Joshua C. Dickinson
Dr. Joshua C. Dickinson is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy where he received a M.S. degree in engineering. He later was awarded his Ph.D. in geography at the University of Florida and subsequently completed post doctoral work at the University of Georgia in ecology.
For the past 30 years Dr. Dickinson has been a consultant in natural resources management and forestry, working in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the United States. In 1985 he and his wife founded Tropical Research and Development, Inc. a consulting firm that had projects in 66 countries. In 1992 Dr. Dickinson founded the Forest Management Trust, a non-profit organization whose objective is to promote sustainable forest management practices in the tropics and in the southern Appalachians and the southeastern coastal plain. Currently Dr. Dickinson also is Chairman of the Forest Stewardship Counsel (FSC) program in the United States and a member of this organization’s board. The FSC is a world wide organization that provides third party certification of good forest management practices. In addition the organization promotes consumer use of wood products from forests that follow the rigorous standards prescribed by FSC. There are 72 million acres of FSC certified forests in the world of which 13 million acres are in the United States.
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