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CNR NewsStudent spotlight - Kristen MillerKristen Miller is a senior majoring in forestryrecreation. Born and raised in Northeast Florida justoutside of Jacksonville, she followed the CNR’s strongreputation and her father’s footsteps to UW-StevensPoint.She has been an active member of the Fire Crew, servingfirst as the secretary and then, last year, as the crewleader. She was recently elected secretary of the NationalStudent Association for Fire Ecology and has had herbasic wildland fire certifications since 2005.Her favorite memory from her time here was travelingto Portland, Oregon, to represent the university at theInternational Association of Fire Ecology conference.During the conference, Kristen learned how truly smallthe wildland fire and forestry communities are and howimportant it is to maintain a strong reputation.Kristen Miller and dad Steven Miller (BS Forest Administration ‘84) at the SeminoleRanch in Florida where the UW-Stevens Point Fire Crew assisted with a prescribed burn.Photo courtesy of Kristen Miller.She is spending her summer working for the U.S. ForestService as a fire prevention officer in Boise, Idaho. Aftershe graduates in December she would like to pursue aMaster’s of Science in Forestry with an emphasis infire science.Hansen wins a spot on the U.S. Timbersports relay teamBen Hansen, a forestry management major from Milladore, wonthe national title at the 2013 STIHL Timbersports Series collegiatechampionship competition held in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., June 7–9.Hansen won first place in the single buck competition, second place inthe standing chop block, third place in the stock saw competition andthird place in the underhand chop, then won the championship by onepoint. Adam LaSalle (BS Forestry Management ‘09), UW-StevensPoint’s other collegiate timbersports champion and a professionallumberjack, coached him during the event.Hansen will compete with the U.S. Timbersports relay team at the worldchampionships in Stuttgart, Germany, October 24–26. He will alsocompete as a professional in the 2014 STIHL Timbersports series.Ben Hansen, pictured at the Midwestern Foresters Conclave,won the national title at the 2013 STIHL Timbersports Seriescollegiate championship held in Pigeon Forge, Tenn.Photo courtesy of Mike BowersUW-Stevens Point is one of two schools with two student collegiatetimbersports champions. The university has also won four Midwestregional timbersports titles through LaSalle (2009), Andrew Gollnick(BS Forestry Administration and Utilization ‘12) (2010), and Hansen (2011and 2012), and three Midwest Foresters’ Conclave team championships.6
Student highlights7Rachel Strelow, a junior paper science and engineering major,received the national Technical Association for the Pulp andPaper Industry (TAPPI) Student of the Year Award at PaperCon,the TAPPI annual conference, in Atlanta at the beginning of May.Steven Swan, a junior paper science and engineering major,won the Robert W. Hagemeyer Scholarship and the Paper andBoard Division Scholarship. Tyler Shimulunas, a junior paperscience and engineering major, received the Engineering DivisionScholarship. Steven and Tyler are currently participating in theTrans-Atlantic Degree Program (TAPS) in Germany and will be inFinland this fall.Paper Science and Engineering junior Rachel Strelow receives theTAPPI Student of the Year Award. (From left to right: Roger Hagan,president at Port Townsend Paper Corporation; Rachel Strelow, and LarryMontague, president and CEO of TAPPI)Photo courtesy of Jodi HermsenThe third cohort of the Graduate Fellowship inResidential Environmental Education beganin May at the Conserve School in Land O’ Lakes,Wisconsin. The sixteen new master’s students will betaking courses at UW-Stevens Point while training inoutdoor skills and working with students at ConserveSchool and Treehaven for the next two years.Four senior forestry students were chosen as summerinterns by the Society of Municipal Arborists. ThomasSteele, Spring Green; Gary Tellefson, Edgerton;Michael Zalewski, Antigo; and Alex Estelmann,Madison were among 11 interns chosen from a nationalcompetitive pool of 29 applicants. They will spend 10weeks working with mentor arborists in municipalforestry programs chosen from across the country.The third cohort of the Graduate Fellowship in Residential Environmental Education kickoff their two-year program with a trip to the Porcupine Mountains.Photo courtesy of Fran McReynoldsMembers of the UW-Stevens Point Woodland Sports team successfully defended their championship forthe third year in a row at the Midwestern Forester’s Conclave in April at Michigan State University. Conclaveparticipants from UW-Stevens Point included seven women and 14 men who competed in crosscut sawing, woodchopping, axe throwing and log rolling as well as academic events such as tree and wood identification andinventory techniques.Sarah Etter, a senior forestry recreation major, received a scholarship from the Societyof Outdoor Recreation Professionals to attend the 2013 National Outdoor RecreationConference and IUFRO Conference on Forests for People in Traverse City, Michigan,this past May.Anthony Sharp, natural resources graduate student, had his research featured inthe spring edition of the Central Wisconsin Grassland Conservation Area Partnershipsnewsletter. Sharp’s study will provide insight into possible ways of improving CentralWisconsin Grassland Conservation Area management. Anthony is currently workingin Madison as a social research scientist for the Department of Natural Resources.Sarah EtterCNR News
Page 1 and 2: Summer 2013Inside this issue• Dea
Page 3 and 4: Professor collaborates to increase
Page 5: 5Outstanding Alumnus AwardTom Sauer
Page 9 and 10: Alumni updates9Hoppe named field so
Page 11 and 12: Alumni updates (con’t)11Jim Buchh
Page 13 and 14: Faculty, staff, and outreach highli
Page 15 and 16: 15Highlights of new gifts and suppo

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