Key Contacts
For Media Representatives Seeking Urban and 
Community Forestry Information After Storms

 

Organization: Minnesota Shade Tree Advisory Committee (MnSTAC)
Contact: Katie Himanga
Consulting Forester, Heartwood Forestry
Phone: (651)-380-9680, Lake City
Email: khimanga@earthlink.net
Web Site: www.heartwoodforestry.com

Organization: Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Contact: Marjee Righeimer, Executive Director
Phone: (651)-643-3601, Ext. 208, St. Paul
Email: marjeer@northerngardener.org

Organization: University of Minnesota Department of Forest Resources
Contact: Gary Johnson, Professor of Urban and Community Forestry
Phone: (612)-625-3765, St. Paul
Email: grjonson@umn.edu

 

Organization: Tree Trust
Contact: Kirk Brown, President
Phone: (651)-644-5800, St. Paul
Email: kirkb@treetrust.org

 

Organization: Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Contact: Regional Administrator
Region 1 - Bemidji Paul Swenson, (218) 755-3623
Region 2 - Grand Rapids John Guenther, (218) 327-4402
Region 3 - Brainerd C. B. Bylander, (218) 828-2613
Region 4 - New Ulm Cheryl Heide, (218) 359-6010
Region 5 - Rochester Jim Brooks, Forestry (507) 280-5580
Region 6 - St. Paul Kathleen Wallace, (651) 772-7990
Alternate contact: Ken Holman, Urban and Community Forestry
(651)296-4491, St. Paul
Pager (651)339-2236
Email: ken.holman@dnr.state.mn.us


Updated January 3, 2005

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