John Gordon and Lynn Jungwirth

Speaker Biographies

John Gordon –Professor Emeritus of Forestry and Environmental Studies, The Forest School at Yale School of the Environment

Lynn Jungwirth  – Policy Director, The Watershed Center

Lynn Jungwirth has been a leader in U.S. community forestry for more than 20 years. She founded The Watershed Center, a small local community-based organization, in 1994 and stepped down as executive director in 2009 to focus on policy and development. Jungwirth has spent more than two decades working at the intersection of federal land management and local community well-being. She has participated in numerous collaborative efforts, including serving on the National Network of Forest Practitioners board, the core group of the Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition, the National Fire Plan, and most recently, the Western Region Cohesive Wildfire Strategy working group.