General Session Speakers Talk about “Our Woods: Wild and Working”
The forestry profession is evolving and changing as our society’s debate over forests continues and as we learn more about how local and global decisions affect our ability to sustain forest systems – keeping them both wild and working. The general session speakers for the 2006 convention bring vivid examples of successful programs or visions for sustaining both the wild and the working dimensions of our forests.
Wangari Maathai won a Nobel Peace Prize for her understanding of the fundamental link between forests and democracy.
Dan Botkinhelps us understand how our cultural legacy often dominates what we believe to be scientific solutions, and may point the way for us to move towards better integration of science into policy.
Laura Meyerson works to integrate ecological science into our wild and working forests.
Dave Kittredge will share details about an initiative in Massachusetts to sustain their wild and working forests against the pressures of an ever-expanding Boston.
Jim Grace will describe the way the Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry is working with stakeholders from cities to rural woodlands to sustain the wild and working character of Penn’s Woods.
