Dr. Andrew F. Egan

Andy Egan, Professor - Laval University, Quebec
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Dr. Egan is Professor titulaire at Laval University, Quebec, Canada.Previously on the faculties of the University of Maine, West Virginia University, and Mississippi State University.Before academia, he was a full time logger for several years, as well as a field forester in new Hampshire, USA.

Andy Egan, University of Maine, Orono, Maine. $98,744.Baseline information on farm forest management and small-scale timber harvesting will support a sustained outreach effort to train agricultural and forestry professionals in the efficiencies and the economics of farm woodlot harvesting.Applied research will include comparing logging practices and conducting farmer surveys; the project will also include the development of a logging demonstration area and educational materials.The overall goal is to improve the knowledge in the farming community about the profit potential in sustainable logging and woodlot management.Community Agriculture and Food Systems Development Certification Program.

Project coordinator: Andy Egan, University of Maine

Andy Egan is a forestry professor at Laval University in Quebec City and an adjunct professor at the University of Maine.

Andrew Egan

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE

Andrew F. Egan, University of Maine

Achieving Forest Management Objectives Using Mechanized Harvesting

Recipient: Andrew F. Egan, Associate Professor, Department of Forest Management, University of Maine

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Bringing the Magic of Wood to Your Community

But fewer young people today appear willing to accept such low-wage, often dangerous work, which could set the stage for a potential labor shortage in the woods, said Andrew Egan, a University of Maine forestry professor who has studied trends in industry employment.