[ODF_Private_Forests] Susan Watkins named to Forestry advisory committee

[WEEKS Kevin]

Oregon Department of Forestry
NEWS RELEASE

Susan Watkins named to Forestry advisory committee
October 3, 2008
Contact: Kevin Weeks, ODF Agency Affairs (503) 945-7427

McMinnville small woodland owner Susan Watkins has been named to the Committee for Family Forestlands, which advises the Oregon Board of Forestry on issues of concern to family forest landowners.

Watkins moved to Oregon following a thirty-year career in municipal law in Washington and California. After Susan and husband Arnie Hollander planted their small forest in Yamhill County in 1994, Susan became a Master Woodland Manager and is responsible for managing her family woodland.  Watkins also helped found the Family Forest Project, a public-private initiative that produced the award-winning "Ties to the Land" succession planning program for landowning families.

Susan serves on the Board of the Yamhill County Small Woodlands chapter and was an early member of Women Owning Woodlands Network.  In 2007, she testified on behalf of small forest owners before the Economy Work Group of Oregon's "Big Look" land-use planning task force.  Susan received both her BA and JD from Stanford University.

The 10-member Committee for Family Forestlands serves in an advisory role to the Oregon Board of Forestry. The committee's members include family forest landowners, forest industry representatives, environmental community and public members, and staff representing the Oregon Department of Forestry, Oregon State University and the Oregon Forest Resources Institute. Watkins was selected for the advisory committee during the Board of Forestry's September meeting in Astoria.

More than 4.6 million acres of trees - 15 percent of Oregon's forest land - are actively managed by private small forest and family forest owners. The diversity of forest management approaches ensures that Oregon's forests remain among the state's most valued natural resources.

Additional information about the Committee for Family Forestlands is available on the website for the Oregon Department of Forestry, www.oregon.gov/ODF<http://www.oregon.gov/ODF>

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