Executive Director
New England Forestry Foundation
Chilmark, Massachusetts, United States
Robert Perschel is the Executive Director of the New England Forestry Foundation. Previous to this position, Bob was the Eastern Region Director for the Forest Stewards Guild. In his 40 years as an environmental professional, he has worked on forestry, large landscape conservation, and wilderness issues. Bob worked for the forest industry before establishing his own forestry consulting business and founding the Land Ethic Institute. He is an original co-founder of the Forest Stewards Guild. Bob has a master’s degree in forestry from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a psychology degree from Yale College.
Bob’s work in the last ten years has addressed the opportunity for forests to play a role in mitigating climate change. He led NEFF to codify regional Exemplary Forestry Standards and modeled the implementation of those standards across the New England landscape to prove that improved forestry practices could mitigate 30% of the region’s carbon reduction needs. NEFF’s 30% Solution was recently corroborated by two major studies. NEFF was awarded a $30 million grant from the USDA in 2022 to pilot the 30% Solution approach and identify approaches to expand the program nationally and globally.
Winning hearts and minds: how can we make the case for forest management?
Thursday, October 26, 2023
10:30am - 12:00pm PST