McCullough joins Forestry Research Advisory Council
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EmailDeb McCullough has been invited to join the Forestry Research Advisory Council (FRAC). The Council provides advice to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture about national and regional research planning projects.
Deb McCullough has been invited to join the Forestry Research Advisory Council (FRAC). The Council provides advice to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture about national and regional research planning projects. Other responsibilities include making recommendations about the coordination of forestry research within federal and state agencies, forestry schools and forest industries. FRAC also advises the U.S. Forest Service's Research and Development program, the world's largest forestry research organization. FRAC has 20 members representing a cross section of groups interested in forestry research, including industry, state and federal agencies, academic institutions and non-governmental organizations. McCullough is jointly appointed in MSU’s Departments of Entomology and Forestry.
The Forestry Research Advisory Council is required by the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to provide advice to the Secretary of Agriculture on accomplishing efficiently the purposes of the McIntire-Stennis Act of 1962. The legislation authorizes the Secretary to encourage and assist the states in carrying on a program of forestry research through land-grant colleges or agricultural experiment stations and other state-supported colleges and universities offering graduate training in the sciences basic to forestry and having a forestry school.
