Southern Appalachian Office
46 Haywood Street, Suite 323
Asheville, North Carolina 28801-2838
828.252.9223
828.252.9074 (fax)
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Steve Novak, Senior Staff Attorney
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Steve is
head of our Southern Appalachian Office. He spent
his undergraduate time at The University of the
South (Sewanee), where he earned a B.A. in Religion,
then earned a J.D. from Campbell University. Steve
has litigated several cases in federal court,
achieved national precedent in the 10th
Circuit Court of Appeals, and protected thousands of
acres of Forest land, both public and private. For
the past several years, Steve has served as Chairman
of the Board of Directors for Southern Appalachian
Forest Coalition (SAFC), a regional coalition of
grassroots environmental groups. He also serves on
the Board of Trustees for Appalachian Voices, based
in Boone, NC. Steve spends an inordinate amount of
time fly-fishing the beautiful waters of the
Southern Appalachians with his trusty lab-mix Willy.
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Alyx received a B.S. in Agricultural & Resource
Economics from Oregon State University. Since 1995,
Alyx has worked with rural landowners, workers, and
communities to cultivate farm and forest enterprises
that protect ecosystems, enhance local economies,
and preserve the South’s land-based heritage. She
has previously worked with the Carolina Farm
Stewardship Association and the Western North
Carolina Alliance. |
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Belinda
is currently completing work for her Ph.D. in
Natural Resources at the University of Tennessee in
Knoxville where she received a Masters in Forestry.
Her primary interests are native species and
ecosystem restoration, invasive species, and family
forest issues. Her past experience includes work for
the SmartWood program of the Rainforest Alliance,
and coordination of the U.S. Virgin Islands' Forest
Stewardship and Urban and Community Forestry
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Belinda Esham,
Forestry Program Coordinator,
Southern Forests Network
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Josh holds a bachelor’s degree
in biology from UNC-Asheville (2003) where he
graduated with honors and received the
Bernhardt-Perry Award for outstanding undergraduate
research stemming from two plant collecting
expeditions to the Pakaraima Mountains of Guyana
with Dr. David Clarke. Josh specializes in the
flora of Southern Appalachian forests, bogs, and
rock outcrops, and in the identification of rare
vascular plants, rare natural communities, and the
responses of native forests to disturbance. He has
worked as a contract botanist for Nantahala National
Forest and the Southern Appalachian Biodiversity
Project surveying timber sales for rare plants. Josh
has also worked as a botany instructor for the Blue
Ridge Naturalist School in Asheville, NC, and as a
guest lecturer on forest ecology at the Pisgah
Forest Institute in Brevard, NC.
Since 2003, Josh has worked
with the Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition, and
was hired as Field Director of the Old-Growth Forest
Protection Campaign in 2005. Josh has inventoried
over 10,000 acres of old-growth forest in that time,
and presented “Ancient Forests of the Blue Ridge” on
16 occasions, including at the November 2005
Southern Appalachian Man and Biosphere
conference. |
Josh Kelly,
Staff
Biologist |
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