Meet the pros

[Samuel]

Here's my wind shelter. 



The windmills that are up there after the first pic was taken capture any wind that tries to escape.

That picture brings back a lot of memories.  Been going on 14 years since I saw it last!   

[SwampDonkey]

Yeah, well your grandfather used to live just a mile down the road and I remember a couple of your aunts and an uncle who lived there then. I seen one of your aunt's at the archives working last year. Another lives over the hill in Knoxford, her husband farms next to my door step.

[Samuel]

Oh the memories of Carleton County.  I will have to come home one day soon, or I may get lost when it all changes so much.

[WAP Man]

Graduated from Maritime Forest Ranger School 1981

Work for the provincial government forestry dept since then . Began my career working on Growth and Yield research projects ( Yellow Book ) then focused on establishing hardwood management trails .
Currently I coordinate the provincial silviculture program on Private and Industrial land.

I am  a xmas tree grower/producer . I have 10 -12acres under management from whick I export 700 or so and also have a U-pick , i cut opeartion in my community where I sell trees locally .
I also own a 50 acre hardwood lot where I mess around with some hardwood single tree selection and pruning as well as tapping a couple of dozen trees in the spring .... before golf season starts !!

Started in the woods in 1978 thinning out hardwood stand using a Homelite XL 12 with a manual chain oiler    those were the days

My son Taylor also graduated from MCFT ( formally MFRS) this past spring and is now taking his Degree in Forestry at UNB.............

[WDH]

WAP Man,

Nothing like keeping it in the family.  My wife is a graduate forester (met the lass in Forestry School), and my oldest daughter graduated in May with a Masters in Forestry Operations (Logging).  My brother is also a graduate forester .  There must be something in the genes.

[Dodgy Loner]

I'm a black sheep- the only forestry major in a family full of agricultural engineers

[WDH]

However, you have one relative that converted .  She is now a forester by experience with an on the job education.  There is always hope .

[Texas Ranger]

DanG, Danny, family meetings and gatherins should REALLY be interesting.

[WAP Man]

WAP Man,

Nothing like keeping it in the family.  My wife is a graduate forester (met the lass in Forestry School), and my oldest daughter graduated in May with a Masters in Forestry Operations (Logging).  My brother is also a graduate forester .  There must be something in the genes.

We're all quite proud. He got home last nite . I'm taking some time off  over xmas and him and I are heading for the woodlot cutting next years firewood + tree talk !
Cheers

[Dodgy Loner]

However, you have one relative that converted .  She is now a forester by experience with an on the job education.  There is always hope .

My dad is turning into quite the woodsman himself after spending all that time picking out trees for the sawshed and milling them on the LT15 .  I think he wants to get into woodworking when he retires

[WDH]

See, there is hope .

[Phorester]

I have a son going to VA Tech, majoring in engineering.  He will actually make money with his career choice. 

Interesting WDH about your dad getting interested in woodworking as he gets older.  So am I......., and keeping the local drug store bought out of bandaids whilst I learn.

[SwampDonkey]

Doesn't even have to be a tool that cuts you either. Wood like cherry and ash are so hard, that they seem like glass on a sharp 45 ° cut corner joint. 

[Griz]

B.S. Forest Management - Texas A&M 1984
MBA - University of Houston - 1993

Worked 17 years for Champion International and International Paper in eastern Coastal plain of NC and Southeast Texas.  Now own Meridian Forestry in Livingston, TX and manage 105,000 of private timberland.

Areas of expertise:  Reforestation, timber sale admin., and wildlife enhancement projects.
2007 recipient of Texas Lone Star Land Steward Award for Texas Pineywood Region.

[WDH]

Welcome Griz!  You seem right familiar . 

I have to say that this individual is one of the finest foresters that I have ever had the pleasure to work with.  Griz, you will be a fine addition to this place with all your experience; I know that you have taught me a lot in the time that I have worked with you in Texas.

Welcome!  You will contribute a great deal and learn a great deal here as well. 

With two Foresters from Livingston (considering the infamous Texas Ranger), this place could become lopsided .

[Tom]

Are you kiddin me?!?  Two from Livingston??
It's all we can do to contain Texas Ranger. Before you know it there'll be a Bar-b-Cue and a Bar fight!

[WDH]

Well, he lives in Lovelady, but his office is in Livingston.  I am all for the Bar-b-Cue and the bar fight BBQ .  There is a place called "Florida's" that has some of the best BBQ, but as to the bar fights, I am afraid that I cannot reveal my sources  .

[Mooseherder]

Well, he lives in Lovelady, but his office is in Livingston.  I am all for the Bar-b-Cue and the bar fight BBQ .  There is a place called "Florida's" that has some of the best BBQ, but as to the bar fights, I am afraid that I cannot reveal my sources  .

I thought Sam Eliott and Patrick Swayze cleaned that mess up at the Roadhouse.

[Texas Ranger]

That was before they built "Buster McNutty's" our local lights out bar. 

Welcome Griz, this place needs a few more Texicans.

[WDH]

Never eat at a place that has chicken wire in front of the stage .