Authors and Acknowledgements The IFMAT IV core team would like to thank the tribes that participated in this assessment, as well as the Intertribal Timber Council (ITC) Oversight Committee for providing comments on the draft report. The team also expresses its appreciation for the assistance of numerous individuals who were interviewed, including the BIA Central
Office and Regional staff, as well as tribal leaders who participated in focus groups and surveys. Finally, this report could not have been possible without the technical specialists, group of student participants, and editors. Funding was provided by the BIA and the USDA Forest Service.
The Core Team
John Sessions, PhD, Co-chair John Sessions is University Distinguished Professor of Forestry and Strachan Chair of Forest Operations Management at Oregon State University. Before coming to OSU he served in various positions in the USDA Forest Service in engineering and timber management and as harvesting manager of a 3.4-million-acre property in northern Brazil. He has consulted in 16 countries for NGO’s, companies, and agencies on five continents as well as participating in several congressionally mandated assessments including co-chair or vice-chair of four national assessments of Indian forests and forest management. For 15 years he supported the strategic planning efforts of the Oregon Department of Forestry. His John Gordon, PhD, Co-chair John C. Gordon is Pinchot Professor Emeritus of Forestry and Environmental Studies and former dean at the Yale School for the Environment (formerly the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies). He has participated in all four IFMATs to date and has worked with tribes to regain some of their ancestral lands. He was Head and Professor, Department of Forest Science, Oregon State University from 1976 to 1983. Before that he was Professor of Forestry at Iowa State University, and Principal Plant Physiologist at the Pioneering Project in Wood Formation, USDA Forest Service, Rhinelander, Wisconsin. He has a B.S. (forest management) and a Ph.D. (plant physiology and silviculture) from Iowa State University and has been a Fulbright Scholar in Finland (University of Helsinki) and India (Bangalore). He is the principal and sole proprietor of John Gordon
research focuses on searching for efficient solutions to forest planning problems and all aspects of the forestry supply chain and is documented in 360 publications and reports. He has a BS in civil engineering, MS in civil engineering, MS in forest engineering, and PhD in forest management. Since 2013, Dr. Sessions has chaired the Oregon Professional Forest Engineering licensing examination. In 2013 he was recognized by the Society of American Foresters with the National Award in Forest Science. In 2015, he received the Forester of the Year award by ITC and the 2015 International Forest Engineering Achievement Award from the Council on Forest Engineering. Dr. Sessions is a Fellow of the Society of American Foresters. Consultant, a Portland, Oregon, firm. He is also chairman and founding partner in the Candlewood Timber Group, a sustainable forestry company with operations and substantial forest holdings in Northwest Argentina. His primary expertise is in the biological basis of forest productivity, the management of research, and forest policy and management. He has consulting experience with public and private organizations, including forest products firms, the ITC and several individual tribes, the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme. He has authored, coauthored, or edited over 100 papers and books, and has overseas experience in a variety of places, including India, Pakistan, China, Costa Rica, Brazil, Argentina, Finland and Scotland. In 2005 he was awarded the Gifford Pinchot Medal by the Society of American Foresters.
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