Professional Societies
- Society of American Foresters
- Association of Consulting Foresters of America
- International Society of Arboriculture
- Pacific Northwest Chapter of ISA
- American Society of Consulting Arborists
- Utility Arborists Association
Useful Tree Sites
Galen Wright, with over 42 years of experience, is the President of Washington Forestry Consultants, Inc. (WFCI) in Olympia, WA. WFCI is a firm that has provided forestry and vegetation management consulting services to utility, urban and traditional forestry clients across the U.S. since 1991.
Mr. Wright has a B.S. in Forest Management and an MSF in Silviculture and Forest Soils from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has authored over 28 publications and recently made more than 87 presentations on the subjects of utility vegetation management, forestry and urban forestry.
He is a Certified Forester, a Board Certified Master Arborist – Utility Specialist, is ISA Tree Risk Assessor Qualified and ASCA Tree and Plant Appraisal Qualified, and holds a pesticide consultants license.
Over the years, he has provided expert testimony over 100 times in depositions, trials, and arbitration involving wildfires, trees, appraisals, forest practices, and electrical contacts.
Key Areas
• Powerline Caused Fire Investigations
- • Landscape, Tree and Timber Appraisals
- • Hazard Tree Diagnostics and Analysis
- • Utility Vegetation Management Practices
- • Forestry Industry and Logging Practices
- • Rights-of-Way Vegetation Mgt. Practices
- • Slope and Tree Management for Views