Philip was the Research Program Manager of the Forest Service’s Redding Silviculture Forest Science Lab from 1987–2000 capping off a 37- year Forest Service career. He then went on to serve as Vice President of the California Forestry Association from 2000-2005 and from 2006 to 2012 was a consulting forester for the American Forest Resource Council in Northeast Washington where he lives in the Spokane, Washington area.
In this recorded statement, Phil Aune warns that unsalvaged wildfire damage, delayed reforestation, and rising fuel loads are leaving a long-term legacy across western forests.
