Factors shaping consulting foresters' services to family forest landowners

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

11:50 AM – 11:58 AM MST

Location: Embassy Suites, Snowberry

Speaker(s)

Sagar Godar Chhetri, PhD

Assistant Professor of Forest Economics
University of Arkansas at Monticello
Monticello, Arkansas, United States

Co-Author(s)

Shaun M. Tanger, PhD

Associate Professor
University of Arkansas At Monticello
Monticello, Arkansas, United States
Matthew H. Pelkki, BSF, MF, PhD, CF, RPF

Professor
University of Arkansas at Monticello
Monticello, Arkansas, United States

Almost two-thirds of consulting foresters in the West Gulf Coastal Plain regions of the US provided full-time consulting services to family forest landowners. Consulting foresters are more likely to be full-time consultants if they have more clients. Full-time consulting foresters mostly worked with family forest landowners who owned pine plantations.

Learning Objectives:

Learn about the interaction of registered foresters with family forest landowners.
Understand the employment level of consulting foresters (full-time vs part-time) and factors that affect on employment level.