American Forest Resource Council

AFRC Staff

Travis Joseph

Travis Joseph
President

Travis was born and raised in Springfield, Oregon but spent eight years in Washington D.C. working for the U.S. House of Representatives. He was a sen[...]

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Cindi Kaneshige

Cindi Kaneshige
Office Manager

Cindi grew up in Portland and is a third generation Oregonian. She began working for AFRC’s predecessor, the Northwest Forestry Association, in 1987[...]

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Sara Ghafouri

Sara Ghafouri
General Counsel

Sara Ghafouri joins AFRC after practicing almost three years as an associate at Haglund Kelley LLP, a Portland-based law firm. During her time at Hagl[...]

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Sarah Melton

Sarah Melton
Staff Attorney

Sarah Elizabeth Melton joins AFRC after returning from practicing law abroad for almost seven years. During that time, Sarah focused her private pract[...]

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Matt Comisky

Matt Comisky
Washington State Manager

Matt was born and raised in Seattle but enjoyed the woods from an early age through camping, hiking, and eventually exploring the backroads of western[...]

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Andy Geissler

Andy Geissler
Federal Timber Program Director

Andy moved to Oregon to join AFRC as its field forester from Washington state, where he worked for six years in the woods of Lewis County.[...]

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Corey Bingaman

Corey Bingaman
Western Oregon Field Coordinator

Corey grew up in Portland, and his family has been in Western Oregon for over one hundred years. He graduated from Oregon State University with a B.S.[...]

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Heath Heikkila

Heath Heikkila
Government Affairs

Heath works at the intersection of government, policy, and communications advocating for solutions to some of the Pacific Northwest’s most challengi[...]

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Irene Jerome

Irene Jerome
Oregon/Idaho Consultant

Irene grew up on the family homestead west of Maupin, Oregon. Her ancestors traveled the Oregon Trail in the 1840s originally settling in the Willamet[...]

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Tom Partin

Tom Partin
WA/ID/MT Consultant

Tom is a native Oregonian and grew up in a logging family in Prineville, Oregon. His love of the outdoors led him to studying forestry at Oregon State[...]

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Jake Blaufuss

Jake Blaufuss
Northern California Field Coordinator

Jake Blaufuss brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to AFRC through his work for the Collins Pine Company and Sierra Pacific Industries. Jake rec[...]

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Nick Smith

Nick Smith
Public Affairs

As a member of multi-generation farming family, Nick has a passion for natural resources and rural communities. Nick has a background in public policy[...]

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