NCSAF Luncheon

“Risks and Timber: A Lawyer’s Perspective”
May 15, 2008, 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Valley Room, 3 rd floor, Whitten Building, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW
Entrance: from Jefferson Court, ½ block west of Smithsonian Metro Station mall exit

Cost:  $17/person, includes lunch, beverage & dessert 

Janie Simms Hipp, J.D., LL.M.

National Program Leader, Farm Financial Management, Risk Management Education, Trade Adjustment Education
USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service

Current and potential timberland investors ask questions about the risks affecting the financial performance of their investments. The long time frames associated with timber investments increase the interest in understanding the range of potential risk. For timberland investors, these risks may include, but are not limited to the impacts of insects, fire, price volatility, interest rates, and even energy prices. With such a wide range of potential risks, the central question for timberland investors becomes “how should we think about timberland risks?”  -From JWS Timberland Report.

Dr. Janie Hipp, from the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service will be providing her assessment of “Risk and Timber: From a Lawyers Prospective” at the May 15 NCSAF luncheon. She will also expand the topic to cover general liability issues related to landownership and Native timber ownership. We invite all members to come and study this topic that often confuses and confounds landowners and land managers.

Janie Simms Hipp is the National Program Leader for Risk Management Education, Farm Financial Management and Trade Adjustment Assistance, with USDA CSREES.  She is an agricultural lawyer by training holding the JD and the LLM in Agricultural Law.  She practiced agricultural law as a private attorney and as a public official; taught for over a decade at the University of Arkansas Fayetteville both within the law school and the college of agriculture; and administered the National Center for Agricultural Law.  She is a member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma and most importantly, has a step-brother who is the Oklahoma State Forester and her step-father was the chief forester for Dierks in southeastern Oklahoma.

RSVP, May 14 th cob to Terri Bates at batesmt@verizon.net.