From CEOs to Girl Scouts, women are leading on forests

The Congress is the brainchild of American Forests' Board Secretary Ara Erickson, a respected leader in forestry who envisioned this landmark event by drawing on our organization's proud history of leading American Forest Congresses since the 1800s. Women are leading august forest organizations such as the Council of Western State Foresters, International Society for Arboriculture, Sustainable Forestry Initiative and Hardwood Federation. [...]at the start of this year, Rita Hite, my decade-long collaborator in leading the Forest-Climate Working Group, took over as president and chief executive officer of American Forest Foundation - the nation's largest association for family forest owners and a vital partner for American Forests.