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NORTH CAROLINA FORESTRY ASSOCIATION
1600 Glenwood Ave., Suite I Raleigh, NC 27608
(919) 834-3943 / (800) 231-7723 Fax: (919) 832-6188 ncforestry.org
BOARD CHAIR
Perry Hunt
PRESIDENT
Doug Burleson
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
John E. Hatcher, Jr., Ph.D., CF
BOARD MEMBERS
“Take a limitation and turn it into
an opportunity. Take an opportunity and turn it into an adventure by dreaming BIG!” – Jo Franz
Turning Limitations into Opportunities
At the start of 2020, the North Carolina Forestry Association (NCFA) planned on tackling its first full TreeLine series, implementing a new strategic plan, reexamining education camps and exploring new ways to make your forestry association better and stronger. To add to the excitement, Aly and I were on the verge of becoming new parents. Enter the COVID-19 pandemic.
The novel coronavirus introduced much uncertainty around the way that we all do life. At the onset of the pandemic, the NCFA worked with its members, other trade associations and Governor Roy Cooper’s office to ensure that members could remain open for business. Many of our members and their companies developed protocols to keep people safe and healthy.
At the NCFA, months of scheduling were wiped clean, creating opportunities
for new ideas. Our education committee and Programs Manager Amy Juliana are thinking outside the box and developing programs to not only maintain the NCFA’s impact, but to increase it moving forward.
The NCFA also began to engage in the revision process for the Nantahala and Pisgah National Forests. Several of our members have spent much of their efforts over the past five years working with various stakeholder groups and the United States Forest Service to ensure that the Nantahala and Pisgah National Forests are managed for multiple uses moving forward. Thanks to our western membership, the NCFA was able to file substantive comments in late June. We will continue to monitor the plan throughout its
Todd Adams Jadie Andrews Stacy Bentley Keith Biggs Blair Bishop Scott Bissette Jay Boyette Andrew Casey Chris Charest Clay Creed Chuck Daniels Rudy Daughtry Rett Davis
Tony Doster Tripp Dowling Rob Elliot Bruce Evans Ashley Faircloth David Gadd Brett Goulding Jason Hoyle Dylan Hurley Lynn Jenkins David Johnson A.J. Keating Lauren Killian
Chris Logan
Arturo Lumpkin James Mathis
Boyd McLaurin Mark Megalos Roger Melvin
Zack Myers
Russ Newton
Wib Owen
Mike Patram
Henry Randolph Jim Reavis
Bernard Rose
Glenn Sheehan Jacob Shuford
Scott Smearman Alexander Storm Marshall Thompson Nancy Thompson Cierra Ward
Lacy White
Allen Whitesell Jimmy Williams Jocelyn Wilson Andy Wolgemuth Lori Worley
implementation. Future updates will appear in TreeLine.
In closing, I hope you enjoy this edition of the magazine. It is filled with stories about members that embrace the above quote by
Jo Franz on a daily basis.
In Forestry,
John E. Hatcher, Jr., Ph.D., CF
NCFA Executive Director
EXECUTIVE MESSAGE
Hadley Mae Hatcher at four months old.
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