From Meat Eaters World News Headquarters in Bozeman, Montana, this is Cowell's Week in Review with Ryan Cal-Aye.

Here's Cal.

Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of the Cowell the Wild podcast. We have another super

informative guest today, Mr. Terry Baker for the Society of American Foresters. Our topic

is going to be one that we've been working on for a while here, and it is the state

of our forests, our national forests here in the U.S. of A.

Obviously, what we'd like to get into is we have had some interesting things that have have jumped off

this topic at the federal level layoffs rehirings the mandate to lighten staff at all of our federal agencies, and we've also had an executive

order to produce more timber on our working for us here in America. I can take guesses, but I am by no means an expert. So we have

reached out to Terry Baker, CEO of the Society of American Foresters. Terry, thank you very much

for jumping on here. Would you mind

just giving us a little bit of your background as well as what is the Society of American Foresters?

Absolutely. Thanks for having me, Cal, and glad to be here in the wild with you this today.

But yes, so as a CEO of the Society of American Foresters, we are a professional association

focused on scientific sustainable management of our nation's forests.

We achieve that mention through a variety of programming, through providing educational opportunities

for professionals in this space. In both forestry and urban forestry, we also accredit university

programs to set the standard for forestry and natural resources management, provide professional

certifications, as well as newsletters and two scientific journals for people to publish in doing their research in forestry and natural resources conservation.

So the Journal of Forestry and the Journal of Forests Science.

What's also unique about us this year, as we claim to be able to set the standard for forest practices. This is our 125th anniversary as an organization.

So S.A.F.'s been in the game for quite some time.

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