{"id":2923,"date":"2015-02-17T09:28:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T09:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2015-11-12T16:06:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T16:06:49","slug":"lloyd-irland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/lloyd-irland\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 121: Forest Economist & President of The Irland Group Lloyd Irland"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show:<\/strong> 121
\nAir date: <\/strong>Saturday,\u00a0February 14\u00a0
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Lloyd Irland\u00a0
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)\u00a0
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis\u00a0
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Lloyd Irland grew up in Chicago, Illinois and received his bachelor\u2019s degree in Forestry from Michigan State University, and his master\u2019s degree from the University of Arizona.\u00a0 He served in the Army in Vietnam, then earned his Ph.D. in Forestry Economics and Policy from Yale University.<\/p>\n

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Lloyd Irland (right)<\/p><\/div>\n

From 1981-1987, Irland was the Maine State Economist.\u00a0 In this role he was the principal economic adviser to Governor of Maine (Governor Joseph E. Brennan).\u00a0 During this time he also participated in a ten-year state economic forecast project, and prepared a detailed study of natural resources in Maine\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n

In 2003, Irland founded \u201cThe Irland Group\u201d, which is a forestry, economics and marketing consulting firm, where he continues his research studies.\u00a0 His major areas of focus include include climate change and resource assessment and carbon markets, assessing current industry market trends, especially in specialty lumber grades, value added items, biomass, and mulch markets.<\/p>\n

From 2003 to 2010 he taught at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.\u00a0 Irland was a junior author of sections of both the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) and the First U.S. National Assessment on Climate Change.<\/p>\n

Irland attended the Global Climate summits at Copenhagen and Cancun, as well as the UN Forum on Forests in Istanbul in 2013.\u00a0\u00a0 He has lectured and written extensively on forests and climate change and on carbon markets. His work on forests has brought him on study tours and lecture visits to Canada, China, India, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Greece, Bhutan, France, Yugoslavia, Mexico, and Ukraine. He is a Fellow of the Society of American Foresters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Forest Economist and President of The Irland Group Lloyd Irland talked with Steve Woods host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe about climate change, the difference between climate and weather and the relation between the climate and economic conditions. Irland also explained one of his recent studies regarding the ice-out on Moosehead Lake for listeners. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}