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Marilyn receives the Heiberg Memorial Award for outstanding
contributions to forestry and conservation in New York State at the Annual
Meeting of NYFOA (New York Forest Owners Association). April 21 2018. Picture
from left to right includes Laura Pisarri, NYFOA Capital District Chapter
Secretary, Jason Post, NYFOA Capital District Chapter Chair, Marilyn Wyman,
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Columbia and Greene Counties and Peter
Smallidge, Cornell Cooperative Extension Senior Extension Associate and State
Extension Forester.
Marilyn Wyman is an environmental education visionary who nurtures relationships between woodland owners and their woodlands; loggers and their safety and well-being; funders and their contract deliverables; invasive species and their Early detection and Rapid response; youth and their stake in our future world….and that was just in the past week!
Marilyn’s energy and commitment to the successful collaborations that are the Agroforestry Resource Center (ARC) and the Siuslaw Model Forest and to her Environment and Natural Resource team is only out-done by her enthusiasm to facilitate successful outcomes to natural resource issues. Marilyn has been a leader in helping others to make this happen.
Under her stewardship at CCE Columbia Greene, the Agroforestry Resource Center became a reality in 2003 working with nine partner organizations.The 142-acre Siuslaw Model Forest was established four years later in 2007. Today, the ARC partners with 53 organizations to fulfill their education and outreach mission. Program participants and education and outreach efforts have reached over 25,000 individuals since 2003.From 2010 to present, Marilyn’s efforts to support natural resource program staff and the CCE Association through cutting edge grants and contracts has totaled over $1.5 million.
Marilyn’s program and career have been exemplary in the breadth and depth of the people, communities, and issues she has attended. Some specific examples of her program that has touched people at all levels and in all sectors of forest and natural resource management include the following:
According to Wyman, the thread that runs through many of these efforts is recognizing the value of mentors and mentoring. While one of CCE’s signature roles is providing research based science to help our communities make informed, positive decisions, mentoring is a powerful way that CCE educators and partners grow and learn from others. “Two of my most significant mentors were past recipients of the NYFOA Heiberg Award, Mike Greason and Eric Rasmussen. Without their help and inspiration, I could not have accomplished all that has happened.I have always felt it was my responsibility to mentor those who will be taking the ARC, and the programs we support, into the future.”
- Ron Frisbee
NYFOA
PO Box 541 Lima, NY 14485
PHONE: 800-836-3566
EMAIL: info@nyfoa.org
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