We are excited to welcome Outreach Forester, Olivia Thomas, to our team! Olivia brings a special perspective with her wide variety of experiences and commitment to landscape remediation, restoration and soil health.

As an Outreach Forester, Olivia will be serving and supporting landowners in the southern Appalachian states interested in enrolling in the Family Forest Carbon Program. She will conduct eligibility assessments on woodlands, review and write forest management plans and provide technical assistance to woodland owners. 

Olivia found her love for the woods and nature growing up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and is a true Green Bay Packers fan at heart. She’s explored the United States while pursuing her passion for the environment and has had a wide variety of conservation-related experiences.  

She received a master's degree in environmental policy and management at Denver University and worked as an Environmental Education Specialist in Georgia. She’s performed soil analysis in Nebraska and worked as an Invasive Plant Species Field Tech in Nevada.   

“I want to make a change for everyone. I would like to spread awareness and education, kindly and without bias, to induce change and perspective. I would like to build an understanding about soil and the importance it holds for the entire system. I believe in kindness, understanding, outside of the box solution-based thinking, and balance.” 

Olivia lives in Kentucky where she enjoys helping landowners in the Appalachian region develop and implement sustainable forest management plans and steward their forests. In her free time, Olivia enjoys spending time with her two dogs and traveling as much as possible, with her most recent adventure being an ecology quest in Namibia, Africa.  

If you'd like to know more about how the Family Forest Carbon Program's foresters can help you reach your forest management goals, see https://familyforestcarbon.org/. 

If you are a forester, join us and become an FFCP consulting forester.