Join a discussion
about conservation efforts in national forests as the University of
Wisconsin-Stevens Point hosts a former chief and a former deputy chief of the
U.S. Forest Service on Thursday, Oct. 22.
Beginning at 7
p.m. in Room 120 of the Trainer Natural Resources Building, former forestry
service chief and UW-Stevens Point Professor Michael Dombeck and former deputy
chief Jim Furnish will offer an open discussion hosted by the campus Society of
American Foresters. The public may attend free of charge.
The talk will
follow a showing of “Seeing the Forest,” a 30-minute documentary about Siuslow
National Forest on the west coast and its transition after the spotted owl
crisis. Furnish was a supervisor there for seven years.
Furnish is also the
author of the memoir “Toward a Natural Forest: The Forest Service in
Transition,” in which he offers personal insights and experiences from his 34
years in the forest service, including several under Dombeck. He was
instrumental in creation of the Roadless Area Conservation and Forest Planning
regulations and serves as a consulting forester in the Washington, D.C. area.
Now retired, Dombeck
served as a UW-Stevens Point professor of global conservation and UW System
fellow after leaving the forest service. His has won the Presidential Rank –
Distinguished Executive Award, Audubon Medal, Lady Bird Johnson Conservation
Award and National Wildlife
Federation’s Conservationist of the Year. He
also served as interim director of the Bureau of Land Management. He was named
a UW-Stevens Point Distinguished Alumnus in 1997.
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