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· Consulting Forester, forest appraiser, real estate broker of Edward F. Travis Company, Inc. DBA Travis Timberlands located in Mobile, Alabama
· Past chairman of the Alabama Chapter of the ACF- Association of Consulting Foresters of America
· Past board president and member of the Alabama Forest Resources Center, which addresses statewide forestry issues and is a land trust that holds and manages conservation easements on working forest lands in Alabama.
· Past national course instructor of rural appraisal courses for the ASFMRA ( American Society of Rural Appraisers and Farm Managers).
· Past board member of the Alabama Treasure Forest Association
· Past Board member of the first Alabama Real Estate Appraisers Board
· B.S. University of Alabama- Real Estate major; MF- Master of Forestry degree from Duke University School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
· Registered Forester- Alabama & Mississippi
· Retired - Certified General Appraiser- Alabama
· Alabama Real Estate Broker- Specializing in the sale and acquisition of rural lands in transition and recreational and investment grade timberlands.
· Current business includes forest appraisal, timber sale management, forest inventory, land management, GPS and GIS applications, timber cost basis studies, forest litigation support and speaker on forestry topics to the NRCS and forestry planning committees in several counties of southwest Alabama and other organizations..