ABOUT ADRIAN
Adrian joined IWJV in February of 2025 as the organization’s first Western Forests Conservation Coordinator, where he gets to use his passion for active forest management to help build partnerships, capacity and the application of best available science to improve forest health and forest and community resilience. Before starting this new journey, he spent 21 years at Salish Kootenai College developing forestry curriculum, teaching classes and serving as the Director of the Center for Tribal Research and Education in Ecosystem Sciences (TREES). He was also a member of the 3rd and 4th Indian Forest Management Assessment Teams, a founding member of the Intertribal Timber Council Research Sub-committee and a two-term member of the Forest Research Advisory Council to the Secretary of Agriculture. Outside of work, Adrian enjoys hiking, cutting firewood, baking bread, and trying to get his teenager to laugh at his Dad jokes (it happened once….honest).
