NCSAF Luncheon
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The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities: 
Five Years of Doing What Others in the Forestry Family Can’t or Won’t

Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Secretary’s Dining Room, USDA
3 rd Fl., Whitten Bldg
1400 Independence Ave SW Washington, DC
enter the Mall entrance (near the Smithsonian Metro) (12 th & Jefferson SW)

Carlton Owen, a forester and wildlife biologist and former National Capital SAF member, has been the President and CEO of the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities since the organization’s inception.  The U.S. Endowment is a $200-million entity created out of the Canada/US Softwood Lumber Agreement 2006, with a mission to support sustainable forestry and forest-reliant communities in the U.S. He will share an overview of the Endowment’s roots, its approach, as well as some of the early programmatic investments and successes.

Socializing and catching up will begin at 11:30 am, and the NCSAF chapter-update portion of the meeting will start around 11:45 am. The talk will be from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm.  

Please bring an ID and arrive early to get through security.

Lunch : Lunch is $20, but scholarships are available to those that would like them.

RSVP by April 20 to Nadine Block at nadine.block@sfiprogram.org

Speaker: Carlton Owen is President & CEO of the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities. Owen, of Greenville, SC, has for nearly 35 years been at the forefront of conservation innovation. For six years he led his consultancy, The Environmental Edge, LLC, in “bringing business and the environment together” to benefit both. He is a former Executive Director of the Sustainable Forestry Board, Inc. and Vice President – Forest Policy, Champion International Corporation. He has held positions with the American Forest Council; American Forest Foundation; Potlatch Corporation; and Mississippi Wildlife Federation. Among his achievements is “Acres for America” – a first-of-its-kind program to off-set development acre-for-acre with conservation. The program linked the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation, where Mr. Owen served as Vice Chairman of the Board, with Wal-Mart in a nearly $100 million deal where Wal-Mart made a $35-million, ten-year commitment that has already conserved 450,000 acres in the U.S. A forester and wildlife biologist, he holds a B.S. degree in forestry and M.S. in wildlife ecology from Mississippi State University.