Duane Emmons

Duane Emmons is the assistant deputy for state uplands with the Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR). He has programmatic oversight of the 3 million acres of trust and conservation lands managed by the department and serves as a senior advisor to the Commissioner of Public Lands and the Board of Natural Resources. Duane has been with DNR for 12 years, and prior to coming to DNR worked for over a decade as the forest manager for the University of Washington's Center for Sustainable Forestry at Pack Forest. In 1999 he was named a Society of American Foresters Presidential Field Forester of the Year.