Kristina Ferrare
Kristina Ferrare is a forestry extension specialist at the University of New Hampshire.
She completed an M.S. in Forest Resources at UMassAmherst in January 2008 after working a research assistant (with Profs. Barten and Kittredge) and as operations manager of the Massachusetts Woodlands Cooperative in South Deerfield. She holds an undergraduate degree from Hamilton College (History, 1992). Kristina worked for several years in the private sector for a company that designs and administers standardized tests for teacher certification. Kristina left the corporate world in 2003 and became a program coordinator for Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA), a non-profit organization promoting local agriculture and building secure food systems in Massachusetts. She joined the staff of Massachusetts Woodlands Cooperative and returned to graduate school in 2004.
Kristina developed a management information system in Microsoft Office for the Regional BMP Monitoring Protocol data gathered by field foresters in Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont, and West Virginia. The protocol was designed by Roger Ryder and Tim Post of the Maine Forest Service and David Welsch and Karen Sykes, USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry with support from the US Environmental Protection Agency.
