The Montana State University

M.L WILSON LECTURE SERIES

Presents

"Demands on Public Lands:

What is the Future of

the National Forests?"

By

Senior Fellow and

Director of the

Forest Economics and Policy Program

at Resources for the Future

Tuesday September 19, 2000

7:30pm

Strand Union

Ballroom A

MSU Campus, Bozeman

8:30pm reception to follow

Roger Sedjo is a senior fellow and director of the Forest Economics and Policy Program (FEPP) at Resources for the Future (RFF) in Washington, D.C., where he has been responsible for the direction, administration, coordination, and fundraising for the FEPP since the program’s inception in 1977. FEPP’s principal activity is public policy research in forestry and related areas. He is author or editor of thirteen books on forestry and resources. His most recent book, A Vison of the Forest (RFF 2000), presents a number of papers that examine issues related to the management of the National Forests and future of the Forest Service. Some of this work comes out of his experience while an appointed member of the Secretary of Agriculture’s Committee of Scientists, 1997-1999, which was formed to make recommendations to the Secretary for improving the planning process within the Forest Service. Some of this work comes out of his experience while an appointed member of the Secretary of Agriculture’s Committee of Scientists, 1997-1999, which was formed to make recommendations to the Secretary for improving the planning process within the Forest Service. Sedjo is also currently a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) scientific group preparing the IPCC’s Third Assessment Report on Climate Change. He was a contributor to the IPCC’s Second Assessment Report. Sedjo serves on the editorial board of a number of resource, forestry and economics journals. He has published numerous chapters in books and articles in professional journals including the Journal of Forestry, Journal of Law and Economics, Land Economics and the Journal of Political Economy. Other published books include the Sustainability in Temperate Forests (RFF, 1998), The Economics of Carbon Sequestration in Forestry (Lewis Press 1977), Global Forests: Issues for Six Billion People (McGraw-Hill, 1991) and the Long-Term Adequacy of Global Timber Supplies (RFF 1990).

Sedjo began his career as assistant professor of economics at Utah State University before becoming a USAID technical advisor to the Economic Planning Board of the Republic of Korea for the construction of the Third Five-Year Economic Development Plan, 1972-1976. He then served in the Department of State’s Asia Bureau, Agency for international Development, as program economist where his duties included assessment and evaluation of existing and proposed AID programs in Asia. Just before joining RFF, Sedjo was a tenured associate professor of economics at Utah State University where he specialized in international trade, development and resource economics. Sedjo is spending the summer of 2000 at PERC as a Julian Simon Fellow. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Washington in 1968.

This distinguished lecture, sponsored by the M.L. Wilson Lecture Fund and the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, MSU, is another in a series that presents leaders in the field of agricultural economics and economics related issues to the Montana community.