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Oregon Logging
Conference
Keynote Speaker 2008
Presented Thursday morning, February 21st
Lane County Fairgrounds, Eugene, Oregon
 Ed Shepard is the BLM State Director
for the agency’s state office for Oregon and Washington.
Shepard has 32 years of experience with the
BLM. Prior to being named assistant director, he served as Oregon and
Washington BLM Deputy State Director for Resource Planning, Use, and
Protection; Deputy Director of the Office of Fire and Aviation at the
National Interagency Fire Center; District Manager, Coos Bay, Oregon
District; Chief of the Division of Forestry in the Washington Office;
Area Manager in the Roseburg, Oregon District Office; Area
Silviculturist in the Medford, Oregon District
Office; and Area.
Shepard holds a M.S. in Forest Management
from Washington State
University, and a B.S. in Range and Forest Management from Colorado
State University. He is also a Certified Forester and a Fellow with the
Society of American Foresters, and has held several elected and
appointed offices and committee assignments with SAF.
 Russ Hoeflich is Vice President and
Oregon Director of the Nature Conservancy
Within The Conservancy, Russ serves as a
member of The Global Human Resources Cabinet and the lead sponsor of the
Volunteerism Cabinet. Additionally, Russ serves on The World
Forestry Center Board of Directors and is a member of the American
Leadership Forum. He also serves on two government task forces: Oregon
Board of Forestry-Federal Forestland Workgroup and Oregon Department of
Forestry/Oregon Department of Energy Forest Biomass Workgroup;
additionally, he serves on Oregon Business Council Forest Health
Workgroup.
Oregon Nature Conservancy Director Russ
Hoeflich makes a strong case for stepping up the pace of fuel treatments
in Oregon's federal forests, where 11.3 million acres of land outside
Wilderness and roadless areas are in fire regime condition classes 2 and
3. The bottom line is that federal agencies need to increase treatments
three to five times above current levels.
Photography of Russ Hoeflich by Greg
Kozawa, courtesy of The Nature Conservancy.
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Oregon Logging Conference
P.O. Box 10669, Eugene, Oregon 97440 USA
USA Phone: 1-800-595-9191, International Phone: (541) 686-9191
Email: oregonlogging1@aol.com
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