portland chapter
Date: Monday, May 19
Where: World Forestry Center, Cheatham Hall
When: 5:30pm Social Hour
6:30Ppm - Dinner (meal is optional $15.00)
7:00pm - Program
Program: Jim Rice, Mt Hood NF - Stewardship Contracting and the Clackamas Stewardship Partners. Plus: Special Presentation Honoring Bob Devlin, Adolf Hertich, and Bob Hetzer as 50-year SAF Members!
The Mt. Hood NF Stewardship Contracting Coordinator, Jim Rice will discuss Stewardship Contracting, a new tool in the tool box for managers of National Forests in the U.S. Forest Service (USFS). He will also address how the Clackamas Stewardship Partners (CSP), a diverse group of stakeholders dedicated to restoring ecological function of the Clackamas River Basin while benefiting local economies, have worked together to recommend numerous forest management projects using this new tool. The Clackamas Stewardship Partners have taken a leadership role in recommending stewardship contracting opportunities which has transformed an atmosphere of polarization and distrust in forest management to an environment where common-ground solutions are not only developed, but implemented.
Jim Rice is a currently a Supervisory Forester on the Mt. Hood National Forest. Jim began his career with the USFS on the San Bernardino National Forest in California in 1974 working on range improvement projects, fuels management projects, recreation and fire suppression. During the 1980s he worked on two different ranger districts on the Shasta-Trinity National Forest in Northern California as a silviculturist on timber sales, reforestation, timber stand improvement and fuels management projects. In 1989 Jim transferred to the Mt. Hood National Forest where he continues to work on all types of vegetation management projects across the Forest. A native of California, Rice graduated from Humboldt State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Forest Science.
For reservation, please contact Michele Docy () at 503.224.8046 no later than Thursday, May 15.
john poppino and john nesbitt - golder members
John Poppino joined the Society of American Foresters as a Student Member in 1957 while at the Oregon State College School of Forestry. For the next 30 years he was employed by the US Forest Service in Oregon. But his Forest Service career started well before that. While a student at Estacada Union High School he signed on as a temporary fire fighter in 1947. The next year saw the start of his real career. He started as an unskilled laborer on the Clackamas River Division of the Mt. Hood National Forest and left the Clackamas River area as Assistant Ranger of the Estacada Ranger District in 1962. In the meantime he had spent four years in the Air Force, several at Oregon State and other colleges pursuing a forestry degree and working summers as a lookout or forest guard. He then went to the regional office where he was a basin planner on the Oregon river basin field party of the US Department of Agriculture. The next position was as District Ranger of the Sisters Ranger District, Deschutes National Forest. While there, he was responsible for the combination of the Sisters and Metolius Ranger Districts into the existing Sisters Ranger District. He also completed the transaction which created a scenic easement to the headwaters of the Metolius River for the U.S. Forest Service.
From Sisters he went to the Malheur National Forest as leader of a study of the John Day River basin to support a Bureau of Reclamation evaluation of water storage potential. This job led to position as Assistant Forest Supervisor for all of the minor functions on the forest (watershed, Information amd Education, land use planning, etc.) Since he could go no further east and stay in Region Six, he returned to the Regional Office as Forester on the Land Use Planning team. While on this job he was assigned to the RARE II study of roadless areas in the region. He didn't succeed on this assignment. Thirty years later there is still discontent concerning areas without roads that are not yet designated Wilderness.
His final FS assignment was as Project Leader for Forest Inventory and Analysis at the Pacific Northwest Research Station in Portland. This unit had responsibility to evaluate and report on condition and extent of forests in Washington, Oregon and California on a ten-year cycle. He was informed that the interval between the completion of the field work and release of the final report was not acceptable. It took a while to turn this around, but it was accomplished. When he retired, the data was collected on field data recorders and analyzed by researchers with desk top PC's. The reporting interval was reduced from a matter of years to 6-8 months.
John was elected Fellow in the Society in 2002.
He also volunteers in forestry-related activities. He is a Master Woodland Manager for OSU Extension Service, member of the Board of Directors of Forests Forever, Inc. (owner/operator of Hopkins Demonstration Forest), President Emeritus of Oregon Small Woodlands Association, Board Member of the Clackamas-Marion Forest Protective Association, member of the Board and Operations Committee of Oregon Forest Industries Council, and President, CEO, Forester and chief laborer of Lazy RB Tree Farm, Inc.
John R. Nesbitt graduated from a large high school in Maryland in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. In high school, he was the captain of Cross Country and Track teams. He received a forestry degree from SUNY College of Forestry at Syracuse. While at SUNY, John lettered in Cross Country for four years and received an ROTC commission. In 1960, he married another Marylander, Ellen Ascherfeld. John served two years in 3d Cavalry, nine years in Washington State National Guard, and ten years in Army Reserve. His forestry career with USDA Forest Service started in Quinault, Olympic NF, in 1961. Other assignments included stints on the Ellensburg RD, Wenatchee NF, Job Corps at Cispus on the G.P. NF, White River RD on the Snoqualmie NF, Mapleton RD on the Siuslaw NF, Forest Silviculturist of the Fremont NF, and Fuels Specialist in the R-6 R.O.
John retired in May 1994 and has done consulting work as Air Quality, Fire, and Fuels Specialist for CH2MHill and Air Science. Always active in his community, he coached cross country one season in the Job Corps and for five years at the middle school and high school in Lakeview. John was ordained as Deacon in the Episcopal Church in December 1973 and served in that capacity in Florence and Lakeview. In 1987, he was ordained as Priest, serving as such in both Lakeview and Portland churches. He has been Rector of St. David of Wales Episcopal Church (Portland) since January, 1990. His wife Ellen is the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon Episcopal Relief and Development volunteer coordinator, a position that given both the opportunity to do Katrina relief work twice in Mississippi and once in New Orleans.
Ellen and John have two children, both in Boulder Colorado. Katharine was FS engine chief in FS for five years, a development specialist for many non-profits, a computer memory sales person, a cook in a homeless shelter, and is presently cooking meals for a YWCA Day care Center. Sean is working for Metro-State University in Denver as facilities coordinator and coaching cross country and track. Sean and wife Becky have an almost two year old son, thereby making John and Ellen proud grandparents.
note on golden year member dues
If you are a Golden Year member, you probably know that your SAF membership dues are waived. However, if you want to continue to receive the Journal of Forestry, Forest Science, and/or a regional journal, you need to continue to pay for them. If you have questions, contact Ramona Arechiga at 503.282.8846 ext. 15. She'll be happy to clarify the policy for you or be your liaison with the national office to get it all worked out.
do you have the missing western journal?
The Oregon State University Extension Library has been donated an almost-complete set of Western Journal of Applied Forestry issues. The set is missing Volume 9 Number 2 from 1994. If this issue can be found, the complete set will be bound and available at the extension library. If anyone has this issue of the WJAF and is willing to donate it to OSU, please contact Jim Johnson () at 541.737.8954.
upcoming events
May 7-9 2008 OSAF Annual Meeting, Valley River Inn, Eugene. This year's theme is "Building the Future with Oregon's Forests: Policies and Tools for Emerging Issues."
September 15 Portland Chapter Meeting, World Forestry Center. Update from OSAF Chair Marc Vomocil and District Council Member Clark Seely.
Suggestions for program topic and speakers are welcome. Contact Bob Deal () at 503.808.2015.
