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Susan LeVan-Green USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory |
Susan LeVan-Green began her career with the Forest Service at the Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) in Madison, Wisconsin, and has worked for the Forest Service for 23 years. During that time, she has held positions in both Research and State and Private Forestry. Susan has a B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin.
She has functioned as a scientist in the field of fire, worked in the Forest Service Washington Office Research staff handling budget coordination and policy, and as the Assistant Director for Wood Products Research at the FPL. It was in this capacity that Susan became actively engaged with National Forest System issues of overstocked stands of small-diameter material. Since 1992, Susan has lead FPL's active and notable program on small-diameter timber. During this time, she developed first-hand knowledge about issues related to both economic diversification of forestry-dependent rural communities and the need to obtain the highest economic value for thinning material to offset forest management costs. To that end, she has spent the past 10 years helping small, forestry-dependent businesses create value-added forest products from small-diameter and underutilized timber.
In
1999, Susan became the Program Manager of the S&PF, Technology Marketing
Program, at FPL to concentrate her efforts on the small-diameter issue.
She has successfully helped numerous rural communities create forest products
businesses utilizing small-diameter material, including biomass energy,
roundwood engineered structures, wood shavings, wood/plastic composites,
and lumber.
