Ryan E. Tompkins

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Ryan Tompkins is the UC Cooperative Extension Forest and Natural Resources Advisor for Plumas, Sierra, and Lassen counties and is a California Registered Professional Forester (No. 3108). His research interests include forest & fire ecology and management in the Sierra Nevada, silviculture for ecological restoration, post-fire reforestation and community wildfire preparedness. His 18 year federal career included working as a forester and certified silviculturist with the USDA Forest Service and working in the Fire Effects program at the National Park Service. He is affiliated with the Society for American Foresters, the California Licensed Foresters Association, and serves on the science advisory panel and reforestation working group for the California Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force. When he's not thinking about forested landscapes, he might be helping firewise communities or just enjoying a quiet moment in the Sierra Nevada backcountry.

Experience

  • 2019–present
    Cooperative Extension Forester & Natural Resources Advisor, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
  • 2011–2019
    Forest Silviculturist, USDA Forest Service, Plumas National Forest
  • 2005–2011
    District Silviculturist, USDA Forest Service, Plumas National Forest
  • 2002–2005
    Forester, USDA Forest Service, Plumas National Forest
  • 2001–2002
    Fire Effects Monitor, Point Reyes National Seashore

Education

  • 2001 
    University of Calif. at Berkeley, Master in Forestry
  • 1996 
    University of Calif. at Berkeley, Bachelor of Science in Forestry

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