Scott Ferguson

B.S. BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, YALE UNIVERSITY
M.S. FORESTRY, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY

Scott has more than 20 years of experience in sustainable forest management and planning. He has provided comprehensive forest management services to a diverse set of landowners. Current clients include private family forest owners across northwest Oregon, the Trappist Abbey Monastery, and numerous municipalities. Scott prides himself in being a "dirt forester" who is especially skilled in resolving issues on community owned forests and crafting solutions that meet a diverse set of management objectives.

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Barry Sims

B.A. PHILOSOPHY, SWARTHMORE COLLEGE
M.S. FORESTRY, UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT

Barry grew up in Idaho and was inspired to become a forester by the mountains and woods there. He has been a consulting forester for 20 years and currently works with a variety of family and municipal forest landowners. In addition, Barry oversees our work for youth camps, including operating a Cat to conduct thinnings that meet the unique needs of these properties. Barry is a member of the Forest Guild and the Association of Consulting Foresters. He lives in Portland with his wife and two grown sons.

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Mike Messier

B.A. ANTHROPOLOGY, UNC CHAPEL HILL
M.S. FOREST SCIENCE, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY

Mike has been a forester at Trout Mountain Forestry’s Portland office since 2010, working with family forestland owners, municipalities, and non-profits in northwest Oregon and southwest Washington. Mike is a certified Technical Service Provider (TSP) with the Natural Resource Conservation Service, a major provider in Oregon of cost-share assistance for forest management planning and conservation practice implementation. When not in the woods for work, he can often be found outside with his wife and two young children, tending the backyard garden, hiking in the mountains, or paddling the canoe.

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Matt Fehrenbacher

B.S. FOREST MANAGEMENT,
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY

A native of the rural Willamette Valley, Matt Fehrenbacher has spent the last 20 years in the woods of the Pacific Northwest managing private forestlands for a broad range of objectives. As a forest engineer and silviculturist on a large industrial ownership in northwest Oregon, he implemented some of the earliest salmon habitat restoration projects crafted under the Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds. During his ten years as Director of Stewardship at Pacific Forest Trust, he was instrumental in the development and management of the first forest carbon project registered under California’s Climate Action Reserve and also directed all stewardship and forest management activities on over 20,000 acres of easement lands. Since joining Trout Mountain Forestry in 2011, Matt has developed a diverse client base which includes family forests, non-profit conservation organizations, and municipalities.

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Shane Hetzler

B.A.'s History and French, Minor in Environmental Studies,
University of the Pacific

M.F. ForestRY,
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (FORMERLY YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES)

Shane is a native Oregonian with over a decade of experience in forestry and conservation. He works out of the Corvallis office and is a certified Technical Service Provider for the Natural Resource Conservation Service as well as a professional member of the Forest Stewards Guild. Shane's forestry career started with the Peace Corps as an agroforestry extension agent in Senegal, West Africa. He later studied and worked in New England - first as a graduate student, then as a forestry professional. He started his own forestry consulting firm based in Southern New England, which he ran for several years before returning home to Oregon to join Trout Mountain Forestry in 2016.

Shane’s interests include fostering connections between people and their forests through thoughtful engagement around forest management, leveraging the best-available science for positive on-the-ground outcomes, and getting outside as much as possible for "non-work" time, including volunteering with his local Search and Rescue unit. Shane lives in Corvallis with his wife and young daughter.

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Pamela Hines

Office Manager 

Pamela took over Trout Mountain’s office management in the Spring of 2016, streamlining work systems and organization methods to support the company’s continued growth. Providing timely, attentive, and friendly service to Trout Mountain’s clients and vendors is a key component of her work goals. She values the occasional trip out in the field where she can meet landowners and contractors face to face. 

In her spare time, Pamela performs volunteer work in the Portland community, rides her bike (rain or shine!), hikes, rollerskates, and spends time with her canine companion, Piper.  She is grateful to be part of the team of caring and knowledgeable professionals at Trout Mountain Forestry.

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