District ranger to address Towns County Democrats

Dr. Steverson Moffat will be the guest speaker when Towns County Democrats hold their monthly meeting on Thursday, Aug. 14.

Dr. Steverson Moffat

The meeting will begin at 5:30 p.m. at the Towns County Civic Center, 67 Lakeview Circle, Hiawassee.  

Moffat will present an overview of the role of the Forest Service and will discuss the impact review of President Trump's executive order regarding additional timbering in the national forests as it relates to the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest. 

Moffat holds a bachelor of science degree in natural resources and forestry from the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn., and a master of science degree in forest landscape ecosystems from Clemson University.  He received his doctorate in U.S. forest policy from North Carolina State University in 1999.

After a short stint with The Nature Conservancy in South Carolina in the late 1980s, Moffat served from 1999 to 2010 as a policy analyst for the U.S. Forest Service's Southern Research Station in New Orleans.  From 2010 to 2022 he led the Environmental Law Compliance Team for Nantahala National Forest.  He was named district ranger for the Blue Ridge Ranger District of the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest in May 2022.