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Debbie Hammel, Senior Resource Specialist, Land Program, San Francisco
Debbie Hammel works on issues related to bioenergy and sustainable forest management. She has more than 25 years of experience in designing third-party environmental certification systems, and is an internationally recognized expert on sustainable forest management, supply chain management and chain-of-custody certification. Over the last five years, Debbie has focused her energy on private sector initiatives – harnessing the power of the marketplace – to protect the forests of the southern U.S. - one of the most biologically diverse temperate forests in the world and threatened by a variety of diverse pressures including the international pulp-and-paper industry, mountaintop removal coal mining, climate change, subdivision developments and the emerging bioenergy industry. She holds a degree in Conservation of Resource Sciences from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Posted November 16, 2010 by Debbie Hammel in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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- biogems, dogwwoodalliance, forests, georgiapacific, paper, southeasternforests, sustainableforestry
After nearly six years of consultation and negotiation, I am excited to announce a major victory for forests today. Leading timber buyer Georgia Pacific has committed to new key sustainable forestry practices that will help to transform the entire paper...continued→
