MICHAEL FERRUCCI is a Partner in INTERFOREST, LLC, and a Partner in Ferrucci & Walicki, LLC, a land management company that has served private land owners in Southern New England for 16 years. Its clients include private citizens, land trusts, towns and cities, corporations, private water companies and non-profit organizations. He has a B.S. degree in Forestry from the University of Maine, Orono, and a Master of Forestry degree from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. His primary expertise is in management of watershed forests to provide timber, drinking water and the protection of other values; in forest inventory and timber appraisal; hardwood forest silviculture and marketing; and the ecology and silviculture of natural forests of the northeastern United States. He is a member of the Forest Practices Advisory Board of the State of Connecticut, past Chairman and Executive Committee member of the Connecticut Tree Farm Committee, and a frequent speaker on logging and water quality in wetlands. He also lectures on Private Sector Forestry, Leadership and Forest Resources Management at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He has overseas experience in Angola.