Dr. Chad Oliver

Dr. Oliver has worked in the Southeastern, Pacific Northwestern, and Northeastern forests-as well as abroad in Europe, east and west Asia, central and South America, and Australia. Dr. Oliver has consulted with timber companies, private landowners, industry associations, and state and national forests. He has testified at United States Senate and House of Representatives Committee Hearings and has served on or chaired various scientific panels for the United States and Washington State executive and legislative branches of government, NAFTA, and the Society of American Foresters. Dr. Oliver is the author of more than 100 scientific and technical papers.

Making Sustainability Work Economically, Ecologically, and Socially
The concept of sustainable forestry has built on the foresters' old definition of intergenerational equity in timber supply. It now refers to many economic, social, and ecological values provided by the forest and both to intergenerational and to global, spatial equity. Two things are needed to enable foresters to ensure forests are sustainable for many values and throughout the world: First, as will be described in the presentation, is a long term target of the desired, changed conditions. Second is recognition that careful measures will need to be taken while implementing the change to ensure no segment of society is faced with an undue economic hardship.