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Northpoint Consulting Group is a professional services firm based in Arcata, CA, specializing in providing strategic guidance and solutions to businesses and organizations. With a focus on data analysis, market research, and project management, Northpoint Consulting Group assists clients in making informed decisions and achieving their goals. Generated from their business information

Baldwin, Blomstrom, Wilkinson, and Associates ( BBWA ) is located in Arcata, CA and conducts ecosystem forestry in North America. BBWA's current Principal Associates include Greg Blomstrom, Bill Wilkinson, Kenneth Baldwin, Paul Harper, Jared Gerstein, Mark Andre and Mark Lancaster.Baldwin, Blomstrom, Wilkinson, Associates, Inc ( BBWA ), has been in business for six years, is based in in Arcata CA, and specializes in the practice of ecosystem-based forestry. All of BBW associates are California Registered Professional Foresters ( RPFs ) in good standing with the State of California Professional Forester Licensing Board. BBW associates have broad forestry experience in forest management, timber harvest, forest planning, appraisals, GIS, growth and yield modeling, inventory, and in writing environmental compliance documents and have worked on numerous other projects, including a PTEIR, NTMPs, and THPs ( all CEQA documents ), fire plans and EIS's.Current environmental analysis projects include 1 ) preparing a programmatic timber environmental impact report similar to the Weaverville Community Fuel Reduction for the Mattole watershed for the Mattole Restoration Council and preparing a programmatic EIR for CALFIRE to cover their vegetation management plan treatments on 37 million acres of private timberland in California.Kenneth Baldwin Kenneth Baldwin is a California Registered Professional Forester with 40 years of experience, the past 33 in the forests of northern California. He has been involved in land and resource management planning, fire and fuels management planning, timber sale planning and preparation, watershed analysis, forest inventory and design, stocking and survival surveying, reforestation, forest worker training, forest research, fire control, fire damage appraisals, forest recreation, forestry and environmental advocacy, and fisheries restoration. He worked as a seasonal employee for the U.S. Forest Service until 1976 and after that as a contractor/consultant for the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Natural Resources Conservation Service, two Resource Conservation Districts, Trinity Resource Conservation & Development Council, Hayfork Watershed Research and Training Center, Institute for Sustainable Forestry, University of California Berkeley, various religious and non-profit organizations, and private landowners. As a SmartWood consultant he has participated in 8 certification assessments, 1 certification reassessment, 17 audits, and 3 peer reviews in California and Oregon.Bill Wilkinson, RPF #2463, has 35 years experience in the practice of forestry. Aside from being a founding member and senior associate of BBWA, Bill has been involved in forest inventory, forest management planning, environmental document preparation ( including the "Weaverville Fuel Hazard Reduction PTEIR for CALFIRE" ), timber sale layout and timber sale administration. Bill just completed the sale and administration of 3 MMBF of Douglas-fir last year, and is involved in the layout, sale and administration of a sale of 1 MMBF of redwood timber in the Eureka area. Current projects that Bill is working on include preparation of two programmatic EIR's, the first being a PTEIR for the Mattole Restoration Council to enable programmatic timber harvest and the second a programmatic EIR for CALFIRE to cover their vegetation management plan for 37 million acres of private timberland in California. Before assuming his current positions with FSC and BBWA, Bill was Timber Management Officer at the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation in Northwest California. At Hoopa, Bill was responsible for all activities relating to timber sale preparation and administration for a 10-million board foot annual conifer timber sale program. Bill holds an MS in Forest Resources from the University of Idaho and a BS in Forestry from the University of Tennessee. He has published in the Journal of Forestry, the Western Journal of Appli