PYSHT — A forester with Merrill & Ring timber company has been honored by the Society of American Foresters for “uncommon talent and innovative methods to achieve a record of excellence” in forest management.”
The society last week recognized Joe Murray of Clallam Bay with its Presidential Field Forester Award.
“I think it’s an excellent honor,” Murray said this week from Merrill & Rings Pysht office. “I was very pleased to receive it.”
Murray said he may attend the awards ceremony at the 2003 society’s national convention, which will be held Oct. 25-29 in Buffalo, N.Y.
Murray has been with Merrill & Ring since 1980, managing its Pysht Tree Farm east of Clallam Bay.
He has also served Clallam County and the Clallam Bay-Sekiu community in several different capacities.
Among them, he has served as a supervisor with the Clallam Conservation District, which he now chairs, and with the Clallam-Bay Sekiu Advisory Council. He is also on the state Highway 112 Scenic Byways Committee Action Team.
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The rest of the story appears in Friday’s Peninsula Daily News.