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Planning Committee

Heidi Renninger (Co-Chair)

Mississippi State University

hr427@msstate.edu

 

Courtney Siegert (Co-Chair)

Mississippi State University

courtney.siegert@msstate.edu

Asia Dowtin

Michigan State University

dowtinas@msu.edu

Solomon Ghezehei

Western Carolina University

sghezehei@wcu.edu

Rich Hallett

USDA Forest Service

richard.hallett@usda.gov

John Kort

Poplar and Willow Council of Canada

pwccpoplar@gmail.com

Austin Himes

Washington State University

austin.himes@wsu.edu

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Elizabeth Nichols

North Carolina State University

egnichol@ncsu.edu

Andrej Pilipović

University of Minnesota Duluth

pilip015@d.umn.edu

Liz Rogers

University of Missouri

errccd@missouri.edu

Erik Schilling

National Council for Stream and Air Improvement

eschilling@ncasi.org

Raju Soolanayakanahally
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

raju.soolanayakanahally@AGR.GC.CA 

Nancy Sonti
USDA Forest Service

nancy.f.sonti@usda.gov

 

Ryan Vinhal

USDA Forest Service

ryan.vinhal@usda.gov

Ronald S. Zalesny Jr.
USDA Forest Service

ronald.zalesny@usda.gov

Colleen Zumpf
Argonne National Laboratory

czumpf@anl.gov

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