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Featured Guest Speaker - Tom Westergreen

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   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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