Hunter Parks Conservation Fellow
Charlie Mize, Hunter Parks Conservation Fellow, provides technical expertise to support forest carbon offset projects in the California compliance and voluntary markets. He is responsible for reviewing project listing applications, data reporting, verification and the development and approval of new quantification methodologies. Before joining ACR, Charlie restored forest habitat diversity as a Wildlife Forester in a joint position for the Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society and the George Washington and Jefferson National Forest. Prior to that, he stewarded working forest conservation easements and supported forest conservation acquisitions on the West Coast for Pacific Forest Trust. Other experience includes using remote sensing to improve forest inventory estimates across a large forest restoration project area in Northern Arizona and supporting a forest conservation project in the specialty cacao supply chain in coastal Ecuador. His Master of Forestry and Master of Environmental Management degrees are from the Nicholas School of the Environmental at Duke University, where his Masters Project modelled site suitability for avoided conversion forest carbon credit projects in North Carolina. His bachelor's degree is in Sustainable Development from Appalachian State University.
