Organization within the Office

The Michel CHAVET Forestry Consulting Office has the following work expertise :

- Michel CHAVET, Expert Forestier and California Registered Professional Forester (# 2140), Professional forestry graduate, PhD (forest economics, UC Berkeley, California, USA) is in charge of setting up appraisal operations of forest properties for sales and acquisitions, splitting, estate planning, expropriation, as well as participating in forest stewardship interventions including management planning, tree marking and timber sales, reforestation – afforestation programs and maintenance. He helps define the outlines of various in house computer programs . He has done ornamental tree appraisals.

- Hubert PRUVOST, Expert Forestier to be with more than a decade of experience, Professional forestry graduate from the FIF-ENGREF schoom in Nancy, with a special training in remote sensing – geographic information systems done at the ENGREF lab in Montpellier (Southern France) is in charge of computer program development within the office, as well as forest management planning. He handles also his share of the numerous aspects bound to practical forest stewardship in the field and elsewhere.

- Elodie HALLOT, Upper level Forest Technician, is in charge of digital mapping, aerial photo analysis, forest resource inventory and tree marking. She is also active in organizing the data needed for the complicated French forms needed to request government and European subsidies to timber growing.

- Martine GOURMELON is instrumental in many aspects of the administrative parts of the forestry consulting job, and is in charge of the secretarial work.

Because of its numerous contacts, the Michel CHAVET Forestry Consulting office has the capability to organize operations in timber logging, reforestation, afforestation, natural regeneration, and timber stand maintenance and improvement within the frame of a durable and sustained forest resource management approach.
The Michel CHAVET Forestry Consulting office can also provide advanced forest economic consulting by way of a detached experienced scientific specialist.