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The headquaters of the Tropical Forest Foundation (TFF) is located in Alexandria, Virginia. An Executive Director coordinates Regional Programs based in Brazil, Indonesia, Guyana, and Gabon. Biannual board meetings ensure close participation from an international slate of Directors, many of which have close involvement with TFF’s Regional Programs.

Each Regional Program operates under specific funding arrangements and manages individual programs directly.

TFF’s clear sense of direction owes much to its Board of Directors, who despite their diverse backgrounds, share a strong agreement on key principles, that :

  1. To conserve the tropical forests, it is necessary to ensure that they maintain their economic value to all stakeholders, and,
  2. to improve the management of the tropical forests, representatives from concerned areas should forge alliances rather than remain adversarial.
TROPICAL FOREST FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS – 2007 Terms of Office (first elected/current term ends)
     
JOHN ANDL 01/01/91 – 12/31/07 Tradeleaf LLC P.O. Box 232 New York, NY 10024 212-595-1371 Fax: 212-202-3542 jxandl@attglobal.net   SIDNEY C. BANWART TFF Vice President 05/2007 – 12/31/09 Caterpillar Inc. 100 N.E. Adams Street Peoria, IL 61629-4190 309-675-5222 Fax 309-675-5330 banwart_sid@cat.com
     
MARK BARFORD 05/2007 – 12/31/09 National Hardwood Lumber Assn. (NHLA) P.O. Box 34518 Memphis, TN 38184-0518 901-377-1818 Fax 901-382-6419 m.barford@nhla.com   JUERGEN BLASER 01/01/02 – 12/31/07 Intercooperation Maulbeerstrasse 10, 3001 Berne Switzerland 41-31-385-1010 Fax: 41-31-385-1009 jblaser@intercooperation.ch
     
HERVE BOURGUIGNON 05/2007 – 12/31/09 Inter-African Industries Assn (IFIA) 6, avenue de Saint Mande 75012 Paris, France 33 1 4342 42 00 Fax: 33 1 4342 42 55 ifia@wanadoo.fr   JIM BOWYER - TFF Chairman 01/01/96 – 12/31/07 President, Bowyer & Associates Director, Responsible Materials Program, Dovetail Partners, Inc. 528 Hennepin Ave., Ste. 202 Minneapolis, MN 55403 651-490-7688, Fax 612-333-0432 jimbowyer@comcast.net
     
RALPH BURCHFIELD 01/01/06-12/31/07 Bridgestone/Firestone Tires 4600 NW 2nd Avenue, Suite 100 Des Moines, IA 50313 515-242-2328 Fax: 515-283-1610 burchfieldra@firestoneag.com   BRUCE CABARLE 01/01/99 – 12/31/08 TFF Executive Committee World Wildlife Fund, 1250 24th St, NW Washington, DC 20037-1175 202-822-3450 Fax 202-861-8378 bruce.cabarle@wwfus.org
     
DAVID CASSELLS 01/01/02 – 12/31/07 Indo-Pacific Resource Centre 51 Edmonstone St., P.O. Box 8106 South Brisbane, Woolloongabba Qld 4102 Australia Office: +61 (7) 3214 6909 Cell: +61 (0405) 760-516   SYLVIO DE ANDRADE COUTINHO 05/2007 – 12/31/09 Floresteca phone/fax: + 55 65 2128 7777 www.floresteca.com.br sylvio.coutinho@floresteca.com.br
     
LISA CURRAN 01/01/00 – 12/31/07 Yale School of Forestry & Environ. Studies, Greeley Memorial Laboratory 370 Prospect Street New Haven, CT 06511 203-432-3772 lisa.curran@yale.edu   YVES DES MARAIS 01/01/96 – 12/31/08 Hollywood Woodwork, Inc. 1551 South 30th Avenue Hollywood, FL 33020 954-920-5009 Fax 954-920-2979 yvesdesmarais@hollywoodwoodwork.com
     
THOMAS ENTERS 01/01/02 – 12/31/07 Forestry Consultant, Singtanaa Assoc. 4/20 Vongsdhavi Gardens,Soi Samakee Pakkret, Nonthaburi 11120 Thailand 66-2-679-4328 Fax 66-2-697-4445 thomas.enters@fao.org   CARL GADE - TFF President 01/01/99 – 12/31/08 The Penrod Company 2809 S. Lynnhaven Rd., Suite 350 Virginia Beach, VA 23452 757-498-0186 Fax: 757-498-1075 carl.gade@thepenrodcompany.com
     
OLOF VON GAGERN 06/26/06-12/31/08 Danzer AG, Switzerland Storlachstrasse 1, D-72760 Reutlingen Germany 49-7121-307-0 Fax: 49-7121-307-83 olof_gagern@danzer.de   TOM HAMMETT 01/01/06 - 12/31/07 Virginia Tech 230 Cheatham Hall – 0323 Blacksburg, VA 24061 540-231-2716 Fax 540-231-8176 himal@vt.edu
     
ROBERT HUNINK 01/01/01 – 12/31/08 TFF Treasurer tt Timber International AG Elisabethenanlage 11, P.O. Box 631 CH-4010 Basel Switzerland 41-61-205-5252 Fax 41-61-272-7553 r.hunink@tt-timber.ch   STEPHEN KELLEHER 01/01/06 - 12/31/08 The World Conservation Union (IUCN) Rue Mauverney 28, CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland 41 0 22 999 0258 Fax +41 0 22 999 00 25 stephen.kelleher@iucn.org
     
JIM KEYLON 01/01/04 – 12/31/07 Keylon-Kurtz LLC 5006 Crestview Drive Paradise Valley, AZ 85253 602-684-6888 jimk@suncap.com   ERIK LAMMERTS VAN BUEREN 01/01/97 – 12/31/08 TFF Executive Committee ISAFOR Burg. Roell laan 1B, 3925 BB Scherpenzeel, Netherlands 31-33-286 7145 Fax: 31-33-286-7855 elvb@isafor.nl
     
ARIEL LUGO 01/01/02 – 12/31/07 USDA Forest Service Int’l Institute of Tropical Forestry (IITF) Jardin Botanico Sur, 1201 Calle Ceiba Rio Piedras, PR 00926-1119 787-766-5335 Fax 787-766-6263 alugo@fs.fed.us   GIB MCILVAIN 01/01/06 – 12/31/07 J. Gibson McIlvain Company P.O. Box 222 White Marsh, MD 21162 410-335-9600 Fax 410-335-3574 McilvainIII@aol.com
     
STEVE MERIAM 01/01/04 – 12/31/07 Stihl, Inc. 536 Viking Drive, P.O. Box 2015 Virginia Beach, VA 23450-2015 757-486-9321 Fax: 757-486-9356 stephen.meriam@stihl.us   RICHARD C. NEWMAN 01/01/00 – 12/31/07 Plywood Tropics USA Inc. 805 SW Broadway, Suite 2290 Portland, OR 97205 503-222-1622 Fax 503-222-3823 rcnewman@plywoodtropics.com
     
CHAD OLIVER 01/01/06 – 12/31/07 Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Sage Hall, 205 Prospect Street New Haven, CT 06511 chad.oliver@yale.edu   FRANK J. READY 05/2007 – 12/31/09 Armstrong N. American Floor Products 2500 Colombia Ave., P.O.Box 3001 Lancaster, PA 17604-3001 717.396.5646 fjready@armstrong.com
     
JOHN ROBINSON 01/01/00 – 12/31/07 Wildlife Conservation Society 185th Street & Southern Blvd. Bronx, NY 10460 718-220-7165 Fax: 718-220-1389 jrobinson@wcs.org   HANS-PETER SCHLOBACH 01/01/91 – 12/31/08 TFF Executive Committee Crown Hardwood Company Inc. 1270 Baltimore Pike, West Grove, PA 19390 610-869-8771 Fax: 610-869- 4166 pschlobach@crown-wood.com
     
JAMES R. SEDELL 6/26/06-12/31/08 USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station P.O. Box 245, Berkeley, CA 94701 510-559-6310 Fax: 510-559-6440 jsedell@fs.fed.us   JAMES SINGH 01/01/03 – 12/31/08 Guyana Forestry Commission 1 Water Street Kingston, Georgetown, Guyana 592-226-7271/4 Fax 592-226-8956 commissioner@forestry.gov.gy
     
STEVEN TOUREK 06/26/06 – 12/31/08 Marvin Windows and Doors 2020 Silver Bell Road, Suite 5 St. Paul, MN 55122 651-686-2490 Fax: 651-686-2492 stourek@marvin.com   PHILIP VAUGHAN 01/01/06-12/31/07 Travis Perkins PLC Lodge Way House, Lodge Way Harlestone Road, Northampton NN5 7UG United Kingdom Ph: 44-1604 592568 philip.vaughan@travisperkins.co.uk
     
DATUK WONG KIE NAI 01/01/06 – 12/31/07 WTK Group, Bangunan Hung Ann, Level 7, No. 1 Jalan Bujang Suntong 96007 Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia 60-84-333-553 Fax: 60-84-335-781 lydia@wtk.com.my   ISAC CHAMI ZUGMAN 10/01/04 – 12/31/08 Brascomp Compensados do Brasil SA R. Luigi Galvani, 42, cj 126, Brooklin Sao Paulo-SP, Brazil 04575-020 55-11-5112 1088 Fax: 55-11-5505-4597 isac.zugman@lavrasul.com.br
     
EX-OFFICIO NON-VOTING MEMBERS OF THE TFF BOARD OF DIRECTORS
     
DENNIS P. DYKSTRA 01/01/96 – 12/31/07 , Research Forest Products Technologist PNW Research Stn, USDA Forest Service 620 SW Main St., #400, P.O. Box 3890 Portland, OR 97208-3890 503-808-3132 Fax: 503-808-2020 ddykstra@fs.fed.us   GARY HARTSHORN 01/01/91 – 12/31/07 World Forestry Center 4033 SW Canyon Road Portland, OR 97221 503-228-1367 Fax: 503-228-4608 ghartshorn@worldforestry.org
     
ROBERT PETTERSON 01/01/95 – 12/31/07 145 Mid Ocean Williamsburg, VA 23188 757-259-0265 r.petterson@worldnet.att.net   DONALD L. SCHRAMM 01/01/91 – 12/31/07 10190 Kincross Road Roswell, GA 30076 770-667-6187 Fax: 770-667-1065 dlschramm@earthlink.net
     
Founding Chairman THOMAS LOVEJOY The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics & the Environment 1001 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20004 202-737-6307 Fax 202-737-6410 lovejoy@heinzctr.org    
     
TFF STAFF & PROJECT DIRECTORS
     
KEISTER EVANS, TFF Exec. Dir.
2121 Eisenhower Avenue, Suite 200 Alexandria, VA 22314 703-518-8834 Fax: 703-518-8974 keisterevans@igc.org
  WENDY BAER, Staff Executive 2121 Eisenhower Avenue, Suite 200 Alexandria, VA 22314 703-518-8834 Fax: 703-518-8974 tff@igc.org
     
Project Director – AFRICA PAUL HOL FORM International Bevrijdingsweg 3, 8051 EN HATTEM The Netherlands 31-38-444-8990 Fax: 31-38-444-8991 info@forminternational.nl   Project Director – GUYANA GODFREY MARSHALL Forestry Training Center Inc. 17, Mudflats, Access Road, Kingston Georgetown, Guyana 592-223-5061 Fax: 592-223-5061 gemar@guyana.net.gy
     
Legal Advisor GERALD E. GILBERT Hogan & Hartson (Retired) 8300 Greensboro Drive, 11th Floor McLean, VA 22102 703-610-6104 Fax: 703-610-6200 gegilbert@hhlaw.com   Project Manager – AFRICA MANS VROOM FORM International Ridderstraat 2, 8051 EH Hattem The Netherlands 31-38-444-8990 Fax: 31-38-444-8991 m.vroom@forminternational.nl
     
Project Director – S.E. ASIA ART KLASSEN Tropical Forest Foundation Manggala Wanabakti Block IV,Lt.7, Wing B Jl. Jend. Gatot Subroto Senayan Jakarta 10270 Indonesia 62-21-573-5589 Fax 62 21579 02925 tff@cbn.net.id   Project Director – BRAZIL JOHAN ZWEEDE Fundacao Floresta Tropical (FFT) Rua dos Mundurucus 1613, Bairro: Jurunas, CEP: 66025-660 Belem, Para, Brazil 55-91-3202-8300 Fax: 55-91-3202-8310 zweede@fft.org.br

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