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Carlton N. Owen: Carlton Owen is President & CEO of the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities – an entity created to manage $200 million flowing from the Softwood Lumber Agreement 2006 between the U.S. and Canada – for the purposes of promoting sustainable forestry and supporting forest-reliant communities in the U.S.

Owen of Greenville, SC, has for more than 30 years been at the forefront of conservation innovation. A forester and wildlife biologist by training, he holds a B.S. degree in forestry and M.S. in wildlife ecology from Mississippi State University.

Owen left his six-year consultancy, The Environmental Edge, LLC, ([www.edgestuff.com])desinged to "bring business and the environment together” to benefit both, to lead the Endowment.

For more than a decade he served at Champion International Corporation where he rose to the position of Vice President – Forest Policy with global responsibilities. He led the company in the largest rapid ecological review ever funded by a for-profit company. The results yielded more than 660,000 acres of a 1 million acre parcel in the Amazon being set aside for conservation. He also represented Champion in its leadership position to develop the Sustainable Forestry Initiative Standard (SFI), the most widely used forest certification standard in North America.

In a five-year stint in Washington, DC, Owen held joint positions as Vice President, American Forest Council and Executive Director, American Forest Foundation. At the Foundation he created a $4 million endowment, the first in the organization’s history.

He served as Supervisor, Forestry Environmental Affairs for Potlatch Corporation’s Southern Division (Warren, AR) and Executive Director, Mississippi Wildlife Federation (Jackson, MS).

He was appointed three times, by both Democratic and Republican administrations, to the Board of the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation ([www.nfwf.org]). In his role as Vice Chairman, he developed “Acres for America” – a first-of-its-kind program to off-set development acre-for-acre with conservation. He and fellow Board member, Kirk Dupps of AR, enlisted Wal-Mart as the charter sponsor of the program with a $35-million, ten-year commitment that has already led to conservation of nearly 400,000 acres in the U.S.

Owen has served on six University forestry school and college advisory boards and on the board of more than a dozen local, state and national conservation organizations. He has been widely honored for his achievements.