Professional Membership
Professional membership is open to all forest professionals actively engaged in forest stewardship. Professional members practice forest stewardship through active hands-on management, forest policy work, forest land protection, forest advocacy or forest-related research. Professional member candidates are evaluated based solely on their education, professional experience, and commitment to the Guild mission and principles.

The Forest Guild has a policy of equal membership standing for all forest professionals whose work exemplifies our mission and principles.

Professional membership requirements:

  • Professional members must support the Forest Guild mission and principles, and adhere to standards of professional membership (including full and timely payment of dues) as outlined in our organizational guidelines.
  • Forest Guild professional members have a combination of education and/or work experience meeting at least one of the following standards:

      • A bachelor's, or higher-level, degree from an accredited school in a core forestry discipline (see 1 below).
      • A bachelor's, or higher-level, degree from an accredited school in a related discipline (see 2 below) and a minimum of 2 years of qualifying professional experience.
      • A minimum of 5 years of qualifying professional experience (see 3 below).

            • 1. Core Forestry Disciplines include: forestry, forest ecology, forest-related wildlife ecology or conservation biology, forest-related botany or mycology, forest hydrology, forest soils, forest engineering, forest products harvesting and utilization, forest restoration, forest land conservation, forest policy, forest-related fisheries science or management, forest meteorology, forest fire science and management, and forest pathology, forest history, forest economics and forest sociology. 

            2. Related Disciplines include: general biology, general botany, mycology, landscape architecture, land or public policy, soil science, fisheries science, meteorology, and other fields as approved and reviewed by the membership committee.

            3. Qualifying Professional Experience includes work typically performed by resource professionals with 4-year degrees, including but not limited to,  agency resource management, resource management consulting, professional-level work for NGO’s involved in forest conservation, or academic research. 

Professional membership candidates are reviewed and approved by the Guild membership committee.

Please fill in the information below or in the MS Word version of the application to become a member of the Forest Guild. The fee for professional membership is $50.


Name:
Address:
City:
State:
Country:
Zip:
Telephone:
Fax:
Email:
   
Employer:
Current Position:
Acreage Managed:
Description of Forest Management Experience:
Academic Background
Institution:
Degree:
Year of Completion:
Institution:
Degree:
Year of Completion:

A Guild member who can provide a reference (Only required for practicing forest stewards who do not have a degree; if you do not know any Guild members, state this and we will contact you.):

Working Group Preference

Please read work group descriptions before making your selection.
Demonstration
Policy
Research
Community Forestry
   
Please provide a brief statement on your forest management approach:
 
   
I support the Guild's mission and principles. Applicant's signature:
Typing your name below will be considered your signature.
 


 



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Forest Wisdom Issue 9

Forestry in the Lake States. This issue of Forest Wisdom explores a cross section of the challenges facing Guild practitioners in the Lake States and examples of strategies they are successfully pursuing on the ground.