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2019 ANNUAL REPORT WORLD FORESTRY CENTER BOARD OF DIRECTORS

From our current vantage point, 2019 feels like it Notably, 2019 was the first full year for Executive For over half a century, World Forestry solving by forestry professionals, create was years ago, not mere months. COVID-19 has Director Joe Furia, and his vision and guidance have Center has been at the intersection of people events and experiences that connect the changed our society irrevocably. The global already proved invaluable. I particularly want to and forestry. Our mission, to create and public to its interdependence on forests, and pandemic and resulting quarantine have quickly recognize his service as chair of the Mitigation inspire champions of sustainable forestry, is steward a place that supports a community reshaped so much of our lives and have created Committee for the Oregon Governor's Council on focused on shaping people – and through of sustainable forestry champions. the opportunity to envision a new future. Wildfire Response. Catastrophic wildfire threatens the their actions, forests. As you read through this year’s Annual sustainability of both our forests and our society, and As I reflect on World Forestry Center’s growth In this way, our work has always focused on Report, you will see that we have used that Joe’s work on that committee was emblematic of World and evolution last year, I feel the hope building. social change. Improving forests by same structure to organize our content. One Forestry Center’s role in problem solving by forestry Je Nuss Joseph A. Furia improving society’s understanding and section focuses on our professional As you will see in this Annual Report, World professionals, connecting public to its interdependence Board Chair, Executive Director, appreciation of forests. programs, another details our public work, World Forestry Center Forestry Center’s team spent 2019 advancing the on forest, and stewarding a place to support sustainable World Forestry Center and the third highlights the unique campus organization’s mission – to create and inspire forestry champions. In my first full year as Executive Director, that makes it all possible. champions of sustainable forestry – while laying we have focused on improving our ability to As 2019 was also my first year as Board Chair, I the groundwork for increased relevance and affect this change through our existing We will continue to improve our impact in appreciate the support of my fellow board members. On impact in the future. Building on its work, which can be split into three related all three areas and provide the coordination behalf of all of us, I’d like to extend my appreciation to extraordinary facilities and long history of areas: professionals, public, and place. necessary such that the whole is greater than World Forestry Center’s staff, partners, and supporters engaging forestry professionals and the general the sum of its parts. A sustainable forestry for your commitment to advancing the organization’s Shaping a society that values and takes public, World Forestry Center is now poised to future depends on it. important work. action to support the economic, ecological, accelerate and amplify its impact, both locally and social benefits of forests requires all Thank you. and around the world. The world may have changed, but a sustainable forestry three. We must continue to drive problem‐ future is as important now as ever.

World Forestry Center Board Members 2019 OPERATING EXPENSES AND REVENUE Dr. Jennifer Allen Greg Fullem Mark Norby Tiffanie Starr Craig Blair Victor Haley Jeff Nuss Kaärsten Turner Dr. Anthony Davis Cherie Kearney Court Stanley

Dr. Thomas Easley Stephen Levesque CONTRIBUTIONS & GRANTS PROGRAMS ADMINISTRATION $488,739 PROGRAMS World Forestry Center Advisory Council $694,969 $538,546 $1,097,619 Kathy Abusow Dr. Gary Hartshorn Dr. Ed Ray Dr. Court Washburn Michael Barnes Whit Hill Eric Schooler Thomas Wheeler Dr. Michael Clutter Russ Hoeflich John Shelk John Wilkinson Doug Decker Dr. Barbara Karmel Rick Smith Rick Wollenberg REVENUE Allyn C. Ford Joe McKeown Ed Sweeten James Workman EXPENSES $2,302,640 $2,287,628 Dr. Roje Gootee Dennis Neilson Hank Swigert DEVELOPMENT David Hampton David Nunes David Syre $197,733 Jes Munk Hansen Claudio Ortolan John Warjone

INVESTMENT World Forestry Center Honorary Directors $536,759 John Blackwell Dan Dutton Gilles Hotelin Jean-Claude Sève Bill Bradley Red Emmerson Tan Sri Datuk Tiong Dieter Siempelkamp FACILITIES FACILITIES Jim Brown Alan Goudy Hiew King Amir Sunarko $582,173 $453,730 Dean DeChaine Guillermo Güell Young-Ju Park

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Who Will Own the Forest? Wildfire Council Conference Highlights Climate, Trends Reflecting Brings Governor to Influencing Global Forest Investment on the World Forestry Center

“You are recommending significant investments in Fellowship mitigation and fire suppression as well as substantive policy changes for helping communities adapt and Experience recover from fire,” said Governor Kate Brown to the Oregon Council on Wildfire Response at World Forestry Center on September 26, 2019. “It’s imperative to Oregon’s future to act on these recommendations and procure the funding to do so.” The 2019 International Fellows share their parting On Wednesday, September 18, 2019 World Forestry Center In early 2019, Governor Brown signed an executive impressions of World Forestry Center’s one-of-a-kind welcomed nearly 400 professionals to our Washington Park order creating the Council and tasking it to review professional development program. campus for our Who Will Own the Forest? conference. Oregon's model for wildfire prevention, preparedness, (Malawi) (Brazil) Now in its 15th year, Who Will Own the Forest? brings together and response. The group included a wide variety of Richard Banda Ana Kanoppa experts in the fields of conservation, healthcare, “When I go back home, I will develop a “This program changed my career completely timberland managers, investors, and stakeholders to highlight multiple benefit reforestation project proposal and forever. When I return home, I will innovation, build community, and be inspired. The two-day event forestry, and government. with the support and guidance from the be able to replicate all that I have learned is one of the largest timberland investment gatherings in the world. connections I have made here. This project here for future generations of women In March, World Forestry Center hosted Governor will have a socio-economic impact on the and children…not only in Brazil but The 2019 conference featured a keynote address, sponsored Brown in Miller Hall for the first meeting of the Council. communities and control deforestation and wherever I am.” environmental degradation in Malawi.” by Freres Lumber Company. Eric Corey Freed, Sustainability In September, she returned to receive the group’s Disruptor at Morrison Hershfield, offered his dynamic take nearly final recommendations. Fen-Hui Chen (Taiwan) (United Kingdom) on the risks and rewards of a timber future. Will Maiden “As chair of the Council’s Mitigation Committee, I’m “All the activities, including study tours, “Oregon is one of the best places “You’re not in the timber business,” said Freed. “You’re in the honored that World Forestry Center could act as guest speakers, and meetings, arranged globally to investigate forest issues, the host for such a historic and important event,” said by the program have facilitated my and I feel very lucky to have spent most-valuable-and-renewable-commodity-on-Earth business.” understanding of the fundamental six months looking into a subject World Forestry Center Executive Director Joe Furia. knowledge of natural resource management close to my heart.” The program continued with sessions on the global megatrends in the Pacific Northwest.” influencing forestry, including climate change and shifting “Wildfire affects all aspects of our society. It requires demographics. “Climate change presents new risks and opportunities a broad base of stakeholders to evaluate its impacts and potential solutions through an ecological, economic, for investors in forests,” said World Forestry Center Deputy Temitope Dauda (Nigeria) Romain Matile (France) Director Sara Wu. “These issues are only growing in importance.” and social lens,” said Furia. “It is a lens that we at “These past six months have been the best “My research project was focused on forest World Forestry Center bring to all forestry issues.” period in my career and personal life. I have fire prevention and prescribed burning, and Another first was the session on diversity, equity, and inclusion in worked with brilliant minds that specialize I have been able to collect valuable information the forestry industry. The panel included World Forestry Center in conserving landscapes and have learned in this area. I had the opportunity to meet how to approach landscape conservation at people very involved in these activities that Board Member Dr. Thomas Easley, Assistant Dean for Community a scale that reflects the needs and aspirations allowed me to expand my professional network.” and Inclusion at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, of the local people.” and Bettina von Hagen, CEO of EFM. Thank you to everyone who made Who Will Own the Forest? Zhongyuan Ding (China) Rodolfo Vieto (Costa Rica) “As forestry in my country has been “The human and financial resources possible, including this year's Title Sponsors: Farm Credit, experiencing rapid development and that the Harry A. Merlo Foundation Roseburg Forest Products, and Timberland Investment Resources. finding itself at a crossroads, it is crucial to have provided allowed me a worthwhile make a comparison with others, rethink our cross-cultural and professional experience, approach, and gain global awareness.” strengthening me as an agent of change for Costa Rica and Central America.” 4 World Forestry Center // 2019 Annual Report World Forestry Center // worldforestry.org 5 PUBLIC

New Exhibit Brings The Logging History In 2019, World Forestry Center was pleased to add a new Hagenstein to Museum exhibit to the second floor of our Discovery Museum. Logging Equipment Through the Years showcases tools of the forestry Lectures trade dating back to the late 1800s. The custom exhibition illuminates several important forestry Amplifies technologies and advancements, such as the Hanchett Sharpener and the Bardon Choker Hook, which was patented Emerging by ESCO Corporation. Logging Equipment Through the Years was made possible Voices through the support of these generous sponsors: Fred and Barbara Heller, The Friends of Paul Bunyan Foundation – an Ten young leaders in forestry brought Emerging Voices is the signature event Associated Oregon Loggers entity, Gary Betts, Dick Renoud, thought-provoking dialogue to the World in The Hagenstein Lecture series. It ESCO Corporation, and Johnny Mifflin. Forestry Center in late October 2019. highlights the work of forestry professionals under 45, providing them a platform for The fourth annual Emerging Voices their fresh perspectives and the constantly- in Forestry event featured dynamic changing work of sustainable forestry. conversations on the predictability of wildfire, opportunities for women The Hagenstein Lectures is a public initiative led by World Forestry Center and the Society fighting those fires, and the actions of American Foresters to honor the legacy of required to evolve forestry for the future. professional forester William D. Hagenstein.

“These conversations were envisioned as a way to feature DISCOVERY MUSEUM BY THE NUMBERS new voices in forestry. We wanted to highlight the work being done by this next generation.” New Exhibits — Rick Zenn, World Forestry Center Senior Fellow 3 23 Days of Special Events 2019 Emerging Voices Terry Baker Andres Holz 105 School Groups Fran Cafferata Coe Amanda Rau Musuem Members Christopher Dunn Jarred Saralecos 378 Ara Erickson Anjel Tomayko 22,166 Total Attendees Jeremy Felty Abe Wheeler

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Grandchildren’s Garden Forestry Leadership Hall “This garden is the most used site on our Inductions Adds Beauty and Functionality entire campus,” said Executive Director Joe Furia. “Place is at the heart of everything Bring In 2018, the family of Harold A. Miller we do at World Forestry Center. The approached World Forestry Center with a Miller family’s generosity in funding this suggestion to improve the functionality, project continues their long legacy of support Leaders to intimacy, and beauty of the Miller Hall for the next generation of sustainable grounds for the next generation of visitors forestry champions.” Our Campus and patrons. On August 18, 2019, Miller The renovated Grandchildren’s Garden is family members and World Forestry Center Bill Bradley Established in 1971, Forestry Leadership hosting them at our Washington Park home to more than 125 events and 22,000 staff gathered for a private dedication of the September 17, 2019 Hall commemorates those who have campus, we foster our existing people annually. contributed to the social, economic, and relationships while building new ones. completed Grandchildren’s Garden. Thorold “Thorry” H. Gunnersen The project was made possible through October 25, 2019 environmental benefits of forests. In 2019, Over a year in the making, the capacity-building During the induction, the honoree’s World Forestry Center honored Bill the generous support of the family of Harold biography is ceremonially added to our project reimagined the green space outside John Warjone Miller, Hank Swigert, and World Forestry Bradley, Thorry Gunnersen, and John of Miller Hall. Designed by Huntington & Kiest, November 14, 2019 Leadership Hall, joining the more than 200 Center’s board of directors. Warjone by inducting them into this the renovation added new walkways, a wooden forestry leaders already recognized. These prestigious group. arbor and fencing, and dozens of native trees For a full list of donors, visit biographies contribute to the collective and shrubs to World Forestry Center’s already worldforestry.org/garden-donors Each induction culminates with a history of forests and forestry in the Pacific lush Washington Park campus. celebratory reception at World Forestry Northwest and across the world. Center. These events bring together a Thank you to our donors for your support diverse group of the honoree’s friends, of our honorees. family, colleagues, and supporters. By

EVENT RENTALS BY THE NUMBERS

2 Minority-Owned Caterers Added to Preferred Catering List CAMPUS MAINTENANCE BY THE NUMBERS 138 Events by Non-Profits or 45,000 Sq. Ft. 5.45 Acres Like-Minded Organizations INTERIOR SPACE OUTDOOR SPACE 230 Events FACILITIES PROJECTS IN 2019 35,315 Event Attendees MILLER HALL DISCOVERY MUSEUM CARPETING REPLACED FOUNTAIN UPGRADED KITCHEN FLOOR REPLACED RESTROOM FLOORS EXTERIOR REPAINTED REPLACED 8 World Forestry Center // 2019 Annual Report World Forestry Center // worldforestry.org 9 2019 DONORS 2019 DONORS January 1 through December 31, 2019 January 1 through December 31, 2019

GIFTS OF $100,000+ Victor P. Musselman Janet Torheim Harrington H. MIKE MILLER: FORESTRY PRESIDENT’S CLUB CORPORATE LandVest Harry A. Merlo Foundation Hester H. Nau in memory of Robert Torheim LEADERSHIP HALL INDUCTION MEMBERS $10,000+ Lone Rock Resources Associated Oregon Loggers Collins Northwest Chocolate Festival Tal & Dana Litvin The Lyme Timber Company GIFTS OF $10,000 to $99,999 in memory of Ursula Mayclin Melvin Basco Logging, Inc. Anonymous Pat Reser CANOPY CLUB CORPORATE MEMBERS $5,000 Mason, Bruce & Girard Cindy Magness Gary & Mary Betts Chevron Rick & Jacky Sohn GreenWood Resources MetLife Investment Management in memory of Howard & Panzy Magness John & Christina Blackwell Hampton Family Foundation of The Oregon Sara W. Wu Roseburg Forest Products The Molpus Woodlands Group Angela May Jim Brown Community Foundation Stoel Rives Moss Adams GIFTS OF $100 to $249 in honor of Mike (Craig) Jennings Dean & Joan DeChaine Louis W. Hill, Jr. Subfund of World Forestry New Forests Jennifer H. Allen FOREST CLUB CORPORATE MEMBERS $2,500 Center Endowment Fund BILL BRADLEY: FORESTRY Doug Decker Anonymous (3) Port Blakely Perkins Coie Mr. & Mrs. L.L. Stewart Subfund I & II LEADERSHIP HALL INDUCTION Friends of Paul Bunyan Foundation Robert Blum & Carol Black Anonymous PGIM Real Estate Finance of The Oregon Community Foundation Gahlsdorf Logging Inc. CROWN CLUB CORPORATE MEMBERS $1,000 Nils D. Christoffersen Mike Barnes Freres Lumber Company, Freres Foundation Resource Management Service Walker Family Foundation Holce Logging Bruce & Janet Daucsavage RSM Jim Brown Lone Rock Resources Giustina Resources GIFTS OF $5,000 to $9,999 Ed & Lynn Ferguson Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt Dr. Steven Burak Kirkpatrick Logging Inc. Gramark Company Morris H. and Dorothy M. Bergman Trust Joseph A. Furia Smith Agri International Dean & Joan DeChaine The Extended Mike Miller Family Harrigan Lumber Company Clark/Lewis Foundation Gary & Lynne Hartshorn Smith, Gambrell & Russell Eversheds Sutherland Miller Timber Services Lone Rock Resources Paul & Sally McCracken Fund Felton Jenkins Conservation Stoel Rives Allyn Ford & Cheryl Ramberg-Ford Jim Rombach Ochoco Timber Company of The Oregon Community Foundation, & Education Fund John & Susan McCracken Greg Fullem Schmitz Timber Management, Greg Schmitz RSG Forest Products WHO WILL OWN THE FOREST: Cherie Kearney 2019 KEYNOTE SPONSOR $2,500 Richard Strachan Gary & Lynne Hartshorn John & Linda Shelk Starker Forests Doug & Marian Leisz Freres Lumber Company OCF Joseph E. Weston Public Foundation Ken Hines, Jr. B. Bond Starker Thompson Tree Farm Bruce Mateer Scott Jones on behalf of Hearthstone Foundation Van Natta Brothers Timber Products Company SPONSORS: THE HAGENSTEIN LECTURE SERIES GIFTS OF $1,000 to $4,999 Margaret & Stephen Smith EMERGING VOICES IN FORESTRY Joan Lautenschleger on behalf of Rosemont Michael Wooters Walsh Trucking Company Anonymous James Workman Consulting The Heathman Hotel The Zenn Family Craig Blair Thaddeus Yarosh Ambassador Howard H. Leach GIFTS-IN-KIND Hopworks Urban Brewery Bill Bradley Zigkinski Cutting Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau Oregon Forest Resources Institute The Zenn Family The Lyme Timber Company Books on forestry, forest products, Eagon USA Corp. Zuber & Sons Logging U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Rick Zurow Edwin Sweeten and natural resources Flowerree Foundation Zuber Incorporated, Marvin & Sharon Zuber Station Hank Swigert Tsai Comms, Lillian Tsai Bobsy & Leo Graham GIFTS UP to $99 Zachary Alten & Merrit Thompson Charley Tarver ERIC SCHOOLER: FORESTRY Intercultural training for International Fellows SPONSOR: COMMUNITY FREE DAY, Elizabeth Hampton Family LEADERSHIP HALL INDUCTION DISCOVERY MUSEUM Anonymous John & Sally Warjone Adolf & Gaby Hertrich Collins WHO WILL OWN THE FOREST: Columbia Bank Mr. & Mrs. Robert O. Curtis John & Judy Wilkinson 2019 TITLE SPONSORS $10,000 Stephen Levesque Hampton Lumber Victoria Fernandez & Benjamin Negrete George M. & Judy L. Wohlreich Northwest Farm Credit Services GRANDCHILDREN’S GARDEN, Elizabeth J. Lilley Gordon & Dodie King MILLER HALL Mr. Jeffrey M. Gudman Sara W. Wu Roseburg Forest Products Mr. & Mrs. James Mackey Dianne Schooler Bobsy & Leo Graham Doug Maguire Timberland Investment Resources WAYNE GIESY: FORESTRY Melissa McCloud Lilley John Murphy, Sr. & Murphy Company RICHARD “RICK” H. WOLLENBERG: Elizabeth Mamaren LEADERSHIP HALL INDUCTION WHO WILL OWN THE FOREST Sarah Miller Meigs & Andrew Meigs Mark & Connie Norby Jerry and Sara Anderson FORESTRY LEADERSHIP HALL INDUCTION Don & Mickey Nearhood Mike Barnes 2019 CORPORATE SPONSORS $5,500 Andrew W. Miller Prairie Foundation Robert Bass Adams & Reese The Portland Garden Club Joseph T. Hagen Stimson Lumber Company Shelk Fischer Family Foundation Heath Curtiss American Forest Management Tyler Quinn Amy Hilmer Madeleine & Frank Torresy Starker Forests, Inc. Davidson Industries ArborGen Bobbie L. Richey B. Bond Starker Tiffanie Starr Giustina Land & Timber Company Brookfield Asset Management Thank you to all who have supported the Grandchildren’s W. Lee and Caroll Lynn Robinson Patricia Starker Swigert Foundation Green Diamond Resource Company BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group Garden. This listing only reflects 2019 gifts to the project Henry Wischusen Bill Walsh, Sr. & Margaret Walsh and is not comprehensive of all donors. Tumac Lumber Company Fund GreenWood Resources Campbell Global John & Sally Warjone of The Oregon Community Foundation TRIBUTES Hampton Lumber CatchMark Timber Trust Stewart & Molly Butler Charlie Wertheimer We have made every effort to include all donations Hancock Forest Management Domain Timber Advisors GIFTS OF $250 to $999 in memory of B.P. John Kathleen Wertheimer from 2019. If our report contains errors or omissions, Columbia County Small Hull-Oakes Lumber Company Eversheds Sutherland John B. Crowell, Jr. John & Judy Wilkinson please accept our apologies and notify Merrit Thompson, Woodlands Association Olympic Resource Management Global Forest Partners in memory of Peggy Crowell Carol Wollenberg Development and Community Relations Manager, Anthony S. Davis & Amy L. Ross-Davis Rayonier Green Diamond Resource Company so we can update our records (503.488.2122 / Bobsy & Leo Graham David A. Wollenberg Ke Dong & Paul Oseter to celebrate the marriage Roseburg Forest Products GreenWood Resources [email protected]). Keith K. Wollenberg Ken & Sherrilyn Fisher of Pili & Chantel Kaaihue Nancy & Peter Sikora Hancock Timber Resource Group The Wollenberg Foundation Forestry Suppliers Bobsy & Leo Graham Starker Forests International Woodland Company Greg Fullem to celebrate the marriage Thank you to all who have supported our honorees. Jamestown S. Kenneth Kirn of Karen Graham Swensson & Ed Swensson This listing only reflects 2019 gifts and is not Jeffrey M. Siegrist & Company comprehensive as some inductions took place over KPMG multiple years.

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