The University of Portland's soccer programmes are world class, and the Portland Timbers professional soccer team is one of the top franchises in the USL and possesses in the Timbers Army a famously devoted fan base.
Today, the politically correct job title is "timber harvest professional".
Members of these teams were chosen based on their prior knowledge of the sample areas, having worked with local farmers, timber extractors, educators, health professionals and government survey teams in these areas in the preceding two years.
According to a draft amendment to the Hudson Highlands Unit Management Plan, the main goal is to "conduct research on forest management treatments and their impacts on water quality" in addition to "conducting education workshops for forest landowners, professional foresters, timber harvesters, researchers, and others".
-- The scene at the Bitter End Pub one recent Saturday was a sports bar's dream: With the Colorado Rapids about to face the hometown Timbers in a professional soccer game across the street at Jeld-Wen Field, hundreds of supporters of both teams were shoulder to shoulder, laughing and toasting their team's success.
Private managers included non-governmental forestry/nature associations, private forest management organizations and forestry/timber professionals who do not own forest land.
As the importance of assessing large timber structures is growing, so is the interest of the professional community in assessment methods for existing timber structures.
We built a new foundation on the other half, and had some professionals come and take the barn down, number the timbers and set it back up again exactly as it was, except it's five feet shorter.
He had a sixty-foot-long pit dug and filled with burning timber, swept the ash from the red-hot embers, then invited four professional firewalkers to traverse it.
The specter of a timber famine would haunt America for fifty years, but it facilitated the rise of professional forestry.
These 77 ha had been inventoried by professional forest engineers following guidelines laid down by INRENA for the purpose of accurately estimating commercial timber volumes and thus for granting timber extraction rights on both timber and reforestation concessions.
