Unit:               Agriculture &  Natural Resources

Location:         329 Percival Hall, P.O. Box 6125, Morgantown, WV 26506-6125

E-mail:            Robin.Maille@mail.wvu.edu

Phone: 304-293-2941          Fax: 304-293-7553

Area of Expertise:

Forest Stewardship Education and Outreach

Program Responsibilities:

The WV Forest Stewardship Program Education & Outreach Project Coordinator provides information to private forest landowners to promote sustainable forest management. She compiles a quarterly newsletter that goes out to landowners with forest stewardship plans, and to landowner assistance foresters, consulting foresters, and extension agents. She develops technical bulletins that provide information to forest landowners to help them better manage their forest land. She also coordinates workshops and forest land tours to help forest landowners learn about topics of interest to them such as forest taxation & estate planning, invasive species management, or wildlife habitat improvement.

Background:

2006 - MA Secondary Education, WVU. Certified to teach General Science 5 - adult
1992 - Master of Forestry, Yale University. Forest management and social forestry
1986 - 1988 - Peace Corps Senegal, Forestry Extension
1986 - BA Comparative Sociology, University of Puget Sound. Minor in Asian Studies

Career Highlights:

Education & Outreach Project Coordinator, WVU Extension Service - 2005 - present
Recruiter, Advisor & Coordinator for Articulation Agreements, WVU Division of Forestry, 2004-05
Science Teacher (grades 7-12), Union Educational Complex, Mt. Storm, WV 2002-2004
Small-Business Owner & Operator, Thorn Run Inn B&B, New Creek, WV 1997-2004
Research & Outreach Staff, Cacapon Institute, High View, WV 1999-2002
Newsletter Editor/Consultant, USDA Forest Service, International Programs, Washington, DC, 1998-2001.
Consultant, Missouri Botanical Garden, Washington, DC & Central Africa, 1996.
Agroforester & Africa Program Specialist, USDA Forest Service, International Programs, Washington, DC, 1992-1995.
Ecological Research Assistant, Copper River Delta Institute/Yale University, Cordova, AK, Summer 1992
Social Forestry Researcher, Beza Mahafaly Integrated Conservation & Development Project, Madagascar 1990-1991