Brown, 62, held a number of positions during his 36-year career with ODF. He was first employed as a forester trainee at Coos Bay in 1960. Starting in 1965, he worked full time for 1 ½ years as reforestation forester at Coos Bay. He left the department to work as a research forester for the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Forestry at Petawawa.

Three years later, Brown returned to ODF as timber management forester at Veneta for one year, and reforestation forester at Astoria for another year. He was promoted to resource analyst in Salem for 1 ½ years before becoming Service Forestry Program Director, a position he held for six years.

In early 1980, Brown was appointed Forest Practices Program Director at Salem and served in that position for three years.

In January 1983, he transferred to Forest Grove to become Northwest Oregon Area Director. The next January he was promoted to Assistant State Forester in charge of the Forest Management Division at Salem. In 1985 he was promoted again to Associate State Forester, a position he held until his appointment to State Forester.

Brown served as secretary to the Board of Forestry, is a fellow in the Society of American Foresters and was active in the National Association of State Foresters (NASF), having served as western representative, treasurer, vice president and president. He has served on many other boards and commissions as well, and is currently a member of the National Commission on Science for Sustainable Forestry and serves on the World Forestry Center Board.

Brown has been active in the Boy Scouts of America, having served as scoutmaster, and as a member of the Cascade Area Council executive committee and the Cascade Pacific Council advisory board.

Brown graduated from the University of Washington in 1962 with a Bachelor of Science in forest management. He received a Master’s degree in forestry from Yale University in 1963.

Brown and his wife, Mona, have two children and live in Salem.

DSL handles the Board’s day-to-day work of managing the land, waterways and other resources dedicated to the Common School Fund, a constitutionally-established trust benefiting our schoolchildren. Other responsibilities include administering the state’s Wetlands Program and Removal-Fill Law, overseeing the South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve and the Oregon Natural Heritage Program, holding in trust abandoned funds, and administering estates for people who die without a will and without known heirs.

Prior to being the director of the Department of State Lands, Ann worked for the Oregon Department of Forestry for 10 years, as an Assistant State Forester responsible for the Resource Policy Division. During 1993-94 she served as the Budget Administrator in the Department of Administrative Services. From 1985 to 1989, Ann was Oregon’s State Economist and Director of the Office of Economic Analysis, her first position with the State of Oregon. Before becoming an Oregonian, Ann was Deputy Director of the State of Ohio’s Office of Budget and Management; a Senior Consultant with Ernst and Whitney; and Budget Coordinator and Economist with the City of Cincinnati, Ohio.

She received a B.S. in Consumer Services, and a M.S. in Consumer Economics, both from Ohio State University. She is married to Dave Hanus, a science teacher at South Salem High School, and they have a daughter, Alexandra, age 12. Ann enjoys time with her family, bicycling, aerobics, hiking, cross-country and downhill skiing, travel, and reading.

Prior to joining OFIC, Chris Jarmer was a Resource Manager for Stimson Lumber Company and an Instructor for Forest Engineering Department in College of Forestry at OSU.

Chris Jarmer received BS in Forest Engineering from OSU in 1986 and an MBA from OSU in 1998. He was born in Portland and enjoys hiking, camping, motorcycles.

Prior to joining OFRI, Ms. Lehmann was vice president of Government and Public Affairs for NERCO, Inc., a subsidiary of PacifiCorp. She also worked in the State Executive Department under Governors McCall and Straub and taught political science at Willamette University. She has been a member and vice president of the Oregon Board of Higher Education and currently serves on the board of the Oregon Coast Aquarium.

Adam is a member of the Qualitative Research Consultants Association and the American Marketing Association, and he has been active in the City Club of Portland and other community organizations

Chris has been involved in facilitation, leadership training and mediation for 24 years as an internal consultant for three agencies, a rural community development non-profit and as a private consultant since 1991. He teaches Swing Dancing and enjoys traveling, hiking, camping, playing music and cutting firewood.