Peter Hayes

Peter and his family own and care for working forest lands in the northern Oregon Coast Range.  Their restoration forestry business, Hyla Woods, experiments with models of forestry and grower-consumer partnerships that lead to enriched forests and sustained people.  Peter’s community involvements include recent service on the Oregon Board of Forestry, leadership of the Build Local Alliance, and service on several non-profit boards.

Kristen Chadwick

Kristen Chadwick is a forest pathologist with USDA, Forest Service,  Forest Health Protection (FHP). Her career with Forest Health Protection started in 2002 and has given her the opportunity to work with forest health related issues throughout Oregon and Washington with a variety of Federal Land Managers ranging from the Forest Service, National Park Service, Tribal, and The Bureau of Land Management. She has been working with the FHP Westside Insect and Disease Service Center, based out of Sandy Oregon, for the past six years focusing on western Oregon and Washington forest ecology and disturbances. With FHP Kristen provides technical assistance to federal land managers covering a range of topics and specialties from native and non-native forest diseases, disease impact modeling, training for identification and management of insects and diseases, silvicultural prescription input and review, participation on interdisciplinary teams, and hazard tree training and identification. Kristen’s passions include working on administrative studies in the high-elevation environments with Whitebark pine and subalpine fir and working with land managers to incorporate the best available science into their management practices.