Featured Guest Speaker - Tom Westergreen

   Lifelong Whatcom County resident and Professional Forester

   Education and Training:

• Graduated Nooksack High School – 1968
• Bachelor of Science from Washington State University in Forest Management – 1972
• Washington Agriculture and Forestry Leadership Program- 1989

Association and Group involvement:

• Washington Farm Forestry Association – Presently Acting President.

        Active in the Association since 1974.

Very active in the Whatcom County Chapter and current President

• American Forest Foundation Tree Farm System

Owns and manages a Certified Tree Farm 

Tree Farm Inspector and Northwest Region Inspector Coordinator

• Society of American Foresters member since 1972 and Certified Forester.
• North Cascade Hoo Hoo Club – International Fraternal Order of Lumberman
• Lake Whatcom Landscape Plan Interjurisdictional Committee.
• Lake Whatcom Reconveyance Review Panel
• Past Whatcom County Forestry and Gravel Mining Committees

Employment History:

• Growing up and working on the family tree farm near Sumas
• Timber cutting in summers to pay for college
• Georgia Pacific Timber Dept. from 1974- 1990
• Mt. Baker Plywood Log Buyer
• Resource Manager for Great Western Lumber Company since 1992

Interests:

• Working on family tree farm, part that was originally homesteaded by great grandfather Gust Westergreen in 1888.
• Promoting forest stewardship for small family forest landowners.
• Active in County and State issues that can impact the sustainability of our timber land base and forest management

Business Info:

Great Western Lumber Company

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