Mark Rasmussen, MS Mark Rasmussen is Emeritus Forest Economist at Mason, Bruce & Girard, headquartered in Portland Oregon. Mark’s career focused on long term forest management planning and public forest management policy. During his 26-year tenure at MB&G, the company developed George E. Smith, MPA George Smith is the President of Pacific Management Associates, a natural resources consulting business located in North Bend, OR. He holds a BSF and MPA from the University of Washington and Cornell University. George is an SAF Certified Forester with more than 55 years of Native American forestry experience. During his 31-year career with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, George served in the positions of Chief Forester, BIA Director – National Interagency Fire Center, Regional Forester – Northwest Region, and Assistant Area Forester – Billings Area. Following Tim Vredenburg, BS Tim Vredenburg is from southwest Oregon. For the last twenty years he has assisted private landowners and Indian Tribes manage forestlands while navigating challenging issues like wildfire, Endangered Species, and an ever-changing regulatory landscape. Since 2012, he has served the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, as their Director of Forest Dave Wilson, BS Dave Wilson participated in IFMAT IV as a subject matter expert in the area of forest inventory and planning, budgeting and other financial analysis, and policy. Dave retired from the US Forest Service in 2022 after serving in various positions on the
long-term harvest schedules for nearly 250 public and private forests covering nearly 80 million acres. Mark has testified about forest management issues before Congress, the Endangered Species Committee, various State agencies, and in several Courts. Mark served on the IFMAT III and IFMAT IV teams. federal retirement, George served 10 years as Executive Director for the Coquille Indian Tribe. His tribal experience also includes serving as President of the Sek-Wet-Se Corporation responsible for management of private tribal forestland and as a member of the Board of Directors for the Makah Forestry Enterprise. His federal career and private consulting work experience includes organizing and participating in foreign trade missions to China, Hong Kong and the Federated States of Micronesia, and forest management planning for two regions of the Russian Far East. Management. In his current capacity he is working to develop an expanded timber land base that will provide for the cultural and economic wellbeing of the Tribe for many generations to come. He offers a unique breadth of experience that spans Indian Self Determination/Self Governance, Forest Policy, Endangered Species and Environmental Compliance, along with practical on the ground forest management. Washington Office Forest Management staff. Prior to that he spent 29 years (1986-2015) in Indian Forestry, starting at the Menominee Reservation followed by 17 years at the BIA BOFRP office where he was a Senior Inventory Specialist.
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Chase Christopherson Chase is an enrolled member with the Mandan tribe of the Three Affiliated Tribes from the Minneapolis, MN area. He has a M.S. in natural resource sciences from North Dakota State University in 2022, where he conducted research on the recovery of soil
and vegetation following reclamation on degraded lands. He is particularly interested in traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), filling data gaps and making the necessary data accessible to improve tribal land management and further tribal self- governance and determination.
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