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Recent:
MnSAF
Winter Meeting. February 5-7, 2008. Making a Place
for Prescribed Fire in Managing Minnesota Ecosystems:
Overcoming Technical, Social, and Cultural Barriers.
Ruttger's Sugar Lake Lodge, Grand Rapids, Minnesota. For
brochure with agenda and registration, follow
this link. For
technical session abstracts, follow
this link. For technical session schedule, follow
this link. For updated agenda, follow
this link. For poster abstracts, follow
this link.
Michael T. Goergen, Jr.
Executive Vice President
Society of American Foresters
5400 Grosvenor Lane
Bethesda, MD 20814-2198
email: GoergenM@safnet.org
phone: (301) 897-8720 x 120
www.safnet.org
Michael Goergen was appointed Executive Vice President of
the 17,000 member Society of American Foresters on May 22,
2003. As the Chief Executive Officer, he leads the SAF team
publishing the Journal of Forestry and the Forestry Source,
is involved in outreach to local units of the organization,
university accreditation, forester certification, and the
annual convention of the SAF and several other continuing
education programs. Michael is also involved in the
organization's forest policy work and represents the
professional society before Congress, the Executive Branch,
and state governments, articulating the profession's
responses to USDA Forest Service and USDI Bureau of Land
Management initiatives, and developing and coordinating
position statements, briefing materials, Congressional
testimony, and member involvement in policy development on a
variety of natural resource issues. Prior to joining the
staff of the SAF in 1996, Michael was a research associate
in the State University of New York (SUNY) College of
Environmental Science and Forestry, a policy analyst with
the USDA Forest Service in Washington, DC, and an intern in
the White House Office on Environmental Policy. Michael
graduated from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and
Forestry where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in
Environmental Policy and Management and a Master of Science
degree in Forest Resource Policy and Management.
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