Forest Futures panel:
What is Sustainable Forestry?
12:45-2 p.m. in the Cat Cavern, second floor of the Putnam University Center
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Panelist Bios:

1. Roger Sedjo will present a paper titled "Definitional Challenges and Realties of Sustainable Forestry with Respect to Management and Economics."

Sedjo is a Senior Fellow and the Director of the Forest Economics and Policy Program at Resources for the Future (RFF), a Washington based policy research organization, and the President of the Environmental Literacy Council (ELC), a nonprofit environmental education group. At RFF he is responsible for the program that undertakes policy research on a wide array of forest resource questions. Dr. Sedjo has written extensively on forest and environmental issues, both domestic and international, having authored or edited fourteen books related to forestry, natural resources and the environment. He was a member of the Secretary of Agriculture's Committee of Scientists, which made recommendations on Forest Service planning, and edited a recent book, A Vision for the US Forest Service (2000), which addresses problems and possibilities for managing the National Forest System.
Dr. Sedjo has undertaken extensive research on timber supply and forest productivity issues. His work includes The Long-Term Adequacy of World Timber Supply (with Kenneth Lyon), Resources for the Future, 1990; "Forest Management, Conservation, and Global Timber Markets," in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, February 1999 (with B. Sohngen and R. Mendelsohn); the "Potential of High-Yield Plantation Forestry for Meeting Timber Needs," New Forests (1999); "Using Forest Plantations to Spare Natural Forests" (with Daniel Botkin) Environment, December 1997. Other recent work on industrial forestry examines the potential of technological change in forestry with a focus on biotechnology and genetic engineering. Dr. Sedjo has published dozens of articles related to climate and forests including the volume Economics of Carbon Sequestration in Forestry (1997), edited with R. Neil Sampson and Joe Wisniewski. He has been heavily involved in the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He was a co-Chairman of the chapter on "biological carbon sinks" the IPCC Third Assessment Report on Climate Change (2001). Dr. Sedjo has been a consultant to a wide array of organizations including the World Bank, the Global Environmental Facility, the Asian Development Bank, U.S. Agency for International Development, the OECD, Harvard Institute for International Development and others. Dr. Sedjo earned his B.A. and M.S. degrees at the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. at the University of Washington (Seattle).

2. Jack Ward Thomas will present a paper titled "Management Realities of Sustainable Forest Management under the Northwest Forest Plan."

Thomas is the Boone and Crockett Professor of Wildlife Conservation at the University of Montana (Missoula). His career as a research wildlife biologist began in 1957 at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. He joined the Forest Service in 1966 and ended his research career in 1993 as Chief Research Wildlife Biologist. In 1993, He was appointed Chief of the Forest Service, serving through 1996. He was at the forefront of efforts to resolve conservation conflicts in the Pacific Northwest including leadership of the Interagency Scientific Committee to Address Conservation of the Spotted Owl, the Scientific Assessment Team, was appointed Leader for the Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment Team by the President of the United States in early 1993. He has over 500 publications including such prize-winning efforts such as The Elk on North America - Ecology and Management, Wildlife Habitats in Managed Forests - The Blue Mountains of Oregon and Washington, and A Conservation Strategy for the Northern Spotted Owl. Thomas holds a B.S. in Wildlife Management from Texas A&M University (College Station), a M.S. in Wildlife Ecology from West Virginia University (Morgantown), and a Ph.D. in Forestry from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst).

3. David A. Perry will present a paper titled "Ecological Realities of Sustainable Forestry under the Northwest Forest Plan."

Perry is a Professor (emeritus) of Ecosystem Studies and Ecosystem Management in the Department of Forest Science at Oregon State University. He is also an Affiliate professor at the College of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Hawaii, Hilo. Here, Perry specialized in tropical ecosystem conservation, restoration and management. He is also the program director of the Land Restoration Center at the Malama Kukui Cultural Learning Center in Kohala, Hawaii.
His ongoing service in a variety of professional groups includes the National Commission on the Scientific Basis of Sustainable Forestry and the National Research Council Panel on Environmental Issues in Pacific Northwest Forests. Perry serves as an at-large consultant for communities, NGO's, land-managers, and landowners in the U.S. and abroad, and has authored a textbook, "Forest Ecosystems" (1994). Perry received his B.S. in Forestry and M.S. in Forest Economics at the University of Florida. He achieved an M.S. in Physics and Ph.D. in Ecology at Montana State University.

4. John Beuter will present a paper titled "Economic Realities of Sustaining Yield of Forest Products under the Northwest Forest Plan."

Beuter manages his own forests and consults as owner and president of Umpqua-Tualatin, Inc. in Corvallis, Oregon. From 1993 through 2001 he was with natural resource consultants Duck Creek Associates, Inc. of Corvallis, as principal and president through 1999, and senior associate and director thereafter. He remains on the firm's board of directors. He is also a Courtesy Professor of Forest Resources in the College of Forestry at Oregon State University. His consulting specialties include forest management (decision analysis), forest valuation, forest resource analysis, forest economics and policy, and forestry education. During 1991 and 1992 he served in Washington, D.C. with the first Bush Administration as deputy and act-ing assistant secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture, overseeing the Forest Service and Soil Conservation Service. Dr. Beuter was professor of forest management at Oregon State University (OSU) from 1970 to 1988. From 1988- 1990, he was consulting forester and principal with Mason, Bruce & Girard, Inc. in Portland. From 1961 to 1968, he was research forest economist and resource analyst with the U.S. Forest Service's PNW Forest Experiment Station in Portland, the last three years as project leader for marketing eco-nomics research. His research topics have included forest resource analysis, timber sale procedures, forest management eco-nomics, and silvicultural analysis. During 1991 and 1992, he was a member of the U.S. Department of the Interior's Spotted Owl Recovery Team. Born and reared in Chicago, Dr. Beuter has a B.S. degree in forestry and an M.S. degree in forest econom-ics from Michigan State University, and a Ph.D. in forestry and economics from Iowa State University.