Lloyd McGee - Collaboration at the Speed of Trust

Lloyd McGee joins The Stump to talk about his career in forestry and how an early life experience influenced that career path. Lloyd, currently works for The Nature Conservancy as their Washington Forests Program Manager, on forest restoration in eastern Washington, which requires collaborating with a diverse group of stakeholders. Lloyd leads us through his life story and how a traumatic experience in childhood, as well as the impacts of the "Timber Wars" prepared him for the critical work he currently does today. We also discuss the opportunities for a rewarding career in the forest products and natural resources fields. We touch briefly on the need to maintain the existing logging and milling infrastructure if we are going to meet the forest restoration and maintenance goals in the face of a changing climate to maintain healthy forests in the Pacific Northwest. Lloyd updates us with a brief history and status of the Upper Wenatchee Pilot Project, a 75,000 forest restoration project. And we share a couple of stories about our friend the late Maurice Williamson. The North Central Forest Health Collaborative (NCWFHC): https://www.ncwfhc.org/ The Upper Wenatchee Pilot Project: https://www.ncwfhc.org/project/upper-wenatchee-pilot-project/ The Northeast Washington Forestry Coalition (NEWFC): https://www.newforestcoalition.com/ The Nature Conservancy - Washington (TNC): https://www.washingtonnature.org/