Catanzaro, Paul
Forest Resources Specialist
Holdsworth 301A
(413) 545-4839
Email: catcat(at)umext.umass.edu
As the UMass Extension Forest Resources Specialist within the Department of Natural Resources Conservation, Paul has developed an integrated program of outreach to forest landowners and applied research. Paul’s work seeks to inform landowner decisions through the development of local networks of conservation-minded community leaders, supported by internet resources.
Paul has been active both regionally and nationally in the forest landowner cooperative movement and was one of the innovators of the Massachusetts Woodlands Cooperative (MWC) (http://www.masswoodlands.coop).
Paul earned a B.A. from Hamilton College where he majored in Cultural Anthropology. Looking to blend his social science background into a career working with private forest landowners, he went on to complete an M.S. degree in Sustainable Systems, with a concentration in Resources Management, from Slippery Rock University. He then earned a second M.S. degree in Forest Resources, with a specialization in silviculture, from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Before coming to UMass, Paul worked for the MA Department of Conservation and Recreation as a Service Forester in the Westfield and Farmington watersheds.
Primary Interests
- Peer-to-Peer Outreach
- Social Networks
- Land Conservation
- Internet Outreach Tools
- Landowner Cooperation
Current Projects
Recent Outreach Publications Panel
Recent Grant Awards
2007 Catanzaro, Paul, Tony D’Amato, and Dave Damery. An Economic Analysis of Land Ownership in the Deerfield Watershed of western Massachusetts ($44,000).
2007 D’Amato, Anthony and Paul Catanzaro. Developing Old Growth Structure. MA chapter of The Nature Conservancy ($35,000).
2005 Kittredge, David, Tom Stevens, Charles Schweik and Paul Catanzaro. A CoOperative Resource Network (ACORN). USDA National Research Initiative integrated research and extension program ($420,000).
2005 Garber, G., P. Catanzaro, and W. Sweetser. Five Town Project. Jesse B. Cox Foundation ($92,000) and the George H. and Jane A. Mifflin Memorial Fund ($15,000).
Peer Reviewed Publications
Kittredge, D.B., A. D’Amato, P. Catanzaro, J. Fish, and B. Butler. 2008. Estimating ownerships and parcels of non-industrial private forest in Massachusetts. Northern Journal of Applied Forestry.
Barten, Paul K., David Damery, Paul Catanzaro, Jennifer Fish, Susan Campbell, Adrian Fabos, and Lincoln Fish. 2001. Massachusetts Family Forests: Birth of a Landowner Cooperative. Journal of Forestry 99(3):23-30.
