Chapters: North Puget Sound
Date: Monday, February 23, 2010
Place: MaxDales, Mt. Vernon, WA
Time: 6:00 pm social, 7:00 dinner and speaker
Dinner: Order from menu
Speaker: Larry Mason, RTI
RSVP: Karen Egtvedt (). Our representatives need to know how many people for the food reservations. Thanks!
February 2010 Program
Larry Mason is a Research Scientist and the Project Coordinator for the Rural Technology Initiative at the UW, School of Forest Resources, College of the Environment. Mason is also a Research Cooperator with the Consortium for Research in Recyclable Industrial Materials and serves as the Forest Resource Specialist for the University of Washington Bioenergy Work Group. Mason has more than 35 years of experience in forest resource management, forest economics, and wood products manufacture accompanied by publication of 30-plus journal articles, working papers, and legislative reports. He received the Dean's Award for Exemplary Contribution from the University of Washington in 2003 and 2008. Mason has a B.S. in Forest Management, an M.S. in Silviculture and Forest Protection.
New Projects at the UW School of Forest Resources to Focus on Native American Forestry
Tribal forestry programs are increasingly recognized as hopeful examples of forest stewardship; uniquely evolved from powerful and enduring cultural traditions. Ecosystems found by early European settlers in the Americas were not virgin wilderness, but were instead landscapes altered through time by many generations of Natives who intensively burned, pruned, sowed, weeded, tilled, and harvested to meet their requirements for fuel, fish and wildlife, vegetal foods and medicines, craft supplies, and materials for shelter and transportation. A fundamental land ethic, founded upon the survival imperative and implemented through adaptive management involving multiple, diverse values, has endured through millennia of interaction between man and nature, in ways that conserve resources while providing for the needs of people: Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Over the last century, university researchers have developed science-based knowledge and analytical capabilities to support forest management: Western Science. Although historically separated, these worlds share common goals of sustainability and offer powerful opportunity for information-sharing and problem-solving. Scientists at the UW are partnering with the Intertribal Timber Council, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Forest Service, and others to integrate indigenous knowledge and western science for holistic understanding of complex contemporary management challenges.
Chair(s): Paul Wagner/Ken Osborn
Chair-elect: vacant
Tree Farm Coordinator: John Keller
Membership: vacant
Walk in the Woods: Ken Osborn
Newsletter Editor: Karen Egtvedt
We are looking for chaper officers. We would appreciate your participation as an officer of NPS SAF!
