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Focus: Collecting, summarizing, and evaluating information in the management and biological study of forests, including forest mensuration, statistical sampling issues, and inventory Chair: Bill Headlee, Ouachita SAF
Focus: Spatial technologies including data capture, processing, analysis, software, and management solutions that impact forest and natural resource management Seeking leadership for all officer roles.
Focus: Supporting professionals in topics relevant to private and family forest landowners, industrial, timber-investment management organization, tribes, and conservation organizations Chair: Emily Huff, MI SAF
Focus: Policies and practices of forest conservation and management for ecological, social, and economic objectives Chair: Andrew Perleberg, WA SAF B4 - Agroforestry Focus: Windbreaks, riparian buffer plantings, wildlife plantings, alley cropping, block plantings, and forest grazing (silvopasturing) Chair: Donna Davis, CO/WY SAF
B5 - Department of Defense (DoD) Forestry
Focus: Ecosystem management on military-owned lands while supporting the installation mission Seeking leadership for all officer roles
Chair: Mary Williams, MN SAF
Focus: Properties of soils that influence the distribution and growth of trees, and affect management practices Chair: Timeka Russell, NY SAF
Focus: Forest hydrology and watershed management Seeking leadership for all officer roles
Chair: Aalap Dixit, SW SAF
Focus: Forest entomology, forest pathology, forest genetics, tree improvement, integrated forest health, seed orchard management, vegetative propagation, and tissue culture techniques Chair: Esteban Galeano, MS
Focus: Supporting professionals in topics relevant to the science of silviculture to practicing foresters and the research community Chair: Adam Polinko, MS SAF
Focus: Forest engineering, harvesting, and the manufacturing, marketing, and utilization of forest products Secretary: Alex George, NY SAF. Seeking leadership for chair.
Focus: Science, technology, research, and application of fire management in support of wildland fire protection, forestry, and rangeland ecosystem programs Chair: Stephen Weaver, AP SAF
Focus: Role of economics, policy, and law in the management of forests and forest systems Chair: Rajan Parajuli, AP SAF
Focus: Supporting professionals understand land management organization and how to be adapt activities, structure and function for future needs Seeking leadership for all officer roles
Focus: Climate change, carbon management, and domestic renewable energy and the forests' role in reducing and preventing GHG emissions Chair: David Nicholls
Focus: Planning, operations, strategic, and tactical models to facilitate the management of forest resources at scales ranging from individual organisms to global systems Seeking leadership for all officer roles
Focus: Sustainability theory, criteria and indicators, role of forester certification in forest certification, auditing, labeling, marketing, and acceptance of labeled forest products Chair: Tom Kain, CF, KY/TN SAF
Focus: Role of wilderness in natural resources management, as well as on national and international issues Co-Chairs: Taylor Stein, SE SAF & Chad Pierskalla, WV
Focus: Creating a community of practice that supports participation by the full diversity of people in the science and management of forests Chair: Rocco Saracina, National Capital
Focus: Improving understanding and application of relevant communications and outreach techniques to address forestry-related issues, including environmental education Seeking leadership for all officer roles
Focus: the diverse philosophical perspectives—past, present, and future—that drive forest management, including ethics and the philosophy of science Chair: Jason Brown, International