Currently Mr. Dumont is the Executive Director & In-house Counsel for the Alabama Forest Resources Center and previously the Executive Director & In-house Counsel at the Alabama Wildlife Federation. Mr. Dumont has an impressive track record in the field of conservation in the state of Alabama focusing on private lands and coastal conservation issues.

Mr. Dumont has served on several boards including:

• Alabama Wildlife Federation, 1986 to 1991
• Alabama Chapter Coastal Conservation Association (formerly called the Gulf Coast Conservation Association).
• Coastal Conservation Association, Houston, Texas - 1985-1990
• Mobile County Wildlife and Conservation Association
• Alabama Forest Resources Center
• Ducks Unlimited
• Alabama Sportsman's Political Action Committee (Sportpac)
• Coastal Research and Development Institute at the University of South Alabama.
• Harrigan Forest Learning Center at the University of Mobile.

While at the Alabama Wildlife Federation Mr. Dumont was chairman of the committee that was responsible for publishing the book, MANAGING WILDLIFE, a 588-page manual on wildlife and forest management for private landowners. He raised in excess of $150,000.00 in grants to fund this four year project and assisted in raising an additional $60,000.00 to place a copy of Managing Wildlife in every public and private school and every college and public library in Alabama. Mr. Dumont worked to pass legislation authorizing AWF’s distinctive license plate. This tag generates over $75,000 per month to support the Federation’s conservation work in Alabama.

Dan Dumont is the Alabama Forest Legacy program coordinator for the state. In 2000 the Governor appointed the Alabama Forestry Commission as the state lead agency to develop and administer a Forest Legacy Program in Alabama. The purpose of the Forest Legacy Program (FLP) is to identify and purchase environmentally important forestland through the use of conservation easements and fee purchases. Landowner participation is entirely voluntary. As these resources are managed, many traditional values and uses of the forests will continue to be available.

Guidelines for the Forest Legacy Program required the state lead agency to prepare an Assessment of Need (AON) in consultation with the Alabama Forest Stewardship Advisory Committee. An Assessment of Need Steering Committee was appointed, which worked with the Alabama Forest Resource Center to develop the Assessment of Need document. The AON was completed in September, 2002, and contains valuable resource information and measures to identify environmentally important forestlands that are being converted to developed urban areas.

Summary of Conservation Achievements

Co-Founder, Alabama Black Bear Alliance. A joint effort of the Alabama Wildlife Federation, The Nature Conservancy and state and federal agencies, Alabama industry and private landowners working to insure the future viability of the black bear in Alabama through education and habitat protection and enhancement.

Elected Vice Chairman of the Alabama Forestry Planning Committee in 1997. Served as Chairman in 1998 and as Chairman of the TREASURE Forest Landowners Conference in 1999.

Mr. Dumont brought the Forest Legacy Program to Alabama and was appointed to draft the Assessment of Need Document and Chair the Committee which will administer the USDA Forest Services’ Forest Legacy Program in Alabama to protect environmentally important forestlands from conversion to non-forest uses. Currently serves as Alabama’s Forest Legacy Coordinator having been appointed by the State Forester and Alabama’s Forest Stewardship Advisory Committee.

Former lobbying successes include: 1.Passage of the Uniform Conservation Easement Act, 2. Passage of a distinctive license plate for the Alabama Wildlife Federation 3. Negotiated and passed compromise legislation to create a Limited Entry System to limit the number of gill nets in use in Alabama coastal waters. 4. Passage of an amendment to the oil and gas industry's Risk Compensation Bill to protect the rights of private landowners against unreasonable force integration of their lands into drilling units without adequate compensation.

Appointed to the GULF OF MEXICO FISHERY MANAGEMENT COUNCIL which administers the federal Magnuson-Stevens Sustainable Fisheries Act of 1996, representing salt-water recreational fishing interests in Alabama for a three-year term beginning September 1, 2000. The Council prepares fishery management plans for fishery resources in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the Gulf of Mexico.

Worked extensively with the Alabama Legislature, the Committee on Administrative Procedures, the Department of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries, several Governors and the Governor’s Conservation Advisory Board, achieving landmark victories for the resources of Alabama including Game Fish status for Speckled Trout and Redfish and a moratorium on the purse-seining of brood stock Redfish in Federal waters.

Have spoken at public hearings, to civic groups, and on radio and television, on resource enhancement and user-group conflict issues.

Named "Conservationist of the Year," in 1987, by Coastal Conservation Association.

Received Alabama Wildlife Federation's Governor's Conservation Achievement Award for "Conservation Organization of the Year," on behalf of the Gulf Coast Conservation Association while serving as President in 1986.

Dan Dumont Alabama Forest Resources Center 8 St. Joseph St., 2nd Floor Mobile, AL  36602-3502 Phone: (251) 433-2372 Fax: (251) 433-2374  Visit Website