Penn State Scientist Appointed National Director
Of Sustainable Forestry Partnership
UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre
Co.) Michael Washburn, asso
ciate director of the Sustainable
Forestry Partnership in Penn
State’s School of Forest Resour
ces, has been appointed national
director for the partnership, effec
tive Jan. 1, 2000.
The Sustainable Forestry Part
nership works to document inno
vation in “sustainable forestry"
methods that meet society’s needs
for a range of forest values, goods
and services while maintaining
resources for future generations.
As director, Washburn will
coordinate projects at Penn State,
Oregon State University and
Auburn University; recruit new
university partners; raise funds for
core and project-specific resources
and serve as the contact person for
multi-university research projects.
He also will continue to work for
Penn State. His office will be
located at the USDA in Washing
ton, D.C.
“We’re really pleased to see the
partnership expand,” said Larry
Nielsen, director of the School of
Forest Resources. “A Washington
presence means an enhanced abili
ty to work with a wide range of
agencies and organizations with
interests in sustainable forestry.
Michael’s appointment demons
trates the school’s national leader
ship in this area."
The partnership performs
research on sustainable forestry,
shares innovative information,
educates and trains forest decision
makers and assists faculty and stu
dents, forest landowners, timber
harvesters, foresters, mill owners,
retailers, consumers and wholesale
purchasers of wood on sustainable
forestry issues.
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ing ways to harvest timber on con
servancy lands without conflicting
with biodiversity and conserva
tion. “Traditionally, the conser
vancy protected land by purchas
ing it and preventing it from being
taken out of its natural state,"
Washburn said. “Now they’re rec
ognizing that lands can be thought
fully managed for timber produc
tion. This project is an opportunity
to put good science into practice."
With the Society of American
Foresters, Washburn and informa
tion specialist Laurie Schoonho
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ven are developing a “virtual forest
demonstration network," or web
based forest tour.
“Anywhere in the world, people
will be able to go online and see
how forests change over time,"
said Washburn. “They’ll also be
able to observe the effects of diffe
rent management practices."
The first forests to go online
include Seven Islands Land Com
pany, a 1 million-acre forest in
Maine; the McDonald-Dunn Fore
st, Oregon State University’s
research forest; and a private forest
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hearing held at the Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture that
setting the price at $16.50 indefin
itely would help dairy farmers
whose product is priced by the
PMMB to recover their cost of
operation.
“My anticipated mailbox price
for November and December milk
is $11.50 to $12.00 per hundred
weight, and that price is with over
order prices and the usual pre
miums we receive, which is much
lower than our cost of produc-
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Washburn hopes his presence in
Washington D.C. will generate
internships for Penn State stu
dents. “Lany and I also are dis
cussing a potential forest policy
course, in which students do a resi
dency in Washington D.C. and
work with national leaders who
live forest policy every day.”
Washburn joined the school as
research associate in 1998, after
completing his doctorate in forest
resources at Penn State. He earned
a master’s degree in wilderness
For Premium Increase
tion,” Zug said. “Our cost of pro
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proximately $14.90 (cash cost per
hundredweight) with most of the
expenses being purchased feed.”
As an advocate for rural Penn
sylvania, the Grange is a leading
force in agriculture and rural is
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Zug said the lower prices paid
to dairy farmers is having a ripple
effect on agribusiness and rural
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cerned about the drop in milk
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management and bachelor’s
degree in environmental studies
from the SUNY College of Envir
onmental Science and Forestry in
Syracuse.
The Sustainable Forestry Part
nership is university-driven, with
support from the MacArthur
Foundation, the USDA’s Coopera
tive State Research Education and
Extension Service, Rockefeller
Brothers Fund, the U.S. Forest
Service’s State and Private Fore
stry division, and other public and
private sources.
cemed and are noticing less fann
er buying power due to conditions.
I know of a least one dealer in the
area that has laid off several
employees already.”
Zug said that his financial num
bers now and in the future
are not very promising.
“We expanded our operation in
1997 with the hope that the agri
culture economy would turn
around,” Zug said. “But today
theh outlook just keeps getting
bleaker and bleaker. Where is
agriculture going in the next cen
tury? If we, as a nation, become
dependent on other countries for
our basic food supplies, we put
ourselves at great risk. Pennsylva
nia farmers must be profitable and
productive to provide food and fi
ber for our nation and for the glo
bal economy.”