DATE:    9/5/00
CONTACT: Allen Dunn, (864) 656-3215
WRITER:  Diane Palmer, (864) 656-4741

Dunn elected to chair of southern 
region of national association

     CLEMSON -- Allen Dunn, director of Clemson University's 
School of Natural Resources, has been elected chair of the 
southern region of the National Association of Professional 
Forestry Schools and Colleges. 
     The association was formed in 1981 to enhance and protect 
the nation's forests, rangelands and associated natural 
resources. Its primary goal is to advance the science, practice 
and art of natural resource management through the support of 
natural resource education, research, extension and
international programs at the university level. It includes 
67 organizations representing university faculty, scientists 
and extension specialists. The southern region is composed of 
16 universities.
    Dunn came to Clemson in 1973 as professor of Forest Resources 
and was appointed head of that department in 1993. In 1995 he was 
named director of the School of Natural Resources. He earned 
his undergraduate and graduate degrees in forest resources from 
the University of Georgia. 
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