Speakers/Instructors: listed alphabetically by last name

Biographical Information About Speakers/Instructors: A-C, D-I, R-Z

Ben Jackson is a professor of timber harvesting at The University of Georgia Daniel B. Warnell School of Forest Resources, where he provides public service and adult education programs in logging operations and intensive forest management. Ben has work experience as a forestry consultant and industrial forester, with forest roads being one of his specialties. He served on the Georgia forestry BMPs revision committee and sub-committee on road construction and helps direct the Georgia Master Timber Harvester training program. Dr. Jackson recently assumed leadership for the Continuing Forest Resource Education Program at UGA. He has many years of experience coordinating and teaching continuing education courses for foresters and loggers. Ben will be adding continuing education courses to the 2003 schedule and getting ready for new courses in 2004. Source: The University of Georgia Continuing Education Course Description, 9/99 & UGA Continuing Ed. Schedule, 10/03.

C. Rhett Jackson is an assistant professor of hydrology at the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forest Resources. Rhett specializes in the effects of land management on water resources and is an expert on the effectiveness of Silvicultural Best Management Practices. Source: The University of Georgia Continuing Education Course Description, 5/03.

Jeff J. Jackson has a wide range of international habitat management experience. He has published numerous articles and bulletins in an array of magazines and journals. Jeff has been a nature center director, a professor of wildlife management at the University of Georgia, and an extension wildlife specialist in Georgia. He has served as a consultant in more than 20 countries, working with such clients as Georgia's county extension agents, the United Nations Development Programme, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Wildlife Research Center, among others. Source: The University of Georgia Continuing Education Course Description, 10/05.

Robert T. Jackson, Sr., is a Senior Partner in the law firm Jackson, Bowman and Blumentritt, PLLC, Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Mr. Jackson received a BBA degree from the University of Mississippi with a major in accounting in 1964, the Juris Doctor degree from the University of Mississippi in 1966 and an MBA degree from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1971. He is married and has four children. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/09.

Sam Jackson is a Coordinator with the Agricultural Extension Service in the Department of Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries at The University of Tennessee. Sam received his B.S. in Wildlife and Fisheries Science and his MS in Forestry from the University of Tennessee. Sam is responsible for coordinating the development of the National Web-Based Learning Center for Private Forest and Range Landowners. The project is federally funded by USDA CSREES Renewable Resources Extension Act focus funding. The University of Tennessee was selected to coordinate this national effort and work with land-grant institutions around the country to develop this web-based Extension program. In addition to coordinator duties, Sam also participates in a wide range of the Department's Extension activities, including 4-H and Adult education. Sam is a member of the Society of American Foresters. Sam and his wife, Daphne, live in Blount County, Tennessee. Sam enjoys fishing, hunting, gardening, antique books, history, and host of other activities. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/04.

Dan A. James was formerly a full time farmer in the South Western corner of Bibb County. He is currently managing partner of James Brothers Farm (a partnership). A list of accomplishments and awards follows: Received the "Helene Mosley Award" - 1986, Alabama's "Tree Farmer of the Year" - l989, Awarded the "Forest Conservationist" of the year - 1992, Served as Chairman of Alabama's Tree Farm Committee - 1995, Placed 2nd in "Tree ID" contest in Beaumont, TX - 1997 (Beaten by a 'forester' from Eugene, OR), and Presented the "Bill Moody Award" - 2002. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/03.

Paul Jannke is responsible for RISI's portfolio of wood products and timber information, including newsletters, Forecasts, Commentaries, cost benchmarking, analytical research, and data. Prior to taking on this role, Paul was Vice President of Industry Analysis and Forecasting at RISI. In this position, he managed RISI's Wood Products, Timber, Fiber, and Asian and Latin American pulp and paper groups. As part of the management team at RISI for the past seven years, Paul has played an integral role in the strategic development of the company. In addition, he was responsible for acquiring and integrating several companies into RISI's portfolio of information products. Before coming to RISI, Paul was a research economist at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden. Paul holds a Master's degree in economics from Boston University and a Bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Connecticut. Source: http://www.risiinfo.com/pages/abo/management/, 08/08.

Walter Jarck has built over 330 miles of forest roads and more than 40 wood yards. His 40 years of experience as a forester and forest engineer have shown him first hand the challenges faced by loggers and foresters when building roads. Walter has worked for Caterpillar Tractor Company, Bowater Carolina Corporation and Georgia-Pacific Corporation.

Hannah M. Jefferies is a Timber and Fiber Market Analyst with Forest2Market, Inc. Jefferies specializes in analyzing Forest2Market’s proprietary datasets and various public data sources, forecasting costs, performing geographic analyses and conducting economic impact assessments. Prior to joining Analytical Services, Jefferies worked with Forest2Market’s proprietary databases and Subscription Services products. Jefferies holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Furman University and will earn the Master of Science in Applied Sociology with a concentration in Rural Community Development from Clemson University on August 5th.
     Founded in 2000, Forest2Market is an independent provider of data and analytics to participants in global forest, wood, paper, bioenergy and biochemicals supply chains. The company’s solutions provide producers, suppliers, buyers, investors and policy makers with a clear view of complex supply chain issues and support fact-based decision-making and planning. The foundation of all Forest2Market products and services is the robust transaction data it collects from subscribers, currently more than 42 million timber sales and purchases annually and in excess of 262 million delivered fiber transactions since 2006. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/16.

Paul Jeffreys, Ph.D. joined ArborGen in 2014 as a Reforestation Advisor for Mississippi, north Alabama, and western Tennessee. Prior to that, he was at Mississippi State University, Department of Forestry, as a research associate II and instructor. During this time and in this position, he earned his doctorate in forestry with an interest in bottomland hardwood growth and yield. Previously, Paul had earned his bachelor's degree in forestry and a master's degree in forestry genetics from Mississippi State University. Paul is a registered forester in Mississippi and Alabama. He is also a landowner and tree farmer in Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/21.

Dylan Jenkins is an extension forester at the Virginia Tech Department of Forestry and coordinates the Virginia Forest Landowner Education Program. He received his B.S. in Forest Management from Clemson (1993) and an M.S. in Forest Management and Economics from Virginia Tech (1996). Dylan is the incoming chair of the Virginia Division Society of American Foresters, is a Virginia Certified Planning Commissioner serving on the Montgomery County (VA) Board of Zoning Appeals, and is board member and education director for the New River Land Trust. He lives on a small woodland property in Montgomery County with his wife Margaret and son Boone. 

James P. Jeter received a B.S. degree in forest management from Auburn University in 1976. He worked for Gulf States Paper in land management from 1976 to 1990. In 1990, Jim began working with the Alabama Forestry Commission as the Northwest Region Forest Management Specialist. He currently serves as statewide Best Management Practices (BMP) Coordinator and statewide Hardwood Specialist. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/14.

James Jeuck taught in the Natural Resources Department at Haywood Community College for 12 years. At HCC, he created and directed the Geospatial Technologies program there for 6 years. Since 2008, he has been an Extension Associate with NCSU Extension Forestry. There, he delivers workshops for landowners and natural resource professionals on a wide variety of forestry subjects. These include forest management, hardwood and softwood management, soils and fertility, herbicides, forest economics, and forest mapping for landowners. He manages the Extension Forestry newsblog and monthly newsletter, “Woodland Owners Update” (http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/forestry/resources/woodland_owners_update.php) that provides information to landowners on current forestry issues. He developed a technique for analyzing state and local supply for woody biomass used in helping biofuels industry in site location. NCSU Extension Forestry has used this model on over 30 detailed regional biomass supply analysis in the last 5 years for groups such as the Biofuels Center of NC, regional economic developers, and interested industries. James is also on the State Executive Committee for the NC Tree Farm Program and very involved with helping and supporting that organization. James is currently a PhD Candidate concentrating on economic and policy factors contributing to woodland conversion in North Carolina. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/13.

Dr. Fred Jewell, professor in the School of Forestry at Louisiana Tech University, has been in his current position since 1966. Previously he was employed at Instate of Forest Genetics, Gulfport, Mississippi. His research interests include resistance to fusiform rust and needle cast fungi. Source: Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service Course Description, 6/99.

Trip Jobe is a growth strategist with 25 years of pulp and paper industry experience in sales, marketing, product development and business leadership. He enjoys bringing clarity and alignment to stakeholders via data and a market focused strategic process.
     At ResourceWise, Trip helps clients in the Forest Value Chain maximize their objectives through the Fisher and Forest2Market platforms. These capabilities enable us to assist clients in the timber, pulp, paper and packaging markets, including end users.
     Prior to joining ResourceWise, Trip was the Chief Commercial Officer for Rand Inc., a strategic marketing and analytics firm. He began his 20+ year forest products career at International Paper, before joining Kimberly-Clark. In 2004, Trip was leading the Marketing organization when Neenah Paper was spun-off from KCC and led significant growth and helped to reshape the Fine and Technical Products businesses over the next 9 years through various acquisitions, joint ventures and new market entries.
     Trip earned his MBA from Emory University and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Davidson College. Source: www.resourcewise.com/trip-jobe, 2/23.

Candace D. Johnson is a partner with Adams and Reese LLP and a member of the firm’s Real Estate Practice Team. Candace represents companies in the areas of real estate, forestry, oil and gas, general corporate, and commercial law. She is listed in The Best Lawyers in America (Timber Law). Candace is licensed to practice law in Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee. She graduated from the University of Alabama in 1994, receiving a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in Accounting. She earned her Juris Doctorate from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1997, where she served on the editorial board of Alabama Law Review. Candace is an active member of the American, Alabama, Mississippi, and Mobile Bar Associations; the Alabama Forestry Association; and the Alabama Forest Owners' Association. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/07.

Eric Johnson has been Editor of The Northern Logger & Timber Processor, a monthly trade publication based in Old Forge, New York since 1982. Eric is also Editor of National Woodlands and Wisconsin Woodlands, both quarterly magazines edited for woodland owners. He has a degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is originally from, and where his mother owns a 280-acre tree farm. Eric's plan is to "retire" to the tree farm in 2018 at age 60, where he plans to continue his editing work as well as harvesting timber on the tree farm and otherwise managing the property. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/15.

James L. Johnson graduated from Auburn University in 2013 with a Bachelors of Science degree in Biosystems Engineering. He is currently pursuing his Masters of Science degree in Agricultural Economics. Upon graduation from Auburn, he was hired to work as a research engineer, working for the Center for Bioenergy and Bio-products and Biosystems Engineering. He has been actively operating UAVs for the purpose of mapping crop health and variability for over a year and a half. Mr. Johnson’s operating experience includes data collection using many different platforms, cameras and softwares.  Source: Personal Résumé, 3/17.

Jerry L. Johnson is State Staff Forester for Natural Resources Conservation Service in Alabama and is headquartered in Auburn, Alabama. He received a BS degree in Forest Management from Auburn University in 1970 and is a registered forester in Alabama and a Society of American Foresters Certified Forester. He is a member of numerous forestry organizations. Jerry is married to Gloria Pettis Johnson and has two sons and two grandchildren. He is a member of Parkway Baptist Church. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/00.

Judd Johnson is Editor of Hardwood Market Report. He joined the company in 1994 after spending the first 18 years of his career working in primary and secondary manufacturing sectors of the hardwood industry.
    Mr. Johnson has contributed to many HMR initiatives that help hardwood companies improve business. Publications developed during his tenure include The Year at a Glance; HMR Executive®, a monthly publication concentrating on issues that influence hardwood business; and HMR Import Newsletter™, the latest HMR publication that details market trends and pricing for key temperate and tropical hardwood lumber species imported into the U.S.
    Mr. Johnson is regularly featured as a speaker at conferences and conventions for state, regional, national, and international trade events that serve the hardwood lumber industry and secondary wood products manufacturing sectors. Source: Personal Résumé, 10/20.

Christopher Johnston heads the Sales and Marketing department at International Forest Company. Chris holds an associate’s degree in forestry from Ware Technical Institute in Waycross, Georgia. He has more than twenty years’ experience in the forestry industry focusing on timber procurement and product sales, having worked with Elberta Crate and Box Company and with the Langdale Company. He is a member of the Georgia Forestry Association and the Society of American Foresters. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/13.

Rhett Johnson has been the Director of Auburn University's Solon Dixon Forestry Education Center since its inception in 1979.  He has degrees in both forestry and wildlife biology and has research and teaching interests in both fields.  He is a member of Auburn's School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences faculty and is a co-founder and Co-director, along with Dean Gjerstad of The Longleaf Alliance. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/00.

Eric J. Jokela is a Professor of Silviculture and Forest Nutrition at the University of Florida, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1984. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Forestry from the University of Minnesota and his Ph.D. from the State University of New York (Syracuse). Dr. Jokela is currently Co-Director of the Forest Biology Research Cooperative, an internationally recognized research program involving an interdisciplinary team of scientists seeking to understand the biological mechanisms controlling productivity, health and sustainability of managed forest ecosystems. Previously, he was Co-Director of the Cooperative Research in Forest Fertilization (CRIFF) Program, a university-industry research program focusing on forest nutrition and fertilization. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in silviculture and has authored over 150 publications on tree nutrition, forest fertilization, forest productivity, and forest management impacts on soil carbon and nutrient dynamics. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/11.

Al Jones is the Economic Development Representative for the Alabama Forestry Commission. Prior to this position, he served as Community Development Director for the city of Alexander City from December 2016 until October 2022. His career in government began in 2001 with the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs, where he served for 15 years, rising to the position of Chief of the Statewide Initiatives Unit within the Community and Economic Development Division. Al graduated from Auburn University in 1990 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration-Transportation and Physical Distribution degree. He has been honored with speaking engagements at a national Department of Housing and Urban Development Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Conference in Washington, D.C., a HUD Disaster compliance workshop for Indiana CDBG employees in Indianapolis, Indiana, and many regional and local workshops. Al is married to the former Christi Scoggins of Hollins, Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/22.

Bill Jones is the Executive Director of the Alabama Loggers Council Completed forestry school at Auburn University 1978. Forestry work experience with Pope-Jones Pulpwood Co., ST Joe Paper Company, Gulf States Paper Company, and Louisiana Pacific. Worked as Private Woodlands Coordinator with Alabama Forestry Association form 1981 to 1991. Since 1997 served as Director of the Alabama Loggers Council, responsibilities include logger training, transportation safety, and DOT compliance. Currently Serves on the Southern Alliance for Utilization of Biomass Resources, and on the Board of the Wood Supply Research Institute, serves on Utilization Committee, American Loggers Council Participates in Log A Load For Kids that raised $280,000 in 2004 and over 4$ million since 1995 in Alabama to fund Children's Health Intervention Protection Services and Children's Hospitals of Alabama. Married to Rachael who is currently reading Coach for Coosada Elementary School. Three Children, Sarah, a Junior at Auburn in Bio Systems Engineering, Ned Stanhope Elmore High School, Margaret Millbrook Middle School. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/06.

Christopher H. Jones, M.S., Esquire, is an Endangered Species Attorney in Chattanooga Tennessee helping private landowners when confronted with federal and state endangered species and wildlife law issues.
     140 federally endangered species presently exist in Alabama, however most forest owners do not realize the United States Fish and Wildlife Service is considering enlisting another 136 species in the Cotton State by the year 2018. An endangered species living on someone’s land can restrict a range of forestry practices from prescribed burning, midstory removal, seed tree preparation and timber harvests. Jones helps landowners officially comment against federal protection of animals and plants that are healthy and abundant in the wild and do not warrant federal endangered species protection, and helps preserve private property rights when an endangered species may exist on a forest owner’s land.
     A graduate of Baylor University where Jones studied environmental science and wildlife ecology, he obtained a Masters of Science from the University of Houston, and received his law degree from the University of Tulsa College of Law. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/15.

Jay Jones, who was first elected Sheriff of Lee County, Alabama in 1998, is currently serving his fourth term of office. He has been with the Sheriff's office for thirty-seven years. Jones is a 1976 graduate of Auburn University, a 1986 graduate of the F.B.I. National Academy, and a 2000 graduate of the National Sheriff's Institute. He is a member of adjunct faculty of Southern Union Community College in Opelika, and has been a Criminal Justice instructor for thirty-one years. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/13.

Jeanne C. Jones is an associate professor with the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries at Mississippi State's College of Forest Resources and Wildlife Research Center. She received a B.S. in Biology from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1976, then received from Mississippi State University a M.S. in Wildlife Ecology in 1982. Later, she got her Ph.D. in Wildlife Ecology from MSU in 1995. Her teaching areas include wildlife and fish conservation and wildlife habitat management and restoration. Just a few of her research interests include habitat evaluation and management, reclamation and vegetative succession on ecologically-disturbed lands, and ecological impacts of agronomic plant species on native plant diversity and community development. Dr. Jones has also been published numerous times. Just a sampling of these include Future Ecosystem Management Challenges in the Southeastern United States and Merging Polarized Views about Consumptive and Non-consumptive Uses of Natural Resources in the University Classroom. Source: MSU Faculty/Staff bio, 1/04.

P. David Jones. When you think of items made out of wood, you probably think of things like furniture, doors and flooring. But even products such as toothpaste, imitation vanilla extract and food additives can contain wood. Forest products are an integral part of our lives, and no one knows this more than David Jones, associate Extension professor and forest products Extension specialist.
     As the only forest products Extension specialist in Mississippi, Jones performs a multitude of outreach and instruction, working with foresters, companies and the public. "Each day, each one of us uses six pounds of wood," he said. "The forest industry is so important because it's tied into so many things."
     Jones conducts wood science-based research, focusing on factors such as wood quality as it relates to tree growth and rapid assessment techniques of wood properties. "As the demand for forest products has increased, so has the rate at which we grow trees," Jones said. "I look at what we can do to increase tree growth while still maintaining the needed quality."
     In addition, Jones helps put on the Wood Magic Science Fair, where about 4,000 fourth-graders from across the state visit campus to learn about the importance of wood in their lives. Jones also teaches several classes such as wood anatomy and lumber manufacturing, and co-wrote the only published introductory forest products textbook.
     In recognition of his leadership in the field, Jones was chosen last year for the Leadership for the 21st Century, or Lead21, program. Lead21's purpose is to develop leaders within land-grant universities and the U.S. Department of Agriculture through a yearlong course including three sessions and an individual learning component.
     Jones received his bachelor's degree from Clemson University, master's degree from Stephen F. Austin University and doctorate from the University of Georgia. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/14.

Rick Jones received a B. S. in Forest Management in 1977 from Auburn University and a MBA in 1988 from the University of West Florida, Pensacola and is a Registered Forester in Alabama. Rick is General Manager of Charles Dixon & Co., Inc. in Andalusia, Alabama. He is currently President of the Alabama Forestry Association and a Board Member of the Forest Landowner’s Association. Rick is married to the former Kathy Jones of River Falls, Alabama. They have three sons: Richard (Age 21), a Junior in Electrical Engineering at Auburn University; Patrick (Age 17), a Senior at Andalusia High School, enrolled at Huntingdon College for the fall of 2003 and Gillis (age 12), a sixth grader at Andalusia Middle School. Rick & Kathy are forest landowners in Covington County, Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/03.

Scott P. Jones is Chief Executive Officer of the Forest Landowners Association (FLA). He joined the Forest Landowners Association in 2003 and has a Bachelor of Science degree in forest resources from the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Georgia and is an SAF Certified Forester as well as a Georgia Registered Forester. Scott was recognized as a Distinguished Young Alumni of the Warnell School and was the first graduate of the program to receive the 40 under 40 award from the UGA Alumni Association. Scott brings a diverse background of forest land management, procurement, land ownership and advocacy at the state and national level to FLA. With over 20 years of experience, and 15 years as the CEO of the Forest Landowners Association, Scott is well versed in advocating on issues of importance to private forest landowners that help them access markets and preserve property rights that will sustain the next generation of forest landowners. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/21.

W. Daryl Jones, Ph.D., is the Coordinator of the Natural Resource Enterprises (NRE) Program and Assistant Wildlife Extension Professor at the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries at Mississippi State University. The NRE Program provides information to landowners on sustainable natural resource enterprises (fee hunting and angling, wildlife watching, agritourism, nature-based tourism) and habitat management through workshops, field days, and web-based training. His primary research interests include fee-based wildlife and fisheries enterprise development and revenue production on private lands in Mississippi and the Southeast, watershed conservation management, and wetlands policy development. He has published manuscripts in numerous resource management journals and publications. Daryl has held administrative appointments with USEPA in Washington, D.C., as the state’s coastal zone manager in Mississippi, and with Deposit Guaranty National Bank in Starkville, MS. He enjoys quail and turkey hunting, bird dog training, fly fishing, and cycling. Daryl is from Vicksburg, MS and now resides in Winston County, MS outside of Louisville. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/09.

Donald J. Jonovic, Ph.D., is one of America’s most experienced advisors to business owners, family companies and family farms. For more than 30 years, he’s been a specialist in management succession, business transition, and the management of privately owned businesses. He has written eight books on business ownership and the management of change in the closely held and family company. His column in Successful Farming Magazine, “Can Their Problem Be Solved?” has for many years been one of the most popular features in that magazine. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/11.

Alan Jordan is in his 17th year of building clients' investments. A registered investment advisor/representative with Raymond James Financial Services, Alan manages individual portfolios as well as corporate and small-business retirement plans. He holds Series 7, 63, and 65 licenses, handles such investments as insurance, bonds, mutual funds, stocks, and annuities. He is an alumnus of the University of Alabama School of Business. Alan is married with two daughters and has been recognized for his volunteer activities with Camp Fire Boys and Girls. His community involvement includes membership in the Masonic Lodge, Scottish Rite, and Zamora Shrine Temple. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/04.

Michael Kane is Professor of Quantitative Silviculture and Director of the Plantation Management Research Cooperative, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. He has served in this capacity since 2006. Prior to working with the University of Georgia, Mike worked for ten years with large integrated forest products companies (Union Camp and International Paper) on silvicultural research and technology transfer, focusing on plantation culture of pine and hardwood species throughout U.S. South. From 1982 to 1996, Mike served as a research forester and consultant with commercial forestry plantation enterprises in Colombia, Venezuela, and Mexico. Mike began his professional career in 1975 working on loblolly pine silviculture and nutrition with the Forest Nutrition Cooperative at North Carolina State University. Mike, a native of Michigan, completed his B.S. in Natural Resources from the University of Michigan and M.S. and Ph.D. from NC State in Forestry with a minor in soils. Mike lived in Montgomery and worked in Prattville from 1997 to 2001. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/09.

Dr. Uma Karki is a Professor and State Extension Livestock Specialist at Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama. One of her research and Extension emphases is to promote the sustainable agroforestry systems including silvopastures and woodland grazing to promote efficient land management and diversified income opportunities for farmers and landowners. She has been leading a research team in exploring the challenges and opportunities associated with the use of forestland for animal grazing. She completed her BS in Animal Science and Bachelor's in Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry at Tribhuvan University in Nepal. She then completed an MS in Animal Science at the University of Western Australia, and her Ph.D. in Agronomy and Soils at Auburn University.

Wallace Kaufman says he became an environmentalist when he was four years old and saw the difference between the poor apartment blocks of New York City where his family lived and the green park across from his grandmother’s Long Island home. His latest book is his memoir, Coming Out of the Woods: The Solitary Life of a Maverick Naturalist.  He tells the story of how he went deep into the woods, built his own house by a stream and lived there ten times longer than Thoreau lived at Walden Pond, but emerged with the opposite conclusion. Thoreau declared “In wildness is the preservation of the world.” Kaufman says, “In civilization is the preservation of wildness.” He has also written No Turning Back: Dismantling the Fantasies of Environmental Thinking.  He has served as president of three statewide environmental groups and won the New River Award for conservation and an exemplary simple life.  He has worked in Latin America with indigenous writers and for the past 11 years he has been working in the former Soviet Union on housing and land reform, ecotourism, coaching journalists, microfinance, and consulting for private businesses. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/01.

Thomas Kazee earned a BS in Forestry at West Virginia University in 1976 and an MA in Human Resources at Pepperdine in 1980. He was a forest manager and woodland auditor for Champion International Corp. for 20 years, from 1980 to 2000. He is now an independent woodland auditor (Woodland Security, Inc.), from 2000 to present. Tom works with large landowners, forest management and procurement organizations and non-industrial landowners. He has been a regular speaker for the University of Georgia and NC State University. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/06.

Kent Keene is a graduate research assistant in the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences studying the effect of loblolly pine management on wildlife habitat and timber value. Kent was raised on a dairy farm in Southwest Missouri before earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology with a concentration in Wildlife and Conservation from Southeast Missouri State University. Following completion of his B.S. degree, a prairie research project in Eastern Kansas, and hourly positions with the Missouri Department of Conservation in both Wildlife and Forestry Divisions, Kent accepted a graduate research position at Auburn. Following completion of his M.S. degree, Kent will pursue a career in land management and extension. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/18.

David M. Kelley worked as a consulting forester for James M. Vardaman & Co., Inc. for 11 years and now operates under the name Kelley Forestry Consulting Services, LLC, in Montgomery, Alabama. He is a 1990 graduate of Louisiana State University's School of Forestry, Wildlife & Fisheries and has a B.S. in Forestry. Mr. Kelley provides forestry services to private landowners throughout central and south Alabama. Services include management recommendations, timber appraisals, timber sales, land sales, and reforestation. He is a registered forester in Alabama and Mississippi. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/02, updated 3/04.

Boyd Kelly has been the Governmental Affairs Director of the Alabama Forestry Association since 1977. Prior to coming to the AFA, Boyd was the Director of Research of the Alabama Chamber of Commerce, predecessor organization of the Business Council of Alabama. He was raised in Tuscaloosa where he attended public school and earned his BA degree at the University of Alabama. In addition to his work as the AFA's lobbyist, he is Secretary/Treasurer of ForestPAC, the official political action committee of the AFA and Administrator of ForestFund, the umbrella organization of the AFA's insurance programs. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/00.

J. W. Kennedy is a licensed professional land surveyor in the states of Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi. He is currently the president of the Alabama Society of Professional Land Surveyors and the current president of the Tennessee Valley Professional Land Surveyors, a chapter of the ASPLS. In addition, he is a member of the Tennessee Association of Professional Surveyors, the Mississippi Association of Professional Surveyors and the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping. Mr. Kennedy currently has a private practice serving as part owner and vice president of Chynoweth & Kennedy, Inc., a land surveying and engineering company in Huntsville, Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/04.

George F. Kennedy is President of C & C Surveying, Inc., based in Jasper, Alabama. Frankie is a registered Alabama Professional Land Surveyor whose experience in surveying began in 1978. He is experienced in Construction, Subdivision Design and Layout, and Project Management. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/12.

Earl Ketchum is the owner and advisor of Timberland Investment Advisors, LLC, a forestry consulting firm located in Opelika, Alabama. He has more than 20 years experience in the forest industry and is a Registered Forester in Alabama and Georgia, as well as a Certified Tree Farm Inspector. In 1997 he graduated from Auburn University, where he studied Forestry Operations. His professional memberships include: the Auburn University School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences Advisory Council, the Alabama Forestry Association, the Society of American Foresters, and the Alabama Forest Owners' Association. He and his wife Kelli reside in Auburn, Alabama with their three sons, Riley and Grayden and Cannon. Source: www.timberlandinvestmentadvisors.com, 5/19.

Anthony Kim researches international economic issues with a focus on economic freedom and free trade at The Heritage Foundation. 
    As a Policy Analyst in Heritage's Center for International Trade and Economics (CITE), Kim assumes the primary responsibility of coordinating the complex research and production process by which the Index of Economic Freedom is produced.
    The Index is co-published annually with The Wall Street Journal. It tracks the march of economic freedom around the world by measuring 10 freedoms – from property rights to entrepreneurship – in 157 countries.  In 2007, after a decade of publishing the Index, Heritage executives decided that the Index needed changes to make it more accessible to more people - from the congressional staffer to the college student, from the finance minister to the financial adviser.
    As one of the handful of Heritage experts who grades the Index's 157 countries, Kim helped oversee those changes and his work earned him Heritage's prestigious Drs. W. Glenn and Rita Ricardo Campbell Award in 2007. The award is given to the employee who has delivered "an outstanding contribution to the analysis and promotion of a Free Society."
    Before joining Heritage in 2001, he studied economics at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N. J., and earned his master's degree in international trade and investment policy from the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University. He lives in Washington, D.C.  

J. Craig King is the fourth generation president of J. P. King Auction Company, headquartered in Gadsden. He became president of the company in 1986 and has sold literally hundreds of thousands of acres of timber, hunting properties, ranches and other types of land throughout the nation. He is known in the industry as one of the nation's leading innovators in the use of auctions to market land, and the company's results bear that out.  King has more than 25 years of experience in the real estate auction business. He is a past president of the Alabama Auctioneers Association, and a past director of the National Auctioneers Association. He is also a past president of the Auction Marketing Institute, and served as the Auction Marketing Institute's representative on the Auction Committee of the National Association of Realtors.

Robert King is a realtor with Southeastern Land Group and has been selling rural land for more than 25 years. Robert is a Christian, husband, father, farmer, and land agent. He is one of the co-founders of the PoultrySouth Team with Southeastern Land Group that helps people buy and sell poultry farms throughout the southeast Robert's land market experience covers hundreds of timberland and rural transitional land transactions. Robert is also a regular contribute to The LandShow Podcast that is broadcast on stations throughout Alabama. Source: personal resume, 8/22.

Bryan Kinkel is a wildlife manager with Woods and Associates, Inc., one of the most sought-after wildlife management consulting firms in America. Woods and Associates is active in research and management projects throughout the white-tail’s range and specializes in maximizing herd and habitat potential on a site-specific basis. Bryan specializes in site-specific habitat management programs and in researching deer herd dynamics, deer preferences for specific habitat conditions, and buck rubbing behavior. Bryan is also co-author of the new book Deer Management 101—Manage Your Way to Better Hunting. This book provides information on how hunters can implement popular management techniques. In addition, the book introduces readers to several new concepts critical to deer-herd management, and details how hunters can improve their herd with just the trigger finger. Deer Management 101 introduces readers to the little-known concept of deer herd “dynamics,” the interplay between deer of different sexes and ages, and how these interactions produce noticeable differences in deer behavior and herd health. The authors describe how altering these herd dynamics can change herd performance and even the hunting experience. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/04.

Andrew Kinnaird joined the Alabama Policy Institute in August 2011 as an intern and began full-time employment in July 2012 as a Policy Analyst. Andrew focuses on special projects for API such as the Governor’s Commission on Improving State Government and the forthcoming Alabama Dynamic Expenditure Limit (ADEL) paper. A Birmingham native, Andrew graduated from Auburn University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics.  Source: http://www.alabamapolicy.org/contact/employee.php?employee_ID=51, 9/12.

Justin Kinney is a Senior Special Agent assigned to the Agriculture & Rural Crime Unit (ARCU) of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA). Prior to the formation of ALEA, Agent Kinney was an investigator with the Alabama Forestry Commission. Source: Personal Résumé, 2/16.

Norman K. Kinney, president, part owner, and manager of Chartered Foresters, Quincy, Florida, and Ozark, Alabama, received a BS degree in Forestry from the University of Florida. He is a registered forester in Alabama & Georgia, a certified burner in Florida & Alabama, a registered real estate broker in Alabama, and a licensed pesticide applicator in Alabama, Florida & Georgia. Norm has been an active member in the Association of Consulting Foresters and the Society of American Foresters. He is a member of the Alabama Forest Owners' Association and the Dale and Houston County Landowners' Association. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/99.

Suz-Anne Kinney is Communications Manager at Forest2Market and serves as the Editor of both the company’s newsletters. She has been researching and writing about the wood bioenergy industry since joining Forest2Market, much of the time focusing on the U.S. South. In its new publication, Forest2Fuel, Forest2Market will cover the wood bioenergy supply chain—from opportunities for landowners to the end uses for bioenergy products. The free newsletter will be launched in June.
Forest2Market provides market information for the wood and forest products and bioenergy industries, including timber pricing services, benchmarks, forecasts and customized solutions addressing the unique business issues that companies in these industries face. Forest2Market collects data on a tract-by-tract or load-by-load basis from actual timber sales contracts. Forest2Market’s products and services are built on solid data, industry expertise and third-party independence. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/09.

Tony Kinton is from Carthage, Mississippi. He retired as an instructor of English composition I & II and American literature I & II from East Central Community College. He sold his first outdoor article to Church Recreation magazine in 1976. Since then he has been actively involved in outdoor writing, and has placed approximately 2,000 articles in state, regional, and national magazines. Kinton is an active member of Professional Outdoor Media Association (POMA) and Southeastern Outdoor Press Association (SEOPA). He served as Mississippi Editor for Outdoor Life magazine for 12 years. He is now: Editor of Mississippi Wildlife Officer’s magazine; Hunting editor for Primitive Archer magazine; Columnist for Today in Mississippi; Columnist for Mossy Oak’s Hunting The Country. Additionally, his work regularly appears in: Cabela’s Outfitter Journal; Quality Whitetails; Union Sportsmen web magazine. Tony has written four books. His latest, Fishing Mississippi, was published and released by University Press of Mississippi. He has been privileged to hunt 16 U.S. states; four Canadian provinces, and three provinces in the Republic of South Africa. He has taken: whitetails; mule deer; pronghorn antelope; Corsican sheep; axis deer; javelina; wild hogs; black bears; moose; elk; Quebec/Labrador caribou; three species of wild turkeys; and nine species of African plains game. Much of his hunting is done with bow and arrow and muzzleloading rifles and shotguns. Tony says, “God has truly blessed me!” Source: Personal Résumé, 6/09.

Leslie M. Klasing was born in Huntsville, Alabama, and was admitted to the Alabama State Bar in 1992. Over the past 24 years, she has represented a wide variety of businesses and public entities. Representative current and former clients include the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center, the City of Irondale, the City of Graysville, the City of Hoover, and the Birmingham Board of Education. During her career, Leslie has handled a wide range of matters, including hundreds of real estate transactions representing both sellers and buyers, complex contract drafting, negotiations and litigation, bond transactions and insurance coverage disputes. Throughout her career, Leslie has maintained relationships with long term clients through professional services, participation in charitable events and membership in civic organizations. Leslie lives in Birmingham with her husband Dan and has two college-age daughters. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/17.

Bill Klingler is a Bullock County forest owner. He graduated from Auburn University with a degree in Animal Science in 1973 and has been a farmer his entire life. He and his wife have two daughters. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/04.

Bernard Kliska, Ph.D., is a licensed family therapist and Consultant of the Family Business Consulting Group, Inc. Active in his family's 95-year-old plastic and glass container business for 23 years, eventually becoming president and CEO, he has personally experienced many of the joys and problems of family business involvement. He relinquished his position in the company to one of his fourth-generation sons when he returned to consulting, limiting his focus to the challenges of family business.
     A member of the American Psychological Association, clinical member of the American Association of Family Therapists and an appointee to the Family Therapy Licensing and Disciplinary Board of the State of Illinois. Kliska is also a member of the Family Firm Institute (FFI), a professional organization dedicated to assisting family firms and family business consultants. His family's company was a founding member of the Family Business Forum at Loyola University Chicago. He is currently Chairman Emeritus at Loyola University Family Business Center at Chicago.
     Among Kliska's special areas of concentration are: facilitation in assessing the family's strengths and weaknesses; improving family communication; building harmony and commitment among family members; helping successors to develop their own identities; and resolving issues raised by bringing in non-family managers. His training and expertise have helped him deal effectively with the tension and relationship problems that arise in many family business environments. He also derives meaning in his life as a husband, father, and grandfather.
     After completing undergraduate studies at the University of Southern California, he attained graduate degrees in counseling and psychology from Stanford University and the University of Florida. Source: www.thefbcg.com/kliska, 9/14.

Don Knight is 58 years old and has been President of the Alabama Dog Hunters Association for 4 years. He bow hunts, stalk hunts, still hunts and black powder hunts, but his favorite method of harvesting deer is dog hunting, mainly because of the time he gets to spend with his children (2 girls) and his grandchildren (all 6 of them). He poses the question: "Have you ever seen a child that didn't like dogs? Not many." Don has been hunting since he was 8. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/02.

Peyton Knight is executive director of the American Policy Center, a grassroots action and education foundation dedicated to the promotion of free enterprise and limited government regulations over commerce and individuals. The Center is located in Warrenton, Virginia, just outside our nation’s capital. APC believes that the free market, through its inherent system of checks and balances, including private ownership of property, is the best method yet devised for creating individual wealth, full employment, goods and services, and protecting the natural environment. Peyton has testified several times before both houses of Congress, and has appeared in numerous print media outlets across the nation including The Washington Times, The New York Sun, and the Christian Science Monitor. He has also been a frequent guest on many radio and television programs including Fox News, MSNBC and the Joe Scarborough Show. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/05.

Ginger Kogelschatz and her husband Ed, own and manage Shinbone Valley Farm in NW Georgia where they grow medicinal herbs, vegetables and flowers. Ginger has a degree in Forest Management from Auburn and maintains a part-time job in the timber investment industry, but her passion is growing, selling and making medicines out of herbs. She has grown over 80 varieties of medicinal herbs, shrubs and trees and has sold fresh cut and dried herbs. She also makes herbal salves, lip balms and a variety of herbal extracts. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/03.

Peter F. Kolb is the Montana State University Extension Forestry Specialist and an Associate Professor of Forest Ecology & Management, housed at the University of Montana in the Department of Forest Management. He has recently been selected to be a Fulbright Scholar to the Bavarian Institute of Applied Forestry in 2008 where he will be lecturing on forest ecosystem processes and studying the long term effects of intensive forest management in the northern Alps. For the past 23 years he has studied forest ecosystem function and dynamics with specific interest in the role of disturbance processes across Idaho and Montana. . Specific research emphasis have included the effects of heat, water stress and grass competition on conifer seedling establishment, the role of soil characteristics, forest pests, pathogens and wildfire on forest species and succession dynamics, the impacts of forest thinning on root diseases, woody debris treatments and their effects on forest and range restoration, cultural practices to enhance woody debris decomposition, and plant community recovery following wildfires and salvage logging. During the past 10 years he has worked extensively with private forest landowners and managers on forest assessment and management plan development, silvicultural alternatives, wildfire hazard reduction, and post-wildfire rehabilitation. He also directs the Montana natural Resources Youth Camp and works with farmers and ranchers across central and eastern Montana on planning, establishing and maintaining windbreaks and shelterbelts. His past work experience includes time as an inventory forester for the Wisconsin DNR, an assistant tree nursery manager for Champion International, a fire lookout/fire fighter for the USDA Forest Service and an applied forester for Boise Cascade. In his spare time Peter is either building furniture, working on his small Tree Farm, with his horses, or hiking, hunting and camping with his family.
     “My major professional goal is to help quantify how physical and biological processes work across western forest landscapes, and to develop applied management practices that conserve and work within those processes for human benefit. Having grown up on a rural forested Wisconsin farm with childhood pets that consisted of numerous orphaned or injured wild birds, several crows, a raven and a coyote, I have a strong respect and love for wildlife and wild places. As a woodworker I consider wood a marvelous and ultimate renewable resource. As human populations and their resource needs increase there is a critical responsibility to learn how to sustainably manage our natural resources for everybody’s benefit while also protecting the inherent natural components that make landscapes and their wild inhabitants special.”
     Education: 1996 PhD University of Idaho in Forest and Range Ecophysiology; 1987 M.S. University of Idaho in Silviculture and Forest Protection; 1984 B.S. Michigan State University in Forestry; 1980-81 Exchange Student to The University of Freiburg, Germany. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/12.

Joel Kotkin is described by the New York Times as “America’s uber-geographer,” and is an internationally-recognized authority on global, economic, political and social trends. He is the Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange, California and Executive Director of the Houston-based Center for Opportunity Urbanism (opportunityurbanism.org). He is Senior Advisor to the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute. He is Executive Editor of the widely read website www.newgeography.com. A regular contributor to the City Journal, Daily Beast and Real Clear Politics, he also writes a weekly column for Digital First Media, which owns numerous daily newspapers in the greater Los Angeles area. Mr. Kotkin is the author of seven previously published books, including the widely praised THE NEW CLASS CONFLICT which describes the changing dynamics of class in America. He authored THE HUMAN CITY: Urbanism for the Rest of Us in 2016 and co-edited, with MIT’s Alan Berger, the 2018 collection INFINITE SUBURBIA.
Over the past decade, Mr. Kotkin has completed studies focusing on several major cities, including a worldwide study for the UK-based Legatum Institute on the future of London, Mumbai and Mexico City, and in 2010 completed an international study on “the new world order,” also for Legatum, that traced trans-national ethnic networks, particularly in East Asia. Source: joelkotkin.com 10/19.

Douglas R. Kruse is the Atlantic Regional Director of Development for Pacific Legal Foundation, a national nonprofit organization that litigates on behalf of property rights, free enterprise, and limited government. He also serves on the Palm Beach Advisory Board for the James Madison Institute, a Florida-based public policy research organization. Active in his community, Doug is president of his congregation and vice chairman of his city’s Education Advisory Board. He earned his bachelor’s degree in political science and master’s degree in communication from the University at Albany, New York. Doug lives in Parkland, Florida, with his wife and two sons. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/16.

Kenneth Kuhn lives in Vestavia, Alabama and is an electronics design engineer and is also on the adjunct faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His website has a number of articles concerning his personal interests in economics, investing, and taxes. He believes in the Libertarian philosophy of only government that is necessary. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/11.

John S. Kush is a Research Fellow for the Auburn University School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences and serves as Director of the Longleaf Pine Stand Dynamics Laboratory. He received a BS degree in Forest Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1980 and his MS and PhD in Forest Ecology from Auburn University in 1986 and 2002, respectively. He has been involved in longleaf pine research since 1984. His major areas of interest are longleaf pine stand dynamics and fire and restoration ecology. Among the projects he has been involved with are: the 30-year, 35-year, and 40-year inventory of longleaf pine growth and yield plots; factors affecting the growth, yield, and wood quality of longleaf pine; carbon sequestration and longleaf pine ecosystems; re-introduction of fire into a fire suppressed longleaf pine ecosystem; relationships among longleaf pine seedlings, sapling mortality, recruitment, growth and fire on sandhills sites and uneven-aged management of longleaf pine at Eglin Air Force Base; longleaf pine restoration and state and condition of montane longleaf ecosystems with emphasis on old-growth longleaf pine stands at Fort McClellan Army Base; plant community response to season of burn in natural longleaf pine stands; pine straw and pole production in longleaf pine stands; productivity of longleaf pine in relation to competition and climatic factors; longleaf pine bibliography; several projects associated with the restoration of the Flomaton Natural Area, an old-growth longleaf pine stand in south Alabama; and response of planted pines to various cultural treatments. He has authored or co-authored more than 80 papers dealing with longleaf pine research. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/09.

Banks C. Ladd has practiced law in Mobile since 1993. He obtained his B.A. degree from Washington & Lee University in 1989 and his law degree from the University of Alabama in 1993. He has the highest peer review rating (AV) for professional excellence from legal directory of Martindale-Hubbell. Banks is licensed to practice law in Alabama and Mississippi. Banks is also a member of the Alabama State Bar Elder Law Section and ElderCounsel. Source: Personal Résumé, 2/19.

Billy Laechelt attended Auburn University and Jefferson State Junior College with an emphasis on business management. For nearly 10 years while working for United Parcel Service and Asplundh Company, Billy worked part-time for the Alabama Forest Owners Association. Billy set up the association's bookkeeping system and handles all payroll responsibilities. In 2007, he came to work full time for the association and is now the Business and Technical Manager. Billy is in charge of all newsletter and web advertising, web design, calendar of events maintenance, payroll and accounting. Billy is married to Tara and has two children, Caleb, 10, and Brinley, 3. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/15.

Lee Laechelt received a B. S. degree in Forest Management from the University of Illinois in 1963. His first professional job was with Southern Timber Management Service, Inc. (now Resource Management Service LLC). His early work included timber cruising, timber sales, and writing management plans. After gaining experience, Lee worked on large timber inventories (100,000 acres+) using custom flown aerial photography and ground truth samples. In 1972 he began work with the Alabama Forestry Commission as an Urban Forester and later as a Forest Management Specialist. In 1981 Lee and several other landowners founded the Alabama Forest Owners' Association. In 1995, Lee became the association's Executive Vice President. Lee is married to the former Eyvon Singer of Baker, Montana. They have one son, Billy, and two grandchildren, Caleb, 10, and Brinley, 3. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/15.

Benjamin Garrison Lancaster serves as the Program Manager for multiple divisions of Outdoor Underwriters, Inc., as well as, assisting with the overall management of the organization. Ben works with our clients and insurance markets to identify various exposures and then assists in creating a customized insurance program to best suit their needs. Ben graduated from Clemson University’s School of Agricultural, Forest, and Environmental Sciences with a concentration in Conservation Biology and a minor in Wildlife Biology. Ben was recruited by an independent insurance agency after graduation and managed that agency for six years. The agency primarily focused on property and casualty insurance serving both personal and commercial lines clients. His experience with the retail insurance agency combined with his educational background help bring added value to the clients of Outdoor Underwriters. Ben and Dr. Ed Wilson have a working relationship that dates back several years. Ben had multiple clients in his agency express a specific outdoor insurance need and he found Outdoor Underwriters to be the ideal marketplace. Ben made the decision to join Outdoor Underwriters to merge his educational background, passion for the outdoors, along with his desire to offer his clients the best possible outdoor insurance products and services. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/15.

Bobby L. Lanford, Associate Professor of Timber Harvesting and Extension Timber Harvesting Specialist, School of Forestry, Auburn University.   Dr. Lanford received a BS and MS from Clemson University and Ph.D. from SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry.  Bobby has been employed by International Paper Company, Weyerhaeuser Company, and the American Pulpwood Association. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses and conducts research on the economics and silvicultural effectiveness on plantation thinning. Source: The University of Georgia Continuing Education Course Description, 4/99 & Préceda Education & Training Course Description, 3/00.

Amanda Hamsley Lang is a Partner and, as COO and VP of Client Services, leads all of Forisk’s operating, project management and Forisk Subscriber Support activities. She leads Forisk’s capital investment research program, and she teaches workshops and delivers presentations related to tracking and evaluating wood markets and forest industry capacity. Prior to working with Forisk, she interned with International Paper and conducted award-winning forestry operations research at the University of Georgia under Dr. Dale Greene. In 2016, she was named one of the UGA Alumni Association “Forty Under Forty”, and was named the Warnell “Young Alumni of the Year.” She serves on the Georgia Forestry Association Board of Directors. Ms. Lang received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Forest Resources from the University of Georgia. Source: Personal Resume 11/20.

Thomas K. Lang graduated from Auburn School of Forestry in 1980 and has been a registered forester in Alabama since 1982. In Tom’s 36-year forestry career, he has worked for Resource Management Service for six years as a timber cruiser and land manager in Louisiana, served a 25-year stint with the Alabama Forestry Commission working with forest landowners in west central Alabama, and worked for a central Alabama timber dealer for two years. Tom has most recently been the owner of Lang Forestry Consultants since February 2013, based in Selma Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/16.

Bruce S. Lanier is Vice President of McKinley & Lanier Forest Resources, Inc., a forestry consulting firm based in Northport, Alabama. He received a B. S. in Forest Resources from the University of Georgia and has attended numerous continuing education courses including Management of Existing Hardwood Stands, Natural Regeneration of Southern Pine, and Forestry Investment Analysis Workshop. Bruce is a licensed forester in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/02.

David Lansky, Ph.D., a senior associate of the Family Business Consulting Group, Inc. has played a key role in the growth and transformation of dozens of family businesses. With his sincere dedication to the success of his clients, David has helped facilitate growth in families, repair difficult relationships, and turn stagnant companies into thriving organizations.
     A clinical psychologist and family therapist by training, David spent over 15 years as a managing partner in a clinical psychology practice, where he observed the impact that personal relationships, family dynamics, and communication obstacles can have on financial families’ business operations and planning. Today, his clients include entrepreneurs, owners of privately held firms, and financial families who want to enhance their communication, develop leaders and improve their ability to collaborate and work well together.
     A graduate of Montreal’s McGill University, David obtained his Master’s and Doctoral degrees in clinical psychology from Rutgers University. He was one of the first psychologists in Illinois to be licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist and was certified as a Family Therapy Supervisor by the National Association of Marital and Family Therapy. He has served as clinical faculty member and supervisor at Northwestern University’s Family Institute and taught marital and family therapy at the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Chicago. David is a member of the Family Firm Institute (FFI) and is coordinator of FFI’s Midwest Study Group, the longest standing study group affiliated with FFI.
     David is a nationally recognized expert on the psychology and family dynamics of wealth and business. He has conducted scores of seminars and workshops on these topics across the U.S., for business owners, their families and their advisors. David writes a regular column in the Journal of Practical Estate Planning on “Money and Meaning” which is read widely by trusts and estates attorneys, financial planners, and other advisors to financial families.
     David is married, lives in Highland Park, Illinois and has three adult children. Source: www.efamilybusiness.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=ConsultantDetails&ConsultantID=20, 5/13.

L. Keville Larson is Chairman of Larson & McGowin, Inc. a forestry consulting firm with offices in several Southern States and headquartered in Mobile, Alabama. He has been associated with the firm since 1961. He holds a BA from Stanford University and a Master of Forestry from Yale University. He is a registered forester in several states and has served as an officer and board member for a number of forestry organizations including the Association of Consulting Foresters, Forest Landowners Association, Alabama Forestry Association and Forest Industries Committee for Timber Valuation and Taxation. In 2000 he was the F. K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He is a Fellow of the Society of American Foresters and a SAF Certified Forester and has been a member of the Board of Forest History Society since 2003. Keville is married and has two children who are sixth generation Alabama landowners. He has been an advocate for private owners and a long time proponent of prescribed burning and management of natural stands, and currently works on several longleaf tracts in South Alabama and Mississippi for his family. He has served with a number of community and arts organizations in Mobile, Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/16.

Matt Laschet is a biologist who first joined the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2009 at the Panama City Field Office. Two years later, he joined the Alabama Field Office where he primarily works with amphibians like the Red-Hills salamander, gopher frog and Black Warrior waterdog. Matt received his undergraduate degree at Florida State University and Georgia Regents University specializing in Biology/Ecology, and his masters degree at Florida State University specializing in Biological Oceanography. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/15.

Stephanie Laseter is a Biological Scientist with the USDA, Southern Research Station (SRS), Center for Integrated Forest Science (CIFS). She is located in Franklin, North Carolina. Prior to joining the CIFS team, she served as the Hydrologist and Data Manager at the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory. In addition to managing the core, long-term climate and streamflow network, Stephanie was also actively involved with staff scientists on research projects that included water quality responses to prescribed fire, sediment and nutrient loads; water quantity responses to species loss, disturbance and climate change. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/16.

Terry M. Lathan is a former public school teacher and Alabama and American political activist. She has served as the Chair of the Alabama Republican Party since February 2015.
     She worked as a public school teacher in Mobile, Alabama. She served on the Board of Directors of the Boys and Girls Club of Greater South Alabama. In 2012, she was named the Alabama Boys and Girls Club Board Member of the Year (out of 750 statewide members.)
     Terry has served in the Alabama Republican Party since the 1990s.She was elected Chairman of the Alabama Republican Party in February 2015 and is one of only 8 women State Chairs on the Republican National Committee Terry has been a member of the Alabama Republican Executive Committee for 25 years and has attended approximately 50 ALGOPEC meetings.
     Terry is the former Chairman of the Mobile County Republican Executive Committee and has been a member for over 25 years. She served in 8 leadership positions in the Mobile County Republican Party.
     Terry has recruited and trained over 300 Poll Watchers for the Republican Party and GOP candidates and has attended 6 Republican National Conventions. She was a member of the 2012 Alabama College of Electors for Mitt Romney.
     In 2008, Terry received the Mobile County Republican Party Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2004, the Alabama Republican of the Year award was given to Terry and her husband, Jerry Lathan. In 2000 and 2004, Terry was the Mobile County Chair for George W. Bush Presidential campaigns.
     She was elected as Chair of the Alabama Republican Party on February 21, 2015, replacing Bill Armistead, who did not seek reelection.
     Terry has over 15,000 volunteer hours to the Republican Party.
     She is pro-life and against same-sex marriage. In 2013, she endorsed a bill which would have added more regulations and stumbling blocks to build abortion clinics. Terry is a former Pro-Life counselor at SavALife, Mobile, Alabama. She is also a member of the National Rifle Association.
     She is married to Jerry Lathan, the former Finance Chair of the Alabama Republican Party. They have a son, Adam, and a daughter, Brittany. They attend Christ United Methodist Church.
     Terry is a graduate of Auburn University, Montgomery. She is a member of the Class of 2013 of Leadership Mobile. Terry is a former member of the Alabama Women’s Commission and the 2011 Alabama State Mathematics Textbook Committee, appointed by Governor Robert Bentley. She also is a former member of the Advisory Board to the Alabama Board of Registrars, appointed by Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, John McMillan. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Lathan, 4/17.

Norman Latona is owner and president of Southeastern Pond Management, a leader in lake and pond management services. An avid outdoorsman, career pursuits led Norman to Auburn University, where he studied Fisheries Science. Encouragement from one of his fisheries professors led him to start Southeastern Pond Management in 1989. The company now employs around 50 and staffs four locations in the southeastern United States, providing fisheries consulting and service to lake and pond owners, including privately-owned properties, municipalities, home-owner groups, golf courses, and office parks. Southeastern Pond Management services over 30,000 lakes and ponds in states as far from Alabama as Texas and the Carolinas. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/22.

Donald Leal is a senior associate with PERC (Political Economy Research Center, Bozeman, Montana) where he has been carrying out research in natural resource and environmental issues since 1985. He is coauthor with Terry L. Anderson of Free Market Environmentalism, Revised Edition, and Enviro-Capitalists: Doing Good While Doing Well, and has written numerous articles on such topics as privatizing ocean fisheries, water marketing for fish and wildlife, creating self-sustaining parks, and applying the trust concept to public lands. His current projects include assessing the impact of individual transferable quota programs in fishery management throughout the world and co-editing a book documenting cases where government programs harm the environment. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/01.

Gregory L. Leatherbury, Jr., Esq., is a partner in the Foley office of Hand Arendall, LLC. Practicing law in Alabama since 1973, he is a graduate of the University of Alabama, and has a Masters of Law degree in Taxation from New York University. Past chairman of the Tax section for the Alabama State Bar, and the U of A Federal Tax Clinic, Greg's areas of expertise include: Estate and gift tax, probate, corporate and real estate. His unique style of teaching is designed to make you think and act upon your own situation. Greg has an insight for family business and taxation issues that is unparalleled in the timber industry. He represents many large-scale timberland owners throughout the Southeast. Source: Saving the Family Tree brochure, 7/00.

Dennis LeBleu graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Forest Management from the University of Florida in 1975. For almost twenty years, he was the North District Manager of F & W Forestry Services, Inc. of Phenix City, Alabama, where in 1993 he became Branch Manager. He is a Registered Forester in Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia, where he is also a Certified Real Estate Appraiser. He also has a Real Estate Broker License in Alabama. LeBleu is a member of the Society of American Foresters, past-President of the Flint River Group; member of the Association of Consulting Foresters of America, Inc. and Chair of the Alabama Chapter of the ACF; member of the Alabama Forest Owners Association; Pine Mountain and War Eagle Chapters of the Society of American Foresters; Alabama Forestry Association; Alabama Forestry Commission’s State Treasure Forests Commission; Past District Tree Farm Chairman of West Georgia; Past President of the Kiwanis Club of Greater Columbus; Phenix City Rotary Club; and Phenix City Chamber of Commerce. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/04.

Kelly LeCouvie is a senior consultant with The Family Business consulting Group, and works primarily in two areas of governance: corporate governance, which includes the development and assessment of corporate boards; and family governance, which includes the development of structures within the family that facilitate effective and sustainable decision making across generations. She has worked with clients in multiple industries based in North and South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Caribbean.
     Kelly has worked in an advisory capacity with her family’s 60 year-old logistics company, and has personally experienced the joys and challenges of family members working together. She works with her mother, and three of her four brothers. Prior to returning to school to obtain her PhD, she founded and managed a securities business in Toronto for several years.
     As a faculty member at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Kelly teaches strategic management, entrepreneurship and organization behavior. She has been nominated for (and won) several teaching excellence awards over the last 12 years. She is the author and co-author of two books: one on organization behavior and another on women in family businesses. Kelly regularly speaks at conferences to a wide variety of audiences on corporate and family governance structures, family policy development, management of organizational change, and strategic leadership.
     Kelly sits on a number of business boards, and has been involved as a board member and fundraiser for Autism Ontario over the last 20 years.
     Kelly received an undergraduate degree in Economics, an MBA in finance, and a PhD in Organization Behavior. She and her husband live in Toronto Canada, enjoy travelling and spending time with family. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/14.

Ben Lee is a Fisheries Biologist for Southeastern Pond Management. Ben has a bachelor's degree in Biology from the University of Montevallo and has worked for Southeastern Pond Management since 2009. His daily tasks at Southeastern Pond Management include conducting electrofishing evaluations for customers and making recommendations to accomplish the long term goals set for their ponds and lakes. Ben also writes management plans and follows up with customers to help ensure their long term goals are met. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/22.

Eben Lehman is Technical Archivist at the Forest History Society (FHS) in Durham, NC. He received his M.S. in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His work at FHS includes managing the digitization and cataloging of the large historic photograph collection. His previous archival work includes several years with the Missouri State Archives. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/08.

John Leidner was born in the Rio Grande Valley near the Mexican border in South Texas. It is there that he grew up on a small citrus, crop, and cattle farm. He attended parochial and public schools in Mission, Texas, and in 1970 served as State Vice President for the Texas FFA Association. In 1974, John graduated from Texas A&AMPM with a degree in agricultural journalism and was named the Outstanding Journalism Graduate, an award presented to him by The Society of Professional Journalists. He also received an M.S. degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from Iowa State University in 1976. In 1974 and 1975, he worked as a writer for the Iowa Cooperative Extension Service. In December of 1975, John joined Progressive Farmer in Birmingham, Alabama, as an assistant editor for the Southeast regional edition. In 1978 he was promoted to Southeast Regional Editor, and in March of 1979 he opened a new regional editorial office in Tifton, Georgia. Since then, John has received many writing awards. His most recent was an Honorable Mention presented to him in 1992 by the Conservation Technology Information Center with support from the Soil and Water Conservation Society. He also received the 1994 Press Award presented by the South Carolina Soybean Association. John coordinates Progressive Farmer's coverage of the peanut industry and the Sunbelt Agricultural Exposition farm show. Source: Progressive Farmer, 7/00.

Liam E. Leightley is the head of the Department of Forest Products at Mississippi State's College of Forest Resources and Wildlife Research Center. He received his B.S. from the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom then received his Ph.D. in 1977 from the University of Portsmouth, also in the United Kingdom. Dr. Leightley's research interests include marketing, technology transfer, strategic planning and wood protection. Source: MSU Faculty/Staff bio, 1/04.

Sara A. Leiman has been the primary timber and forest manager for and part owner of her family (now) limited liability company since 1978. The 3-generation family has 3,200 acres in 3 counties in the central Coast Range of Oregon. They are working to achieve a sustained flow of forest products from their lands. She is active in the Oregon Small Woodlands Association and currently serves on the Board of the Oregon Forest Resources Institute. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/05.

Theodor D. Leininger is a Research Plant Pathologist and Project Leader for the US Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Center for Bottomland Hardwoods Research in Stoneville, Mississippi, where he has studied the production, protection and sustainable management of bottomland hardwoods for more than 20 years. In addition to his research interest in developing biofuels feedstock crop production systems for eastern cottonwood and black willow, Ted and his cooperators are developing disease resistance in American sycamore to be grown in plantations for pulpwood and biofuels feedstocks. Ted has helped to refine and promote the use of an eastern cottonwood-oak interplanting method developed by his Center to the point where the method has been used in the past 5 years to plant more than 3 million hardwood trees on more than 5,000 acres of formerly unproductive agricultural land in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/13.

Gary D. Lemme serves as the Director of the Alabama Cooperative Extension System with offices in every county in Alabama. He is an experienced academic with a Ph. D. in soil science from the University of Nebraska. He came to Alabama 5 years ago after progressively more important administrative positions at the University of Hawaii, University of Minnesota, Michigan State University and South Dakota State University. Dr. Lemme has conducted research and Extension programs during his career addressing the management of agricultural and forested lands. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/17.

Sam Lemmon is President of Destructive Furbearer Control, LLC., a professional predator management company that has been operating in the South Georgia, North Florida area for the past three years. DFC has conducted predator management services on over thirty plantations in the South Georgia, North Florida area. DFC's primary goals have been the increase of game species on quail plantations through the use of large scale predator management. DFC also conducts beaver management projects, released waterfowl protection projects, wild hog control, and some projects dealing with agricultural loss due to predators. DFC works in cooperation with a number of different private landowners as well as their game managers, consultants, and state fish and game officials. DFC works in cooperation with some well known and respected institutions to provide responsible, and effective predator management to their constituents. DFC currently consists of four full time trappers that conduct predator management activities year round. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/04.

Susan L. LeVan-Green began her career with the Forest Service at the Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) in Madison, Wisconsin, and has worked for the Forest Service for 21 years. During that time, she has held positions in both Research and State & Private Forestry. Susan has a B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin. She has been a scientist in the field of fire, worked in the Forest Service Washington Office Research staff handling budget coordination and policy, and as the Assistant Director for Wood Products Research at the FPL. It was in this capacity that Susan became actively engaged with National Forest System issues of overstocked stands of small-diameter material. Since 1992, Susan has lead FPL’s active and notable program on small-diameter timber. During this time, she developed first-hand knowledge about issues related to both economic diversification of forestry-dependent rural communities and the need to obtain the highest economic value for thinning material to offset forest management costs. To that end, she has spent the past 10 years helping small, forestry-dependent businesses create value-added forest products from small-diameter and underutilized timber. In 1999, Susan became the Program Manager of the S&PF, Technology Marketing Program, at FPL to concentrate her efforts on the small-diameter issue. She has successfully helped numerous rural communities create forest products businesses utilizing small-diameter material. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/02.

Neil S. Levinbook is Vice President of Steel in the Air, Inc., a company that provides consulting services to landowners, both public and private involving any and all issues associated with cell tower leases including lease negotiation, re-negotiation, landlord tenant disputes, as well as general lease administration.  Prior to working for Steel in the Air, Neil was an attorney with Sprint/Nextel Corporation for over four and a half years where he was responsible for overseeing the Northeast area Legal Department as well as outside counsel for all aspects of the negotiation and drafting of all commercial leases, vendor service contracts and litigation.  In addition, he provided counsel and strategy to internal business clients and other departments relating to facility siting, site acquisition, and land use.  Neil also provided legal support on other various initiatives including NASCAR sponsorship, large-scale municipal deployments, distributed antenna systems and other related services.  Prior to his tenure at Sprint/Nextel, he held a similar position as the Lead Attorney for the Eastern Region at Metricom, Inc. Neil’s education includes a Bachelor of Art in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and a Juris Doctorate from Hofstra University in New York.

James N. Levitt is director of the Program on Conservation Innovation at the Harvard Forest, Harvard University, and a research fellow at the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He has written and lectured widely on how communications and transportation networks have enabled dramatic shifts in land use over the course of American history, and how a new generation of networks - the Internet and express delivery systems - is enabling further changes in how and where Americans live, work, trade, learn, play, and interact with nature. Prior to coming to the university, Levitt developed corporate strategy related to the emergence of the Internet and electronic commerce for Fortune 50 sized companies as a Principal at GeoPartners Research, Inc. He is active as a Director of several environmental organizations, including the Massachusetts Audubon Society and the Quebec-Labrador Foundation/Atlantic Center for the Environment. Levitt is a graduate of Yale College and the Yale School of Management. Source: The Program On Conservation Innovation At The Harvard Forest, http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/research/pci/About.htm.

Dr. Yanshu Li is an Assistant Professor of Forest Taxation and Economics at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. She received her Ph.D. in Forest Economics from Auburn University and M.S. in Agricultural Economics from Purdue University. She worked for the Texas Forest Service as a Forest Economist from 2007 to 2012 and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations as a Forestry Officer in Policy and Economics from 2013 to 2016. In her current position, she is responsible for conducting economic analysis related to forests and providing forest tax education to foresters, landowners, loggers, and tax professionals. Meanwhile, she is also involved in forest policy analysis at the state, national, and international levels. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/21

William J. Libby is a senior associate with Zobel Forestry Associates of Raleigh, North Carolina. Previously, he served as a professor at the University of California-Berkeley from 1961 until 1994, with joint appointments in the Genetics, Forestry, and Conservation of Natural Resources departments. He has a B.S. in forestry from the University of Michigan and an M.S. and Ph.D. in tree physiology and population genetics from Berkeley, and he spent a postdoctoral year in the Genetics and Forestry departments at North Carolina State University. He has worked in forests in most states of the United States, and in Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, China, Australia, Fiji, and in many countries in Europe. During 1989-2002, he spent about half time in New Zealand, mostly at the Centre for Advanced Forest Biotechnology. He has taught courses at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, the University of Washington, the Swedish Agricultural University, and the University of Zagreb in Croatia. Source: R. Burdon & W. Libby, Genetically Modified Forests: From Stone Age to Modern Biotechnology (2006).

Jon Lindsay graduated with a forestry degree from The University of Arkansas in 1992. He works for Forest Management, Inc. of Savannah, TN and is a registered forester in Alabama. Jon is a long-time member of the Tennessee Forestry Association and has chaired the Tennessee Tree Farm Committee. He has assisted many private landowners with timber sales and reforestation projects, specializing in selective timber marking and custom harvests, pine and hardwood tree planting, and chemical site prep and release. Source: Personal Résumés, 10/09.

Bruce Lindsey:  Based out of Charlotte, NC, Bruce is a 20+ year veteran of the Wood Products Industry. His multi-faceted career experience has included architectural design, structural design and various roles within the engineered wood products industry including, marketing, product management, distribution, consulting and sales. He is a leading consultant in 4 and 5 story wood framed construction and has an extensive knowledge in the application and use of Engineered Wood Products. As the Southeast Regional Director for the Wood Products Council, Bruce serves as a Wood Products Industry spokesperson and educator, dedicated to growing the knowledge and use of structural wood products in non-residential construction through a variety of forums and seminars reaching over 1,000 design professionals annually. Bruce is one of the region’s current leading resources on the implementation and sustainability of wood products, working with local/state government, professional associations, and industry to promote the environmental and economic benefits of wood construction. Source: Personal Résumés, 1/14.

Jody Lipford is an associate professor of economics at Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina. He received his bachelor's degree in economics from Francis Marion College and his master's and Ph.D. degrees from Clemson University. Lipford wrote this essay while he served as a visiting scholar with PERC. A previous paper, "Jocassee Gorges - Private Vice or Public Virtue?" by Lipford, Jerry Slice, and Bruce Yandle was published by PERC in 2002 as a research study. Source: Property & Environment Research Center website, 3/2004.

Doug Link is retired after 41+ years in the Forest Products Industry and is currently self-employed as a Consulting Forester under the name Forest Scape. He specializes in timber sales and landscapes. Doug has been active in the Tree Farm program since 1965 and is now serving his 5th year as Chairman of the program. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/03.

Jessica Little is a native of Mobile. She graduated from Birmingham-Southern College in 1990. Jessica started working with Larson & McGowin Forest Managers and Consultants LLC in 1994. She is manager of the Ad Valorem Tax Department responsible for managing property tax reporting and payment of approximately $15  million in property taxes for multiple clients covering nine million acres in 20 states. This includes ensuring tax records are consistent with client's ownership. She is also a licensed real estate broker for Larson & McGowin Properties, LLC, handling sales of timberland. Jessica has been involved with the Mobile County Landowners Association, the Leadership Mobile Class of 1998, the Rotary Club of Mobile, the Mobile Association of Realtors, the Forest Landowners Association, and Dumas Wesley Community Center. Jessica enjoys most being the mom of two daughters, Catherine and Lillian. Source: Personal Résumé, 10/21.

Graeme Lockaby, Professor of Forest Soils, School of Forestry, Auburn University. Dr. Lockaby teaches advanced forest soils and research methods. His research interests include: Biogeochemistry of floodplain ecosystems; Decomposition and nutrient circulation in temperate and tropical forests; and Harvesting impacts on forest soil ecology. He received BS and MS degrees in Forestry from Clemson University and a Ph.D. in Agronomy from Mississippi State University. Source: Auburn University, Faculty of the School of Forestry, 7/98.

Dr. Brian Roy Lockhart is currently a Research Forester with the U.S. Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Center for Bottomland Hardwoods Research at Stoneville, Mississippi. Before that Dr. Lockhart was a faculty member at the School of Forest Resources, University of Arkansas - Monticello, and a faculty member at the School of Renewable Natural Resources, Louisiana State University. He graduated from Gentry High School, Gentry, Arkansas, received a B.S. in Forestry from the University of Arkansas - Monticello, a M.F.S. at Yale University (School of Forestry and Environmental Studies), and a Ph.D. Forestry at Mississippi State University (major professor Dr. John Hodges). His research interests include: ecology, silviculture, and management of southern bottomland hardwoods with an emphasis on natural regeneration and stand development. Source: Personal Résumés, 4/08.

Merdith C. Lockwood. Cam graduated from California State University, Sacramento with a BA in Recreation Management and Administration. In 1976 he graduated from CSU Chico with a masters degree in Recreation Planning and Design. He has worked for the past 34 years in a number of Federal Agencies including: Bureau of Outdoor Recreation, Heritage Conservation, Recreation Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management and for the past fifteen years for the U.S. Forest Service. Cam has always worked in the field of recreation, first as an Outdoor Recreation Planner, Field Ranger and trail crew leader all the way to the State Outdoor Recreation Planner for the BLM in California. Cam is currently the Unit Leader of a National Enterprise Team called “Trails Unlimited” an internal business within the Forest Service. In Cam’s 34 years he has concentrated his efforts in planning, layout & design, construction, maintenance and management of a full spectrum of trail systems. During his time with the BLM and Forest Service he has concentrated on developing designs and techniques that are in concert with resource protection and recreational values for trails.
     Cam has the distinction of being the actual person who completed the last 7½ mile stretch of the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail and drove the “Golden Spike” at the completion ceremony. He has also received many accolades from the trails community for developing new techniques and equipment for trails. During his tenure with the BLM Cam received awards for “Trail Manager of the Year” as well as being placed on the National OHV trails coordination group. During the 25th anniversary of the California Department of Parks and Recreation the OHMVR Division, Cam was awarded the OHV Trail Manager of the year. Cam is one of the original members of the US Forest Service “OHV Core Group” that identified the original concerns of the OHV managers on a national basis back in the eighties.
     During his 18 years with the Forest Service Cam has had the designation of “Master Performer” for trails both non-motorized as well as motorized. Most recently he has been active with the federal leadership for the “National Trails Training Partnership” and an instructor for the National Trails Training Core Group. Cam has published several documents on trail management such as the “Trails 2000” , ATV training, Modular Retaining Walls, Revised the AMA’s Joe Wernix OHV Planning, Layout and Design, Mechanized Trail Equipment Catalog, Mechanized Trail Construction Equipment Video and Trail Grading and Grooming Equipment.
     Cam and his team has over the past ten years developed and implemented the Forest Service & Bureau of Land Management’s Trail Tractor Training & Certification program on a national basis and is currently providing eight other in-depth training modules on a national basis. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/09.

Scott Lockyear is Senior National Director of WoodWorks, where he has held a number of roles since the program’s inception. Prior to joining WoodWorks, he managed technical support for Weyerhaeuser’s Southeast Division. Scott has been involved in codes and standards development with the American Wood Council—for example, as lead engineer in the development of the 2001 Wood Frame Construction Manual and implementation of a performance-based code for use in Taiwan. He is an associate member of the ASCE 7 wind and main committees, and has been published in Structure, Wood Design Focus and the Building Safety Journal. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/17.

Dr. Edward F. Loewenstein earned a BS in Forest Resources Management from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, a MS in Forest Biology from Auburn University, and a Ph.D. in Silviculture from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He spent six years as a Research Forester with the US Forest Service, North Central Research Station in Columbia, MO. He returned to Auburn University in 2002 to join the faculty in the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences as an Assistant Professor of Silviculture. His research interests include uneven-aged silvicultural systems, hardwood silviculture, canopy dynamics, temporal effects of thinning on light in the understory, and stand stocking and growing space allocation. He has been a member of the Society of American Foresters since 1985. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/07.

Nancy J. Loewenstein is a Research Fellow at the Auburn University School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences and serves as an invasive plant specialist with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System. In addition to focusing on invasive plant identification, ecology and control, she teaches Dendrology. Nancy holds a PhD in Tree Physiological Ecology from the University of Missouri, a MS in Forest Biology from Virginia Tech and a BS in Forest Management from Auburn University. She is currently serving as the Executive Director of the Alabama Invasive Plant Council, and Secretary of the National Association of Invasive Plant Council’s. She is also serving on a national task group developing an ASTM standard for invasive plant listing. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/15.

John Dozier Loflin is a Consulting Forester based in Andalusia, Alabama. John is a 1976 graduate of Auburn University in Forest Management, an Alabama Registered Forester and a Certified Prescribed Burn Manager. Prior to opening Loflin Forest Management 10 years ago, he worked as a procurement forester for a pole mill and pine sawmill for 30 years. John is a timberland owner and the proud poppa of a 30 year old loblolly pine plantation, a 15 year old longleaf plantation, a 3 year old longleaf plantation, and a loblolly plantation due in December. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/15.

Stephen Logan is forest certification and technology manager with F&W Forestry Services, one of the nation’s oldest and largest forest management and consulting firms. Stephen’s experience includes 20 years in both forest operations and technical services. He spent over 10 years managing F&W’s forest inventory department, one of the Southern US’s largest inventory providers averaging over 40,000 samples per year, with individual projects exceeding 500,000 acres. Before this, he worked with the Plantation Management Research Cooperative (PMRC), specializing in modeling southern pine growth and yield systems and silvicultural treatment responses.
     Stephen earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Forestry and a Master of Science degree in Forest Biometrics from the University of Georgia. He is a register forester in Georgia and chair of the Georgia chapter of the Association of Consulting Foresters. Stephen is also on the academic advisory committee for Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. Source: Personal Résumé, 2/19.

Tim Logozzo, Sr. took the necessary training in 2002, and then he and his wife, Karla, started Wild Fire Services, Inc., in 2003. The company started with one type 2 hand crew the first year, and over the next 11 years, grew to two type 2 hand crews, two wild land fire engines, a shower unit, overhead tender filler pumping station and a tree chipper. All their work is done under U.S. Forest Service Region 6 Cooperators Agreements. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/14.

Robert Loper is a native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama and owns a 502 acre timber property in Greene County. While being employed by an international chemical firm, his interests in efficiently managing the timber on the family land have led him to attend numerous seminars and locate many sources of forestry and wildlife information on the Internet. He is currently a member of the Tuscaloosa County Forestry Planning Committee and has given two presentations in 2002 on Forest Mapping and Uses for Global Positioning Systems for the Individual Landowner. Robert will give another presentation on the GPS and Forest Mapping in Tuscaloosa in June or July. Robert is also working with mapping programs such as Maptech Terrain Navigator and Softree Terrain Tools to better manage the family land. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/02.

Richard Louv a journalist and author of eight books about the connections between family, nature and community. His newest book is The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder (Algonquin), which offers a new vision of the future, in which our lives are as immersed in nature as they are in technology. This future, available to all of us right now, offers better psychological, physical and spiritual health for people of every age.
     Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder (Algonquin), translated into 10 languages and published in 15 countries, has stimulated an international conversation about the relationship between children and nature. Louv is also the founding chairman of the Children & Nature Network at www.childrenandnature.org, an organization helping build the movement to connect today's children and future generations to the natural world. Louv coined the term Nature-Deficit Disorder™ which has become the defining phrase of this important issue.
     In 2008, he was awarded the Audubon Medal, presented by the National Audubon Society. Prior recipients have included Rachel Carson, E. O. Wilson and President Jimmy Carter. Louv is also the recipient of the Cox Award for 2007, Clemson University's highest honor, for "sustained achievement in public service" and has been a Clemson visiting professor. Among other awards, Louv is the recipient of the 2008 San Diego Zoological Society Conservation Medal, the 2008 George B. Rabb Conservation Medal from the Chicago Zoological Society, and the 2009 International Making Cities Livable Jane Jacobs Award. He also serves as Honorary Co-chairman, with artist Robert Bateman, of Canada's national Children and Nature Alliance.
     Louv has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Times of London, and other major publications. He has appeared on many national TV shows, including NBC's Today Show and Nightly News, CBS Evening News, ABC's Good Morning America, and NPR's Morning Edition, Fresh Air, and Talk of the Nation. Between 1984 and 2007 he was a columnist for The San Diego Union-Tribune and has been a columnist and member of the editorial advisory board for Parents magazine. Louv was an advisor to the Ford Foundation's Leadership for a Changing World award program. He serves on the board of directors of ecoAmerica and is a member of the Citistates Group. He has appeared before the Domestic Policy Council in the White House as well as at major governmental and professional conferences, nationally and internationally, most recently as keynote speaker at the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference. For more information, visit www.RichardLouv.com.
     He is married to Kathy Frederick Louv and the father of two young men, Jason, 29 and Matthew, 23. He would rather fish than write. Source: http://richardlouv.com/about/, 7/11.

Joshua D. Love is a Staff Forester with the Georgia Forestry Commission. Josh's work focuses on emerging markets for carbon sequestration and other ecosystem services, as well as his current work in examining financial opportunities of multiple value approaches to forest management. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/11.

Melisa V. Love was born in and raised near our Nation's Capital, Washington, DC. She enrolled in forestry school in spite of being told by one Dean, “You can attend school here, but women are un-employable as foresters.” Lisa graduated from Virginia Tech with a BS degree in Forest Resource Management in 1976, and immediately moved to Opelika, Alabama to work for 5 years as a procurement forester for Georgia Kraft Company. After taking off several years to care for her pre-school children, Love began a consulting business. In 1995 she received her MS degree in Forest Economics from Auburn University. Lisa has now worked as a forestry consultant for several decades serving forest owners throughout the Southeast. She has served terms on both the Alabama Board of Registration for Foresters and the Alabama Forestry Commission. Lisa is a member of the Association of Consulting Foresters, Past Chairman of the Alabama Chapter, and is also currently Vice Chairman of the Bradley-Murphy Trust. She has four grown children,  4 granddaughters and one grandson. Lisa enjoys visits with her grandchildren, leading women’s bible study, spending time outdoors, and having happy and satisfied forest landowners as clients. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/23.

Terry Reece Love was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and raised on Monte Sano Mountain outside Huntsville, Alabama. Terry grew up enjoying serious hunting, trapping, taxidermy, and long distance track. He worked college summers in Yellowstone National Park as a station attendant and did research one summer on Grizzly bear. After graduation from Auburn in Forest Management Terry began a career with Georgia-Pacific as a pine procurement forester. He later moved to Mead Containerboard where he managed a hardwood mill and a woodyard in both Georgia and Tennessee. Terry became Vice-President of Forestry Consultants, Inc. in 1999 and has enjoyed working closely with private landowners to obtain their specific goals. He has been teaching Hunter Safety for Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama since 1988 specializing in wildlife and wilderness skills. In 2008, he was named the Alabama Hunter Safety Instructor of the Year by The Alabama Wildlife Federation and served a term as their Regional Director. In 2012 he won the Society of American Forester’s Presidential Field Forester Award for Region 10, Southeastern US. Terry has run most major marathons in the eastern U.S. He has four children and two grandchildren, enjoys hunting vacations, and good work days in your woods. Source: Personal Résumé, 03/13.

Robert Mark Lowe graduated in 1986 with a Forest Engineering Degree from Auburn University. Mark is a registered forester in the state of Alabama. His professional work experience includes the following:
Sizemore and Sizemore – assisting in forest land appraisal and setting up timber sales.
o   Canal Wood – buying timber for a barging operation.
o   Rocky Creek Logging Company – running a large clearcutting operation and thinning operation.
o   Findley Timber Company – buying timber for a large company-owned logging crew and small logging contractors.
o   Union Camp / International Paper Co. – building roads & bridges on fee land and buying timber for a large paper mill, sawmill and plymill.
o   Kronospan – managing wood procurement.   Source: Personal Résumé, 2/09.

Jeremy Lowery grew up in and around forestry. In 2001 he graduated from Auburn University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Forestry and then worked four years in a family logging company. During those four years he gained experience in personnel management, production standards, boundary line painting, streamside management zone delineation, global positioning systems, and heavy equipment operation and maintenance; obtained a Commercial Drivers License; and drove log trucks and other 18 wheelers. From 2005 to the present he has been with the Alabama Forestry Commission as the BMP Coordinator. His responsibilities there include Best Management Practices (BMP) complaint remediation, random monitoring, training, and working with the Alabama Clean Water Partnerships. During this time he has also served on several committees with statewide implications. He resides in Greenville, Alabama, and enjoys spending time with his wife and three-year-old son. His avocations include hunting and other sports. Source: Personal Résumé, 09/07.

Jeffery N. Lucas is a seasoned professional land surveyor with over 27 years of surveying experience. Mr. Lucas has been in the surveying business since January 2, 1976. He obtained his first professional license as a registered land surveyor in Florida in 1984. Since that time he is now a registered/licensed surveyor in five southeastern states and a college graduate with a degree in business administration. He also holds a Juris Doctorate from the Birmingham School of Law. In addition to his work experience, Mr. Lucas has written many published articles on the subject of land surveying and leads continuing education seminars for land surveyors. From his home office in central Alabama, Mr. Lucas travels throughout the southeast performing surveying services for private and commercial clients. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/03.

April Lupardus is Conservation Programs Specialist with the Alabama Wildlife Federation. Working for a non-profit, April wears many hats. She helps local AWF chapters organize local projects including Wild Game Cook-Offs (http://www.alawild.org/wild_ga.htm). She is also Managing Editor of AWF's Alabama Wildlife magazine (http://www.alawild.org/archive.htm), manages AWF's website (http://www.alawild.org/), and coordinates several of AWF's conservation education programs. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/02.

Crystal Lupo is a Graduate Student at Auburn University working toward a PhD in Forestry. Her current research focuses on microenterprise opportunities for rural areas using small scale forest technologies, such as portable sawmills. She has a Master’s degree in Rural Sociology with previous research focusing on labor market change and occupational communities in the pulp and paper industry. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/09.

Jack Lutz is Principal and Forest Economist of the Forest Research Group (founded in 2004) and has over 25 years of experience in timberland investments in academic, industry, research and consulting positions. Dr. Lutz is editor of Forest Research Notes, a quarterly newsletter on timberland investments and market dynamics and is adjunct faculty at the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Georgia and the School of Forest Resources at the University of Maine. He worked as Director, Global Research and Valuations for FourWinds Capital Management (2007-2010), as a Resource Economist for James W. Sewall Company (1998-2004), and as Senior Forest Economist at Hancock Timber Resource Group (1994-1998). He was a natural resources consultant (1990-1994) and a research forester at the University of New Hampshire (1985-1990). Before that he worked with Container Corporation of America as a timber planning analyst, with Tennessee River Pulp & Paper Company as a financial analyst, and with USDA Forest Service as an inventory forester. Dr. Lutz received his PhD in Natural Resources and his BS in Forestry from the University of New Hampshire. He has an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/11.

John F. Lyle, III joined Adams and Reese in 2003 and leads the firm's Tax team. He practices in the firm's Birmingham and Mobile offices in the areas of corporate, partnership and limited liability company planning, franchise, estate planning, probate, trusts and estates, mergers and acquisitions, tax planning and tax controversies. He represents businesses, individuals and families.
     Internally, Johnny assists other attorneys at Adams and Reese with regular tax and entity matters. He received his Master of Laws in Taxation from Emory University and is admitted to practice law in Alabama, Florida and Georgia.
     His significant contributions include:

• Assisting a client with an IRS notice of deficiency for more than $70 million after the client had not filed a tax return for five years. Coordinating research with the client’s accounting firm and filing a petition in Tax Court, Johnny was able to obtain a tax refund for the client.
• Serving on the Alabama Law Institute committee that is revising Alabama’s Limited Liability Company Act. He also served on the committee that prepared the Alabama Revised Uniform Partnership Act.
• Serving on the Board of Directors of the Forest Landowners Tax Council, offering extensive experience in tax issues related to the purchase or sale of timber.
• Extensive experience in business succession and estate planning for families and family-owned businesses.
• Assisted clients with inbound and outbound international entity and transaction tax structures

     Johnny is a member of the Board of Directors of the Estate Planning Council of Mobile, Inc., and the Finance and Taxation Committee of the Birmingham Business Alliance. He served as the Chairman of the Tax Section of the Alabama State Bar Association.
     He is a member of the Family Firm Institute.
     He is listed in Best Lawyers® - Tax Law, and is a frequent speaker on the topics of estate planning, business planning, family businesses, corporate, partnership, and limited liability company issues. In his free time, Johnny enjoys spending time with his family, reading, golf, softball, racquetball, and fishing. Source: http://www.adamsandreese.com/john-f-lyle/, 1/13.

James K. Lyons has served as Director/CEO of the Alabama State Port Authority since July 1, 1999. Mr. Lyons’ 37 year professional maritime industry career has encompassed marketing, financial management, transportation, stevedoring and terminal operations.
     Since joining the Authority, Mr. Lyons has overseen construction of new facilities and upgrades to railroad, pier infrastructure, and equipment. Mr. Lyons manages an organization of 570 employees, with fiscal year 2010 revenues approaching $107 million, and handling more than 24 million tons of cargo. In 2010, Mr. Lyons managed the implementation of several capital programs at the port, including the newly completed $110 million Pinto Island Terminal that handles raw material bound for ThyssenKrupp’s $4.3 billion steel mill in Alabama. Mr. Lyons is also overseeing the construction and development of an Intermodal Container Handling Facility and Logistics Park, which will represent well over $200 million in new infrastructure.
     Mr. Lyons holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Economics from the University of Alabama and completed the Executive Development Program at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
     Mr. Lyons is actively involved with many professional and maritime organizations. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Birmingham Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and in August 2011, the U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood, named Mr. Lyons to the Marine Transportation System National Advisory Council. The Council will be advising the federal agency on national marine transportation policy issues.
     He is married to Beth Marietta Lyons, a local attorney, and they have one son, Patrick. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/11.

Douglas W. MacCleery retired from the U.S. Forest Service in April 2010. He is a professional forester who has worked in natural resource management at both the field and policy levels. He obtained bachelor’s and masters degrees in forestry and forest policy from Michigan State University. Doug spent his early career in northern California as a field forester for the Forest Service. He then left the Forest Service for experience in the private sector, taking a position as a forest policy analyst for the National Forest Products Association in Washington, D.C. Between 1981 and 1987, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Natural Resources and the Environment in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a position which has policy oversight over the Forest Service and Soil Conservation Service.
     In 1987, he returned to the U.S. Forest Service in Washington, D.C., where he was a Senior Policy Analyst in the Forest Management division. His work in the headquarters office of the Forest Service focused on writing about the historical evolution of forests and forest policy in the United States, as well as in evaluating and promoting forest policy reforms in the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. forest sector in general. He was also active in writing and speaking on the environmental and land use history of U.S. forests. He authored American Forests: A History of Resiliency and Recovery and other publications on forest history and policy.
     In retirement, Doug has been consulting on forest policy internationally, especially in Bulgaria and Peru. Source: Personal Résumé, 05/16.

Kenneth MacDicken is a forester working with Winrock International, a non-government organization based in Morrilton, Arkansas. He has 30 years of forestry experience in the United States and in over 30 other countries. He heads Winrock’s Forest Management Services unit which helps landowners and managers find ways to improve profits through application of modern aerial imagery. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/04.

Alex Macintosh is the Director of US Origination at NCX, focusing on the strategy and execution of initiatives that engage forest landowners of all sizes across the US in the NCX forest carbon program. Alex's team leads all outreach and engagement with industrial managers, consulting foresters, and private family forest landowners. Alex’s prior work experience was focused on operations and product management in the agriculture and consumer technology sectors. Born and raised in British Columbia, Canada, Alex earned his BA from Harvard University. Source: Personal Résumé, 04/22.

Adam O. Maggard is an Extension Specialist & Assistant Professor, Forest Systems Management, at Auburn University, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences and the Alabama Cooperative Extension System (ACES). Dr. Maggard has earned the following degrees: BS, University of Florida, 2006, Forest Resources and Conservation, MSM, University of Florida, 2008, Business Management, MS, Oklahoma State University, 2011, Natural Resource Ecology and Management (Forest Resources), and PhD, Oklahoma State University, 2016, Natural Resource Ecology and Management (Forest Resources). Adam is an expert in the areas of forest management, productivity of managed forest stands, financial and economical aspects of forest management, and tree physiology. His teaching responsibilities include: Forest Management and Administration, and Forest Economics. Adam's research and extension interests include financial and economic aspects of forest management and planning, optimizing the use of forest resources, multiple use management and sustainability, productivity of managed forest stands, business planning and management of timber and non-timber forest products. Source: Personal Résumé, 04/18.

Julia D. Mahoney holds the John S. Battle chair at the University of Virginia School of Law and is an expert in property rights, land preservation, and eminent domain.  She is a member of the American Law Institute and has also taught at the University of Southern California Law School and the University of Chicago Law School. She earned her B.A. at Barnard College and her J.D. at Yale. Source: Personal Résumé, 08/19.

Fletcher Majors grew up in the timber business with his grandfather being a logger and his father a timber dealer.  Fletcher graduated from Auburn University with a degree in Civil Engineering in 1974.  He received a J.D. degree from Jones Law Institute in 1980.  He is a non-practicing member of the Alabama Bar.  He holds the REALTORS Land Institute designation of Accredited Land Consultant (ALC) and was chosen by this national network of land brokers as the Land REALTOR of America in 1996.  He owns two real estate offices: The Great Southern Land Company, Inc. in Camden, which is managed by Don Donald, ALC and Great Southern Land, LLC in Wetumpka, which he manages.  Fletcher's companies have sold land throughout Alabama in tracts from 40 acres to 5,800 acres with selling prices up to $12.4 million. Source: Personal Résumé, 2/01.

Keith D. Malone received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Alabama in 2006 with fields of specialization in public economics and applied microeconomics. Specifically, his work in applied microeconomics focuses on income distribution and tax policy and regional economic development. Keith is a Professor of Economics at the University of North Alabama and a member of the Economics and Finance Department. He has published several articles in journals such as the Journal of Sports Economics, International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, Journal of Business, Industry and Economics, Cato Journal and The Independent Review. Concerning economic development, he has published an article detailing the economic impact of Boeing’s Missile Defense Segment on the State of Alabama in the Journal of Business, Industry and Economics. Keith has also delivered economic impact studies to, among others, the Boeing Company, City of Florence, Alabama, Shoals Home Builder Association, Huntsville Housing Authority, Colbert Development LLC, University of North Alabama, E.S. Robbins Corporation, RegionalCare Hospital Partners, and Alabama Road Builders Association. Dr. Malone was recommended as a speaker to AFOA by the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). Source: www.una.edu/institute/Malone%20Bio.html, 04/18.

Charles C. Mann is the author of 1491 (Knopf), a history of the Americas before Columbus. A Correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, Science, and Wired, he has covered the intersection of science, technology, and commerce for many newspapers and magazines here and abroad, including Business 2.0, Forbes ASAP, Geo (Germany), The New York Times (magazine, op-ed, book review), Panorama (Italy), Paris-Match (France), Quark (Japan), Smithsonian, Der Stern (Germany), Technology Review, The Washington Post (magazine, op-ed, book review). In addition to 1491, he has co-written four other books: The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in 20th-Century Physics (1986; rev. ed., 1995); The Aspirin Wars: Money, Medicine, and 100 Years of Rampant Competition (1991), Noah’s Choice: The Future of Endangered Species (1995), and @ Large: The Strange Case of the Internet’s Biggest Invasion (1998). He has also written for CD-ROMs, HBO, and the television show Law and Order, and was the text editorial coordinator for the internationally best-selling photographic projects Material World (1994), Women in the Material World (1996), and Hungry Planet (2005). A three-time National Magazine Award finalist, he has received writing prizes from the American Bar Association, the American Institute of Physics, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Margaret Sanger Foundation.  Source: http://www.charlesmann.org/Vita.htm, 7/07.

M. Kyle Marable has a B.S. in Wildlife Sciences from Auburn University and a M.S. in Wildlife and Fisheries Science from Mississippi State University. Between undergraduate and graduate schools, he primarily worked to establish upland quail habitat as part of Quail Unlimited’s Habitat Improvement Team in western Kentucky. Kyle’s graduate research focused on movement, cause-specific mortality, and resource selection in wild turkeys. His passion for ecosystem establishment, restoration, and management led him to join the Alabama Wildlife Federation as a Resource Stewardship Biologist. He assists private non-industrial landowners by providing research based, sustainable habitat management recommendations. Source: Personal Résumé, 03/16.

Drew Marczak serves as Senior Forester-Environmental with Georgia-Pacific Corporation's timber group, The Timber Company. He joined Georgia-Pacific in 1990, working in both land management and timber procurement. In 1995, he assumed his current position working with environmental issues in forestry. Drew also has nine years of experience with International Paper in wood procurement, land management, and landowner assistance.  Source: The University of Georgia Continuing Education Course Description, 2/00.

Joel W. Marsh manages personal and family land in Geneva and Coffee counties in Alabama. (~700 acres row crop, ~850 acres timberland - about 600 acres planted pines, longleaf and loblolly, and 250 acres natural growth timber). Some of the resources Joel uses to assist him with his timber management are: USDA-FSA and NRCS offices, Alabama Forestry Commission, private Forestry Consultant, Longleaf Alliance, Alabama Forest Owners' Association and Auburn University School of Forestry. He manages leases for row crops, hunting, and longleaf pine straw harvesting.
     Joel was born in Coffee County, Alabama in 1939. He received a BS in Aerospace Engineering from Auburn University in 1962 and retired after 37 1/2 years with United Technologies Corporation. He has been married to wife Joyce for 54 years. They have 3 children and 6 grandchildren. Joel and Joyce split their time between residences in Clearwater, Florida and Enterprise, Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/14.

Christina Martin is an attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation’s Florida office in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. She served as co-counsel and second-chair before the U.S. Supreme Court in Knick v. Township of Scott, a landmark case that opened the federal courthouse doors to federal constitutional takings claims and overturned a bad 34-year-old Supreme Court decision. She was also on the litigation team representing several family landowners, including Markle Interests, in another victorious Supreme Court case, Weyerhaeuser v. United States Fish & Wildlife Service, an 8-0 win for the property owners. Her writings have been featured in a variety of publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, The Hill, and Willamette Law Review. She is a frequent guest on radio shows, has spoken at conferences, and has been a guest lecturer at universities. Christina earned a Bachelor of Science in Physics and a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from the University of Washington in Seattle. She earned her J.D. from Ave Maria School of Law in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and was an editor of the Ave Maria Law Review. She is admitted to the state bars of Florida and Oregon, as well as various federal courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States. Source: Personal Resume 07/19.

Jason Martin is a graduate of Auburn University with a B.S. degree in forestry. He has worked through a forestry consultant as a contractor to International Paper. Before joining the Alabama Forest Owners’ Association as staff forester, he worked for the State of Florida on the Blackwater River State Forest. Jason and his wife, Meredith, are originally from Wetumpka, AL. Source: Personal Résumé, 10/05.

Joel S. Martin is the Director of the Solon Dixon Forestry Education Center. Joel earned a BS Degree in Biology in 1989 from Wofford College and an MS Degree in 1993 in Forest Resources from Clemson University. His work experience prior to becoming Director of the Dixon Center has included: Biologist, Wildlife Technical Services Inc, Vicksburg, MS; Biologist, Alabama Dept. of Conservation, Demopolis, AL; Supervisor of Wildlife Resources, James River Corporation, Pennington, AL; Conservation Biologist, Ida Cason Callaway Foundation, Pine Mountain, GA; Asst. Forest & Wildlife Biologist, Sea Island Corporation, Woodbine, GA. Joel's responsibilities at the Center include: Oversee the operations of the Solon Dixon Forestry Education Center, a 5,350 acre working forest with a multi-functional educational facility. The purpose of the Dixon Center is to support education and research through the School of Forestry & Wildlife Sciences by providing applied (hands-on) examples of current management techniques, while also producing income from the property to cover operational costs of the facility. Forest management activities include timber harvesting, prescribed fire, herbicide application and more to produce income, a healthy forest and a diversity of wildlife habitat. Educational activities include serving as an instructor for the School during summer forestry & wildlife courses, while also providing programs on a variety of topics to other groups throughout the remainder of the year. Joel is a Certified Wildlife Biologist and a Registered Forester. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/14.

Kim Martin is a Food Industry Field Scientist for the State of Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. She conducts on-farm produce safety inspections to ensure compliance with state and federal regulations. She received a BS in Food Science from Michigan State University in 2015 and has worked in food safety for the last 5 years. She has also served as a policy intern with the Quality Deer Management Association, and has completed various volunteer activities with local conservation non-profit organizations in West Michigan.

Thomas D. Martin is President and CEO of the American Forest Foundation. He and his sister manage two hundred acres of mixed hardwoods in their family property in Wisconsin. Formerly, he served as the Executive Vice President of the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA, the citizens advocacy group for a superlative National Park system). He also served as President and Member of the Board of Directors of Earth Force, Inc., the nation’s largest young people’s environmental and citizenship education and action group. Prior to that he was the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the National Audubon Society.
     Tom was Deputy Director of Policy, Budget and Administration, Michigan Department of Natural Resources. As the Founding Director, Michigan Offices of the Great Lakes and Water Resources, State Water Administrator, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, he acted as chief advocate on these issues for Michigan before Congress, international and regional bodies.
     Tom is currently a member of the Northland College Board of Trustees. He has served as Board Chair of the Natural Resources Council of America; Chair and Founding Member of the Great Lakes Protection Fund, a $100+M public endowment to fund Great Lakes research and demonstration projects; Chair of the Great Lakes Commission, an 8 state, regional government organization; as a member of the Governor’s Commission on a Sustainable South Florida; and as Vice President of the Council of Great Lakes Governors.
     Tom holds a B.S. from The American University, Washington DC, a Juris Doctor from the UCLA School of Law, and was admitted to the Michigan Bar in 1979. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/11.

Timothy A. Martin has been on the faculty at the University of Florida School of Forest Resources and Conservation since 1997. He received a B.S. in Forest Management from Oklahoma State University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Tree Physiology from the University of Georgia and University of Washington, respectively. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in natural resource management and tree physiology, and does research on forest biology and silviculture in managed southern pine forests. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/13.

Nancie G. Marzulla is a founder and President of Defenders of Property Rights, the nation’s only national non-profit, public interest legal foundation devoted exclusively to the protection of private property rights.
     Ms. Marzulla has played a key role in several successful landmark state and federal lawsuits, including the recent U.S. Supreme Court cases of Solid Waste Agency of Cook County (SWANCC) v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, Bennett v. Spear, Dolan v. City of Tigard, Suitum v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, and City of Monterey v. Del Monte Dunes at Monterey, Ltd. She has also testified before the U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, and numerous state legislatures on the importance of property rights legislation. She has assisted in the drafting and analysis of numerous property rights bill in both the House and the Senate in Congress. She has also served as consultant to numerous state legislatures and groups on the drafting of property rights and environmental legislation.
     Ms. Marzulla is a member of the Advisory Council for the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and is a member of the Board of Governors for the Bar Association. She currently chairs the Federalist Society Subcommittee on Wetlands and Endangered Species and is National Advisor for the Independent Women’s Forum. She founded and chaired the Property Rights Roundtable – the only national action-network for grassroots property rights groups and leaders across the country. She has written numerous articles and spoken extensively on these issues.
     Ms. Marzulla holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration and a law degree from the University of Colorado. While in law school she served as a member of the law review and co-founded the Colorado chapter of the Federalist Society. She was an appointee in the Reagan Administration Justice Department and was a litigator at Vernor, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson, and Hand, prior to her tenure as President of Defenders of Property Rights in 1991. She is listed in Who’s Who in America and in Who’s Who in Executives and Professionals. Source: Defenders of Property Rights, 09/03.

Michael Mastro has been a graphic designer, photographer, and digital artist for over 25 years for clients like Nike, Coca-Cola and Major League Baseball and spent a parallel 20 years in the music business. He is on the Mobile County GOP Executive Committee, and handles Advertising/PR for the Steering Committee. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/04.

Gene Matchen is the Customer Service Manager at Moultrie, the leading brand in wildlife feeders. Gene and his service team not only provide technical support, but also offer advice to customers on game management and supplemental feeding. He is an avid hunter and knows firsthand the importance of instituting a good game management program. Personal Resume 02/08.

Catherine M. Mater is President of Oregon-based Mater Engineering, Ltd. – a worldwide leading consulting engineering and marketing research firm in the forest products industry. She also serves as a Senior Fellow for the Pinchot Institute for Conservation based in Washington DC. Mater is a leading expert in value-added wood processing and sustainable forest management practices throughout the world. She now heads a benchmark research project in the US focused on understanding what drives decisions by non-industrial private forestland (NIPF) owners to fragment or convert their family forests. With funding provided by the Wood Education Research Center and the US Forest Service – her current research targets offspring of NIPF owners as the next generation to decide whether forest lands stay in family hands. Source: Personal Résumé, 10/04.

Mike Matre, President and Founder of MFC, was raised in Albany, Georgia. Growing up in beautiful southwest Georgia gave him a great appreciation of our outdoor world, which ultimately led him to his forestry career. After graduating from Westover High School in Albany in 1990, he studied forestry at the University of Georgia and graduated from the UGA Warnell School of Forest Resources in 1996. While attending college, Mike acquired real world forestry experience by interning with the timber management divisions St. Joe Paper Company and Mead Coated Board, and working part-time for the UGA School of Forest Resources. Immediately after graduating from UGA, Mike went to work for Hogan Forest Services, LLC, a forestry consulting company in Waynesboro, Georgia. In 1997 he accepted a position in Macon, Georgia with Atterbury Consultants, Inc., headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon. At Atterbury, Mike was able to build on his broad timber management experience by gaining experience with timber procurement and land acquisition, GIS and GPS mapping, and state of the art timber cruising and forest inventory software. In 1999, Mike resigned from Atterbury to return to his hometown and start his own forestry consulting company. Mike recently celebrated his company's 10th year anniversary and is looking forward to further successes.
     Mike resides in Albany, Georgia with his wife Joy and daughters Parker, Emma and Riley. Mike is a Georgia Registered Forester, a Georgia Licensed Real Estate Broker, a member of the Georgia Forestry Association, and the Georgia and National Association of Realtors. He and his family are members of Americus Baptist Temple. Source: http://matreforestry.com/cgi-bin/p/awtp-broker.cgi?d=matre-forestry-consulting-inc&id=4076, 4/11.

John R. McAlister, II, CFS, is with Strategic Financial Consultants in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia with a degree in Business Administration and a minor in Finance. John owned a service company while attending college and sold it to pursue other interests. After seeing a friend's business nearly destroyed due to a sudden death and a complete lack of sound advice of planning, he recognized a need to help others avoid losing everything they had worked a lifetime to acquire. John began his career in financial consulting in 1985. One of John's goals is to make certain that his clients create a legacy so that future generations can appreciate and nurture the land and not forget the efforts and sacrifices of their ancestors. Source: Saving the Family Tree brochure, 7/00.

John McGuire is the Director of the Private Lands Prescribed Fire Initiative for Tall Timbers Research & Land Conservancy. He has been tasked to increase the acres of private lands treated with prescribed fire through outreach, research and direct assistance. John is well-known in the Southeast for his work with prescribed fire. He is a certified burn manager in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi. He is also a certified forester and wildlife biologist, as well as a senior ecologist. John came to Tall Timbers from the private sector where he worked for over a decade in ecosystem markets and restoration business. Prior to that he was the first outreach coordinator for the Longleaf Alliance when it was a fledgling organization. John is Chairman of the Alabama Prescribed Fire Council. His passion hobby is as a historian working with Vietnam Veterans. Source: https://talltimbers.org/new-director-for-private-lands-initiative/, 4/22.

Mark A. Megalos is an Extension Professor at NC State University's College of Natural Resources. His responsibilities cover forest management, reforestation, carbon offsets, taxation, conservation opportunities and climate adaptation strategies on forested lands. In his 38th year as a professional forester, Mark's Southeastern work includes extension specialist, Forest Stewardship and Forest Legacy coordinator, outreach associate and area agent for the N.C. Cooperative Extension Service. He earned his B.S. in Natural Resource Management/Forestry from Rutgers University in 1981. Mark also earned a M.S. Forest Science in 1986 and a Ph.D. in Forestry in 2000, both from N.C. State University. Source: Personal Résumé, 07/19

Michael Ott is the founder and CEO of Rantizo, an agtech company based in Iowa City and the first company legally using drones to spray for agriculture in multiple states. The company most recently received approvals from the FAA to become the first drone spraying company approved for nationwide swarming.
    Before Rantizo, Ott worked in corporate venture capital backed by Monsanto, Novozymes and Bunge and invented a patented technology that delivers tiny amounts of nitrogen on a rice seed as it grows. Ott has a Master’s degree in Chemistry from the University of Iowa and nearly two decades of experience in finance. He is an author on five patent applications and has raised over $150 million in investment over the course of his career.