest Conservation from the  University of Toronto’s Faculty of Forestry. Upon graduating from the  UofT’s MFC program, she held policy positions in the office of the  Ontario Minister of Natural Resources and the Ontario  Forest Industries Association. Christine has been the Director of Public Affairs since 2015. She  was a recipient of the Prince of Wales Award for Sustainable Forestry  and the Ontario Professional Foresters Association Fernow Award. Christine is also a board member for Forests Ontario, a  member of the advisory council for the It Takes a Forest campaign, and a  member of Women for Nature, an initiative by Nature Canada.      

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Edie Dooley is a field forester stewarding a 12,500 acre family forest in Western Oregon with one of the America’s oldest forestry consulting companies, Mason, Bruce and Girard. Prior to finding her way into this dream job she worked with MBG out of Portland, OR as a forest analyst performing forest inventory analysis and updates, running large cruise jobs including managing the cruise of the Oregon’s Elliott State forest in 2015, and working on fast turnaround due diligence cruise jobs. Two years ago, while living in Portland, Edie founded the Free to Grow Coalition, a networking group for the next generation of leaders in forest work aimed holding casual meet ups to have real talk about forestry’s joys as well as its challenges. Edie has held a large breadth of forestry and conservation jobs including serving as an urban conservation crew leader with the Student Conservation Association, three Forest Service technician seasons in botany, a fire ecology research and silviculture, a USDA National Needs Fellow forestry master’s student conducting research on disturbance ecology and multi-trophic level interactions with whitebark pine, mountain pine beetles and white pine blister rust, and as Montana DNRC’s urban forest inventory program specialist conducting surveys of publicly owned urban trees throughout Montana’s communities. While paid to be a forester, Edie is an ecologist at heart with an honors B.S. in biology focused on ecology and evolution from Syracuse University where she conducted an undergraduate thesis on the effects of anthropogenic sound on bird song. She completed her Master’s in Forestry at University of Montana in 2012. Having grown up in a small town in New York state, and eventually living in Portland, Oregon, Edie is loving settling into the country life in the Willamette Valley in Oregon where she lives with her partner who is also a forestry consultant. She has also started a new Free To Grow Coalition group for her forestry peers in the Salem, Oregon area. She enjoys skiing, yoga, travel, rock climbing, aerial silks, gardening, bird watching and being a feminist. 

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Live from the International Mass Timber Conference in Portland, Oregon we talk openly about building with wood! 

Dr. Patricia A. Layton, Ph.D., Clemson, SC, Is the Director of the Wood Utilization + Design Institute and a professor Forestry. She is the former Director of the School of Agricultural, Forest, and Environmental Sciences (SAFE Sciences) (2010-2014) at Clemson University. She came to Clemson University in late 1999 as the Chair of the Department of Forest Resources. In 2003 she was chosen to lead the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources. 

Before joining Clemson University, she was a Senior Director with the American Forest & Paper Association where she represented the industry in the area of recycling, life cycle analysis, sustainability, and energy. 

Prior to that Pat was a Manager at Scott Paper Company, where she developed new forestry and marketing initiatives, including playing a vital role in the development of the American Forest & Paper Association’s Sustainable Forestry Initiative Program. While at Scott Paper, Dr. Layton served as the forest policy and technical lead on all of Scott Paper’s international forestry investments and opportunities.  Education: 

Ph.D. Forest Genetics

M.S. Forest Genetics

B.S. Forest Management

Development of southern yellow pine cross laminated timber

Extension and Outreach

Expanding the Use of Wood Products in SC

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Courtney Peterson is a Research Associate in the Forest and Rangeland Stewardship Department at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. One of her major roles is to serve as the Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change (ASCC) Coordinator, where she focuses on disseminating ASCC (www.adaptivesilviculture.org) project findings and translating them into outreach and training opportunities with land managers and scientists working to manage forests for climate change adaptation. Courtney also collaborates with the Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science (NIACS) (https://www.facebook.com/theNIACS/) on climate science communication and adaptation initiatives, and works to connect partners to NIACS programs, resources, and training opportunities. Prior to working for the Forest and Rangeland Stewardship Department, Courtney was the Wildfire Mitigation Education Coordinator for the Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS) (https://www.facebook.com/CSUForestRangelandStewards/) where she developed and implemented outreach, education, and public awareness campaigns related to forest health, fire adapted communities, and wildfire mitigation for a diverse range of audiences. 

Courtney earned her MS in Human Dimensions of Natural Resources from Colorado State University (CSU), and her master’s research involved a public perception survey of the Colorado State Forest Service’s management of state and private lands. Courtney has a BS in Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism with a concentration in Environmental Communication, and minors in Conservation Biology and Music Performance, also from CSU. As an environmental communication major, Courtney learned about the importance of science communication and how important it is to be able to tell your story about your research and science to diverse audiences. The world of social media provides a whole suite of tools that can be utilized to help tell this story. 

When she is not working, Courtney loves playing violin in a local volunteer orchestra and traveling the world to experience new places. Courtney also enjoys hiking, snowshoeing, skiing, reading, and spending time with her family and friends. 

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A great story here! We talked about all types of landowners and being involved in that community. Valerie really has ties to the land and it comes out in her passionate work. You can find her on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/val_abouttown  

Valerie developed a connection to the land and passion for working with people who have sawdust in their pockets and boots on the ground while growing up on a timber and cattle ranch in Northern California. She likes to say her playpen was the back of a pick-up filled with firewood and chainsaws. This perspective guided her education and career pathways. During summers away from earning a degree in Forestry at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo she laid out timber harvest plans and conducted salmonid surveys as a forestry technician in the same watersheds her father and grandfather logged. Her interest in working lands and the people who manage them fueled her M.S. in Forestry research in West Virginia where she studied farm and forest owner conservation interests. 

She has 6 years of experience in extension outreach and education. Valerie’s main interest is creating opportunities for land managers to have positive dialogue with groups who are less connected to natural resources. After serving as a Forestry and Natural Resources Extension Agent with Oregon State University for Oregon’s North Coast she has recently returned to the ranch. As the new Executive Director of The Buckeye she has the opportunity to work with ranchers, farmers, dairymen and family forest owners who care about the economic and environmental sustainability of open space on California’s North Coast. She is enjoying the opportunity to closer to family and contribute to the family logging business.  

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Anjel Tomayko is a bad@$$ firefighter, worth a listen! 

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/anjel-tomayko-4643983b/

I completed my BS in Forest Resource Management in 2016 and am working to complete my MS in Natural Resource Management this year.

While in the USAF, worked as a bioenvironmental technician ensuring occupational safety and health standards were met for all base personnel as well as ensuring environmental laws and regulations were met, to include the drinking water used by personnel and dependents.

As an environmental technician for a consulting firm, worked on remediation projects for federal, state and private companies to include one Superfund Site in the Silver Valley of North Idaho.

For the last 5 summers, have worked primarily as a wildland firefighter for both Washington State and the USFS with one season on a timber crew in pre-sales forestry.

In January I accepted a new position as a federal lands forester with WA DNR. This new program is was authorized under the Good Neighbor Authority as part of the Farm Bill. Currently I’m working on an Interdisciplinary Team comprised of DNR, FS, and Tribal leaders as well as environmental groups and private landowners to develop a cross-jurisdictional landscape management approach for approximately 90,000 acres in Northeastern Washington. The initial focus is 40,000 acres on the Colville National Forest.

I love taking photos of the landscape in a variety of settings. While I consider myself an amateur as I usually use my camera phone instead of my fancy camera, I enjoy the results quite often as do others. I also started hunting this last year and enjoy cutting, splitting and stacking firewood.

My goal in the world of social media is to educate people on what forestry is. Most people have no idea what a forester does and how important our role is in land management. I know there are many people who are just like I used to be, completely oblivious to the idea that our public lands are not just left to their own devices.