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Three appointed to IDL FPAAC |
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January 10, 2018 |
Idaho Department of Lands Director Tom Schultz
appointed Dr. Timothy Link, Moscow, Kelly Riggs,
Glenns Ferry, and Paul Buckland, Coeur d’Alene,
fill positions on the Idaho Forest Practices Act
Advisory Committee (FPAAC).
The purpose of FPAAC, as established by Idaho
Code, is to provide technical assistance to IDL
and the Idaho State Board of Land Commissioners
in matters relating to the Idaho Forest
Practices Act. The committee typically meets two
or three times per year depending on current
issues. It is comprised of nine voting members
appointed by the IDL director for three-year
terms.
Members include a fisheries biologist, a
nonindustrial private forest landowner, two
resident forest landowners, one each north and
south of the Salmon River, two resident forest
operators, one each from the northern and
southern forest regions, and three residents,
one from North Idaho, one from southern Idaho
and one at-large member.
All three appointees will serve three-year
terms.
Dr. Timothy Link is a professor of hydrology at
the University of Idaho. He will be the General
Public North Representative. Dr. Link’s research
focuses on forest hydrology, snow-vegetation
interactions and effects of climate and
land-cover changes on watershed systems. Dr.
Link received a B.A. in Geology from Hampshire
College in 1991, an M.S. in Geology from Oregon
State University in 1998, and a PhD in
Environmental Sciences with a focus on forest
hydrology
from Oregon State University in 2001.
Kelly Riggs is the owner/operator of Double
Anchor Ranches, Inc. He will be the Landowner
South Representative. The Double Anchor Ranch
was founded in 1929 by Riggs’ grandfather and
has remained family operated since then. The
ranch totals nearly 10,000 acres with
approximately 5,000 of those acres timbered. The
ranch also has federal and state grazing permits
on almost 10,000 acres. Riggs has demonstrated a
strong commitment to stewardship and implemented
a number of Clean Water Act-funded Best
Management Practice projects.
Paul Buckland is a member of the Idaho Forest
Owners Association and an employee of Inland
Empire Paper (IEP). He was reappointed as the
At-Large Representative. Buckland is the Forest
Resource Manager for IEP and a forest landowner
in North Idaho. He has served as president and
vice president of IFOA and as vice chair of
FPAAC. |
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