WAEE welcomes Alan Haney as the 2013 WAEE Winter Workshop Keynote Speaker
Alan, an Emeritus Professor of Forestry at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, is a forest ecologist with over 40 years of field experience, mostly in the Midwest. He is an authority on ecology of Midwest oak savannas, ecological effects of fire and other disturbances in the southern boreal ecosystem, and ecosystem restoration. He holds a Master of Forestry from Yale University (1965) and a Ph.D. in forest ecology from the New York State University College of Forestry and Environmental Science at Syracuse (1968). His career includes 10 years as a plant ecologist at the University of Illinois-Urbana, 10 years as forester and head of the Natural Science Division at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina, 16 years as Dean and Professor of Forestry in the College of Natural Resources, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. He and his colleagues initiated research in the southern boreal ecosystem in 1976, focusing on how forest communities respond to disturbances, including fire, wind and logging. In addition to his work on structure of boreal forests, Alan continues to conduct research on restoration ecology. His published work includes seven books and monographs and over 50 technical papers. He has co-authored two books on ecological restoration with Steven Apfelbaum, both published by Island Press, titled Restoring Ecological Health to Your Land and a manual on ecological restoration. Alan was the founding president of Wisconsin Family Forests, Inc., an organization that supports sustainable management on private lands and facilitates community networks of woodland owners. His book, One Family's Forest, co-authored with Lowell Klessig, was released in December 2010. He has lectured throughout United States on ecological restoration, climate change, and sustainability. He currently serves as president on North Central Conservancy Trust, a land trust working with landowners to permanently protect their land from development and exploitation in an eight-county area in central Wisconsin.