ATFS Named Terry Truttmann 2005 Inspector of the Year
Terry Truttman of Missouri earned the 2005 Wesley R. Meier Outstanding Inspecting Forester of the Year Award. He accepted this award at the 2005 National Tree Farmer Convention.
A resource forester with the Missouri Department of Conservation, he has contributed greatly to ATFS through managing, volunteering,supporting, promoting, and teaching. He has completed 29 Tree Farm reinspections over the last five years, developed plans, inventoried stands, marketed timber stand improvement areas, and arranged sales for many of those areas. Until last year, he handled the Tree Farm business of seven Missouri counties in addition to giving private land forestry assistance in three other counties.
For eight years, Terry served at the Missouri Regional Tree Farm Chair. He continues to support the program by setting up the Tree Farm display at fairs, local soil and water board meetings, Natural Resource Conservation Service, and school functions. He also promotes ATFS on more than 6,000 acres of a state land conservation area by conducting or joining in Tree Farm promotions and field days.
Terry’s commitment to ATFS and sound forestry practices made him the ideal candidate for the Wesley R.Meier Award.
