Consulting Foresters
| Baldwin, Blomstrom, Wilkinson, and Associates (BBWA)
is located in Arcata, CA and conducts ecosystem forestry in North America.
BBWA's current Principal Associates include Greg Blomstrom, Bill Wilkinson,
Kenneth Baldwin, Paul Harper, Jared Gerstein, Mark Andre and Mark
Lancaster. Baldwin, Blomstrom, Wilkinson, and Associates, Inc. (BBWA), has been in business for six years, is based in Arcata, CA, and specializes in the practice of ecosystem-based forestry. All of the BBW associates are California Registered Professional Foresters (RPFs) in good standing with the State of California Professional Forester Licensing Board. The BBW associates have broad forestry experience in forest management, timber harvest, forest planning, appraisals, GIS, growth and yield modeling, inventory, and in writing environmental compliance documents and have worked on numerous other projects, including a PTEIR, NTMPs, and THPs (all CEQA documents), fire plans and EIS's.
Kenneth Baldwin is a California Registered Professional Forester (#1855) with 44 years of experience, the past 40 in the forests of northern California. He has been involved in land and resource management planning, fire and fuels management planning, timber sale planning and preparation, watershed analysis, forest inventory and design, stocking and survival surveying, reforestation, forest worker training, forest research, fire control, fire damage appraisals, forest recreation, forestry and environmental advocacy, and fisheries restoration. He worked as a seasonal employee for the U.S. Forest Service until 1976 and after that as a contractor/consultant for the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Natural Resources Conservation Service, two Resource Conservation Districts, Trinity Resource Conservation & Development Council, Hayfork Watershed Research and Training Center, Institute for Sustainable Forestry, University of California Berkeley, various religious and non-profit organizations, and private landowners. As a SmartWood consultant he has participated in 8 certification assessments, 1 certification reassessment, 17 audits, and 3 peer reviews in California and Oregon. Bill Wilkinson Bill Wilkinson, RPF #2463, has nearly 40 years experience in the practice of forestry. Aside from being a founding member and senior associate of BBWA, Bill has been involved in forest inventory, forest management planning, environmental document preparation (including the "Mattole Forest Futures Project PTEIR for CALFIRE"), timber sale layout and timber sale administration. Bill is the Contract Forester for the Round Valley Indian Tribes and heads us their timber sale program. Like most BBW RPF's Bill, is involved in the layout, sale and administration of a sale of 1 MMBF of redwood timber for the California van Eck Forest in the Arcata area.. Before assuming his current positions with FSC and BBWA, Bill was Timber Management Officer at the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation in Northwest California. At Hoopa, Bill was responsible for all activities relating to timber sale preparation and administration for a 10-million board foot annual conifer timber sale program. Between Hoopa and BBW, Bill served as Senior Forester with the Forest Stewardship Council-US, where he helped develop certification standards for sustainable forestry for the U.S. Bill now serves on the Board of FSC-US. He holds an MS in Forest Resources from the University of Idaho and a BS in Forestry from the University of Tennessee. He has published in the Journal of Forestry, the Western Journal of Applied Forestry, and Distant Thunder (the former newsletter of the Forest Stewards Guild). Bill has served on the board and policy council of the Forest Guild and is a member of the Society of American Foresters. Bill is the author of several THP's and has provided numerous cost-share program technical services and other professional forestry consulting services to landowners in the North Coast area. Bill is the primary author of all of the silvicultural prescriptions within the "Weaverville Community Fuel Reduction PTEIR. Greg Blomstrom Greg Blomstrom, RPF #1877, has 30 years experience in the practice of forestry. Aside from being a founding member and senior associate of BBWA, Greg has been involved in forest inventory, forest management planning, environmental document preparation (including the Weaverville Fuel Hazard Reduction PTEIR for CALFIRE), timber sale layout and timber sale administration. Current projects that Greg is working on include preparation of two programmatic EIR's, the first being a PTEIR for the Mattole Restoration Council to enable programmatic timber harvest and the second a programmatic EIR for CALFIRE to cover their vegetation management plan for 37 million acres of private timberland in California. Greg was the forest planner at the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation in Northwest California between 1982 and 2002. At Hoopa, Greg was responsible for all activities relating to the planning and environmental assessment of the yearly allowable cut as well as the Tribe's Forest Management Plan. Prior to working at Hoopa, Greg worked for the USFS as a pest and disease specialist. Greg has established skills as a forest inventory specialist, GIS analyst, and growth and yield expert. He has published articles on forest planning in the Journal of Forestry and Evergreen and is the recipient of the Northwest Regional Award for excellence in Indian Forestry awarded by the Intertribal Timber Council. Greg has extensive experience in writing environmental documents including acting as the main author of the "Weaverville Community Fuel Reduction PTEIR." In addition, he has extensive GIS experience and is proficient in ARCVIEW and ARC/INFO. Mark Lancaster Mark Lancaster: CA Registered Professional Forester since 1994, graduated from Humboldt State University in 1985 with a degree in Forest Resource Planning. Mark works both in forestry and habitat conservation. He works with small non-industrial timberland owners, Tribes, agencies and others preparing management plans, timber harvest plans, timber cruises, erosion inventories, appraisals, tax reports and all other aspects of forestry. Since 1997 he has also worked as the manager of the awarding winning Five Counties Salmonid Conservation Program (www.5counties.org). He has authored articles, reports and gives presentations and speeches throughout coastal California. Among his publications are articles in California County, Distant Thunder, and Journal of Ecological Restoration (publication pending). Other publications include Sediment Source Inventories, Trinity County General Plan Elements, Community Forest/Fire Management Plans, Watershed Erosion Investigations, Urban Stream Plans, Wetlands Mitigation Plans, Forest Stewardship Plans, CA Environmental Impact Reports, Negative Declarations, Federal Environmental Assessments and other environmental documentation. Between 1978 and 1997, Mark worked seven seasons in fire, fuels, timber, watershed management and engineering for the US Forest Service as well as three seasons as a backcountry ranger for the National Park Service. He also worked for Hoopa Tribal Forestry and the Trinity County Planning Department. Mark Andre Mark Andre is the Environmental Services Director for the City of Arcata, CA. where he is responsible for forest management, open space protection, environmental planning, recycling, creeks/wetlands/ storm water management, water-wastewater, recreation, energy and fish and wildlife habitat improvement projects. A graduate of Humboldt State University, he has served as the City forester for Arcata's Community Forest for the past 25 years and also provides forestry-consulting services for several non-industrial timber landowners in northern California. Mark is a California Registered Professional Forester (#2391), Smartwood (FSC) Certified Resource Manager (SW-FM/COC-072, founding member of the Forest Stewards Guild, board member on the Northcoast Regional Land Trust, President of the Humboldt County Forestry Review Committee and currently sits on the State Board of Forestry after being appointed by both governors Schwartznegger and Jerry Brown. Prior to working for the City of Arcata he worked as a hydrologist for the USFS. Paul Harper Paul Harper, RPF #2672 has done forest management planning, research, writing, and analysis for 12 years in northwest California, and 2 years in Vermont. He has a B.A. from Duke University and an M.S. from UC Berkeley. His primary areas of knowledge include timber cruising, data analysis, growth & yield modeling, and writing long-term harvest plans/permits for small, non-industrial landowners. He is also experienced with state cost-share programs and has been a California licensed forester since 1999. Paul has performed numerous assessments of forest management operations in Vermont and northern California for both SmartWood and the Forest Guild. He was the primary author for four NTMPs and four CFIP plans on parcels in northwest California. He has worked to promote ecologically responsible resource use while employed by non-profit organizations, Native American tribes, universities, and private landowners. For the last few years, Paul has worked primarily for BBW installing permanent plots in Round Valley, preparing emergency logging operations in the Sims fire, and conducting an analysis and appraisal of Scotia Pacific. Jared Gerstein Jared Gerstein, RPF #2826, has been practicing forestry and watershed management in California for the past 14 years. He has a BA from UC Santa Cruz and an MS from Oregon State University. As a forester, his specialties are designing and conducting forest inventories, road inventories and laying out un-even aged silviculture harvests. In addition to forest inventory and harvest planning, he has conducted watershed analyses for the Pacific Lumber Company, Tom Long Watershed Association, Mattole Restoration Council and the US Forest Service, amongst others. Both the forest planning and watershed scale analyses benefit from his skills using ArcGIS to integrate landscape scale data and produce useful maps for harvest and planning documents. He has published articles in Western Journal of Applied Forestry and for the UC Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources. |
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