Native Tree Society Members

"As a new member with no degrees, no formal forestry education except lots of seminars, 45 years in the woods, first as a logger (veneer and then sawlog and a little pulp in poor years, now in my 15th year as a specimen tree grower with growing operations in four states, I look to the professionals for hopefully good unbiased research, and to the amateur huggers for passion and fresh ideas. ENTS to me, spoke in many voices that was leavened with common caring for the fabric of the forest not the economics but the biological good and majesty of our trees. Without the forest this planet as we know it dies. Regardless of degrees or organizations, regardless of man's petty disputes of hierarchy, our forests need us (all of us) now more than ever, to hold the tide of man back, to corral and channel our disruptive and voracious appetite for timber with a longer term view than a 20 year plan for Loblolly. Walk softly, leave no trace, harvest responsibly using sustainable BMP's, and ENTS's mission of education and big tree celebration will be an enjoyable passion. Look to the value of the information provided and not the title from whence it came. Even babes can have wisdom. John Muir should speak to all of us.  - Ren,  March 19, 2008"



Native Tree Society Executive Committee

Will Blozan - President

Lee Frelich - Vice President

Robert Leverett - Executive Director

Don Bragg - editor of the Bulletin of the Eastern Native Tree Society

Steve Galehouse - Executive Committee

Edward Frank - Webmaster, BBS Administrator, eNTS Magazine editor

Don Bertolette - Founder and President of Western Native Tree Society

Michael Taylor - Vice President WNTS
 



Eastern Native Tree Society Executive Committee

Will Blozan - President

Robert Leverett - Executive Director

Lee Frelich - Vice President

David Stahle - Grand ENT
   



Western Native Tree Society Executive Committee

Don Bertolette - Founder and President WNTS

Michael Taylor - Vice President WNTS
 

 

Welcome to the membership pages of the Native Tree Society.   Here we present photos and brief biographical notes for those who chose to be included.  We have members in the United States, Canada, Europe, and elsewhere around the world.  Any member is free to participate in all of the discussions and any organizational activities no matter what their physical location or chapter affiliation.  For bookkeeping purposes members are assigned to one chapter or another, or are simply considered members at large based on where they live.  The biographical sketches for individual members are color coded by location. The background of those people living in the eastern United States and Canada are colored pale green and are based on location members of the Eastern Native Tree Society, those in western United States and Canada have a tan colored background and are based on location members of the Western Native Tree Society.  Those living elsewhere in the world are considered to be at-large members of the Native Tree Society  and have a light blue background.  Those members who are active in tree measurement are noted by the use of a green font color in their biographical sketches. 

NTS People -Alphabetical

 

 

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