Posts by Talking Forests
Free Range Forestry LLC – Anna Yarbrough – Episode 49
Anna and I talked about being young women business owners with forestry backgrounds. She worked in the industry as an employee before breaking out on her own and creating Free Range Forestry LLC so she could have a flexible work schedule with her son. We talk about local forestry and what it is like to…
Read MoreMichigan Tech Forestry Students Who Rock – Andi, Krause, and Claudia – Episode 48
My name is Krause, I am currently a Master of Forestry Student at Michigan Technological University where I am an office assistant working on recruiting and retention in the College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science and an intern at the Center for Diversity and Inclusion working on diversity initiatives for the campus. I got…
Read MoreForestry Men Who Rock – Joseph Vaughn – Episode 47
Joseph Vaughn has worked in the natural resource profession since 2011. He has experience in wildland fire management, political and environmental advocacy, and most recently the forest products industry working at Interfor, one of the world’s largest lumber providers, as a Procurement Forester. He has earned an Associate of Science in Pre-Forestry from the University…
Read MoreUrban Forestry Women Who Rock – Rachel Murray – Episode 46
Rachel and I met at the National Society of American Foresters Conference in Louisville, Kentucky in November of 2019 at the student mentor session put on by my mentee the National Student Chair of SAF, Brittany Church. Rachel was enthusiastic about soils and urban forestry. I studied some of that in my college, but was…
Read MoreWomen in Wood Science Who Rock – Pipiet Larasatie – Episode 45
Talking Forests recorded this as a live video (https://youtu.be/pK4H72XWVow) from Yosemite National Park at the Society of Wood Science and Technology Conference Oct 20-25th. (www.swst.org or @societywood on social media). We do not own the rights to the “Most Girls” Hailee Steinfeld Song used in the video or podcast audio. Her LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pipiet/ “Originally from…
Read MoreForest Men Who Rock – Andy Heald – Episode 44
We interview Andrew Heald, Technical Director, Confederation of Forest Industries (ConFor), UK Twitter: www.twitter.com/andyheald Andrew is the Technical Director for Confor. He has over 20 years’ experience in forest and plantation management, and has worked in the UK, Finland, Uruguay and Ghana. Confor is a trade body representing 1,500 numbers across the UK forestry and…
Read MoreForest Men Who Rock – Luke Hemmings – Episode 43
Luke Hemmings is working with the UK Forestry Commission and I met him at the Institute for Chartered Foresters (https://www.charteredforesters.org/) National Conference this April. He is great to connect with! @lwhemmings on Instagram and Twitter His blog: https://thebeardedforester.wordpress.com/author/thebeardedforester/ “I am truly passionate about and fully committed to multi-purpose Forestry and upholding the highest standards of…
Read MoreAustrian Wooden Wonder Treetop Walk Salzkammergut
Author and Photos by Talking Forests Austrian Wooden Wonder Treetop Walk Salzkammergut Our Austrian adventure was amazing with wood as the theme all week. The main event was when we visited Baumwipfelpfad Salzkammergut which translates to Treetop Walk Salzkammergut, truly an Austrian Wooden Wonder. The start of our trip was in a wooden hut…
Read MoreForest Men Who Rock – Myles Polk – Episode 42
Follow Myles on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/priiimal My name is Myles Vernon Polk, I am originally from San Diego, California and currently reside in Tuskegee, Alabama. I attended The Piney Woods Boarding School in Mississippi for high school and gained a Bachelors of Science Degree in Plant and Soil Science with a focus in Forest Management…
Read MoreFire Women Who Rock – Amanda Rau – Episode 41
We loved interviewing Amanda, in her episode we talked about fire science and the roll Smokey the bear plays. Amanda Rau started working in wildland fire management as a member of a 20-person handcrew based in Springfield, Oregon in 1999. In 2001, after finishing her undergraduate degree in Philosophy at the University of Oregon, she…
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