Meet the pros

[jrdwyer]

Joe Dwyer, Dwyer Forestry Consulting, Evansville, IN

Degree: B.S. Forestry
Years of Experience: 19 + a few summers while in college
Areas of Expertise: Selective timber harvesting, timber marketing, hardwood forest management, timber sale contracts, timber appraisals, GPS.

Degree from Iowa State University, work for private landowners in southern IN, western KY, and southern IL, spent 1 year as a Land Surveyor performing RTK GPS and total station surveys under the license of another.

I really enjoyed working on the west side of the Cascades (OR) while in college in the summer of '87 . I am married, very settled, and happy in the Ohio Valley.

My website: http://dwyerforestry.com/

[WDH]

jrd,

Did you meet a professor there, Dr. Richard (Dick) Shultz?  He was my major professor in grad school in the late 70's at UGA.  I have always had tremendous respect for him.  I also learned a ton from him.  He left UGA in late 1979 to get back more to his family, and I believe he went to Iowa State to teach.

[Gary_C]

WDH

Is this the guy?

http://www.nrem.iastate.edu/faculty/schultz.php

[jrdwyer]

wdh,

Yes, I had Dick Shultz for several forest ecology and watershed classes. He is an excellent professor and teacher and I really enjoyed his classes. They  were doing a lot of research on buffer strips and nutrient capture along streams when I was there. Trying to stop the N runoff from the crop fields.

Small World

[WDH]

Yes, a small world.  He is a class act.  You have good roots .

[chainspinrunner]

G. Rose
3 years Cutting/Skidding Bey Brothers Logging Inc. Attica, NY

Just finished Associates degree -Forest Technician @ Paul Smith's College in the Adirondacks.

On my way to completing B.S. in Industrial Forest Operations @ P.S.C. another 2 years ahead of me!!

Looking forward to  putting my time in and carrying on good ethics!
Goal: Gain as much experience as I can, and put my brain and muscles to good use!! 

My formula:(Brain+Muscles)Experience=

[madhatte]

Forestry Technician
BS/BA TESC (Forest Community Ecology/Photography)
GIS, Timber Cruising, Site Layout, Reprod, Taxonomy, Pathology, Interagency Interface, Wildland Firefighting
~15 years of experience, including a Weyerhauser internship, time as an independent subcontractor to the BLM, and currently a GS technician for a Federal agency

[MFinity]

Hi gang,

B.S. Forest Resources Management - ESF Syracuse 1976

Peace Corps Volunteer Guatemala 1977-1979

Worked 29 years for Bureau of Indian Affairs and Tribal Forestry organizations in eastern WA and northern ID, as Forester and Forest Manager.
Areas of expertise:  Silviculture, Timber sale admin., Working With Difficult People 

Since May 2008, am paid to NOT show up at work (Retired)   
Now living in a yurt deep in the woods near Tum Tum WA; planning/dreaming of building our own strawbale house.
Glad to be aboard!

Mike F.

[Geoff Kegerreis]

Worked my way through school:

97'-98' One sawmill in Western North Carolina and one in Western Montana.
98'-00' Summers with the Michigan DNR
98'-00' During college worked for a tree farm, a tree nursery and in a biotech laboratory on two different tree research projects.
B.Sc. Forestry Michigan State 01'
01'-current Self-employed consultant (first few years gov't contracting, now private/industry/litigation)

I do not visit this forum very often, though every now and then there is a topic that captures my attention.

I know Ron Scott, and live but 15 minutes from him but hardly ever see him. 

[ncsuclell]

Hello all,

Degree: BS in Forestry concentration on Business from NCSU '06
Experience: 2 yrs as a timber buyer for Georgia Carolina, Wendell, NC
                  1.5 yrs as a Forester for Camp Blanding, Starke, FL

I guess I'm pretty young compared to some of you guys.  I also have not seen anyone else from NC State.

[WDH]

Yes, you are just a young whippersnapper  . 

Welcome to the Forum!

[SwampDonkey]

This older bush whacker, welcomes the younger whippersnapper to.

[Ron Scott]

Ditto!

[LongBomber]

Hello from Cranbrook BC.

Forest Technologies Diploma from Northern Alberta Institute of Technology - `97
Experience - Full phase timber layout from initial landscape unit recce to final cutting permit approval.  I specialize in developing remote valleys with no prior road access.  I have developed roughly 2.4 million cubic meters of timber in the last 12 years.  I have taken many continuing education course on stream assessments, Heli-harvesting, cable harvesting, steep slope ground based harvesting, worksafe for supervisors, arc, soil stability and entomology-pathology.  As a consultant I develop management plans for multiple clients in the southern interior of BC, and plan and complete multiple resource surveys. 

I`m not the Old `fart or the young wipersnapper... just the guy who quietly goes to work in the field 60 hours a week and gets the job done. Wow the experience section sounded like the start of a resume...

[Ken]

I am a forester living in central New Brunswick.  Received my degree from the University of NB.  Have been offering a full range of silvicultural and woodlot management services to area woodlot owners and industry for nearly 20 years.   The harvesting side of the business has been very slow over the past 3-4 years but the optimist in me sees better times ahead. 

Over the past 3 years I have been acting as project manager for Nashwaak Valley Wood Energy, a recently opened wood pellet mill.  The mill is owned primarily by local woodlot owners and others in the community.   It is a pretty unique business model that has gotten a fair bit of attention.


Cheers
Ken

[SwampDonkey]

Ken, you need to go up the road a bit and set old Pete Sparks straight on that business. He thinks the Alwards are running it. My folks know him (Pete) and that's how I know. He also has his ideas on whose money is behind it. I bet the old codger has never been in the door. 

[Ken]

SD

Our project has received zero government support.  It was financed completely by shareholders and high interest loans from lenders.  Pete S has been on site a few times so it surprises me that he thinks the project received government support.  You can bet though that the new pellet plant the JDI is building is St Leonard will receive lots of support.

Cheers
Ken

[SwampDonkey]

Yeah, I don't know where he was coming from because I knew Peter Demarsh was president and you were manager. He said Alward's wife was there bossing and the guys weren't impressed. I told my folks it didn't seem Pete had his facts straight at the time. I sometimes wonder if my mother gets things mixed up to. So we won't rule that out either.

[Brian Beauchamp]

What's a guy got to do to get one of those fancy Forester designations on his profile?

[Ron Wenrich]

Done.  Something that we overlooked.