Matthew Beckerle serves customers in a sales position at Speonk Lumber Corporation in Speonk, New York. His extensive background in the industry includes decades of work in sales and customer service at Beckerle Lumber Supply Company, Inc., a Spring Valley, New York business family-owned since 1940. Matthew Beckerle’s career-long focus on the lumber and construction supply industries have given him extensive knowledge of the materials, hardware, and processes of the building trades.
Matthew Beckerle also brings a deep and life-long love of nature and conservation to his work. He earned a master’s degree in science education from Iona College in New Rochelle, New York, in 1995. He previously completed studies at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, and spent two years working as an assistant biologist at Jonathan Dickinson State Park near Hobe Sound in Florida.
At the park, Matthew Beckerle handled the surveying of bird populations, and in particular monitored the status of the park’s population of nesting bald eagles. He also assisted with plant surveying and land management. His additional experience in forestry and conservation includes working at Quogue Wildlife Refuge in Southampton, New York.
