The 2006 Henry Hardtner Award recipient is well-known and respected for providing excellent forest landowner technical assistance and forest management education over the last 28 years.
Dr. Robert D. Brown has been chosen to serve as the new dean of the College of Natural Resources at North Carolina State University. Brown currently serves as the director of the Institute of Renewable Natural Resources and head of the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences at Texas A&M University.
Dr. Randall Rousseau, a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana recently started with the Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service as their hardwood management Extension Forester.
Athens, Ga. -- Michael L. Clutter, who has been associated with the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources almost his entire life as the son of a faculty member and later as a student, researcher and professor, will become dean of the school on Aug. 15.
Four Council Members and 29 Fellows Also Elected
Three Council Members and 53 Fellows Also Elected
P. K. Nair, a distinguished professor at the University of Florida's School of Forest Resources and Conservation, will receive the Society of American Foresters' Barrington Moore Memorial Award.
James E. Johnson, a professor of forestry and associate dean of outreach in the Department of Forestry at Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources, is an expert in both forestry and non-formal, adult education. His skill at planning and conducting technology transfer and extension programs, coupled with his energy, enthusiasm, and work ethic, make him a prolific writer, a programmatic innovator, and an exceptional educator.
Dr. Charles E. Clément has been named Value-Added Forest Products Extension Specialist/Instructor with the Louisiana Forest Products Development Center (LFPDC), Louisiana State University Agricultural Center.
To address issues on invasive species and ecosystem (agricultural, forestedand natural system) health, the Center for Invasive Species and EcosystemHealth has been established at the University of Georgia. Invasive plants,insects, plant pathogens, aquatic species and terrestrial wildlife cost theUnited States economy more than $100 billion each year.
