Olympia Resident Receives Forestry Alumni Award from Michigan Tech

HOUGHTON, MI (08/15/2013)(readMedia)-- The School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science of Michigan Technological University has honored four alumni, including Aaron Everett '01 of Olympia, who received the Outstanding Young Alumni Award.

Everett is the Washington State Department of Natural Resources' forester and deputy supervisor for forest practices and federal relations. He is responsible for regulating forest practices on 12.7 million acres of state and private forestland in the nation's second-highest softwood lumber-producing state.

Francisca (Panchita) Paulete '06 was also named a 2013 Outstanding Young Alumni. David Myrold '77 received the School's 2013 Outstanding Alumnus Award, and Jacob Hayrynen '81 was inducted into the SFRES Honor Academy.

Michigan Technological University (www.mtu.edu) is a leading public research university developing new technologies and preparing students to create the future for a prosperous and sustainable world. Michigan Tech offers more than 130 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in engineering; forest resources; computing; technology; business; economics; natural, physical and environmental sciences; arts; humanities; and social sciences.