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Keynote
Address - Dr. Ann Bartuska
Dr.
Ann Bartuska is Deputy Chief for Research and Development, USDA
Forest Service, Washington, D.C., and has served in this position
for a year. Dr. Bartuska received her bachelor’s degree from
Wilkes College, her master’s degree from Ohio University,
and a Ph.D. in Biology from West Virginia University. Earlier in
her career she held a wide variety of positions within the Forest
Service: Research and Development, State and Private Forestry, Forest
Health Protection, Forest Management, and Ecosystem Management.
From 2001-2004, she headed the invasive species initiative at The
Nature Conservancy. Recently, she was President of the Ecological
Society of America, and is currently on the board of the Council
of Scientific Society Presidents.
Banquet
Speaker - Don Gayton
Don
Gayton is an ecologist with FORREX, the Forest Research and Extension
Partnership, a British Columbia charitable non-share corporation
founded in 1998 to help people develop science and knowledge-based
solutions to complex natural resources challenges. He holds a bachelor’s
degree from Washington State University and a master’s degree
in Plant Ecology from the University of Saskatchewan. Mr. Gayton,
located in Nelson, B.C., has extensive experience in grasslands,
dry forest ecology, and disturbance ecology. He is skilled in conflict
management and in linking indigenous peoples’ knowledge with
western science in natural resources management. His writing has
been recognized by the Canadian Science Writers Award, the U.S.
National Outdoor Book Award, and short-listed for the BC Book Awards.
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