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Terry Collins, Collins Pine Company, Chester, California
Mr. Collins is a fourth generation family member of the Collins Pine Company, the first privately owned forest products company to be independently certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. Collins Pine has 90,000 acres of sustainable managed timberland and a state-of-the-art sawmill in Plumas County. |
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Warren Gorbet, Owner & Principal of Indian Head Logging, Greenville, California
Mr. Gorbet is a fourth generation logger who heads Indian Head Logging Company. He is a leader in the Maidu Cultural and Development Group, which has developed an action plan for a Native American Living Village and Stewardship Area on Forest Service land in Indian Valley. He lives on the homesite on which he was born in Indian Valley. |
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Gerry Gray, Vice President for Forest Policy, AMERICAN FORESTS, Washington, DC Dr. Gray directs the Forest Policy Center at American Forests, which focuses on rural and urban community forestry. He holds a Ph.D. in Resource Economics. |
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Terrel Hutton, Director of the Producer’s Circle, KQED, San Francisco, California
Ms. Hutton is a former consultant in non-profit development and strategic planning and has a long history of work in philanthropic circles. |
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Jonathan Kusel, Executive Director, Sierra Institute, Taylorsville, California
Dr. Kusel is the founder and executive director of Sierra Institute for Community and Environment. He received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley where he was visiting scholar and instructor before launching Forest Community Research (now the Sierra Institute). |
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Ken Roby, Hydrologist - US Forest Service, Greenville, California
Mr. Roby is a long time resident of Indian Valley. He is a stream ecologist for the US Forest Service and works on ecosystem assessment, monitoring and modeling for the Plumas and Lassen National Forests. |
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John Allen, Professor, Sociology, Utah State, Logan, Utah
John C. Allen has conducted research and worked with rural communities across the U.S. for over twenty years. Working from an asset based development approach Dr. Allen has had the opportunity to see first hand how rural people and places can build on local assets to create a positive social and economic future for themselves. His previous roles have included; Director of the Western Rural Development Center, hosted by Utah State University, Director of the Center for Applied Rural Innovation, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Executive Director of the Nebraska Co-op Development Center. He holds a PH.D. in Sociology.
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Martha Guzman-Aceves, Legislative Advocate for the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, Sacramento, California
Ms. Guzman-Aceves advocacy work has concentrated on occupational and environmental hazards. She is currently an active member of the Environmental Justice Coalition for Water, which concentrates on attaining safe and affordable drinking water for rural communities.
She holds a M. S. in Agricultural and Resource Economics and a B. S. in International Economics.
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Henry (Hank) Foley, Retired Director of Plumas Health Agency, Quincy, California
Dr. Foley, is a former Deputy Secretary in Health and Human Services in the Carter Administration, as well as serving as Cabinet Head in Health Services for three different states (Colorado, Arizona, and Hawaii) and served as CEO and Chief Operating Officer for two metropolitan health groups. He has published numerous articles on health and mental health insurance coverage. Dr. Foley continues to be active in rural health issues, while enjoying life in San Diego, California.
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