“Creating A Viable Future Through Sustainable Resource Economies” with Laurie Wayburn with guest host Peter Stein

With about 37 percent of all forestland in the states of California, Oregon, and Washington privately owned, creating economic models for forest conservation by private landowners that works is changing the game there. The Pacific Forest Trust is one of the players working closely with landowners and communities to make this important work possible. Join us for a webinar guest hosted by Peter Stein, himself a leading expert in the economics of conservation, to get a better sense of the context and future of this important work.

Laurie Wayburn is Co-founder, Co-CEO, and President of Pacific Forest Trust. Laurie is an accomplished forest and conservation innovator who advises policymakers at the state, regional, national, and international levels. A preeminent authority on the climate and ecosystem benefits of forests, she leads efforts enacting climate change policies that unite conservation and sustainable management with market-based approaches.

Peter Stein, Managing Director of The Lyme Timber Company, has extensive experience in conservation-oriented forestland and rural land purchases and dispositions. He develops conservation sale strategies for Lyme and also leads its conservation advisory business. Previously, Peter served as Senior Vice President of the Trust for Public Land, where he directed TPL’s conservation real estate acquisitions in the Northeast and Midwest. Peter is a former member of the Forest History Society Board of Directors.

About the Webinar Series

From wildfires to habitat and species loss to illegal logging, it seems that barely a week goes by that we don’t read or hear something alarming about our forests. And while concerns about our forest future are valid, emphasis on the negative to the exclusion of all other news can be overwhelming and overshadow all that is working in how we manage and conserve our forests.

During our special webinar series, we are offering insightful programming by focusing on the theme of Forest Optimism as a way to tell the stories of what is working across the spectrum of forestry and related research, industry, land management, and conservation efforts.

We acknowledge the challenges that are facing our forests. At the same time, we want to explore and share some of the work the public and private sectors, Indigenous peoples, local communities, the forestry profession, nonprofits, and universities have done to help ensure that our forests and the communities that depend on them flourish now and into the future.

To register, visit: https://foresthistory.org/education/fhs-webinar-series/forest-optimism/