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WFI Staff
Sara Wu, WFI Director
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Chandalin Bennett,
Program Manager
503‐488‐2137
Elikia Amani,
Democratic Republic of the
Congo
Ke Dong, China
Roslyn Henricks, Australia
Aline Moreira, Brazil
Volume 8 Issue 6 December 2009
Rick Zenn Visits the Middle Kingdom!
Send us your updates and photos for the next issue!
the old streets of the city.” Later that evening they visited with Shen and his family at their lovely home for a special treat of “sweet dumplings.” In Bei-jing, Rick caught up with WFI alumni Lanhui Wang, Zeng-wang Ma, and Xiaoli Wang. During a quick stop in Shanghai
he also met with alumnus Min Zhao and her husband. “It was awesome to see everyone and learn more about their families and work.”
Ned Hayes Remembered, Long Time Friend of WFC
Senior Fellow Rick Zenn and his wife Judi visited China in November as guests of WFI alumnus Gui Shen, Deputy Secretary General of the Chinese Soci-ety of Forestry. Their 10-day trip included meetings with forestry officials in Beijing and Hangzhou, as well as visits to important cultural and ecotourism develop-ments in the remote Xishuangbanna, an autono-mous region of southern Yunan province. Rick presented to the China Association for Science and Technology in Beijing, co-incidently, at the same time as US President Obama was meeting with China’s Presi-dent Hu Jintao. “When we were finished, we did a little sightseeing. Obama got into the famous Forbidden City. We were forbidden. It was a beautiful day and we ended up hiking completely around the historical complex along
Long time friend and director of the World Forestry Center Ed-mund Hayes Jr. passed away on December 2 at age 83 following a stroke. Ned and his family, including son Peter Hayes, took great personal interest in the WFI. They annually hosted fel-lows and staff and led tours of
their FSC certified woodland properties near Portland. Ned served as Chairman of the Board of the World For-estry Center in the 90’s and continued to provide advice and financial support to the center’s education, tree farms and outreach efforts, culminating in the museum’s extensive renovation in 2005. He will be deeply missed by all here at the World Forestry Center.
Ned Hayes with Chinese fellow Jialu Xie at the Wind River Canopy Crane Research Facility during the 2004 International Educators Insti-tute.
U.S. and Chinese flags fly together in Tiananmen Square.
Rick also joined Shen and his colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Forestry for a meeting of the planning committee for the 1st Forest Science Forum and Interna-tional Conference on Efforts in Response to Forest Re-lated Natural Disasters to be held in Beijing April 12-14, 2010. For more information about the conference: www.gfsf2010.org
WFI Alum with Rick in Beijing: Shen, Lanhui Wang, Zengwang Ma, and Xiaoli Wang.
Rick gives presentation in Beijing.
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WFI Says Goodbye to Three Outstanding Fellows
As the fall season comes to a close and we progress into the winter months, WFI bids goodbye to Ger-man fellow Kati Brueck-ner, Chinese fellow Shouxin Xie, and Taiwan-ese fellow Yu-jen Lin. They all contributed so much to our program dur-ing their time here and will be greatly missed. Kati returned home to Ber-lin in November with her husband Steffen and daughter Clara in tow after completing her six month fellowship here. A week after her return home, Kati writes that she was still re-covering from jet lag, but very excited to share all the pictures of the wonderful things she saw here with her family. During her fellow-ship, Kati worked to under-stand the social and scien-tific complexities surround-ing the creation and imple-mentation of the NW Forest Plan. She interviewed numerous people directly involved with the plan and discovered the many intrica-cies that made it one of the landmark forest management decisions of its time. More about the results of her study can be found on the WFI
Xie will resume work as the Division Director for the Department of Forest Re-source Management at China’s State Forestry Administration after a short break to readjust to being back at home after a year’s absence. Xie spent his year at WFI studying policy and management styles of sustainable forestry and will use the knowledge gained during his fellowship to help guide decisions back home. Already, he is looking back fondly on his time here at WFI and writes that everything he learned during his time here he will share and
apply to his work and life in the future. Yu-jen is our most recent departee, leaving just after the Christmas holiday for home in Taipei. He is happy to be back at home with is wife, but also misses Port-land and the WFI. After spending nearly a year here studying biomass utilization processes, Yu-jen returned home with a research pro-posal in hand, ready to pre-sent to his work unit at the
Taiwan Forestry Re-search Institute. Yu-jen did exhaustive research regarding methods and materials used for for-est biomass utilization in the Pacific North-west. His research led him to the idea of using the bamboo resources readily available in Taiwan to make wood pellets for energy. He will propose this re-search upon his return to work and hopes to propel Taiwan towards the biomass utilization
industry.
Chinese fellow Shouxin Xie at the USFS Dorena Genetic Resource Center in Cottage Grove.
Taiwanese fellow Yu-jen Lin with his wife Tsai Ling-chuan outside WFI’s Merlo Hall
Updates from WFI Alumni!
Mikkel Brings Nielsen, head of International Woodland Com-pany’s regional office in Singapore, attends the National Tree Planting day in Cambodia. Mikkel is tasked with finding potential plantation sites in Asia for IWC investors.
website in the presen-tations and posters sections. Xie returned to Beijing in early December to a happy homecoming with his wife and son. He says that he is happy to be with his family again and also happy that he “…does not have jet lag prob-lem at all!” (Kati would be jealous!)
German Fellow Kati Brueckner at Harry Merlo’s ranch in summer 2009.
Xiaoli Wang has a very cute daughter, just seven months in this picture.
Milan Mataruga (left), happy to be home with his family.
Mikkel Nielsen (left) being greeted by the King of Cambodia (right).
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Reforestation Tour Contrasts Public and Private The BLM, USFS, and Cas-cade Timber hosted the fellows over the course of a two-day tour through the Willamette Valley to learn about reforestation. BLM’s Tyrell Seed Or-chard and USFS’s Dorena Genetic Resource Center were toured, providing insight into the goals these public agencies have for reforestation of federal and private lands. These agen-cies work hard to provide genetically sound and high quality seed stock of west-ern forest species for re-planting efforts. USFS works mostly with white pines, while BLM is work-ing mostly with Doug-fir. “This activity gave me the idea that different institu-
tions have different purposes,” says Chinese fellow Shouxin Xie of the two agencies. The second day of the tour covered the activities of the private forestry consulting firm Cascade Timber, Inc, which manages over 150,000 acres of land. Fellows were excited to see an active ground-logging operation take
WFI Welcomes Two New Interns for the Winter Season
Recent Events place, with log loaders and trucks present. The manage-ment techniques of the timber sale were discussed and refor-estation plans were shared. Congolese fellow Elikia Amani learned more about the rules implemented under the Oregon Forest Practices Act and remarked, “Where there is a stream, they protect the land near the stream.”
Winter is arriving in Ore-gon, bringing with it colder temperatures and our famous rain. While this is challenging to all of us, especially those who are used to warmer and drier climates, it also pro-vides time to work in ear-nest. Beneath the gloom, new growth is taking form. In this spirit, the World Forest Institute welcomes two new interns, Danielle and Kirk, to the team this winter. Danielle grew up in Cali-fornia and has loved the forests of the Pacific Northwest since she was a little girl. She moved to Portland a year and a half ago. Before moving here she interned at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Re-search, where she analyzed differences in alpine forest characteristics along an
elevation gradient as proxies for climate change. Danielle is applying for a Master’s degree at Portland State Uni-versity for the fall of 2010. Kirk has been working his way west throughout his life. Born in Philadelphia, he grew up in Minneapolis. Kirk moved to Portland about ten years ago, after attending the Anthropology Film Center in Santa Fe,
New Mexico. He comes to WFI as he is finishing his master’s degree in interna-tional management at Port-land State University. He brings media and manage-ment skills to the position and also speaks some Span-ish and Mandarin. He is especially excited by the opportunity to work with forestry professionals from all over the world. After the internship, he has a scholar-ship to continue studying Mandarin in Shanghai, China.
Danielle Fuchs (above), and Kirk Solberg (lower right) - new interns for the winter season.
Congolese fellow Elikia Amani with Tom Tidwell, Chief of the U.S. Forest Service.
Current and former program managers unite! Chandalin Bennett and Angie Dis-alvo listen along with Fellows Elikia Amani and Yu-Jen Lin.
Partners in Community Forestry National Conference in Portland Several WFI fellows and staff were able to attend the national confer-ence on urban forestry held in Port-land early November.
Elikia Amani, Chandalin Bennett, Yu-Jen Lin, Rick Zenn and Aline Moreira attend-ing the conference.
Elikia (right) with Dorena geneticist Richard Sniezko.
The fellows with Cascade Timber president Dave Furtwangler and staff.
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Field Trip on Ecotrust property with Oregon BOF
International Educators Institute
Term: July 11-16, 2010 Apply by: February 28, 2010 The International Educators Institute is an innovative forest study tour for environ-mental educators and forest researchers. Combining con-tent-rich, hands-on experi-ences in the field with a mul-ticultural exchange of best practices in education and research, IEI seeks to ad-vance effective teaching and learning about social, eco-nomic, and environmental challenges facing the world’s forests. World-class scenery, special behind-the-scenes tours, and interviews with local people are com-bined with peer-to-peer lead-ership development.
benefits of ecosystem-based forest management. The po-tential for access into carbon markets was just one of the many topics discussed throughout the day. Australian fellow Roslyn Henricks thought “…it was interesting to see the flip-side to typical forest management practices.” Furthermore, the fellows had the opportunity to meet and
discuss broader forestry issues with BOF members and Oregon Department of Forestry staff. It was especially nice to see ex-WFC president John Blackwell, now BOF chair. Overall, the day was fun and informative despite the stormy weather, and the field trip ended with a stop at the Tillamook Cheese Factory – a must-see for those who hadn’t been before!
This November, WFI welcomed a 14-person Chinese delegation from the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Landscape and Forestry. WFI fellow Ke Dong (China) hosted the delegation as they spent a week touring forestry establish-ments in the Pacific Northwest.
Recent Events
Come Join the IEI Forest Study Tour this Summer
In early November, Port-land-based non-profit group Ecotrust hosted a field tour for the Oregon Board of Forestry and the WFI Fel-lows. The tour was of the Garibaldi tract of land that is owned and managed by an Ecotrust subsidiary, Ecotrust Forest Management, LLC. The approximately 5,000 acre tract sits mostly within state owned and managed forest. Ecotrust staff shared their management visions for the land. With a newly-developed management plan just out this year, Ecotrust looks to manage their forests using a whole-ecosystem approach. Fellows braved the stormiest weather of the early season, with wind gusts up to 60mph on the mountain ridges and driving rain for most of the day to learn about the many
Fellows tour Bonneville fish hatchery and Bonneville dam (above) to see salmon runs in November.
The course is scheduled July 11-16, 2010 in Portland, Oregon. Application dead-line is Feb. 28, 2010. For more information visit: http://www.worldforestry.org/wfi/dm_institute.php
Fellows with Ecotrust, ODF, and Board of Forestry members near Garibaldi, OR.
WFI fellows and staff with the Chinese delegation from Beijing during their visit to the World Forestry Center.
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