SHAFFER
GIVEN EXTENSION AWARD
FROM FOREST LANDOWNER
ASSOCIATION
BLACKSBURG,
May 27, 2003 - Bob
Shaffer, Charles Nettleton
Professor of Forestry
Operations and Timber
Harvesting Extension
Specialist, received
the Forest Landowner
Association's (FLA)
2003 "Extension Forester
of the Year" Award
at the group's 62nd
Annual Meeting in
Asheville, North Carolina.
The
FLA is an 11,000-member
organization of forest
landowners from across
the country with headquarters
in Atlanta, Georgia.
They honored Shaffer
primarily for his
leadership in promoting
non-regulatory forest
water quality protection
through "outcome-based"
programs of BMP (Best
Management Practices)
education and monitoring
rather than "process-control"
government forest
practice regulations
that could impact
private property rights.
Shaffer
has been a faculty
member in Virginia
Tech's Forestry Department
since 1983. He is
a past president of
the Virginia Forestry
Association and received
the Virginia Tech
Alumni Association's
Excellence in Extension
Award in 1999.
