Bluegrass Consulting Forestry
Specialists in Timber Management and Environmental Forestry

My Credentials and Experience

I believe that any time you consider hiring someone to represent you, you want to know their credentials. Please consider mine.

• B.S. in Forestry and Wildlife Management from Virginia Tech.  In addition to being a forester, I am a graduate wildlife biologist.
   

• Over thirty years of forestry experience with the Kentucky Division of Forestry.
   

• In charge of timber sales on forestland owned by the Kentucky Division of Forestry for 15 years.
   

• A Kentucky Master Logger.
   

• Co-Author of the Kentucky forestry best management practices (BMPs) for water quality. Now incorporated into Kentucky law, these are required to be followed during all woodland activities. The Manual and the Field Guide may be viewed on the Web by going to:

http://www.ca.uky.edu/agc/PUBS/for/for67/for67.htm
and
http://www.ca.uky.edu/agc/PUBS/for/for69/for69.htm

• Member of the Association of Consulting Foresters (ACF) and their Kentucky Chapter, the Kentucky Association of Consulting Foresters (KACF).
   

• Co-Chairman, the Kentucky Tree Farm Committee, 1988 to 2002. Chairman, 1999 National Tree Farm Convention. Chairman, Southern Forest Management Chiefs, 1985 and 1998.
   

• Speaker and panelist for the Kentucky Governor's Conference on the Environment, 1994, 1989, 1988, 1986, 1980. 
   

• Honored at the Kentucky Governor's Mansion as one of the Outstanding Employees in the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet, 1992.
   

• Developed the Kentucky Forest Stewardship Program which was honored as the Outstanding Forest Stewardship Program in the United States by the National Woodland Owners Association, 1993. 
   

• Served on the staff of the Kentucky Agricultural Water Quality Authority, 1994-1999.  The Forestry Water Quality Plan portion of this may be viewed on the web at: http://www.ca.uky.edu/agc/PUBS/for/for96/for96.htm 

Bluegrass Consulting Forestry
3123 Bluegrass Drive
Shelbyville, Kentucky  40065
Phone: 502-633-7399
Cell Phone: 502-552-8176
Email: caryperkins@bellsouth.net

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