Dr. Karen Lee Abt is a research Economist with the U.S. Forest Service at the Forestry Sciences Laboratory in North Carolina. She works primarily in in two areas –bioenergy and wildfire economics. She leads a team that develops forecasts of wildland fire suppression expenditures for the USDA Forest Service and for the DOI land management agencies. In that role, she also develops forecasts for multiple time horizons, running from 10 years ahead (a simple, time series model with good fit but high uncertainty model) to two months ahead (a more complex, climate and weather based model with greater certainty). In bioenergy economics, Karen evaluates the effects of various national and international policies on sustainability, climate change, and renewable energy, on the forests of the U.S. South using simulation partial-equilibrium models of timber supply and demand coupled with resource management models to track forest trends. Source: U.S. Forest Service website, 10/19.
Robert C. Abt is a professor of natural resource economics and management at North Carolina State University where he teaches forest economics and natural resource management. He earned a BS in Industrial Management in 1976 from Georgia Tech, an MS in Forestry (Economics) in 1979 from the University of Tennessee Knoxville, and a PhD in Wildland Resource Science (Forest Economics) in 1984 from the University of California, Berkeley. Bob has 25 years of experience in bio-economic modeling of southern forest resources and markets. He developed the Sub-Regional Timber Supply (SRTS) modeling framework initially for the USDA Forest Service in the South’s Fourth Forest study for which he received an award “for innovative research in developing the first usable system for projecting inventory trends at the state-level.” Interest in use of the modeling framework for strategic planning led to the formation of the Southern Forest Resource Assessment Consortium (SOFAC) at NC State. SOFAC is a consortium of over 20 forest resource dependent entities including most of the major wood consumers and corporate landowners (TIMOs and REITs) in the South. Recently membership has expanded to include major utilities and environmental organizations. In the last five years work has focused on the potential impact of bio-energy demand on the sustainability of the resource and traditional wood dependent industries. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/15.
Darius Adams is professor of forest economics and policy at Oregon State University. He holds a BS from Humboldt State University, a MF from Yale University, and a Ph.D. from UC-Berkeley. Dr. Adams is an author or co-author of 45 peer-reviewed publications and more than 60 technical reports. He is the principal scientist in building the ground-breaking Timber Assessment Market Model (TAMM), which has been widely used in the US for the last 20 years. His primary research and teaching interests are forest economics, modeling and analysis of forest products markets, econometrics, and forest policy. Source: Weaver Lecture Series in Forestry Program, 4/99.
Dwight L. Adams was born and reared on a farm south of Graceville, Florida. The youngest of seven children, he is a graduate of Troy State University and holds a Masters Degree from the University of Montevallo. He taught physics and chemistry, three years at the high school level and three years at Junior college level, prior to opening a furniture store in Dothan which he owned and operated for twelve years. He presently owns an assisted living facility in Enterprise. He is involved in many civic, community and business affairs and is an active member of the Enterprise Chamber of Commerce, the Enterprise Rotary Club, the National Federation of Independent Businesses, Coffee County Cattlemen’s Association, AUSA and is president of Alabamians for Limited Government. Presently, he is the host of a weekly call-in talk radio program airing on WRJM, 93.7 FM every Tuesday from 7-9 AM. He takes an active role in the Republican party and has served as District Chairman, Coffee County Chairman, and past chairman of the Resolutions Committee. He is currently a member of the State Executive Committee and of the National Policy Forum, (a Republican Center for the exchange of ideas). He and his wife, the former Leslie Engram from Chipley, Florida, have been active members of St. Luke United Methodist Church in Enterprise for thirty-three years where he is an alternate adult Sunday school teacher. They have a son, Larry, and two daughters, Tanya (Mrs. Jim) Hill and Denine (Mrs. Tim) Richey, and eight grandchildren. Dwight served in the Alabama Senate from 1994 through 1998. He was the Senator for District 31, serving Covington, Coffee, Dale and Houston counties. He served as vice-chairman of the Senate Republican Caucus in 1995, 1996, and 1997 and as chairman in 1998. He was the Senate Floor Leader for Governor Fob James all four years. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/01.
Dr. John Adams, professor in the School of Forestry at Louisiana Tech University, teaches forest ecology, silviculture, forest tree improvement and hardwoods. His research interests include pine silviculture, bottomland hardwood restoration and water oak provenance studies. He is author or co-author of more than 50 scientific papers. Source: Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service Course Description, 6/99.
Kip Adams is a certified wildlife biologist and Quality Deer Management Association’s (QDMA) Director of Education and Outreach. Kip received his B.S. in Wildlife and Fisheries Science from the Pennsylvania State University and his M.S. in Wildlife from the University of New Hampshire. He worked as a wildlife biologist for the Florida Game and Fish Commission for four years and as the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department’s deer and bear project leader for two years prior to his employment with QDMA in 2002. Kip writes the Whitetail Wisdom column for Quality Whitetails, has authored chapters in four books, has given over 400 presentations on deer and habitat management, and has provided whitetail content for numerous television shows including Whitetail Properties, Quality Whitetails, Scentblocker’s Most Wanted, Whitetail Slam and others. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/14.
John L. Adrian is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Auburn University College of Agriculture and has been with the College since 1974. Dr. Adrian received his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee in Agricultural Economics in 1974. His areas of interest include: Research – fruit and vegetable marketing; rural and transitional land markets; production and marketing of turfgrass-sod and nursery crops; agribusiness, especially cooperatives. Teaching – current: basic economic theory, agribusiness management, cooperatives, farm appraisal. Administrative – manage six economists who serve the State’s four Farm Analysis Associations. He has memberships in the following: American Agricultural Economics Association; Southern Agricultural Economics Association; Southeastern Decision Sciences Institute; American Decision Sciences Institute; and Food Distribution Research Society. Dr. Adrian’s publications and presentations include: 39 Refereed Journal Articles; 90 Experiment Station and related Publications; 8 Departmental Series; and 128 presentations before professional and clientele groups. He served as Department Chair from 10/01-3/05. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/08.
Brian Agnew is a 1978 graduate of Auburn University with a degree in forest management. He is a self-employed forest consultant and has owned Southern Land Management, L.L.C. since 1998. He is also a licensed real-estate agent with Speaks Land Company and has been a Registered Forester in Alabama since 1981. Before owning his own company, Mr. Agnew worked for Union Camp (1978-1984), W. J. Sorrell Lumber and Pulpwood Co., Inc. (1985-1995) and Natural Resource Consulting (1995-1998). Mr. Agnew has been a member of the Society of American Foresters (since 1977), Union Springs City Council (since 2008), and the Alabama Farmers Federation. He has also served on many boards and committees including the Alabama Farmers Federation’s State Forestry Committee, as Secretary-Treasurer for the Bullock County Farmers Federation, and as Secretary of the Society of American Foresters’ Southeast Section in 2012. Mr. Agnew has also been a member of the Union Springs Planning Commission for 15 years. He and his wife Dianne have five boys ages 26 to 14. The family attends St. Pius X church in Union Springs. Source: Personal Résumé,4/14
Randy Akridge graduated from Auburn University with degree in Agronomy & Soils in winter 1977. He served as superintendent of the Field Crops Unit at E.V. Smith Research Center January, 1978 to February, 1984, when he moved to Brewton to serve as superintendent of Brewton Agricultural Research and Monroeville Agricultural Research Unit. In early 2002, the Monroeville Agricultural Research Unit was converted from agronomic crop research to longleaf pine research. The Brewton Agricultural Research Unit conducts research on small fruits, woody ornamentals, flowering annuals, homeowner and commercial vegetable production, and homeowner turf as well as some agronomic crop research. They also lease property north of Atmore where they conduct field research in reniform nematode controls in cotton production. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/04.
Timothy P. Albritton is Forest Management Specialist in the Forest Management Division of the Alabama Forestry Commission State Office in Montgomery, Alabama. Tim is a graduate of Patrick Henry State Junior College in Monroeville, Alabama. He received an Associate in Applied Science degree in Forest Technology in 1982. In February 1986 he began his career with the Alabama Forestry Commission assigned to Chilton County. His duties as a forest technician included wildfire control, fire prevention, and landowner assistance. In 1991 he transferred to the Forest Health Section and worked on the Forest Health Monitoring program, Gypsy Moth Trapping, and Southern Pine Beetle program. Tim was approved for the AFC’s co-op program and began working on his B.S. degree in Forest Resources from Auburn University. Tim graduated from Auburn in 1995 and was registered by the Alabama State Board of Registration for Foresters in 1997. He was involved coordinating the Forest Inventory and Analysis from 1996-1998 and is currently serving as the Forest Operations Specialist. He coordinates the Commission’s landowner assistance program, the cost-share programs, and the BMP’s for Forestry program. Tim and his wife Karen have been married for 17 years and have three children, a son 14 years old and two daughters ages 12 and 4. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/02.
Dr. Delton Alderman earned a BS in Forestry and Wildlife Management (emphasis in Industrial Forestry Operations), and a MS and PhD in Wood Science and Forest Products (emphasis in Forest Products Marketing) from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University at Blacksburg, VA. He spent 5-years as procurement forester and 8-years as a forestry consultant in NC and VA before returning to graduate school. In 2001 he joined the US Forest Service as a Research Forest Products Technologist, Northern Research Station, in Princeton, WV. His research interests include hardwood veneer and sawlog quality attributes, entrepreneurial marketing for sawmills and producers, technology transfer models, and consumer perceptions of eastern hardwoods. He has been a member of the Forest Products Society since 1998. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/07.
Brock Alekna is Marketing Manager at Rockford Map Publishers, based in Rockford, Illinois. Rockford Map is the country’s leading provider of plat maps and related data for commercial markets, public agencies and recreationists. They offer a variety of mapping information suitable for energy companies, agribusiness, land conservation, engineering, real estate, insurance, forestry… anyone with an interest in land! Since 1944, Rockford Map has produced over 4,700 plat map editions in over 750 counties. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/15.
H. Lee Allen is the C.A. Schenck Distinguished Professor of Forestry in the Department of Forestry at North Carolina State University. Lee has been on the faculty at N.C. State since 1981. He received his BS and MS in Forestry from the University of Maine and his Ph.D. from N.C. State. Lee is the co-director of the Forest Nutrition Cooperative, an internationally recognized research and education program in productivity-silviculture-nutrition relationships. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in silviculture and ecophysiology and has authored/co-authored over 100 publications dealing with sustainable productivity, forest nutrition, and silviculture. Lee travels extensively throughout the Americas providing the latest in silviculture, soils, and nutrition knowledge to forest land managers. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/04.
George Alsworth, RF, began his timber career with Longleaf Timber in Waynesboro, Miss. He and John Moore, created Moore Alsworth Forest Consultants. After Moore’s retirement, until 2015, he ran George E. Alsworth and Associates. In 2015, he partnered with Jody Phillips to create Alsworth Phillips Forest Consultants. They assist landowners in all of their forestry needs. B.S. in Forest Management from Mississippi State. George is married with two children and three grandchildren.
Chuck Anderson is the Director of Account Development for the Timber Division of ForestExpress. He has the primary responsibility for the Account Development team and launch efforts for ForestExpress products in North America. Chuck has over 15 years of forest industry experience. He has managed tracts as large as 140,000 acres in Florida and North Carolina. In addition, he was the region procurement analyst for 34 Georgia-Pacific manufacturing facilities from South Carolina to Maine. Prior to forestry school, he worked as a logging sub-contractor in Wisconsin. Chuck has an undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, and an MBA from Duke University. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/01.
Terry L. Anderson is the William A. Dunn Distinguished Senior Fellow and former President and Executive Director of PERC as well as the John and Jean De Nault Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He believes that market approaches can be both economically sound and environmentally sensitive. His research helped launch the idea of free market environmentalism and has prompted public debate over the proper role of government in managing natural resources. He is the co-chair of Hoover’s Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force.
Anderson is the author or editor of thirty-seven books. Among these, Free Market Environmentalism, co-authored with Donald Leal, received the 1992 Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award. A revised edition was published in 2001.
Terry and Donald Leal’s forthcoming book, Free Market Environmentalism – The Next Generation, will be published in 2015. His most recent publications are Environmental Markets a Property Rights Approach (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and Tapping Water Markets (RFF Press, 2012). Other books include Greener Than Thou: Are You Really an Environmentalist? (Hoover Institution Press, 2008) and Property Rights: A Practical Guide to Freedom and Prosperity (Hoover Institution Press, 2003), both co-authored with Laura Huggins. His book, with Peter J. Hill, The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier (Stanford University Press), was awarded the 2005 Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award.
Anderson’s research, which has also focused on Native American economies, recently resulted in a co-edited volume, Self-Determination: The Other Path for Native Americans (Stanford University Press, 2006). He has published widely in the popular press and professional journals, including The Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, Fly Fisherman, Journal of Law and Economics, and Economic Inquiry. During his career at Montana State University, Anderson received several outstanding teaching awards and is now professor emeritus of economics. He received his B.S. from the University of Montana and earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Washington. In March 2011, Anderson received the Liberalni Institute Annual Award in Prague, Czech Republic, for his “Contribution to the Proliferation of Liberal Thinking, and Making Ideas of Liberty, Private Property, Competition, and the Rule of Law Come True.” Previous recipients include Nobel laureates Milton Friedman, Gary Becker, and Vernon Smith.
Anderson is an avid outdoorsman accomplished at big game hunting, bird shooting, fishing, skiing, and hiking. Source: http://perc.org/staff/terry-anderson, 9/14.
Allan Andress graduated from Auburn University in 1977 with a B.S. Degree in Wildlife Science. He has been employed as a Conservation Enforcement Officer with the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources since 1980, and has served as Chief Enforcement Officer with the Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries since 2002. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/07.
Owen Andrews is the Cogongrass Coordinator for the Alabama Forestry Commission. He graduated from Mississippi State University with a BS in Forestry and a concentration in Environmental Conservation in May 2020. He worked for a company spraying invasive plants for one year before joining the Alabama Forestry Commission. He started loving the outdoors through the Boy Scouts, where he made Eagle Scout. He is working to become a registered forester in Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé, 02/02.
Finto Antony is Assistant Research Scientist of Statistics, Biometrics and Wood Quality at the University of Georgia’s Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. He has extensive expertise on developing model systems for wood properties, for both intensive and conventionally managed pine plantations. He has worked in the areas of wood property modeling, silviculture and wood properties and integration wood property models into growth and yield simulators. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/11.
Michael Archer is a native Californian, born in Pasadena and raised in Monrovia, outside L.A. He originally planned to be a science teacher, but later decided to pursue pre-veterinary medicine. After graduating from California State Polytechnic University (Cal Poly), Pomona with a Bachelor’s degree in Animal Science, Mike decided to once again change his career track, and began taking classes in Electronics at Citrus Junior College in Glendora. Upon graduation, Mike worked in the telecommunications industry before hiring on at General Dynamics in Pomona, working on military radar and gun-control systems as a technician, later as a test engineer, and, for a brief time, as a radar research lab supervisor. In 1991, he became a full-time student at Cal Poly again, graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering Technology in late 1992. During the time he had been finishing up the ET degree, Mike had been daydreaming about a high-tech firefighting outfit. Immediately after graduating, he began extensive research on firefighting, finally writing “Firebombers Incorporated” in early 1993. In 2003, with the completion of his second novel, “Firestorm,” he decided that pursuing self-publishing full-time might be worthwhile. In January of 2004, he began the marketing campaign for “Firestorm.” Reviews from people with firefighting or military backgrounds, and just ordinary readers, were generally good. Mike’s promise of donating 50% of the profits from sales at firefighting conventions spurred interest from many state firefighting associations. The prospects for success look promising and Mike is looking forward to the journey. Source: http://www.firebomberpublications.com/PR/Press_Kit.pdf
Steven Ray Archer is a District Manager for American Forest Management in northwest Alabama. He has been practicing forestry for 29 years and is a registered forester in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi. Steve lives in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/19.
Jim Armstrong is an Extension Wildlife Specialist and Associate Professor in the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences at Auburn University. He has been at Auburn for 13 years. Jim works primarily in the area of wildlife damage management which covers everything from beavers flooding timber to bats in the attic. He received his B.S. from Freed-Hardeman College, his M.S. from Abilene Christian University and his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech. Jim is married and has two daughters. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/03.
Ann Arnold is a licensed Professional Geologist in California since 1994. She earned a Master of Science from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Science from Emory University. Both degrees are in Geology and include some engineering hydrology. Her background includes over 25 years of environmental project management and executive business responsibilities. Since joining Geological Survey of Alabama (GSA) in 2010, she has performed diverse roles in GSA’s Energy Division, Groundwater Assessment Program, the State Oil & Gas Board’s Underground Injection Control program, and she has served on the Executive Board for the National Groundwater Protection Council. She currently works with the GSA’s well monitoring network program. Source: https://gsa.state.al.us/gsa/groundwater/staff, 4/24.
Jon Aschenbach, Vice President of Atterbury Consultants, Incorporated since 1985. Jon is responsible for marketing, product sales and seminars. He has been the lead instructor for the Professional Timber Cruising Seminars for the past six years. He graduated from Oregon State University in 1973 with a B.S. degree in Forest Management. Jon’s work experience includes supervisory and management positions with Crown Zellerbach Corporation from 1973 to 1985. He was responsible for forest inventory and timber cruising, reforestation, site preparation, pre-commercial thinning, and fertilization on the 69,000-acre Tillamook Managed Forest. Source: The University of Georgia Continuing Education Course Description, 7/98.
Danielle Atkins is a double graduate from the UGA Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources in wildlife sciences (BSFR 2012) and master of forest resources (MFR 2013). After graduation, Danielle worked with the Georgia Forestry Commission for 4.5 years, where she started working and developing women’s focused workshops and programs. After leaving the Commission, Danielle worked directly with the Sustainable Forestry and Land Retention program in Brunswick, Georgia, for 1.5 years before starting Land & Ladies in 2020. Land & Ladies has partnered with the UGA Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, along with other organizations, to host six workshops, an online academy (ongoing), and a national symposium (May 20-21, 2021). Source: Personal Résumé, 2/21.
J. Pat Autrey graduated from Auburn University in 1990 with a Bachelor’s of Science in Forest Engineering. While at Auburn, Pat was a member of three SEC Football Championship Teams in 1987, 1988 and 1989.Upon graduating, he worked with James River Corporation in west Alabama for six years handling capital projects in timberland management and pulpwood processing. In 1996, Pat began Mussel Creek Forest Services, a forestry consulting business focusing primarily on private landowners in south-central and east-central Alabama. He is a Registered Forester in Alabama and a member of the Association of Consulting Foresters, and was the Chapter Chair of the Alabama Chapter of the ACF in 2017 and 2018. He also is a licensed real estate agent in Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/19.
Rod Bach has more than 23 years of forestry management and consulting and has been co-owner of Bach & DeVos Forestry and Wildlife Services, Inc. since 2003. An Alabama Registered Forester, Rod graduated from Auburn University in 1992 with a Bachelor’s degree in Forestry Management. He also is a licensed Alabama Real Estate salesperson and an Alabama Certified Prescribed Burn Manager. Source: company website 4/19.
Phillip Badger is a professional engineer and President and Chief Manager Renewable Oil International® LLC (ROI), located in Florence, Alabama. ROI is developing a novel fast pyrolysis technology that can convert most carbonaceous materials into value-added chemicals and fuels. The fuels can potentially be used in combustion turbines, internal combustion engines, and boilers, including co-firing applications. Mr. Badger is also President of General Bioenergy, Inc., a bioenergy consulting firm also located in Florence, Alabama. He was previously employed by the Tennessee Valley Authority, where he managed the U.S. Department of Energy’s Southeastern Regional Biomass Energy Program for 15 years and led fuel ethanol research programs for four years. He has worked in the bioenergy field for over 23 years in positions that have required him to stay abreast of cutting edge bioenergy technologies, and is currently Editor for the Bioenergy Update, a monthly magazine on bioenergy technologies and related information. Mr. Badger grew up on a farm in northern Ohio has a BS and MS in Agricultural Engineering from the Ohio State University and an MBA from Vanderbilt University. Mr. Badger has published over 85 papers, authored numerous magazine and newsletter articles, and made over 166 presentations on various bioenergy topics to numerous audiences during his career. He is listed in several Who’s Who for his work related to bioenergy, including Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World, and International Leaders of Achievement. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/04.
Jeff Baggett owns and operates Southern Cypress and Lumber, Inc., a cypress mill operation in Frisco City, Alabama. He mills cypress logs into flooring, siding, beams, and even wood shingles and also processes Atlantic white cedar and eastern redcedar (to a smaller degree). Baggett specializes in longs, clears, and quarter sawn lumber and only uses swamp cypress in his lumber. All pulpwood size material and pond cypress are ground into mulch. The company produces over a million board feet of cypress lumber each year, making it one of the larger cypress producers in the country. Southern Cypress and Lumber, Inc., does custom work with home owners and produces to each ones taste. So common a hundred years ago, cypress is now making a comeback as people rediscover the beauty and qualities that make it unsurpassed in this region. In the past cypress was considered a renegade tree by the large paper companies due to it not mixing well in pulp or in boiler fuel. Much of it was cut down to make way for the fiber market of gum and other hardwoods. Cypress is a dominant tree and actually, contrary to popular belief, a rather fast growing tree. It is not a junk wood, but has value and is a good investment over the long haul. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/02.
Colin Bagwell graduated from North Carolina State University in 1966 and began his professional forestry career in Kentucky as a State Service Forester. In 1970, he moved to Huntsville, Alabama to start his own forestry consulting firm focusing mainly on Non-Industrial Private Forest (NIPF) owners who are interested in sustainable forest management. Mr. Bagwell spends most of his time writing forest management plans and appraising and selling timber. Occasionally, he helps his clients with a professional opinion in a court case or in tax preparation. As a Certified Tree Farm Inspector and NRCS Technical Service Provider, he is active in helping the NIPF owner meet the requirements of those programs. He is a licensed forester in Georgia and Alabama, as well as being a member of the Association of Consulting Foresters and the Society of American Foresters. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/14.
David W. Baker is the farm transition specialist for Iowa State University Extension Service. He works out of the Beginning Farmer Center which is located in Urbandale, Iowa. Areas of specialty include business management, small-farm business start-up, intergenerational farm business transfer, and farm family mediation. His work for the BFC is focused on facilitating the transfer of farm business assets, machinery, land, and management to the next generation. Dave has played a key role in the FarmOn program at Iowa State’s Beginning Farmer Center in matching 45 beginning farmers with retiring individuals in the past several years. Dave holds farm business succession workshops across the state of Iowa. Dave has 30 years of experience in farming and still owns and operates a diversified grain/livestock farm in NW Iowa. Dave is an advisor to ISU’s student run Beginning Farmer Network. Dave served 6 years in the USAF and received his B.S. in Facilities Management from Troy University and an MBA from SW Minnesota University. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/10.
Deborah Baker is Georgia-Pacific’s vice president – sustainable forestry, environmental and community outreach. She joined the company in 2001 as director of environmental policy and was named vice president in 2003. Her responsibilities include maintaining the company’s forestry certifications for North America, as well as directing the company’s sustainable forestry vision and practices. Deborah also manages Georgia-Pacific’s wood and fiber supply environmental permitting group and works with various internal and external groups regarding sustainable forestry.
Prior to joining Georgia-Pacific, Deborah spent more than 25 years in both the private and public sector of the forest products industry. She began her career as a field forester with International Paper Company. Deborah later joined the Capitol Hill staff of former Idaho Sen. James McClure, and eventually served as Deputy Director, Congressional Affairs, at the Department of Interior during President Reagan’s administration. After leaving Washington, D.C., Deborah became executive director of the Southern Timber Council in Atlanta, which addressed U.S. Forest Service issues in the South.
A native of Vermont, Deborah earned a Bachelor of Science degree in forest management from the University of Vermont. She and her husband, Dwight, live in Atlanta. They have one daughter, Katelin. Source: G-P Résumé, 1/11.
Tanya Baker: My husband and I were both raised in the Prescott/Dewey area of Arizona and are raising our family here as well. It has always been our dream to own and operate a working ranch, which has come true with a lot of hard work and perseverance.
Settler Valley Ranch is comprised of approximately 2,500 acres, located in Dewey. We are a green ranch totally off grid and solar operated, proudly raising and providing all natural products for our family and yours.
We raise Registered Miniature Hereford Cattle as a fresh source of naturally raised beef , and to sell to others who’d like to raise cattle, but prefer to deal with a smaller & more docile animal. They are great for small ranches and farms and offer potential tax benefits for small ranches or farms! We also raise Boer meat goats as a healthier alternative to other red meats as well as offering an environmentally conscious fire fuels abatement program providing fire breaks & defensible space against wildfire in urban/wildlife areas without the unwanted impact of heavy machinery or prescribed burning. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/09.
Sara S. Baldwin is senior editor and assistant manager of TimberMart-South, a timber price reporting service housed at the Daniel B. Warnell School of Forest Resources, The University of Georgia. Her research interests include timber supply and demand, timberland investment and forest industry competitiveness. Her experience includes architectural design, land development, database computing and non-industrial private landownership. She has a B.A. degree in History from the University of Houston and a MFR from the Warnell School. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/09.
Dr. Virgil Clark Baldwin, Jr., is currently the National Program Leader for Silviculture Research for the USDA Forest Service in Washington, DC. Through 33 years of research experience in the Canadian Forest Service (3 years), Washington State University (3 years), and US Forest Service (27 years, mostly in the Southern Research Station) he has addressed challenges in stand establishment, stand density and structure management, intensive management techniques, management effects on individual tree characteristics, ecophysiology, mensuration, growth and yield, and mathematical modeling of those topics. Source: Personal Résumé, 03/05.
Keith A. Balter, is Vice President, Timber, Resource Information Systems, Inc. (RISI). Keith manages RISI’s ongoing work in regional timber demand, supply, and prices. He was the principal developer of the RISI Timber Models, which are used in the analysis of the future demand for wood fiber in North American and international markets, global and regional timber supplies, and the potential returns of timberland investments. He has directed several multi-client studies concerned with the timber resource, as well as studies for individual firms. Keith has a BS in Environmental Studies and a MBA from the University of Chicago and a MS in Forest Economics from Yale School of Forestry. Source: RISI website, 8/01.
George M. Banzhaf is CEO of TreeTracker. His career in the forest industry has been wide ranging, from marketing timber, managing corporate inventor programs, field data gathering, research and development, reforestation and seedling genetics, drone and imagery, consulting, silvicultural operations, and GIS mapping. Now, as CEO of TreeTracker, George works daily with customers, designing new features of the forest industry, and reaching out to new clients on how TreeTracker can improve to meet their challenges. George holds a B.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies (Forestry, Geo-sciences, Investment Finance) and an M.S. in Forest Biometrics from Mississippi State University. Source: https://www.treetracker.com/about, 04/24.
Henry Barclay, III, is the managing partner of Lehmann, Ullman and Barclay LLP which has been involved in timber related services almost since its inception in 1912. He attended Tulane University and was graduated from the University of Alabama. Estate planning for business and timberland owners is an area of particular experience. Henry has a strong interest in minimizing estate and gift taxes and maintaining family wealth. He works with family businesses challenged with governance, succession and retirement planning (how to work at the family business and still have lunch together on Sunday). He is a frequent speaker and seminar leader on timber business and income and estate tax issues.
Henry is a Board Member and former President of the Forest Landowners Tax Council and is Treasurer and a Board Member of the Forest History Society. He is President and Board Member of The Full Life Ahead Foundation of Hope. He is a Board Member of Stuckey Timber Company and He is Past President and Board member of the Alabama Forest Owners’ Association and contributes a periodic tax review for their newsletter. He is a member of the Forest Landowners’ Association, the Alabama Forestry Council, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Alabama Society of Certified Public Accountants and its Birmingham Chapter, the Birmingham Estate Planning Council and the Birmingham Tax Forum.
Henry and his wife Judy (42 years) have two married sons who live in Birmingham. Ingram and Susan have a daughter Chandler (2) and Vaughn and Jamie have a son David (3). Source: Personal Résumé, 4/10.
Robert E. Bardon was born and raised in Dubuque, Iowa. He attended Iowa State University where he received his Bachelor of Science in Forest Resource Management, a Masters of Science in Forest Administration and Management, and a Ph.D. in Forest Biology – Wood Science. After graduating from Iowa State University he was hired by the Department of Forestry at North Carolina State University as an Extension specialist and assistant professor. He has served on the faculty at North Carolina State University since 1996 and has achieved the title of Full Professor. Over his career he has developed over 36 Extension programs and projects, conducted over 153 symposiums, workshops, webinars, trainings, and field days, given over 340 presentations, and has over 187 publications. Dr Bardon’s program areas have included urban and community forestry, woodlot management, family forestry, and timber marketing. His scholarly activities have focused on outreach and program delivery using both traditional methods and distance learning methods, educational needs assessment, development of program materials, and capturing lessons learned through program evaluation. Dr. Bardon has presented his work in Canada, Germany and throughout the United States, and has received 20 awards at the local, regional, and national level for his efforts in Extension and outreach. He is a member of the Academy of Outstanding Faculty Engaged in Extension at North Carolina State University. His current appointment is Assistant Dean of Extension in the College of Natural Resources and Department Extension Leader in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources. He is a registered forester with the State of North Carolina and a certified forester with the Society of American Foresters. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/12.
Andrew J. Baril, a Michigan native calling Dothan, Alabama home, Andy graduated from Auburn University in 1983, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Forest Management. He began his forestry career as a hardwood procurement forester with Georgia-Pacific in Jackson, Alabama. Later in 1991, he earned a Master of Divinity (MDiv.) from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri. From 1987-2007, Andy worked as a consulting forester while serving six Southern Baptist churches as pastor in Missouri, New York, and Alabama. For twenty months during 2007-08, he served the Alabama Cooperative Extension System (ACES) as a temporary Regional Extension Agent in the Piedmont Region, after which, he rejoined the ranks of consulting foresters. In June 2012, ACES rehired Andy as a Regional Extension Agent in the specialty of Forestry, Wildlife, & Natural Resources. He now covers the Upper Coastal Plain Region, and is housed in Jasper.
Andy is an Alabama Registered Forester, Pesticide Applicator, Prescribed Burn Manager, and Professional Logging Manager. He has been a member of the Society of America Foresters (SAF) since 1983, and became a Certified Forester in 2002. Andy has served the SAF as the Wiregrass Chapter secretary-treasurer in 2003-04 and recently the Alabama Division chairman in 2014. Currently he is part of the Cahaba & Black Warrior Chapters. He was also instrumental in the establishment of the Alabama Prescribed Fire Council in 2007, where he served as vice chair, chair, and immediate past-chair during 2008 – 2010.
Andy and his wife Amy reside in Childersburg, having been married since 1982. They have three grown daughters, two son-in-laws, and four grandchildren. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/17.
George Barker, President of Natural Resource Technologies, LLC, earned a B.S. in Forestry from the University of Florida and a MBA from Auburn University in Montgomery. Since starting a consulting business in 1989, George has actively pursued transferring technology to a usable level for a resource manager. George has 20 years of forestry experience, and is currently the manager of Natural Resource Technologies (NRT) and president of Natural Resource Consulting, Inc. (NRC.) NRT is a software development company that develops GIS software. He has been using GPS for over 12 years. Karen and George Barker have conducted GIS/GPS workshops and training sessions for the forest industry. Source: Préceda Education & Training Course Description, 3/00. Updated 04/05.
Karen Barker, Software Engineer, Natural Resource Technologies, LLC, earned a B.A. in Mathematics with a minor in Computer Science from the University of North Florida and a MBA from Auburn University in Montgomery. Karen has written computer software in a variety of applications ranging from telecommunications, banking, and military contractors. For the past seven years, she has programmed and utilized several GIS programs including AutoCad, ArcInfo (ArcView), and MapInfo. She and George Barker have conducted GIS/GPS workshops and training sessions for the forest industry. Source: Préceda Education & Training Course Description, 3/00. Updated 04/05.
Rebecca J. Barlow. is a 2005 graduate from Mississippi State University where she received her PhD in forest management and a minor in wildlife biology. Between the years of 1994 and 2006 she was a forester with Weyerhaeuser Company in the Mississippi/Alabama region. From 2007 to 2002 she was an Alabama Cooperative Extension System Specialist and Professor in the College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment at Auburn University, where she assisted private forest landowners in the management of their property for multiple uses including traditional forest management, silvopasture, non-timber forest products, and forest aesthetics. In addition, she also taught several courses in forest measurements and land management basics in Auburn University’s School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences. Since June 2022, she has served as the Assistant Director for Ag, Forestry, and Natural Resource programs with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System and Associate Dean for Extension within Auburn University’s College of Agriculture. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/23.
Jon E. Barry graduated from Clemson University with a Ph.D. in forest resources. He also holds a Masters in botany from the University of Arkansas and a bachelors degree from Harding University. Jon currently works for the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service as a forestry specialist. He is stationed at the Southwest Research and Extension Center in Hope, Arkansas. In his position as an Extension specialist, Jon provides technical assistance and training materials for private landowners, county extension agents, and professional foresters. Before joining the Cooperative Extension Service, Jon worked for several years as a consulting forester. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/08.
Ryan Basinger is a Certified Wildlife Biologist with Westervelt Wildlife Services where he develops wildlife and property management plans for landowners across the U.S. Ryan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Wildlife Science from Mississippi State University and a Master’s degree in Wildlife Science from The University of Tennessee. His research focused on the affects of various forest management techniques on browse production, availability, preference, and nutrition for white-tailed deer, as well as nesting and brood-rearing habitat for wild turkeys. Ryan also has conducted extensive food plot research comparing production, nutrition, preference, and availability of various forages planted for deer. He has published numerous articles and is a regular contributor to Quality Deer Management Association’s Quality Whitetails magazine and the Wildlife Trends Journal. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/14.
Lehman H. Bass graduated from Auburn University in 1975 with a BS in Forest Management. Leh began his forestry career as a wood procurement forester for Alabama Wood Products. He progressed to District Forester, Wood Procurement with Georgia Pacific. Leh worked as Asset Manager Pension Fund, first for Evergreen Timberlands and then for Resource Management Service. He formed Green South Land & Timber in 1996 and is currently President of the firm. Leh is a Registered Forester in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi. He is a member of the Association of Consulting Foresters and an ISA Certified Arborist. Source: Personal Résumé, 10/10.
Wayne Bassett is President of The Wildlife Group. Wayne has been growing and working with trees and shrubs for the past twelve years. The focus of The Wildlife Group has been wildlife habitat enhancement. Wayne and his brother Jimmy also own Beck’s Turf, Inc. which is a sod farm. Wayne has served as President of the Alabama Turfgrass Association and has served on the state Wildlife Committee for the Alabama Famers Federation. He has enjoyed God’s creation of the great outdoors all his life. Wayne understands that he is only a caregiver of the land for a short period of time and wants to make sure that he leaves the wildlife habitat in better shape than he found it. Over the past six years Wayne has spent a considerable amount of time looking for superior trees to add to The Wildlife Group. Wayne teamed up with Auburn University’s 75 year old Chinese Chestnut program and now the New AU Buck Chestnut Package and the Turkey Package has been introduced. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/08.
Sylvia K. Bates is currently a land conservation consultant and broker from New Hampshire. She assists non-profit conservation organizations, private landowners and public agencies with conservation projects and related initiatives. Ms. Bates designed and taught a summer course for law students on land trusts at the Vermont Law School and has worked with landowners in the negotiation of conservation easements since 1989. She is a graduate of Yale University and the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Source: Pradcom Course Description, 4/00.
Martin Battilana of Monroeville Alabama is a full time trapper contracting in southwestern Alabama for private land owners and various government agencies. Presently most of his work is centered in Clark County with Scotch Lumber of Fulton Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/04.
Joe Baya is the Editor-in-Chief of the Multimedia Publishing company Great Days Outdoors Media and a Land Professional licensed in Alabama and Florida with National Land Realty. Growing up on Dauphin Island Alabama, Joe spent his youth working on the many charter boats that fished the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Those early years left an indelible mark on Joe’s professional pursuits, never settling for anything less than combining work with play. With a singular focus on marketing to consumers through content, Joe is certain that the most important prospect for any business to get in front of the person who is looking for their products WHEN they are looking for them. His passion for the outdoor lifestyle has extended into his business career where he assists landowners and buyers as well as businesses nationwide who are marketing to consumers in the hunting, fishing, and real estate industries. Joe is married to Stephanie, which he met while she was attending the University of Florida’s dental program and he was earning his Master’s of Business Administration. They have an 18 month old son, Mac, and currently reside in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/19.
Mark David Bedsole. After graduating with a degree in Forestry from Auburn University in 2000, Mark went to work with Georgia Pacific Corporation as a Procurement Forester. He was also the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) contact for the West Alabama and East Mississippi Region. Being the SFI contact for the region, Mark was able to gain valuable experience by actively participating in third party environmental audits to help GP gain their SFI label. In September 2007, Mark helped form Canebrake Forestry LLC. Canebrake Forestry LLC is a small forestry company made up of three Registered Foresters. Mark is a Registered Forester in both Alabama and Mississippi. Mark is also a Certified Burn Manager in Alabama. In 2008-2009, he earned a Real Estate License (Inactive) and a Trainee Real Property Appraiser License (Inactive) in the State of Alabama. In June of 2009, Mark started hosting a 30-minute local talk radio show (Forestry Views) on 104.9 FM WSLY Fox Sports Radio out of York, Alabama. The idea behind Forestry Views is to help educate landowners as well as the general public about the important role the forestry business has in the Southeast. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/09.
Bob Beeland is the senior business education specialist with The University of Georgia Business Outreach Services. Mr. Beeland has held a variety of positions in the textile, petroleum, and pulp/paper industries. He began as an industrial engineer, then moved into sales, consulting, training, and administration. He was also an executive with a large international association related to the pulp and paper industry. Mr. Beeland has taught thousands of entrepreneurs through programs sponsored by local organizations, businesses, and state associations. Source: The University of Georgia Continuing Education Course Description, 1/01.
Mark Beeler is a 1975 graduate from Mississippi State University, receiving a BS in Forestry. Following his graduation, Mark served as a forester for a timber company in Arkansas. As a district forester managing 35,000 acres of forest land, he implemented the largest site preparation and reforestation program in the company’s history. He spent the next several years working in a variety of forestry positions with private industry and state agencies. Mark has been employed with The University of Alabama as University Forester since January, 1989. He has served with the Alabama Forestry Commission as a Forest Product Specialist and he assisted the Alabama Development Office in Montgomery in the attraction of new wood-related industries, market development and expansion for existing industries. Mark is a Registered Forester in the State of Alabama and a member of the Society of American Foresters, Alabama Forestry Association and the Alabama Forest Owners Association. Mark has been married to his wife, Robbie, for 35 years and they have 3 children and one grandchild. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/12.
James M. Beers retired from the US Fish and Wildlife Service after 30 years. Jim served as a wildlife biologist, wetlands biologist, special agent, and refuge manager. After working for the Utah Fish & Game and spending four years as a Reserve Officer in the US Navy, he joined the US Fish & Wildlife Service and was stationed in Devils Lake, North Dakota; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Grand Island, Nebraska; New York City; and Washington, DC. While in Washington Jim was a Congressional Fellow, the Chief of Operations for the National Wildlife Refuge System, the Program Coordinator for the Animal Damage Control Program, and for his final seven years he was the wildlife biologist in the Central Office who served as Project Officer on nearly all national wildlife projects funded with Pittman-Robertson money. Appointees of the Clinton Administration cleansed the US Fish and Wildlife Service of many wildlife management biologists like Jim to replace them with new age employees who supported eliminating the management of plants and animals for sustainable uses as spelled out in laws. Jim resisted and eventually testified before Congress about how the Service was misusing millions of dollars intended for state wildlife management programs to do things prohibited by Congress. This was being done in collusion with animal rights and environmental organizations. After spending ten months at home with full pay and no work assignment, Jim Beers accepted a cash settlement and retired in 1999. He holds a Bachelors in Wildlife Resources from Utah State University and a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Northern Colorado. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/03.
Shelby Belcher is an experienced landowner and professional in Alabama’s forestry and real estate industries. With a background spanning timber and land management, livestock farming, and both residential and commercial real estate sales and development, Shelby’s expertise is as diverse as it is extensive. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/24.
William Bentley is the principal of Salmon Brook Associates in North Granby CT. He recently retired as Professor of Forest Policy and Management at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse NY, where he was the Forestry Chair. Bill spent half his career with forestry schools, including Michigan and Yale. The other half was with a variety of private sector organizations, including Manager Forestry Research, Crown Zellerbach Corporation, Program Officer for the Ford Foundation in India, and Senior Program Officer with Winrock International in Arkansas. He recently served as chair/facilitator of the Blue Ribbon Panel on America’s Forest Research Policy, which was housed with Connecticut Forest & Parks Association. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/04.
Clinton J. Bentz, CPA, CMA is a Member with Boldt, Carlisle & Smith, LLC, a full-service CPA firm with offices located in Albany, Salem and Stayton, Oregon. He is both a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Management Accountant. A large part of his practice is devoted to serving the special needs of agricultural and forestry clients.
Clint is a popular speaker and author on estate planning and taxation issues for both lay audiences and tax professionals. His most recent work is entitled “Ties to the Land: Your Family Forest Heritage” published in partnership with the OSU Extension Service and the Austin Family Business Program.
Clint is the National Chairman of the American Tree Farm System, and is the first family forest landowner to hold this post in the organization’s 65 year history. He is also a Trustee of the American Forest Foundation, and a board member of the Oregon Tree Farm System. He is a member and advisor to the Oregon Small Woodlands Association. He is an Oregon Master Woodland Manager, and is President of the Oregon Aquaculture Association. He recently helped re-write Oregon’s property tax program for small woodland owners.
Clint lives in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains with his wife and six children. Source:?Personal Résumé, 1/08.
Sam Berry is a Technical Specialist for Forestry Suppliers, Inc. located in Jackson, MS. He is a native of Gulfport, MS and a Graduate of Mississippi State University with a B.S. degree in Forest Management. Sam worked as a County Forester for the Mississippi Forestry Commission for several years where some of his responsibilities included forest management of State owned lands, private landowner assistance with cost sharing programs, prescribed burning, and wildfire coordinator for Jackson Co, MS. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/05.
Paula Best, CPCU, Unit Claim Manager for Southeastern Claims and the Davis-Garvin Companies. Paula has been in the insurance industry 20+ years. She has been with Travelers and Aetna companies before joining Southeastern Claims Service. Paula is experienced in Property Claims; Casualty Claims, Liability Claims and Catastrophe Claims. She is a graduate of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg Florida and earned her Charter Property Casualty Underwriter designation in 1994. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/03.
Pete Bettinger is a professor in the School of Forestry at the University of Georgia. He has worked for forestry companies in the southern and western United States, and has taught at Oregon State University and the University of Georgia. His interests lie in forest planning and geographic information systems, and he is currently involved in a hurricane response project for the Department of Defense. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/09.
Larry Bishop is the Forest Management and Taxation Specialist for the U.S. Forest Service, State and Private Forestry, Southern Region, Atlanta, Georgia. He holds a BS in Forest Management and a Masters Degree in Public Administration. Source: Marion County Forestry Planning Committee Course Description, 7/99.
Craig Franklin Blair is President and CEO of Resource Management Service, LLC (RMS), with responsibility for the company’s investments and operating businesses in the United States, Australia, Brazil, China and New Zealand. As President, he leads an experienced team of forestry and financial professionals that manage a global timberland portfolio of over $4 billion.
Before assuming his current role, Craig directed RMS’ investment management team with responsibility for investment strategy, research, business development, portfolio management and client relations. Over a 30-year career he has held a variety of positions at RMS and in the forest products industry, with experience in acquisitions, resource planning, forest management and wood procurement.
Craig holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Forest Management from the University of Arkansas at Monticello and a Master of Forestry degree in Forest Business from Mississippi State University. He is Chairman of RMS’ Board of Managers and Investment Committee and currently serves as a board member of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, Inc. (SFI) and the National Alliance of Forest Owners (NAFO).
Founded in 1950, RMS is a privately-held timberland investment firm serving pension funds, endowments, foundations and family offices. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/13.
Donald Van Blaricom brings a solid knowledge of forestry and management practices to teaching GIS from his work with consulting foresters and landowners. Donald has extensive experience applying GIS technologies to forestry and natural resource management. He works with the FORS Institute as a GIS analyst. Source: The University of Georgia Continuing Education Course Description, 5/00.
Dave Bolin is an Assistant Oil and Gas Supervisor for the State Oil and Gas Board of Alabama and currently serves as the Head of the Technical Operations and Ground Water Protection Division. Dave began his state employment with the Geological Survey in 1979 and transferred to the Board in 1982. His educational background includes a BS degree from The University of Kentucky, an MS degree in Soil Physics with an Environmental Specialty, and a PhD in Ground Water Hydrology from The Ohio State University. He also received a second Masters degree in Petroleum Engineering from The University of Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/05.
Bruce E. Borders is a professor of Forest Mensuration and Inventory at The University of Georgia Daniel B. Warnell School of Forest Resources, where he is the Director of the Consortium for Accelerated Pine Production. During the past twenty years, Dr. Borders has been involved in forest research aimed at quantifying the effects of different silvicultural practices on growth and yield of southern pines. Source: The University of Georgia Continuing Education Course Description, 2/99.
Andrew Bosserman is a Certified Public Accountant, tax attorney, and former IRS agent with an in-depth knowledge of the timber and Christmas tree industries gained through previously owning and operating his own tree farm in Ohio. Andrew lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his family, where they enjoy hiking in the North Carolina mountains, spending time with family and friends, and volunteering at their local church. Source: Personal Résumé, 2/24.
Jeroen H. F. Kaijser Bots was born in The Netherlands and moved to the USA in 1995. He obtained his MBA from Western Carolina University in 1996 where he specialized in marketing & small business. He is the owner of Pine Needles International, which is closely affiliated with Southern Pine Needles, one of the larger pine straw wholesalers in the Southeast. PNI was started in 2003 as a direct response to the extreme shortage in the pine needle industry. Jeroen’s goal is to educate and promote individual forest owners to start their own pine needle harvesting operation. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/03.
Tom Bourland is vice president of Crawford and Bourland, Inc., a forestry, wildlife and environmental consulting firm in Shreveport, Louisiana. Prior to forming Crawford and Bourland, Tom was the Manager of Wildlife Ecology for International Paper’s mid-south region which contained 2.3 million acres in Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas. Tom is frequently called upon to lead seminars and to provide expert testimony on wetland regulations and endangered species, including testifying before the 104th Congress on Endangered Species Act (ESA) reform. His articles on the ESA have recently been published in the Journal of Forestry, Forest Landowner and The Consultant. Tom has presented over 60 papers on such topics as wildlife conservation, endangered species, wetlands, regulatory reform, corporate environmental management, and forestry best management practices. Tom is a graduate of Mississippi State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Forestry and a Master of Science degree in Wildlife Ecology. He is a Certified Wildlife Biologist and a Registered Forester in Mississippi and Alabama. He is a member, board member, and/or committee member of the Association of Consulting Foresters, the Wildlife Society, the Society of American Foresters, and the Louisiana Forestry Association. He is past president of the Louisiana Chapter of the Wildlife Society. He also serves on the board of the Sand County Foundation which oversees the management of the Aldo Leopold Memorial Reserve near Baraboo, Wisconsin. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/99.
Jack Boykin received a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Auburn University in 1961 and did Masters Studies in Management Science at the University of South Alabama in 1971. He did Postgraduate Studies at the U.S. Naval War College in 1963 and received an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from Huntingdon College in 1993. Mr. Boykin served as a Lieutenant in the United States Navy from 1961 to 1965. He currently serves as Chairman/CEO of Cello Energy, LLC and Chairman/CEO of Boykin Trust, LLC. He is a member of the State of Alabama Industrial Council of Engineering Education and a former member of the Executive Committee of the Private Industries Council of Mobile and Baldwin Counties. He is also a member of the American Chemical Society and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Mr. Boykin is Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Emeritus, of Huntingdon College and a Member and former Chairman of the Auburn University Alumni Engineering Advisory Council. He is a Former Member of the National Development Fund, Chairman, Research Foundation of Auburn and Former Chairman of the State of Alabama Ethics Commission. Mr. Boykin received Huntingdon College’s Golden Hawk Award for American Free Enterprise and the Eagle Scout Award and God and Country Award from Boy Scouts of America. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/09.
Doug Boylan has over twenty five years of electric utility experience at Southern Company in a variety of research areas related to power plant performance. His studies have included cooling towers and other power plant heat rejection systems, vibration analysis and equipment diagnostics, combustion and alternative fuels programs, and investigation of biomass co-firing as a renewable energy source. Currently he is a Consulting Research Engineer in Southern Company’s Research and Environmental Affairs Organization. Doug earned BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering at Tulane University. He is a registered Professional Engineer. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/02.
Dr. David Bransby is a Professor of Energy Crops and Bioenergy in the College of Agriculture at Auburn University in Alabama. He has over 20 years of experience in the field of bioenergy, is a national leader in research on switchgrass, other energy crops, and bioenergy in general, and has an international reputation for his work at Auburn. Dr. Bransby is author or co-author on over 300 technical publications, and has attracted over $7 million in grant money to fund his research. He has been involved in both small and commercial scale projects, serves on the editorial boards of two international bioenergy journals, and acts as a consultant for several private companies in the emerging cellulosic biofuel industry. In September of 2006 Dr. Bransby briefed President Bush and Alabama Governor Bob Riley in Birmingham, Alabama, on development of the cellulosic biofuels industry, and in February 2007 he was invited to the White House for further discussions on this topic with the President and Secretary of Energy, Sam Bodman. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/08.
James G. Brazil, Jr. is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Financial Planner at Jamison Money Farmer PC in Tuscaloosa. He enjoys providing tax, accounting, business consulting and wealth management services to individuals and businesses. He is part of an experienced timber practice group that works with timber mills, timber managers, timber farmers and clients that hold timber for investment to make sure they are maximizing their deductions and classifying their timber income correctly. For over 90 years Jamison Money Farmer has been working with clients to optimize their tax situation and help them understand the complicated tax laws. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/18.
Walter Bready is the Georgia Trails Education Specialist, taking on this position in 2005. He worked for 24 years in the computer service business, and more recently serves in a field staff position for the Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association. He had worked on natural surface trails for many years and then in 2001 completed crew leader training, studying trail design and crew leadership with Mike Riter. Walter currently lives in Woodstock, Georgia and travels the Southeastern region of the International Mountain Bicycling Association to promote the sport of mountain biking to trail enthusiasts and advocacy groups. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/12.
Sam Breyfogle assists forest landowners in coordinating a suite of land management projects. He created the forestry consulting firm, Wildland Management Services LLC (WMS), in 2007 which has served private non-industrial, corporate, public, and non-profit clients in the Southeastern United States since. WMS specializes in project management and implementation activities for forest resource assessment, management, and marketing. Prior to establishing WMS, Sam served more than 24 years in forest industry as a timber buyer, land manager, and staff resource forester. He is a Society of American Foresters Certified Forester with graduate forestry degree from Duke University and an undergraduate degree from The University of the South. He is a member of the Association of Consulting Foresters registered to practice in Alabama and Georgia. Sam’s demonstrated skill sets include coordinating assessment and inventory of forestland for timber and habitat management, forest management planning, on-site development and supervision of timber buy and sale agreements, development of forest appraisals and baseline documentation reporting, management of forest vendor contracts; implementation and coordination of prescribed burning, conservation easement coordination, and wetland delineation. WMS associates and subcontractors include graduate foresters and biologists and other professional contract service providers who are available under the direct supervision of Sam to deliver state-of-the-art forestry services in the implementation of varied client projects. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/19.
Tom Brickman helps people buy, sell and care for rural land. Located in Birmingham, Alabama, Tom has 40+ years of experience in the sale and management of rural land across the United States and in Central America. He is a Registered Forester (and son of a forester), Real Estate Broker and timberland owner. He is a member of the Association of Consulting Foresters and the Realtors Land Institute. In his career he has brokered the sale of over 200,000 acres of timberland and farm land. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/20.
John Britt is a consulting forester who helps individual and institutional forest landowners meet their varied and multiple forestland ownership objectives. Prior to establishing John Britt & Associates, John spent over eighteen years with forest industry working on company and individually owned lands. John Britt & Associates provides a wide range of timber management services from regeneration to harvest and other forest management services to enhance the non-timber related benefits that you want to enjoy on your property. John is a forester with degrees from Clemson and Auburn Universities and is renowned for his expertise in forest regeneration and timber productivity improvement. During John’s career with forest industry he conducted applied research on the use of herbicides, seedling quality, and spatial arrangement of seedlings during planting, some of the results of John’s research can be seen in the forestry literature. John lives in Harris County, Georgia and has held appointments to the County Planning Commission and the State Board of Registration for Foresters. Source: Personal Résumé, 10/10.
Julia Brock is associate professor of History at the University of Alabama, where she coordinates a concentration in public history. Her publications include Closed Seasons: The Transformation of Hunting in the Modern South (UNC Press, 2025), which explores the cultural and legal shifts in Southern hunting practices, and Teaching Public History, co-edited with Evan Faulkenbury, a practical guide to public history pedagogy. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/25.
Dr. Dale G. Brockway is a Research Ecologist with the Southern Research Station of the U.S. Forest Service, in Auburn, Alabama. During the past 40 years, he has conducted studies on (1) biogeochemical cycles, (2) ecological classification of forests, (3) factors influencing biological diversity, (4) fire ecology of forests and grasslands, (5) ecosystem restoration, and (6) sustainable forest management through the Pro-B method for implementing selection silviculture.
He has made numerous presentations at meetings of scientific and management organizations and provided technical assistance to land mangers through field consultations and workshops. His publications include scientific journal articles, symposia proceedings, book chapters, and technology transfer reports. He is a long-time member of the Society of American Foresters, Ecological Society of America, and Society for Ecological Restoration.
He is an avid outdoorsman and traveler. His interests include hunting, hiking, photography, water sports, and cross-country skiing. He has enjoyed living in a variety of ecosystem types in the United States and learning about nature, culture, and cuisine on four continents. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/14.
Beau Brodbeck is both an Extension Specialist and an Affiliate Faculty in the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences at Auburn University. Beau holds a PhD in forestry and is both an Alabama Registered Forester and ISA Certified Arborist. Over the past seventeen years Beau has worked in various facets of forest and urban forest management. He began his career as a forestry consultant before transitioning to become an Urban Forest Specialist at Auburn University Extension managing the Alabama hurricane recovery program. Over the past few years Beau has developed a number of educational programs and publications to serve the forestry and urban forestry communities in Alabama. His research has focused on urban forestry practices as well as migrant labor within the forest industry. Beau currently serves on the Research Committee and as a Trustee at the Tree Fund and as the past president of the International Society of Arboriculture Southern Chapter. Source: Personal Résumé, 04/18.
Christian Brodbeck is a Research Engineer with the Biosystems Engineering Department at Auburn University. Christian holds a B.S. degree in Biosystems Engineering and a M.S. degree in Civil Engineering, is a registered Professional Engineer. He has worked for Auburn University for 12 years focusing his first four years of research on Precision Agriculture. Christian spent the next six years working in the area of bioenergy, in particular conversion technologies of woody biomass and harvesting logistics. During the last year Christian has had the opportunity to shift some of his research focus back to Precision Agriculture and has been working on developing an Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) program for the College of Agriculture. He is a Part 107 licensed remote pilot with over 300 recorded flights. His UAS research areas are primarily in the applications of UAS for use as a management tool in agricultural and natural resource systems. Source: Personal Résumé, 04/18.
Lynn Brooks is an award-winning news director and anchor for WVUA 23. With more than 25 years of broadcasting experience, Lynn’s work has been featured on numerous networks, including CNN, BBC, ESPN 2, National Geographic Channel, HBO and The Weather Channel. Lynn oversees the station’s largest department while appearing nightly on the 5 and 6 p.m. News. Lynn also hosts live programs, including the University of Alabama Homecoming Parade, alongside first lady of Alabama football, Terry Saban.
When she’s not working, Lynn enjoys international travel and deep sea fishing. She is happily married, has an energetic 8-year-old daughter named Emma, and a rescue dog named Ruby Sue.
Michael Brooks is the Associate Director of the Alabama International Trade Center (AITC), an economic development program of the University of Alabama designed to help new and existing small businesses increase their exports. The AITC utilizes professional staff, students, and industry consultants to help businesses enter and start selling in foreign markets. It also serves as a resource for local, state, and regional organizations on international business research and development projects.
Michael has been with the Trade Center since 1998, and leads several Center programs including business development, trade counseling, and export financing. His recent work for the Center has focused on the food products industry where he has organized a number of successful trade missions between exporters and foreign buyers from a number of emerging markets. In 2007 he was honored as the State Star for Alabama, an award granted by the Alabama Small Business Development Center Network that recognizes exemplary performance and contribution to the small business community. In that same year he was the first person in Alabama to achieve the CGBP (Certified Global Business Professional) designation established by NASBITE International. In 2010 he served as the interim state director for Alabama SBDC Network’s Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC), which seeks to grow Alabama’s economy by helping existing businesses identify, bid on and win military and other federal contracts.
Brooks, a native of Slidell, Louisiana, received an MBA in Strategic Management & Marketing and a Bachelor of Science in International Business from The University of Alabama. He currently serves on the board of directors for the AlabamaGermany Partnership and the North Alabama International Trade Association (NAITA), and is an active member of the Japan-America Society of Alabama (JASA) and the Alabama India Business Partnership (AIBP). Source: Personal Résumé, 4/12.
Al Brown is a third generation timber man. His grandfather was a landowner as well as his father who was also a logging contractor. Al grew up in the timber business and upon graduating from high school went on to get his Bachelor of Science degree in Forest Management from Auburn University in 1987. After graduating he went on to work in a variety of forestry businesses such as consulting, wood dealers, and paper companies such as Scott Paper Company. In the 1990’s he started a timber company and was a wood dealer for International Paper and Boise Cascade. Today Al is a forestry consultant specializing in timber sales, timber management, and timber appraisals. He has been working as a consultant for 10 years and lives in Saraland, Alabama. Source: Personal Resume, 6/19.
Hayes D. Brown is a lawyer practicing in Birmingham, Alabama. He obtained his law degree from Cumberland School of Law and is a partner with Monroe, Trippe, Brown & Adair. A substantial portion of his practice deals with business and forestry related matters. Hayes is a graduate of the Auburn University School of Forestry and a recipient of the E. A. Hauss Forestry Scholarship for outstanding academic achievement. He is a past president of the Alabama Forest Owners’ Association and currently serves as its General Counsel. He is a woodland owner and regularly deals with timber sales, site prep and planting, hunting leases, and deals with the sometimes complex relationships with his 152 neighbors. Hayes is married and has 5 children from ages 14 years to 3 years. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/02.
Justin Hunter Brown was born in his family’s veneer mill in Maplesville, AL and grew up in the woods around Randolph, Alabama. His childhood experiences drove him to pursue a dual degree in Agricultural Business & Economics and Professional Forestry from Auburn University, graduating in 2012. He then spent time at McKinley & Lanier Forest Resources as a Measurements Forester before becoming a registered forester and co-founder of an upstart Forestry Consulting and Unmanned Aerial Systems Applications company, Razor Precision, Inc. RPI is keenly focused on leveraging technology and human resources to provide economical forest management solutions to landowners and managers alike. Specific to small landowners, RPI is focused on education about forestry in general, especially timber marketing and sales functions, what management options are feasible and available, and what the results of any action may be tomorrow and many years down the road. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/15.
Micah R. Brown received his Juris Doctor, graduating cum laude, from the University of Arkansas School of Law, after earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Central Arkansas. While in law school, he worked as a law clerk for the Office of the Arkansas Attorney General in the Consumer Protection Division. During his time clerking for the Attorney General, he worked on various agricultural, environmental, and public utility law issues. During his second year of law school, Micah began working at the Center as a research fellow. As a research fellow, Micah primarily worked on tracking and analyzing agricultural and environmental federal litigation. After graduating law school in May of 2020, he joined the Center full-time. At the Center, his primary areas of research are finance and credit, commercial transactions, secured transactions, federal crop insurance, and foreign ownership of agricultural land. Micah is licensed to practice law in the state of Arkansas. Additionally, he is a certified mediator in the state of Arkansas. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/23.
Paul T. Brown is a professional wildlife and outdoor photographer. You have seen his work on the cover and in articles in Alabama Wildlife hundreds of times. Paul has also published two coffee table wildlife photography books, Paul Brown’s Wild Visions and Wildlife of the South. Both have awed people across the U.S. Source: Alabama Wildlife Federation Seminar Description, 6/00.
R. B. “Bear” Brown of Valley Head, Alabama is a long-time timber-man and saw-miller. After two years of planting Paulownia, he says, “I do not intend to ever plant another Pine tree.” Nestled in a valley head in the southern Cumberland Plateau Mountains is where R. B. Brown and his sons make their home, living off the land and its rich timber resources. Timber has always been a way of life with the Browns. The Browns recently hosted the annual American Paulownia Association Conference and Field Day, where they exhibited everything from their Paulownia plantation trees to their hand-made Paulownia furniture in their fabulous, wood-paneled homes. Considering themselves “timber folks,” because timber has been good to the Browns. They have planted, and reforested with most of the native species, propagating many of the seedlings from their on-farm, tree nursery. They have old, established pine plantations growing in the valley, and most recently plantation Paulownia. The Browns also manage hundreds of acres of native forest on their lands. They have logged, sawmilled and split rails for fences. Source: http://www.tropaul.com/bear.htm
Sean S. Brown has been a Land Specialist for Tutt Land Company since April of 2010. In 1999 Sean graduated from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and earned a BS in business management and finance.
As a young child, I developed a passion for the outdoors and all sports including fishing and hunting. Over the years I have been able to manage our family farms which have given me experience in many land management areas including: pond management, timber management, wildlife management, habitat improvement and cabin and barn construction. These factors contribute to my enjoyment of the buying and selling of timber, farm and hunting properties. I enjoy using my experience to assist landowners with wildlife management through the use of Quality Deer Management (QDM) practices.
While at Tutt Land Company I have been able to help my clients with the sale and acquisition of thousands of acres. My passion is helping families find that perfect property they have always dreamed about. With our extensive network of buyers and sellers in Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas no property is too big or too small.
Sean and wife Brooke are residents of Trussville, Alabama. They have three sons: twins, Ford and Brady, and Walker. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/13.
Rick Bruin was born and raised in and around Pendleton County, Kentucky on August 1, 1959. He graduated high school in 1977, joined the U.S. Navy at seventeen, where he served 20 years, and retired from active duty at 38. He retired to central Alabama and began utilizing goats to assist in land reclamation, on a farm located in Coosa County, Alabama. Following the death of his first wife, Patricia, he relocated back to his home state of Kentucky and continued developing marketing, land utilization programs, breeding programs and health care practices to assist fellow producers in Kentucky to expand and make more profitable the growing goat industry in his region. He has been actively raising goats as his main livestock interest for a little over 7 years. He has recently located Walking Stick Acres back to Coosa County, and plans to demonstrate new land maintenance and management techniques for the improvement of not only traditional agricultural land, but commercial properties and timber forests as well. Rick is a former member of the Meat Goat Marketing Task Force for the Department of Agriculture, in Frankfort, Kentucky. He is currently a member of the Northern Kentucky Goat Producers Association, American Boer Goat Association, and the International Boer Goat Association. Recently, he as been approached by the Community Farm Alliance to help establish an in-state marketing infrastructure. The Community Farm Alliance is a agricultural lobbying group for the farmers. Source: Personal Résumé, 05/04, updated 08/04.
David W. Bryant, Jr. “Winston” is president of Foothills Timber Company in Heflin , Alabama and has been actively involved with the buying and selling of forest products in East Central Alabama for over 24 years. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/11.
Danny Bryant graduated from Mississippi State University in December 1984 with a degree in Forestry. He went to work for the Mississippi Forestry Commission in April of 1985 as a Forester Trainee and then worked as County Forester in several different counties over the next 13 years. In 1998, Danny moved into the Forest Protection Division and became Fire Training Officer in 2000. He serves as Course Coordinator and/or Lead Instructor for many beginner and intermediate fire training courses each year. Danny has been involved with the MSU Prescribed Burning Short Course since 1999. In 1989, he became involved in western fire details and worked up through crew and single resource positions. He has served as Division/Group Supervisor on the Southern Area Incident Management Team (Red Team) since 1999 and was certified as Type 2 Operations Section Chief in 2003. Danny lives in Madison, Mississippi with his wife and two children ages 7 and 9. Source: Personal Résumé, 09/03.
Roger Bryant is a Software Engineer and Consulting Forester from Smyrna, Georgia. He currently works full-time as a Software Engineer for CareerBuilder.com and is the owner of Genesis Forest Management. Roger recently graduated with his Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Southern Polytechnic State University in Atlanta and has a Bachelor of Science in Forestry from the University of Georgia. Roger, a self-proclaimed gadget guy, enjoys blogging at ForestGeek.com and plans to relaunch the site later this year with new content and a new look. Roger is a Registered Forester and has over 15 years of experience in forestry research, timber procurement, and land management. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/15.
Michael Buchart of Baton Rouge, Louisiana assumed the role of executive secretary for the Southern Christmas Tree Association (SCTA) January 2012.
The SCTA is a non-profit association of primarily choose and cut Christmas tree farmers in the states of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi organized to promote and facilitate education and development of the Southern Christmas tree industry. SCTA is a group of dedicated and enthusiastic farmers, business owners and various government and educational representatives interested in providing the best possible experience for individuals and families while preparing for and enjoying the Christmas season. Besides Christmas trees, most growers offer additional products and experiences to enhance their client’s visit. Choose and cut farms are one of the few farming endeavors that enable consumers, particularly urban, and their younger family members the opportunity to actually go on-site and experience first hand a real, working farm.
Mike is a 1979 Louisiana State University graduate having received a Bachelor of Science in Forestry and Wildlife Management. During and immediately after LSU, Mike worked four years offshore construction for Brown and Root Construction in the Bay of Campeche, Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea until he entered his profession as a forester. July 2011 Mike retired from the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry ending a 30 year career where he was involved in every aspect of Louisiana’s forest industries both domestically, nationally and internationally while serving numerous administrative and program management roles for the department. Mike is extremely pleased to have the opportunity to facilitate growth of the SCTA.
The Southern Christmas Tree Association holds annual meetings/conferences, typically during August and in different locations, when members welcome and encourage all interested in the industry to attend. The association is a self-help organization proud of facilitating growth amongst choose and cut farming operations. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/15.
Steve Bullard is internationally recognized as an authority on forest economics and the applied issues of forest valuation and investment analysis. Steve has published widely in scientific and professional journals such as Forest Science, the Journal of Forestry, the Southern Journal of Applied Forestry, and the Canadian Journal of Forest Research. He has also published widely in Forest Landowner, Tree Talk and other magazines for private forest landowners. His recently published workbook Basic Concepts in Forest Valuation and Investment Analysis is becoming the standard reference on this important topic. Dr. Bullard is a research forester with the Forest and Wildlife Research Center at Mississippi State University (MSU), and a full time professor in MSU’s academic Department of Forestry. He currently leads a research project on the economics of commercial timber production on private lands in the South. Steve received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in forestry and forest economics from Mississippi State University, and a Ph.D. in forest economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is a member of the Society of American Foresters and is a registered Forester in Mississippi. Source: Préceda Education & Training Course Description, 4/99, and Mississippi State University Continuing Education Course Description, 9/99.
Jimmy Bullock is Senior Vice President, Forest Sustainability, for Resource Management Service, LLC (RMS). Jimmy oversees sustainable forestry policy and programs; advocacy on forestry issues; and environmental, wildlife, and recreation policy and programs for RMS-managed timberlands in the United States. He also has responsibility for forest certification and audit programs for RMS-managed timberlands in the US and globally in Brazil, China, Australia, and New Zealand. Jimmy earned his B.S. degree in Forestry from Mississippi State University in 1980 and his M.S. degree in Wildlife Ecology from Mississippi State in 1982. A Certified Wildlife Biologist, Mississippi Registered Forester and Society of American Foresters Certified Forester, Jimmy is on the Board of Directors for the National Conservation Leadership Institute, the Quality Deer Management Association and the Catch-A-Dream Foundation. He is a Professional Member of the Boone and Crockett Club. Jimmy and his wife, Jan, live in Bogue Chitto, Mississippi. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/15.
Daniel Bumgarner is a Graduate of Western Carolina University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Natural Resource Management and a partner in the Demopolis based wildlife management company, Wildlife Management Services, LLC. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/01.
Steven G. Burak, President of Sizemore & Sizemore Inc., holds a B.S.F. and M.F. degrees from Rutgers University and Duke University, resp. He holds the MAI designation from the Appraisal Institute, is a registered forester in five states, and is a certified general real estate appraiser in four states. Steve has taught short courses and workshops on timberland appraisal throughout the U.S. Source: Préceda Education & Training Course Description, 3/99.
Grady Stephen Burdette is a native of Lanett, Alabama. Stephen earned a BS degree in Forest Engineering from Auburn University. In his career he has practiced forestry mainly in the southeast in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, and South Carolina, but also used his forestry experience as a missionary in Morocco. For the last 9.5 years he has worked for American Forest Management, a national forestry consulting firm, and is now the district manager for the Prattville district. Stephen is married to Claudia Burdette and they have 6 children. They reside in Eclectic, Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/19.
Loren Wes Burger is Associate Director of the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, Associate Director of the Forest and Wildlife Research Center, Mississippi State University, and Dale Arner Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology in the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Aquaculture at Mississippi State University. Wes holds B.S. degrees in Biology and Mathematics from Murray State University, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Wildlife Biology from University of Missouri-Columbia. Over the past 20 years, his research has focused on measuring environmental benefits and services produced by conservation practices in working agricultural and forested landscapes. He has secured more than $19 million in research grants and authored more than 225 publications including: 133 scientific journal articles, 14 book chapters, and 79 semi-technical bulletins and articles. Wes has been a leader in the precision conservation movement emphasizing strategic delivery of targeted conservation practices in working landscapes. His research has informed farm bill policy and shaped conservation delivery at state, regional and national scales. In his current role as Associate Director, he works to define, develop, and administer a broadly-based research program of national significance in agriculture and natural resources. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/01.
Bryan Burhans is Director of Land Management Programs for the National Wild Turkey Federation. He oversees the NWTF’s private lands outreach program, Wild Turkey Woodlands, as well as the Conservation Seed, Seed Subsidy and Project Help programs. He also works with partnerships with Natural Resources Conservation Service and state and private forestry agencies. He received his Assoc. of Science and B.S. degree in Wildlife Science from The Pennsylvania State University and a M.S. degree in Wildlife and Fisheries Biology from Frostburg State University. His graduate research examined the winter habitat use by wild turkeys in western Virginia. Bryan has also worked as a wildlife biologist for the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Source: Personal Résumé, 10/04.
James S. Burling is an attorney with Pacific Legal Foundation, a nonprofit, tax-exempt public interest legal Foundation. The Foundation was formed in 1973 to litigate nationwide in defense of individual and economic freedoms and to represent responsible citizens supporting sound environmental and land use litigation. Before becoming an attorney with Pacific Legal Foundation, Mr. Burling was employed as an exploration geologist for AMAX Exploration in Tucson from 1977 to 1980. Mr. Burling later attended the University of Arizona College of Law in Tucson, where he served as an editor for the Law Review and received a J.D. degree in 1983. He had previously received a Masters degree in geological sciences from Brown University and an undergraduate degree from Hamilton College in New York. Mr. Burling has worked with Pacific Legal Foundation since 1983, litigating cases from Alaska to Florida. Mr. Burling is currently a principal in the Foundation’s Property Rights Practice Group. Mr. Burling litigates in a wide variety of private property, natural resource, public land, and environmental legal issues. He has been a frequent lecturer at continuing legal education seminars and is a planning co-chair for the American Law Institute – American Bar Association’s continuing legal education seminar on regulatory takings, Inverse Condemnation and Related Government Liability. He has also organized Federalist Society seminars on property rights. Mr. Burling is also a frequent guest lecturer before community and property rights organizations on subjects ranging from the regulation of wetlands and endangered species, federal land policy, zoning, regulatory exactions, the public trust doctrine, and the “taking” of private property. On February 26, 2001, Mr. Burling successfully argued a major property rights case, Palazzolo v. Rhode Island, before the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Burling is married to Angela Burling and resides with his family in Sacramento.
Recent publications:
James S. Burling, Private Property Rights and the Environment after Palazzolo, 30 Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review 1 (2002)
James S. Burling, The Latest Take on Background Principles and the States’ Law of Property After Lucas and Palazzolo, 24 University of Hawaii Law Review 497 (2002)
James S. Burling, Can the Existence of Value in Property Avert a Regulatory Taking When Economically Beneficial Use Has Been Destroyed?, in Takings Sides on Takings Issues: Public and Private Perspectives, (Thomas Roberts, ed. 2002)
James S. Burling, Protecting Property Rights in Aquatic Resources After Lucas, in Water Law–Trends, Policies, and Practice (Kathleen Marion Carr and James D. Crammond, eds., 1995)
James S. Burling, Property Rights, Endangered Species, Wetlands, and Other Critters–Is it Against Nature to Pay for a Taking?, 27 Land and Water Law Review 309 (1992) Source: Personal Résumé, 10/03.
H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D. is one of the country’s leading authorities on energy and environmental issues.
He is the lead analyst of the National Center for Policy Analysis’ E-Team — one of the largest collections of energy and environmental policy experts and scientists who believe that sound science, economic prosperity and protecting the environment can go hand in hand.
Burnett routinely discusses energy and environmental policy on national television and radio networks, including CNN Headline News, Fox News, and CNBC. His commentaries and articles have appeared in publications such as USA Today, The Washington Times, Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News, Houston Chronicle, Rocky Mountain News, and the Miami Herald.
A recognized scholar, Burnett has written on numerous topics that affect every American, including government environmental policy, offshore drilling, global warming, endangered species, and public lands.
He has held various positions in professional and public policy organizations, including serving as a member of the Environment and Natural Resources Task Force in the Texas Comptroller’s e-Texas commission, board of directors of the Dallas Woods and Water Conservation Club, and advisor for the American Legislative Exchange Council’s Natural Resources Task Force.
Burnett received his Ph.D. in 2001 from Bowling Green State University. He also received degrees from Southern Methodist University. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/12.
Debbie Burns is the vice president of public affairs for the Southeastern Lumber Manufacturers Association. The SLMA, based in Forest Park, Georgia, represents family owned lumber manufacturers across the southeast. The 250 member companies collectively produce 5 billion board feet of pine and hardwood lumber annually. Debbie has managed the association’s government affairs and communications programs since 1993. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/01.
Roberta Burzynski grew up on the outskirts of Newark, New Jersey. Her parents’ backyard garden and the mature maples that lined the street where she lived endeared her to nature and trees. Girl Scout camp introduced her to the woods, and a college field course in biology impressed upon her a reverence for every form of life in the forest.
Roberta began editing technical publications for the U.S. Forest Service back in the eighties. For relief from the complex text and concepts, she turned to children’s books for her personal reading. This stress reliever turned into a passion; the love of children’s literature led Roberta to study how to write for children. Her first children’s book, Woodsy’s ABCs, and a related Preschool Supplement that she compiled were also published by the Forest Service. Source: http://na.fs.fed.us/whycutatree/credits.shtm, 7/13.
Bill Bush[ ] owns and operates Bush Creek Plantation in Clayton, Alabama. Bush’s family first settled in Alabama’s Black Belt more than 150 years ago, growing cotton, peanuts and whatever it took to make a living. Five years ago [he] realized the wildlife on [his] property presented a potential profit and began promoting Bush Creek Plantation. The Bush family lives in the lodge year-round and shares the common areas with hunters, who are treated more like family than customers. Source: Progressive Farmer, April 2001.
Brett J. Butler, a research forester at the USDA Forest Service’s Northeastern Research Station and the coordinator for the National Woodland Owner Survey, is increasingly being recognized as a national expert on private landowners in the U.S. His research focuses on survey methods for collecting information from private forest-land owners, analyzing trends in private forest-land owners and the land that they own, and studying the factors that influence decisions made by private landowners.
Following receipt of an undergraduate degree in Natural Resource Management and Engineering from the University of Connecticut, Mr. Butler worked as a research ecologist on the Robins Island Preserve in Long Island, New York. The work on Robins Island built upon his previous experiences including research conducted in the tropical rainforests of Costa Rica. Mr. Butler is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Forest Science from Oregon State University. He is studying the interaction between biologic and social systems which will culminate with his dissertation, “Chaos in a Predictable World: The Story of Oregon’s Big Elk Valley.”
After modeling forest cover dynamics as part of the Renewable Resource Planning Act Assessment with the USDA Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Research Station, Mr. Butler accepted the position of coordinator for the National Woodland Owner Survey (NWOS) at the Northeastern Research Station in 2000. The NWOS is charged with determining who owns the forests of the U.S., why these people own forests, and what the future of the forests are. Being a part of the Forest Inventory and Analysis work unit means that in addition to being responsible for the design, implementation, and analysis of the National Woodland Owner Survey, Mr. Butler is also responsible for analyzing the results of forest inventories. He is responsible for analyzing trends in the forest resources of Southern New England.
Mr. Butler lives in East Coventry, Pennsylvania with his wife Anna, daughter Molly, and is expecting another child in early April. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/02.
F. Bradford Butler was raised in the land and timber business following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather. Brad is a graduate of Troy University and has been a licensed real estate broker since 1998 and the Owner of Butler Land and Timber Company since March of 2001. Brad specializes in the sale of timber and recreational tracts 20 acres and larger. Since Brad took over, Butler Land and Timber Company has expanded from covering just South Alabama to now representing clients in all of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/16.
Gary Butler is President of Butler & Company, Inc. He graduated from Demopolis High School in 1971 and from Auburn University in 1976 with a B.S. degree in Forest Management. Gary is a registered forester and licensed real estate broker and appraiser with over 30 years experience in the forest management and real estate businesses. He is also a member of the Society of American Foresters and the Association of Consulting Foresters. Gary and wife, Debbie, have three sons, Brooks, Blake, and Bart (Katie) and an adorable grandson Easton and granddaughter Lily. They are active members of First United Methodist Church of Demopolis. Source: http://www.butlerandcompanyinc.com/about-us/ 3/19.
Stephen M. Butler is president of TimberCorp, which is a consulting forestry and real estate firm in central Mississippi. Steve is a registered forester in both Mississippi and Alabama. He is also a real estate broker and a certified general real estate appraiser that specializes in timberland and rural properties. He has a masters degree in Forest Business and over 37 years of experience. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/14.
Talmadge Butler is the Superintendent of DeSoto State Park. He is a native of Alabama and grew up in Marshall County near Boaz. Mr. Butler attended Snead State Jr. College, the University of Montevallo and Birmingham School of Law. He has been with Alabama State Parks for 29 years and at DeSoto State Park for 17 years. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/03.
Dan Byfield serves as president of the American Land Foundation, a private non-profit organization dedicated to the protection of constitutional principles, free enterprise, property rights and liberty. With the assistance of the Farm Credit Bank of Texas, Dan created the American Land Foundation in 1994. For six years prior, he served as a lobbyist for the Texas Farm Bureau in Austin overseeing all natural resource, property rights and water issues.
Dan has co-written and produced two television video productions documenting the traumatic effects environmental laws have on individual freedom and uses of land in America. They are Who Owns the Land? When the Environment Collides With the Constitution and Standing Ground: People, Property and Power. Both have been aired on national cable television networks, including PBS, and have received communication’s awards for effectiveness.
Dan also serves as president of Liberty Matters, a grassroots organization with a national network of organizations and individuals who receive a bi-weekly news service on current events and legislation affecting private property.
A four-year tennis letterman, Dan graduated from the University of Texas with a journalism degree, specializing in public relations and has a law degree from South Texas College of Law in Houston.
Dan is married to Margaret Hage, daughter of Wayne and Jean Hage, has two daughters, Amber and Aubrey, and a son,
Britton, that live with him in Taylor, Texas. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/03.
Margaret Byfield serves as executive director of American Stewards of Liberty, a private property rights organization founded in 1992. American Stewards works directly with local communities to help protect the continued use of the natural resources–the production of food, fiber, energy, and access to the land. Margaret is a natural resource policy expert. She was raised on a large cow calf operation in central Nevada, which became subject of the landmark takings case Hage v. United States. Being thrust into the property rights issues at a young age, she continues to fight for landowners across the nation. She writes the Liberty Matters News Service along with her husband, Dan Byfield, CEO of American Stewards. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/21.
Charles Robert Byrd received a BS degree in Forestry from Auburn University. Chuck has been employed by Chartered Foresters since 1998. He is a member of the Society of American Foresters. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/99.
Milam Cain of Tuscaloosa is a graduate of the University of Alabama’s Business School. He is self-employed in many pursuits, including timber management, farming, real-estate, and serving as Chairman of Tuscaloosa County’s Forestry Planning Committee. Cain enjoys computers, camping, hunting. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/04.
Andy Callahan is an Area Forest Supervisor in Alabama and Mississippi working for Soterra LLC. Soterra manages approximately 270,000 acres across Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana as well as offer consulting services to private landowners. It is our mission to be the premier land management company. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/14.
Jason Callahan serves as the Director of Government Relations for the Washington Forest Protection Association, a trade association representing Washington’s private forest landowners. Prior to coming to the WFPA, he was a senior committee counsel with the Washington State House of Representatives where he was nonpartisan legislative staff assigned to the Environmental Committee and the Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee. A native of the great state of New Jersey, Jason has an undergraduate degree in Wildlife Resource Management from the West Virginia University College of Forestry and a law degree from Florida State University. He has worked for or around the Washington State Legislature and has been a member of the Washington State Bar since the year 2000. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/21.
John Cameron is a County Extension Coordinator for the Tuscaloosa County Extension. Born and raised in Tuscaloosa, he is a graduate of the University of West Alabama with a Bachelor of Science in Education and a Masters in Education Administration He has worked as a teacher, coach, assistant principal and principal at the high school level, as well as having served as a career tech director and charter school principal. He has worked in workforce and economic development since 2014 and been employed by Auburn University and the Alabama Cooperative Extension since March 2019. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/23.
Wade Camp is the Director of Market Services at the Southern Forest Products Association. Wade received a B.S. in Forestry from Purdue University, an M.F. in Forestry from Duke University and an M.B.A. from University Dallas. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/03.
Brad Campbell began his forestry training in 1991 in the technical forestry program at Itawamba Community College in Fulton, Mississippi. In January 1993, he joined Southern Resource Service, Inc., a Starkville, Mississippi based forestry consulting firm founded by E. Lynn Prine in 1976. In the summer of 1994 Brad resumed his forestry education at Mississippi State University, while maintaining his employment with Southern Resource Service, Inc. on a part time basis. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree in 1997. Following graduation, Brad resumed his full time position as a staff forester with Southern Resource Service, Inc. where he assisted forest landowners in meeting management goals on property throughout Mississippi and Alabama. In February 2006, Brad became president and then the company’s owner in 2007. Brad has a registered forester license and a real estate broker license in Mississippi and Alabama. He is certified as a prescribed burn manager in Mississippi. Brad supports his profession by memberships in the Mississippi Forestry Association (MFA), and the Association of Consulting Foresters of America (ACF). He served as the chair for the Mississippi Chapter of the ACF for 2006-2007. He has been an active part of the Oktibbeha County Forest Farmer’s CFA where he served as President in 2008-09, and continues to serve on the Board of Directors. Also, Brad has served on numerous MFA committees. Currently, he is also serving on the Mississippi State University School of Forest Resources Advisory Council. Recently Brad has been appointed to serve on the Mississippi Board of Registration for Foresters. Finally, Brad is an active member of First Baptist Church in Starkville, Mississippi, where he serves in various capacities.
Quang V. Cao is associate professor of forestry, School of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries, LSU AgCenter, Baton Rouge, La. Dr. Cao received his M.S. in statistics and an M.S. and Ph.D. in forest biometrics from Virginia Tech University. He has been with LSU since 1981, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in forest mensuration and biometrics. He has conducted extensive research in growth and yield modeling of forest stands. Source: Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service Course Description, 4/00.
Joseph Thompson Capps attended Auburn University and graduated with a B.S. in Forestry in May 2006 with a focus on forest land management. He has worked as a consulting forester at Forestry Consultants, Inc. in Opelika, Alabama since June 2006. Along with being a Registered Forester in both Alabama and Georgia, Joseph is a member of the Association of Consulting Foresters, Certified Prescribed Burn Manager (AL), Certified Commercial Pesticide Applicator (AL). He currently serves as the President of the Lee County Forest Stewardship Committee, a member of the Southern Union State Community College EMS Advisory Board and just recently rotated off as a governing member of the Alabama Prescribed Fire Council. Joseph currently resides in Opelika, Alabama with his wife Laura, sons Sawyer (9), Asa (5), Judson (3) and a daughter, Adleigh Elisabeth (1). They are faithful members of Lakeview Baptist Church in Auburn, AL where Joseph serves on the fellowship of deacons. Source: Personal Résumé, 04/18.
Tim Capps is a Business Management graduate of North Carolina State University and has spent the last fifteen years as a contract logger. He is part of the third generation in his family of timber professionals in Warren County, North Carolina. His grandfather started Amos Capps Pulpwood Co. back in the early forties and his father and uncles are NCSU graduate foresters. His father, Clint Capps started a mechanical thinning operation in the seventies when others were saying that it could not be done. He also pioneered the herring bone style of mechanical thinning that is in wide use today, which helps the logger to remove the undesirable trees with much less damage to the residual stand. A year and a half ago, Tim hung up his logging boots to pursue his passion for helping landowners to have a better form of communication with the best of what the timber industry has to offer. www.TimberConnections.com is the result of his unique approach. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/11.
Tom Carignan is President of Carignan Forestry Consultants, Inc. of Prattville, Alabama. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia with a Bachelor of Science degree in Forest Management.
Tom has worked as a logger, as a field technician for the US Forest Service, and as District Manager for a south-wide forest management company. He is a member of the Association of Consulting Foresters, the Society of American Foresters, and the Alabama Forestry Association. He is a Certified Forester®, an Alabama Certified Burn Manager, a Certified Tree Farm Inspector, a Certified Tree Farm 3rd-party Lead Auditor, and is licensed to practice forestry in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi. Tom currently serves as the 2008 Chair of the Alabama Division of the Society of American Foresters.
Tom lives in Millbrook, Alabama with his wife Tricia and five children, where they attend Journey Church. He enjoys outdoor activities and volunteering for non-profit conservation and education groups. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/08
Carl E. Carlson, Jr. is president of Carlson Land Services, Inc. Carlson Land Services is a consulting forestry firm located in Montgomery, Alabama. Eddie is a 1983 graduate of Auburn University in Forest Management. He is a registered forester in Alabama and a licensed real estate broker in Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/03.
Robert B. Carr, III is an Alabama Licensed Professional Geologist. Bob is having a distinguished geological career since he was honorably discharged from the US Army in 1973. As president of Coal Carr, Inc., his geological consulting firm established in 1991, he has principally been involved in the coal industry. In addition to consulting with coal mining companies, coal property owners and coal burning utilities, Bob’s work experience also includes coal marketing, coal sales, transportation logistics, appraising coal under new right of ways for the Alabama Department of Transportation, expert witness testimony, appraising limestone, sand and gravel for surface and/or mineral landowners, land management, negotiating mining contracts and negotiating lease contracts. Bob lists the following professional and personal affiliations:
* Vice Chair and Board Member of the AL State Board of Licensure for Professional Geologists from 2003 to 2009.
* Licensed Professional Geologist (LPG), AL State Board of Licensure for Professional Geologists, License Number 18.
* Certified Professional Geologist (CPG), American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG), Certificate Number 8465.
* Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, Alabama Section. Past Chairman and Past Member of the Board of Directors.
* Alabama Geological Society.
* American Institute of Professional Geologists, Vice President, AL Section.
* Church Board of Directors, Past Chairman, Church Choir since 1973.
* Treasurer, AL Quail Hunters, Inc. since 2002. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/09.
David F. Carroll, Vice President, A. B. Carroll Lumber Company, received a BS in Forest Management and an MS in Wildlife Management from Auburn University. During his career, David has held positions in procurement, land management, sawmill administration and management, and quality control. He is also the owner of Environmental Forestry Company, a consulting company providing forest and wildlife management services to private and corporate clients. David is a Registered Forester and a licensed Real Estate Agent in Alabama. Source: Préceda Education & Training Course Description, 3/99.
Bence Carter works with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, which is a part of Auburn University, as the Forestry, Wildlife & Natural Resources agent in the 10 county Wiregrass Area for the last 7 years. His primary office is the Wiregrass Research and Extension Center in Headland, AL. Bence holds B.S degrees in Biology from Birmingham-Southern College, Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences from Oregon State University and a Masters of Natural Resources Management from Auburn University and is also a Certified Wildlife Biologist through The Wildlife Society. Bence is responsible for providing technical assistance to stakeholders in the areas of Natural Resources management, as well as developing research-based educational programing to help better their lives. Source: Personal Résumé, 03/24.
Walter E. Cartwright currently serves as Assistant Director, Forest Management Division, Alabama Forestry Commission. He obrained a Bachelor of Science Degree in Forestry Management from Auburn University in 1974. He has over 16 years service with State government, where he previously served as Director of the Mining and Reclamation Division in the Dept. of Industrial Relations, including an aggressive reforestation program. He also has 15 years experience with forest industry working as General Manager of Three Rivers, Inc. in Columbus, MS; Regional Manager with Timberland Harvesters for Northwest Alabama and Northeast MS; Field Auditor, Truckwood Procurement Representative, Area Forester and Area Resource Forester with MacMillan Bloedel, Inc. in Pine Hill, AL; and Procurement Manager with D & D Lumber Co., Inc. in Brantley, AL. Source: Personal Résumé, 07/05.
Anthony J. Cascio is Manager of Investment Research at Resource Management Service, LLC. Tony leads the firm’s research efforts into understanding the risk and return relationships of timberland, both for portfolios of geographically diverse lands, and within portfolios of other financial assets. Tony also examines the timber supply, demand and price dynamics of the markets where RMS manages assets. He is currently serving a two-year term as Chair of the NCREIF Timberland Committee. Prior to joining RMS, he was the Forest Planning Manager for Temple-Inland Forest Products Corporation, and was responsible for the harvest scheduling, economic and financial analyses of the firm’s timberlands. Most recently, Tony received a Ph.D. in Forestry Finance from the University of Georgia. He also has a M.S. in Forestry from North Carolina State University, and a B.S. in Computer Science from James Madison University. Source: Personal Résumé, 06/10.
Linda Casey is the State Forester of Alabama. Linda was appointed as the State Forester in February 2007. She has had a career in forestry spanning over three decades, with extensive experience in both industry and government.
In her role as State Forester, she directs the supervision of over 263 Alabama Forestry Commission employees in protecting the forests of Alabama, providing professional technical assistance to landowners, and educating all citizens regarding the importance of forests in our environment. Linda’s knowledge, skills, and vision have brought the agency to the forefront in many forestry-related issues, practices, and programs. While diligently leading her team of professionals, she is continually striving to improve the effectiveness of services delivered to forest landowners.
Prior to assuming the top forestry position in Alabama, Linda was employed with International Paper Company. She retired from “IP” in 2006 with more than 34 years of service. In her last position with the company, she was Manager of Fiber Supply, overseeing procurement operations for eight paper mills in New York, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia.
Linda was born in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia where she was taught to be self-sufficient and developed a strong work ethic.
She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Forestry and Wildlife Management from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). She is a Licensed Forester in both Alabama and Mississippi.
During her career with International Paper, she met and married her husband John. John, now retired, was a social worker and a strong advocate for children and the mentally retarded during his career. They live in Prattville, Alabama and enjoy fishing and spending time with their three children and two grandchildren, Arlo and Ezra.
It is Linda’s goal to leave the Commission as a more effective, customer focused and efficient agency than when she arrived.
Professional Affiliations include: American Forest Foundation, Independent Standards Review Panel, Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) Executive Review Panel, National Association of State Foresters (NASF), NASF Executive Committee, NASF Forest Resource Management Committee, Society of American Foresters, Southern Group of State Foresters (SGSF), Chair 2011-2012, SGSF Water Quality Committee Liaison, Alabama Consortium on Forestry Education and Research, Alabama Forestry Council, Alabama Natural Resources Council, Auburn University School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences Advisory Council, Forests Forever Board of Directors, Forever Wild Board of Directors, and Mosley Environmental Achievement Awards Committee. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/12.
Gary Casper is an animal nuisance control expert with Predator Control & Conservation. He has forty years experience as a trapper and twenty-five years experience as a deer management expert. He is responsible for county-wide beaver control in Mobile County and also works with many other municipalities with wildlife and domestic animal problems. He served for two years as co-Chair of the Citizens’ Advisory Committee for the Mobile Bay Natural Estuary Program, and in 2000, received his certificate as Hunter/Education instructor. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/05.
Jim Cathcart is a forester with a strong background in forest policy, management planning and economics. He currently works in the Policy Unit of the Forestry Assistance Program. Besides managing the Forest Resource Trust (a financial assistance program for reforesting under-producing lands), Jim works on forestry and carbon initiates and is the staff lead for the proposed Forest Legacy program (a program designed to conserve forestland for forestry purposes through the acquisition of non-forest development rights).
Jim received his Ph.D. in Forest Management and Economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia in 1989. Jim also holds a M.S. in Forest Economics from the University of Idaho and received his B.S. in Forest Resource Management from Humboldt State University in California. Jim has been with the Oregon Department of Forestry for over four years. He also has worked as a consultant (woodland inventory analysis for the Navajo Nation), for a private timberlands manager, The Campbell Group (communication and environmental affairs), the USDI Bureau of Indian Affairs (environmental policy specialist) and the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station (timber supply analysis). Jim is an active member of the Oregon Society of American Foresters and is a Certified Forester. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/03.
Jeff Caubble is a graduate of the University of Arkansas at Monticello where he received a B.S. Degree in Forestry. He is a forestry consultant and nursery manager at Five Oaks Nursery. Jeff manages 8,000 acres of bottomland hardwood and green tree reservoir for both timber and wildlife, mainly targeting waterfowl. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/03.
Jon P. Caulfield is President of Timberland Fiduciary Research, a consulting firm serving the timberland investment management industry. He received a B.S. in Forest Management from ?? Science and Forestry, a M.S. in Forest Economics from North Carolina State University, and a Ph.D. in Forest Economics from North Carolina State University. His career began in 1975 when he worked as a forester with the South African Department of Forestry. He was a member of the Auburn University School of Forestry faculty for eight years, where he was Assistant, and later Associate Professor. From 1992 to 1996, Jon was Vice President and Senior Forest Economist at Wachovia Timberland Investment Management, in Atlanta. From 1996 to 2000 he was Professor of Forest Finance at the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forest Resources. He was also Vice President, Research and Investment Strategy for TimberVest, LLC, a timberland investment management company based in Woodstock, Georgia. Jon has authored numerous articles on forest finance and management. He is a member of the Society of American Foresters and the Forest Products Society. Jon is a Registered Forester in Georgia, and Chairman of the SAF Georgia Division in 2000. Jon’s views on timberland investing have appeared in publications which include the Wall Street Journal, Pensions and Investments, Institutional Investor, Plan Sponsor Magazine and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/03.
Charles Chandler received a Bachelor of Science in Forestry from Auburn University, March 1977. Charles qualified as a Registered Forester in 1981 and a Certified Prescribed Burn Manager in June 2011. He worked with Tennessee River Pulp and Paper Company from 1977 to 1989 in procurement, land management, and as a district supervisor. In 1989 Charles started T.R.E.E.S., Inc., and operated as a timber buyer, with some land management. In 1994 T.R.E.E.S. Inc., teamed with Hestla Logging Co. Inc. as the sole harvester of any purchased timber and continued this as T.R.E.E.S. Inc until 2002. Charles worked with Industree Timber in procurement from 2002 until 2009 with Hestla Logging Co. Inc. harvesting the majority of any tracts purchased. He presently works in managing approximately 14,000 timberland acres for HDJ Land and Timber, LTD and still procures wood for Hestla Logging Co. Inc. Charles lives in Cullman with his wife, Virginia. They have three married daughters. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/16.
Tony Chandler was a Criminal Investigator for the Alabama Forestry Commission (AFC) from 2002 to 2015 and became a Special Agent with the Ag & Rural Crime Unit of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency when that agency took over some of the criminal investigation work of the AFC beginning on January 1, 2015. Tony earned an A.A.S. Degree in Forest Technology from Lurleen B. Wallace Community College in 1984 and began working for the AFC as a Forestry Technician/Forestry Specialist in 1985. He is a native of Crenshaw County (Brantley) and currently resides in Brewton, Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/15.
Richard H. Chapman is the CEO of the National Association of Royalty Owners, after serving as the Executive Director of the Oklahoma Commission on Marginally Producing Oil and Gas Wells (MWC). The MWC was created by the Oklahoma Legislature in 1992 and mandated to help preserve Oklahoma’s more than 70,000 marginal wells. Mr. Chapman is a past chairman of the National Association of Royalty Owners serving from 1994-1996. He was the director of the National Royalty Owner Institute from 1989-1994. Mr. Chapman also serves as President of ENRG I, Inc. and Vice-President of DHS I, Inc., a system of land and mineral management companies headquartered in Oklahoma with operations in surrounding states, since 1985. He is a Certified Minerals Manager. He served as Commissioner on the Oklahoma Commission on Natural Gas Policy, a member of the Oklahoma Land Title Association, was an appointee to the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission and is a member of the National Association of Division Order Analysts. Rick lives in Norman, Oklahoma with his wife, Hayden. The couple has one daughter, Carye. Source: Personal Résumé, 10/03.
James Daniel Chappell currently serves as the Coordinator of the Alabama Forestry Commission’s Forest Inventory and Analysis Program, overseeing a field staff of 6 who collect inventory data from 5,600+ established plots across the state on a 7-year cycle. He is a 2002 graduate of the University of Georgia’s Warnell School of Forest Resources. Following graduation, he worked for the Georgia Forestry Commission for over 13 years collecting FIA data for the Southeast region of the state. He lives in Montgomery with his wife Elizabeth Anne and 6-year old daughter Betty Alice. Source: Personal Résumé, 04/18.
Allan R. Chason was born in Mobile, Alabama on March 25, 1950. He obtained his undergraduate degree in 1972 and his law degree in 1976, both from the University of Alabama. He was a member of the Alabama Law Review and served on its Editorial Board from 1975 to 1976. He received various scholastic honors during law school, including the Dean M. Leigh Harrison Award, and was elected to the Order of the Coif and the Farrah Law Society. Chason has engaged in the private practice of law since 1976, primarily in the area of civil litigation, personal injury and products liability defense, real estate litigation and land use law. He is admitted to and regularly practices in state and federal trial courts in southwest Alabama. He handles appeals before the Alabama Supreme Court, Alabama Court of Civil Appeals and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He appeared before the United States Supreme Court for oral argument of Dobson v. Allied-Bruce Terminix Companies, Inc., 513 U.S. 265 (1995). He is presently a member of the Alabama Bar Association, the Baldwin County Bar Association, serving as its President from 1985 to 1986, the Alabama Defense Lawyers Association, and the Alabama Law Foundation, serving on its Board of Trustees from 1996 through 2002 and as its President from 2000 through 2002. He is a Fellow of the Alabama Law Foundation. He has served on the Board of Directors and as President of the North Baldwin Healthcare Foundation, on the Board of Directors and as President of the North Baldwin Chamber of Commerce, on the Board of Directors and as Drive Chairman of the North Baldwin United Way, and on the Board of Directors of the Bay Minette Kiwanis Club. He is an active member of the First United Methodist Church of Bay Minette. Source: http://www.chasonlaw.com/att_allan_chason.html, 04/04.
Scott Cherones is a co-owner of Southeastern Pond Management, a pond management service business that has been managing ponds all over the Southeastern United States for 13 years. Southeastern Pond Management operates offices in Birmingham and Auburn, Alabama and Jackson, Mississippi. “I have been addicted to fishing and fish for as long as I can remember. My parents tell me I was casting artificial lures for largemouth bass with a spin cast reel at the age of three. I guess you could say I have never looked back.” Scott has a B.S. in Biology with a “concentration” in marine sciences from Florida State University. After graduation he worked in a shrimp farm in the Florida Keys for a couple of years before going back to graduate school at Auburn University. He received a Masters degree in Fisheries/Aquaculture from Auburn University. Source: Personal Résumé, 02/03.
Tim Chesnut is owner of Chesnut Forestry Services of Rome, Georgia and is a Registered Forester in Alabama and Georgia. He has a BS from The University of the South and a MS from Clemson University. He has nearly 20 years experience in the Forestry field, ranging from buying timber in the Carolinas and Georgia to managing timber and timberland from Texas to Alabama. He currently resides in Rome, Georgia with his Wife, Cheryl and his two daughters Abigail and Lily. He currently serves landowners of the Northwest Georgia-Northeast Alabama-Southern Tennessee Region, and is trying his hand at webmastering at www.ChesnutForestry.com. Source: Personal Résumé, 05/05.
J. Thomas Chesnutt has been on the faculty of Auburn University and in the Community Development section of the Alabama Cooperative Extension System (ACES) and Economic and Community Development Institute (ECDI) since 1990. As a Tourism Specialist with ACES, Dr. Chesnutt’s programs include the Alabama Agri-Tourism Trail, Outdoor Alabama Partnership, Alabama-Mississippi Rural Tourism Conference, and Alabama Retiree Relocation Conference. His responsibilities include providing technical assistance to community leaders, tourism associations, chambers of commerce, convention and visitor bureaus, and related groups concerning tourism as a method of economic development. In addition to Auburn University, Dr. Chesnutt has served as a faculty member at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, University of Alabama, and Marshall University.
Tom Chesnutt has thirty years of teaching and practical experience in tourism and leisure services. He serves as Chair of the Planning Team for the Alabama-Mississippi rural Tourism Conference, on the Advisory Board of the Alabama Tourism Department, on the board of the North Alabama Agri-Plex, on the Board of the RiverWay South, Inc., on the Alabama Scenic Byways Advisory Council, and on the Tourism and Marketing Committee of the Governor’s Black Belt Action Commission. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/11.
Travis Chesser is the Forest Specialist Supervisor/Cogongrass Crew Leader for the Alabama Forestry Commission. Travis graduated with an associate degree in forestry from LBW, Andalusia, in 1990. He worked in procurement for the first 15 year of his career. In 2005, he joined the Alabama Forestry Commission and began spraying cogongrass the following year. In 2006, he also administered the cogongrass program initiated by the Covington County Forestry Planning Committee. Travis started with the APHIS grant as the crew supervisor on January 16. Source: Personal Résumé, 02/22.
John C. Chitwood is Encroachments Supervisor within the Transmission Organization of the Alabama Power Company. The ROW Services Team members serve as company representatives in managing transmission rights of way. We are responsible for working with external customers and internal organizations to authorize right of way usage and coordinate the company’s response to non-permissible uses, including physical removal of encroachments. Additionally our team interprets legal documents, provides internal and external education on proper ROW use, and provides interpretation of our rights.
John was named Staff Environmental Affairs Specialist — Alabama Power Company in November, 2008. In this role John was responsible for the development and implementation of environmental compliance strategies, procedures, and guidance throughout the company. Specifically, compliance programs supporting Corporate Real Estate transactions, environmental remediation activities in support of Generation, Transmission, and Power Delivery, and also acted as a direct line of communication between federal, state, and local environmental agencies on behalf of Alabama Power.
John graduated from Wetumpka High School in Wetumpka, Alabama; then graduated from Auburn University at Montgomery with a B.S. degree in Environmental Science in 1999. Following graduation John then became employed by TTL, Inc. in Montgomery while attending graduate school at Samford University in Birmingham. In 2001, John started his career as a contractor for Southern Company Services and graduated from Samford with a M.S. degree in Environmental Management. In 2005, John became an employee of Southern Company Services and in 2006 began his employment with Alabama Power.
John is active in several organizations including: Oak Mountain Youth Baseball, Renew Our Rivers, Legacy’s Envirobowl, Exceptional Anglers, Ducks Unlimited, The National Wild Turkey Federation, The Coastal Conservation Association, and Safari Club International. Source: Personal Résumé, 01/13.
Rachna Choudhry is the co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of POPVOX. She works with organizations and trade associations to help them use POPVOX’s tools, and manages issue content and outreach to POPVOX users. Rachna earned a Master of Public Policy from Georgetown University and a Political Science B.A. from UCLA. Source: Personal Résumé, 01/13.
Martin W. Christie is the founder and President of Public Affairs Strategies, a public affairs consulting firm based in Montgomery, Alabama. f
Prior to founding his own firm, Mr. Christie was Vice President of the business Council of Alabama. Over a period of several years, his responsibilities included supervision of the council’s entire governmental relations program and development of a comprehensive grassroots structure. While working with the Business Council of Alabama’s ProgressPAC, Mr. Christie has raised over $2 million on behalf of pro business candidates in Alabama.
Before joining the Business Council, Mr. Christie was a senior public affairs officer with Walter Industries, a Fortune 200 corporation. He also served in Washington, DC on the staff of Congressman John H. Buchanan, Jr. as both press secretary and legislative project manager.
A graduate of Vanderbilt University, where he received his undergraduate degree in international relations cum laude, Martin is also an accomplished speaker on the subject of political involvement and participation.
Mr. Christie is a native of Louisville, Kentucky. He and his wife Susanne and their three children live in Montgomery, Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/02.
William M. Christie joined the Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center (EFETAC) in August 2010 as a Biological Scientist with over 20 years of GIS and remote sensing experience as applied to natural resources and conservation issues. Bill’s role involves technical and analytical GIS and Remote Sensing operations, creating web-based mapping applications, technology transfer, and creating partnerships to connect and deliver the EFETAC’s science and tools to public and private land management/forest stewardship entities.
Bill has implemented GIS technology and created geospatial applications for the States of Tennessee and Alabama, the Nature Conservancy and the US Army Corps of Engineers. Bill received undergraduate degrees in Forestry (1979) and Geography (1981) and obtained his Masters in Geography (1984) from the University of South Carolina, located in Columbia, South Carolina. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/13.
Dr. John R. Christy “is the Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science and Director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville where he began studying global climate issues in 1987. Since November 2000 he has been Alabama’s State Climatologist. In 1989 Dr. Roy W. Spencer (then a NASA/Marshall scientist and now a Principle Research Scientist at UAH) and Christy developed a global temperature data set from microwave data observed from satellites beginning in 1979. For this achievement, the Spencer-Christy team was awarded NASA’s Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement in 1991. In 1996, they were selected to receive a Special Award by the American Meteorological Society “for developing a global, precise record of earth’s temperature from operational polar-orbiting satellites, fundamentally advancing our ability to monitor climate.” In January 2002 Christy was inducted as a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society.
“Dr. Christy has served as a Contributor (1992, 1994, 1996 and 2007) and Lead Author (2001) for the U.N. reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in which the satellite temperatures were included as a high-quality data set for studying global climate change. He has served on five National Research Council panels or committees and has performed research funded by NASA, NOAA, DOE, DOT and the State of Alabama and has published many articles including studies appearing in Science, Nature, Journal of Climate and The Journal of Geophysical Research. Dr. Christy has provided testimony to several congressional committees.
“Dr. Christy received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Illinois (1984, 1987). Prior to this career path he had graduated from the California State University in Fresno (B.A. Mathematics, 1973, Distinguished Alumnus 2007) and taught Physics and Chemistry as a missionary teacher in Nyeri, Kenya for two years. After earning a Master of Divinity degree from Golden Gate Baptist Seminary (1978) he served four years as a bivocational mission-pastor in Vermillion, South Dakota where he also taught college math. He was featured in the February 2001 issue of Discover magazine and in a National Public Radio profile in 2004 in which his diverse background was highlighted.
“Dr. Christy has been active in local educational groups. At Grissom High School he served as chairman of the Facilities committee, helping to secure the new Science wing and Gymnasium and was President of its PTSA, Alabama’s largest, in 1997-98. He also served on the Huntsville City Schools Strategic Planning Committee and its Finance sub-panel. He is a member of the Huntsville City Surface Water Management Committee.
“Dr. Christy is married to the former Babs Joslin, a fellow missionary whom he met in Kenya. They have two married children, Mrs. Alison Fields, an Applied Math graduate of Auburn University and Brian, a Physics/Math graduate of Auburn and now a graduate student at the University of Maryland. The Fields are parents of their two grandchildren. Dr. Christy’s favorite hobby is gold panning which he developed as a teenager in California, and he also runs, completing races from 2 to 31.1 miles over rugged terrain.” Source: http://www.nsstc.uah.edu/atmos/christy_bio.html 7/08.
David Clabo has been Assistant Professor of Silviculture Outreach with the University of Georgia (UGA) Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources since December 2018. David’s appointment with UGA consists of research and outreach. His research interests include improving and refining natural and artificial forest regeneration methods across a variety of forest types, management of pine-hardwood forest types, forestry herbicide evaluations, and genetic improvement tests of southern pine seedlings. David’s outreach focuses on relaying up to date scientific information to landowners, practitioners, and UGA county extension agents on a wide variety of forest management and silviculture topics. Other outreach activities include delivery of continuing education programs for professionals, working with UGA county extension agents to develop programming for local forestry meetings, as well as preparation and publication of forestry outreach articles. David obtained his graduate and undergraduate degrees from the University of Tennessee. While in graduate school, he worked part-time as forestry consultant and herbicide applicator, primarily in hardwood systems. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/21
Alexander Clark is a research wood scientist with the USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station. He is located at the Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Athens, Georgia, in the Disturbance and Management of Southern Pine Ecosystems Research Work Unit (SRS-4104). Alex received a B.S. in Forestry and a MS in Wood Technology from West Virginia University. He has been employed as a wood scientist with the Forest Service for over 37 years and has published numerous papers related to the wood properties of southern tree species. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/04.
Joe Clark is Forest2Market’s Client Representative for Supply Chain Services and Sales. He is responsible for managing stumpage and delivered product sales throughout the US South, where he helps clients uncover supply chain inefficiencies with the application of Forest2Market reports and price databases.
He previously worked as a Stumpage Forester at Forest2Market, where his responsibilities included: maintaining Forest2Market’s stumpage price database, producing price reports from Forest2Market’s proprietary databases, and creating custom analytical reports for clients across the industry to help them better understand market dynamics. Before joining Forest2Market, he was a research assistant at Auburn University while earning a Master of Science in Forestry. His research examined the combined effects of drought and fertilization on the growth and physiological processes of loblolly pine. Source: Personal Résumé, 09/19.
John L. Clark is sales manager for Kitchens Brothers Manufacturing, Inc., and has worked in the forest products industry for 33 years – including 27 years in the international markets. He has served as Chairman of the American Hardwood Export Council and currently serves as Chairman of the Wood Flooring Manufacturers Association, Chairman of the Mississippi District Export Council, member of the Rules Committee of the NHLA (National Hardwood Lumber Association), and on the Board of Directors of the Hardwood Federation. Personal Résumé, 8/06.
T. R. Clark joined F&W Forestry Services, Inc. in 2003 and specializes in forest management, private timberland consulting, and timberland brokerage and currently serves as F&W’s regional manager for Alabama. He has a BS in Forest Management from N.C. State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is a member of the Association of Consulting Foresters, is a Registered Forester in Alabama and Georgia, holds a Broker’s License in Alabama and a Salesperson’s License in Georgia. He is also a Certified Prescribed Burn Manager. T. R. lives with his wife and two teenage children and is a recent new grandparent. He resides in mid-west Georgia where he enjoys fishing, children’s ministry opportunities, and hunting when time allows. Personal Résumé, 2/23.
Wayne K. Clatterbuck is a Professor of Silviculture and Forest Management in the Forestry, Wildlife & Fisheries Dept. at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. His responsibilities include forest landowner education, continuing education for forestry and Extension professionals, coordinator of the Tennessee Master Logger program and teaching undergraduate and graduate classes in forest biology and silviculture. The research interests of Dr. Clatterbuck are in hardwood silviculture and forest stand dynamics focusing on ecological changes in species composition, stand structure and development during forest succession and following forest disturbance. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/09.
Jeff Clements serves as Vice-President of Sales at Honest Abe Log Homes, headquartered in Moss, Tn. He has been with the company since 1998. Jeff grew up on his family’s beef cattle and burley tobacco farm just down the road from Honest Abe’s headquarters. He and his wife Lisa, raised two daughters and one son in their Honest Abe Log Home that was completed in 1993. They are recent empty nesters but their log home is still the family gathering place. Jeff is a U.S. Army Veteran, has an Associates degree from Martin College, and a bachelor’s degree in Agri-business from Middle Tennessee State University. He is active in volunteer organizations including being the President of the Clay County, Tn Farm Bureau, Chair of the Clay Natural Gas Utility, Vice-Chair of the Log Homes Council Steering Committee, Clay Cattleman’s Board of Directors, Farm Credit Services Board of Advisors, and past Board of Advisors member with Timber Products Inspection (TP). He also serves in various leadership roles in his local church.
Ray Clifton currently serves as the Director of the Alabama Loggers Council and as Landowner Coordinator for the Alabama Forestry Association in Montgomery. Before coming to AFA, Ray spent a 21 year career in private forestry. He has worked in land management, timber procurement and harvesting, and land sales and acquisitions. Ray is an Alabama Registered Forester and a Licensed Real Estate Broker. Ray holds a B.S. in Forestry from Auburn University (’85) and a M.S. in Forestry from Louisiana State University (’89). Source: Personal Résumé, 7/11.
Dana Lee Cole has been the Executive Director of the Washington, D.C. based Hardwood Federation since June 2012. The Federation advocates the industry’s position on legislative and regulatory issues that will impact the industry and is the unified voice on behalf of U.S. hardwood businesses. It represents 25 local, regional and national trade associations that serve hardwood businesses in every state in the nation. A native of Michigan, she began her career working for Governor John Engler in 1991 as a policy advisor in various issue areas, including natural resources. She then spent eight years with the Michigan Economic Development Corporation in several roles where she promoted small and large businesses in the state, and successfully negotiated regulatory disputes. In 2004, she moved to the 11,000-member National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) as the Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs and Corporate Board Secretary, managing a board of more than 200 top U.S. business executives and serving as the point person to the 250 member Council of Manufacturing Associations. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/19.
Derrick Coleman is the Director of the Property Tax Division of the Alabama Department of Revenue. Derrick has worked with the Property Tax Division for 25 years, and for the last two-and-a-half years as Director of the Division. Derrick is also an Adjunct Instructor of Accounting at the Percy J. Vaughn Jr. College of Business Administration at the Alabama State University. Source: Personal Résumé, 07/19.
Mike Colquett serves as secretary on the state board of the National Wild Turkey Federation. A Troy State Graduate, he has a Wife, Bev, and two children, Laura 24, and David 21.Source: Personal Résumé, 4/04.
Phil G. Combs has thirty years experience with the US Army Corps of Engineers in water resources engineering, river mechanics, hydraulic structures, shallow draft navigation and flood damage reduction projects. Over the past two years Combs had the responsibility to collaborate with researchers globally to conduct flood and coastal protection research and development. Experience includes hydrologic and hydraulic analyses and design of flood control and navigation systems. He conducted the hydraulic design and river stabilization design of the Red River Waterway, a navigation project completed within the past 10 years at a cost of $ 1.8 billion. He also served as program manager for design, construction and operation of river engineering work on 300 miles of the Mississippi River for five years. This responsibility included about $ 30 million of work annually. He served as the senior US representative in 1997, in a review of the Hidrovia Project on the Paraguay River, South America. Dr. Combs presented findings to the Hidrovia Commission, composed of representatives of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. Served as senior US representative at a Tri-National Conference on Sustainable Development in the Pantanal, 2000. He served as senior representative at several meetings in Colombia at the request of the Executive Director, CORMAGDALENA, cabinet level agency responsible for development of, among other things, navigation on the Magdalena River. He is actively involved in the development of technology transfer with other research institutes in Colombia, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Italy, and throughout the United States. He worked with Heads of State, Foreign Ministers, Ambassadors and Embassy staffs, Foreign ministry staffs, NGO’s, PVO’s and development banks. All of these efforts have been in pursuit of sustainable water resource projects, interacting with a diverse group of international stakeholders. He is actively involved on a personal level with sustainable development, specifically management of a 1500 acre tree farm and part owner of a wetland mitigation bank in Louisiana. Partner in a wetland mitigation bank consisting of over 1000 acres in coastal Louisiana. Combs is a partner in American EnviroTech, LLC, a firm formed to assist landowners with environmental assets of their land, particularly pursuing the sale of carbon sequestration credits.
Dr. Combs has received the following degrees: 1970 Southern Methodist University, B.S. in Civil Engineering, 1971 Southern Methodist University, Master of Science Civil Engineering, 1994 Colorado State University, Doctor of Philosophy, Civil Engineering. He has served as Adjunct Professor at Mississippi State University, University of Mississippi, & Colorado State University, 1994 to date. He is a Licensed Professional Engineer, Louisiana, 1976 to date and has authored over 35 technical papers and journal articles and numerous design reports and design memoranda. He is recently retired from US Government. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/03.
William Consoletti earned a Master of Forestry degree at Duke University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in 1980. He also earned a Master of Art in American History from the Catholic University of American in 1972. He began his forestry career that year as a Research Assistant utilizing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at North Carolina State University. The following year, he began applying GIS at Georgia Timberlands, Inc. in Macon, Georgia; and in 1988, he joined the staff of MeadWestvaco (MWV) as GIS Analyst in Columbus, Georgia and retired in 2014. A former U.S. History teacher at the secondary level, he is a Society of American Foresters (SAF) Certified Forester and a Registered Forester in Georgia. An SAF Fellow and SESAF Chair, Consoletti has served as SESAF Historian since 2003. In How Forestry Came to the Southeast, in addition to supplementing the text of Earl Porter in Chapters 1-3, he edited the text, researched and selected illustrations for the book, and authored the Introduction and “Forest Industries” in Chapter 5. Bill is a native of Massachusetts. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/14.
Glenn T. Cook is a private landowner living in Birmingham, Alabama with his wife Julia and their two sons, Matt and Joel. He retired in March 2005 after 29 combined years with BellSouth and EDS. During his career with the telephone company Information System Department, he had various job responsibilities, starting in Nashville, Tennessee as a computer attendant. Moving to Birmingham, he was a System Administrator and later, a System Analyst.
Presently, along with his brother and sister, he is enjoying managing their timberland property in South Alabama. “Google Maps” is one tool he is using in the family’s property management plan.
Tonya Cooner, Marketing Manager, Natural Resource Technologies, LLC, received a BA degree from the College of Communications, University of Alabama and a BS degree from the College of Forest Resources, Mississippi State University. She is a registered forester in Mississippi and has interned with Weyerhaeuser Company and worked for Jefferson Smurfit Corporation and Sizemore & Sizemore, Inc. Tonya has been “surfing the Internet” for the past 5 years. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/99.
John R. Cooper became Alabama’s Transportation Director effective January 17, 2011, with the beginning of Governor Robert Bentley’s Administration. Cooper comes out of retirement to head the Alabama Department of Transportation.
From 2002 to 2008, Cooper was chief executive officer of Avocent Corp. in Huntsville, a global provider of information technology infrastructure management; he was chairman of Avocent from 2003 to 2008.
Cooper has a business background that has seen him serve as a CEO, chief financial officer, corporate vice president and as a partner in large accounting firms. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting from the University of Alabama. Source: ALDOT webpage, 11/12.
Curt Cope, Jr. is the Vice President of Sales for MyRainReport.com, a new company specializing in the production of accurate, site-specific rain reports. Using first-in-the-world technology, MyRainReport.com offers “a better way to measure rain”—without ever stepping foot on the customer’s property and without any on-site devices. MyRainReport.com takes the hassle out of rain monitoring and record-keeping by replacing the rain gauge with an email. The service gives all landowners access to their property’s rainfall data, regardless of how far the property is from their home, enabling landowners and timber managers to farm with the facts. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/10.
Martin Copping is a Certified GIS Professional and the VP of Operations for GEO-VISUS Inc. He has over eleven (11) years of experience in the Survey and GIS Industry and focuses on providing cost effective solutions to clients that allow them to leverage the latest in GIS Technology while focusing on their core tasks. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/08.
Dr. H. Ken Cordell is Project Leader and Pioneering Scientist in Forest Service Research attached to the Southern Research Station. He is located on the University of Georgia Campus in Athens, Georgia. His work covers trends and futures of outdoor recreation (especially nature-based), national trends of private forest lands, demographic and societal trends, and public land use and values (especially protected lands). He has produced five books, the latest entitled The Multiple Values of Wilderness. He is a lead scientist for the U. S. National Survey on Recreation and the Environment (NSRE). Source: Personal Résumé, 9/08.
David H. Corliss, Jr. graduated in 2016 from Auburn University with a Bachelor of Science in Forestry. Before opening his own company, Corliss Land & Timber Inc. based out of Fairhope, David was a timber buyer for Conecuh Timber. He has experience in forest management plans and applications, timber cruising, timber appraisal and procurement. David does any forestry services or will sub it out. He also is real estate agent focused on timber and recreational land. During the summer his main focus is cogon grass and popcorn tree treatments.
Tim Cosby grew up in south Alabama near Opp. He got a degree from Troy State University in Criminal Justice and then worked for the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources in the Law Enforcement Section for 28 years – the last eleven of which he served as Wildlife Section Chief for the Alabama Game and Fish Division. Cosby retired in December of 2001, and today continues his life-long interest in squirrel dogs and hunting with dogs. He resides in Ramer, Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/05.
Alison Coughlin is a Director of Research and Product Development at CME Group. In this role, she designs new commodity derivatives, as well as maintains CME Group’s benchmark agricultural products, including the grain and oilseed complex, lumber, and fertilizer. Previously, Alison served the U.S. government in two capacities – as an International Trade Analyst for the U.S. International Trade Commission, where she both led and contributed to several studies on global agricultural trade and competitiveness, and later as a Director with the Office of the United States Trade Representative, where she participated in negotiations on trade agreements. Alison graduated with a BS in International, Resource, and Consumer Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and with a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of Chicago. Source: Personal Résumé, 05/25.
Robert Crabtree started in the pinestraw business in 1987, working as a raker in Atlanta, Georgia. He realized that his employer was not interested in the trees, only the pinestraw, and thought their practices were equivalent to strip mining. He started researching into improving the harvesting procedure in 1995, always putting the grower and the trees first, not the pinestraw. Robert started Pinestraw Specialists in 1999 and has had great interest from the homeowners as well as the growers in his dedication to bettering the pinestraw industry. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/03.
Corey Craig is the CEO of IVM Solutions and Co-Owner of IVM Forestry. Over the last 15 years, he has served his customers through innovation and outside-the-box methods to meet their vegetation management needs. He holds multiple patents for devices that influence day-to-day pesticide applications, including residential lawn care, utility right of way, and the forest services industries.. Source: Personal Résumé, 10/21
Sarah Crim is the Director of Student Services for the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences at Auburn University. Her position allows her to be involved in recruiting potential students, academic advising, and job placement. Through her experiences, she has learned about some of the needs/concerns that potential students and parents might have about receiving a natural resource education. She is here today to address some of the major questions that might be asked before entering the professional world of forestry or wildlife science. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/03.
Theresa M. Crimmins coordinates the efforts of USA-NPN partners to achieve common phenology-related goals. USA-NPN partners include individuals and organizations representing communities of researchers, land managers, policy-makers, citizen scientists, and educators. Through our partnerships we seek to encourage and maintain the participatory spirit of the USA-NPN and the involvement of diverse user groups.
Theresa obtained a B.S. in biology and an M.A. in geography from Western Michigan University and a Ph.D. in natural resources from the University of Arizona. Her research interests encompass plant response to global change, spatial analysis, and engaging citizen scientists of all ages in scientific discovery. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/12.
Richard Cristan is an Extension Specialist and Assistant Professor, Forest Operations at the College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment at Auburn University. Richard has the following degrees: BS, University of Tennessee, 2008, Forest Resources Management; MS, University of Tennessee, 2010, Forestry (Forest Biometrics), Minor in Statistics; and PhD, Virginia Tech, 2016, Forestry (Forest Operations and Water Quality). He is an expert in the areas of forest operations, forestry best management practices, mechanical and chemical site preparation, and competition control. Richard’s teaches Timber Harvesting at the College. His Extension responsibilities include facilitating the Professional Logger Manager (PLM) Training Program. Richard’s research & extension interests are timber harvesting methods and practices, forestry best management practices (BMPs), water quality, site preparation, and competition and invasive plant species control. Source: https://cfwe.auburn.edu/profile/richard-cristan/, 4/24.
Robert H. Crosby, III. After graduating from Louisiana State University in 1977, Robert joined the family business as a salesman for the manufacturing plants. As the company evolved from a manufacturing company to a timberland company, Robert’s position within the company changed as well. By 1982, Robert was responsible for both the forest and mineral management of the company. Robert is currently the President of Crosby Land & Resources, L.L.C. which is headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana. Robert was named the 2013 Forest Landowner of the Year by Forest Landowners Association.
Robert’s current business and community affiliations include the following:
• Forest Landowners Association – Board of Directors, Executive Committee, Governmental Affairs Committee and FLA PAC Board Member
• Louisiana State University Foundation – Board of Directors and Executive Committee (Chairman 2004-2006)
• Louisiana Forest Products Development Center – Advisory Board
• Louisiana Forestry Association – Board of Directors (President 1994-1996)
• Louisiana Forestry Foundation – President
Source: www.crosbylandandresources.com/our-team.html, 3/16.
W. Patrick Cumbie is manager, pine development, for ArborGen. Patrick has been involved in forest tree breeding research and development for more than 12 years. His career has largely focused on coordinating and implementing accelerated breeding programs of loblolly pine. Before joining ArborGen in 2010, Patrick worked in both industry and university based research programs. He is a native of Charlotte, North Carolina and received his BS in Forest Management, MS in Forestry and PhD in Forestry at North Carolina State University. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/14.
Thomas Cunilio: Degrees in Political Science (JCU), Agroforestry (UFL) and Spanish (UFL). Three years in U.S. Peace Corps (Paraguay). Founded two corporations dealing with technology transfer the latest of which is: FL Renewable RC&D Council. Achievements: Farming system development for central FL mineland using energy crops (tall grasses and legume tree) and other legumes (Velvet bean and perennial peanut) in “alley cropping.” Publications: Several on Leucaena, a legume tree for the lower south. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/08.
Michael Cunningham has a B.S. in forestry from Oklahoma State University as well as a M.S. in forest genetics from Texas A&M University. He earned his Ph.D. in forest genetics at North Carolina State University. He is currently the director of product development at ArborGen, LLC, in Summerville, South Carolina. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/10.
Alan B. Curtis was born in Washington, D. C. and grew up in Maryland where, as a youngster, he assembled a small collection of various types of wood that grew near his home. He later went on to study forestry at the University of Idaho, and after a stint as a forestry exchange student in Finland, travels in Europe, and Army service with the Corps of Engineers, completed graduate studies in forestry at Oregon State University. He went on to serve as a forester with the U. S. government Bureau of Land Management in Oregon. During these years, his collection of wood from around the world continued to grow. Alan later joined the International Wood Collectors Society (IWCS) and, in 1976, teamed up with another member, Sam Lamb, of Hawaii to produce the first edition of “A Guide to Developing a Wood Collection. ” Since his retirement in 1986, Alan has traveled the world collecting specimens of woody plants and his high-quality specimens, accurately identified in the field, are prized by collectors around the globe. Alan has served the IWCS in numerous capacities over the years including two terms as President. In 2004, he and his wife, Mary Ann, were jointly awarded an Honorary Life membership in the IWCS for their many years of exemplary service, dedication, loyality, and support for the study, use, collection, and identification of wood. Source: Personal Résumé 3/06.
Dr. Tamara L. Cushing is an Extension Assistant Professor in Forest Business at the University of Florida and is one of the top forest taxation experts in the U.S. Annually, she leads the Texas Timber Tax Workshop in Diboll, Texas, for forest landowners and professionals who work with forest landowners in matters related to timber taxes. She has a Bachelor of Science in Forest Resources and Conservation from the University of Florida, a Master of Science in Forest Economics and a Master of Taxation degree from Mississippi State University and a PhD from the University of Georgia in Forest Finance. Prior to her PhD, Tamara worked at F & W Forestry Services for over four years analyzing cash flows for TIMOs. She has experience working with taxation at the local, state, and federal level. Past research has included estate taxes on private forests, the tax burden on private forest landowners in the United States and property tax assessments in Kentucky. She was the 2020 president of Society of American Foresters. Source: Personal Résumé 8/24.
Jason B. Cutshall, Public Relations Director, Mississippi Loggers Association, Quitman, Mississippi, received a BS and MS in Forestry and a MBA from Mississippi State University. Mr. Cutshall serves on the Mississippi Sustainable Forestry Initiative State Implementation Committee, the Mississippi Loggers Education Council, and the Mississippi Forestry Association/SFI SIC Communications Committee. He also works as a licensed Property and Casualty and combined Life, Health, and Accident insurance agent in MLA’s subsidiary, MLA Insurance Services, Inc. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/01.
Glen E. Dabney – Texas A & M University, BS Forestry 1978. Forestry Consultant since 1978. Developed the systems for medium format precision aerial photography employed by Kingwood Forestry Services, Inc. Registered Forester, American Society of Photogrammetry, Association of Consulting Foresters, Licensed Commercial Pilot, Licensed Commercial Pesticide Applicator. Source: Kingwood Forestry Services, Inc., web page, 10/00.
Joseph Dahlen is an Assistant Professor of Wood Quality & Forest Products at the University of Georgia’s Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. He is the Director of the Wood Quality Consortium, a partnership between the forest industry, the US Forest Service, and the University of Georgia. His research focuses on applying and developing technologies to measure, manage and improve the physical, mechanical, and chemical properties of wood from managed forests. He holds a PhD in Forest Resources and a MS in Forest Products from Mississippi State University and a BS in Wood and Paper Science from the University of Minnesota. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/15.
Mark Dale is the founder of Forest Pro, LLC. He is a registered and certified forester, licensed appraiser, and real estate broker. Mark has always had a love of the outdoors. Growing up and exploring the fields and forests of South Mississippi led Mark to an education in Forest Management at Mississippi State University. A curiosity to better understand the interaction of money and investments as pertaining to timberland also led Mark to receive a degree in Banking and Finance from Mississippi State University. After graduation, Mark worked five years for a private industry in Mississippi and Georgia, where he purchased timber from private landowners and timber dealers as a procurement forester. He established Forest Pro, LLC in 1999 and offers forestry consulting services to area landowners. Since that time, he has furthered his education by receiving his Mississippi Appraisers License in 2003 and a Mississippi Real Estate Brokers license in 2006. Mark also attained full member status in the elite membership of the Association of Consulting Foresters in 2004. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/21.
Deborah W. Dangerfield is president and owner of Dangerfield Consulting. She has trained more than 300 businesses throughout the nation on accounting software. She has written software documentation and has presented many workshops and seminars. Debbie excels in helping financial novices understand the complexities of accounting procedures and software. Source: The University of Georgia Continuing Education Course Description, 7/00.
Kelvin Daniels, a native of Montgomery, is a 1990 graduate of Robert E. Lee High School. His career with the Alabama Forestry Commission spans 27 years in videography; layout and design; and now unmanned aerial systems (UAS) program, more commonly referred to as drones, for the collection of aerial forest imagery, both videography and photography.
As AFC drone coordinator since March of 2019, Kelvin has held responsibility for the agency’s growing UAS program. The Alabama Forestry Commission became one of the first agencies in the state to be authorized by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to fly drones in 2016. This technology is used to collect aerial images for the agency’s various management and protection division projects such as Best Management Practice (BMP) inspections, wildfire monitoring and mitigation, post hurricane and tornado damage, forest insects and diseases, etc. Additionally, Kelvin also obtains aerial video for the annual Helene Mosley Memorial TREASURE Forest Award presentations, as well as stock aerial forestry footage for other videos.
The agency’s drone program has now expanded to offer a full line of forest imaging and mapping to Alabama’s forest land¬owners as a cost-efficient forest management tool. AFC drone pilots collect aerial imagery, then provide landowners with both a printed and digital map of their property with markups, a copy of all captured images (photos), and video footage, all of which can be utilized in their forest management plans.
Kelvin’s other responsibilities include not only maintaining FAA flight authorization and required documentation for the agency drone program, but also maintaining his own individual FAA Part 107 drone pilot certification, and coordinating continuity of the individual certifications of other AFC drone pilots. He is also responsible for the training and coordination/scheduling of assignments, as well as compliance with all FAA regulations and AFC guidelines by drone pilots within the agency.
As a professional videographer with the AFC, Kelvin has filmed the annual “Helene Mosley Memorial TREASURE Forest Award” winners since 1994. He also began producing the “Alabama Outstanding Tree Farmer of the Year” videos in 1999 with Doug Link.
In 2009, Kelvin and co-worker Mike Kyser were named the “Conservation Communicators of the Year” by the Alabama Wildlife Federation at the prestigious Governor’s Conservation Achievement Awards banquet. From the high peaks near Fort Payne to the low country near Mobile, the pair did a tremendous job of capturing what it means to be an Alabama landowner. This team produced all of the agency’s informational and educational videos from start to finish, including directing, shooting, and editing. Their talents have shown through as what is seen on the screen is a true representation of the pride and reverence landowners hold for their property. Both men are perfectionists, paying the strictest attention to detail and setting the highest standards of excellence for themselves. The supreme quality of their work reflects well, not only on their professionalism, but on the integrity of the Alabama Forestry Commission as well.
In addition to filming award winners, Kelvin has used his creativity in the design and layout of publications such as the AFC’s Alabama’s TREASURED Forests magazine; the AFC employee newsletter, TREETopics; and numerous brochures. He also assisted in maintaining the Alabama Forestry Commission website for several years. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/21.
Bill Dart is a land use advocate who got involved with the Blueribbon Coalition by working with Clark Collins on the National Recreational Trails Fund Act back in 1989 and 1990. Today, through the BRC, and with a new legal team, he is aggressively fighting for ATV rights. He is the Legislative Officer of District 36 of the American Motorcyclist Association and is also associated with the California-Nevada Snowmobile Association, High Sierra Motorcycle Club, and California Off-Road. Dart also enjoys event promotion, hunting, and fishing. Source: Blueribbon Coalition website, 5/04.
Jib A. Davidson received his Bachelor of Science in Forest Resources and Conservation with a major in Forest Management from the University of Florida in 1978. Continuing his education, he earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a major in Finance and minor in Real Estate from the University of Florida in 1983. Jib is currently a graduate student finishing his master’s certificate in Forest Finance & Investment at Auburn University’s School of Forestry & Wildlife Sciences.
Jib began his career in 1977 as a procurement forester with Georgia-Pacific Corporation supplying timber to their mills in North Florida, then he became the G-P Gulf Hammock Land Manager overseeing 117,611 acres of timberland. In 1984 Jib and his former college professor, Don Post, founded a consulting forestry company managing private timberland. In 1989 Georgia Pacific offered Jib and Norman McRae a timber dealership and Columbia Timber Company was born.
Jib’s focal point is in forest finance, taxation, investment analysis, and real estate transactions. He has served as an instructor for forest management courses at the University of Florida’s School of Forest Resources and Conservation and Community Education through Santa Fe Community College. He is a Certified Forester, Master Logger and is a Fellow in the Society of American Foresters, Florida Forestry Association’s Board of Directors, The American Forest Institute Tree Farm Program, and the Forest Farmers Association In addition to his many civic and fraternal activities, Jib is a proud Rotarian, served on his homeowner’s association, and teaches boating and navigation courses through the U.S. Power Squadron. He loves sailing, reading, fishing, and just being outdoors.
Denise B. Davis is as an independent Wealth Management Advisor working with clients in the areas of asset protection, risk management, financial planning, and investment management. She has held positions as Senior Vice President with U.S. Trust Company and Deutsche Asset Management, both based in New York. While currently focused on the individual market, her clients have included not for profit organizations and corporations, including Fortune 100 clients. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a member of the CFA Institute and the New York Society of Security Analysts. Her licenses include a Series 6, 63 and 7. She received a BA (summa cum laude) from Sacred Heart College and a MA from UNC Chapel Hill. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/09.
Lawrence Davis received the Bachelor of Science and Master of Forestry degrees from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from U. C. Berkeley in 1964. Both his thesis and dissertation were on the feasibility and economics of prescribed burning and fuels management. After completing his BS degree he worked with the U. S. Forest Service in Georgia conducting forest management and fire research and subsequently served three years in the U. S. Army as an electronics specialist. After completing his Doctorate, he spent six years as Assistant and Associate professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and then joined Utah State University where he was Professor and Head of the Department of Forest Resources for 12 years. At USU, he taught undergraduate and graduate courses in forest resources management and directed several research projects in public land management concerned with public involvement, land classification systems and was also active in training and implementing the FORPLAN planning system of the U. S. Forest Service. At Berkeley since 1982, Professor Davis taught integrated forest management and planning and had an extensive research program with industry and public agencies in this area. Author of over 75 publications, he is the senior author of the now worldwide standard teaching and reference textbook Forest Management (third and now fourth edition) 805 pp. in the McGrawHill Forestry Series. He held the S. J. Hall Chair in Forest Economics at Berkeley until 1996. After retiring from Berkeley in 1997, he worked on consulting projects with the forestry consulting firms of Mason, Bruce and Girard, Inc, of Portland Oregon, Vestra Resources in Redding CA., and The Forest Technology Group of Charleston SC. Integrated forest land management planning and improving quantitative analysis of planning and policy issues to deal with the real-world economic, social and ecological aspects of forest problems has been the central focus of his teaching, research and writing career. He is a recognized leader in developing concepts, tools and systems to support analysis and planning for sustainable forest ecosystem management. Source: Personal Résumé, 09/04.
Lewis S. Dean has been a staff Geologist with the Geological Survey of Alabama in Tuscaloosa since 1986 and manages the Library and Minerals Information Office for the Geologic Investigations Program. Source: Personal Résumé, 05/13.
Jerry deBin turned his passion for hunting into a career in wildlife conservation and in the sporting goods industries. He operates three businesses. First, Jerry is CEO at Callaway Farms Manufacturing, a forest products company that makes pine shavings animal bedding sold in farm feed stores nationwide. Second, he is founder and president of Wildlife Cooperative LLC, a wildlife management consulting company that specializes in quality deer management and upland game properties for private landowners. Third, Jerry is a consultant to private equity firms interested in acquiring hunting and/or fishing companies. And for “dirt therapy”, Jerry operates a 4,500-acre farm in Crenshaw County, AL. See his farm website at www.wildlifecooperative.com. He holds a BS Forestry from Stephen F. Austin University, an MS in Zoology & Wildlife Sciences from Auburn University, and is a Certified Wildlife Biologist. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/14.
Allen Deese graduated from Huntingdon College in Business Marketing. After graduation, Allen and two buddies started an Alligator farm in south Montgomery. Also, during this time, he trapped beavers and did dynamite work for several land owners and companies. Allen continued with that for ten years and then moved on to follow his wife with her new job at Auburn University. He met Wayne and Jimmy Bassett who own Beck’s Turf & The Wildlife Group and at this point was offered the job of Marketing, Sales & Nursery Manager of The Wildlife Group. The Wildlife Group Is a nursery dedicated to the natural enhancement of wildlife habitat through plantings of fruit and nut bearing trees and plants. The last ten years have been very fruitful in this new endeavor, and The Wildlife Group is exceeding our expectations. Allen is married to Tina Deese. They have two kids, 19 years old and 15 years old. Source: Personal Résumé, 04/13.
Derwood Delaney and his four sons built Louisiana Forest Seed Company in 1983. After successfully producing pine seed in incredible quantity and quality, LFSCO expanded its capacity to process hardwood seed. Known nationally for the quality, LFSCO goal is to help reforest the world one customer at a time with over 200 species of seed to choose from. Source: www.lfsco.com, 04/19.
Gary Delaney is Vice-President of Louisiana Forest Seed Company, a family operated business established in 1983. Gary’s father, Derwood Delaney, was involved in the seed industry back in the 1950’s, and is currently still involved in the business. Gary’s grandfather, Luther Delaney, was the first state nurseryman in the South, which at that time involved procuring your own seed for planting. Gary has been involved in the business since its establishment in 1983. He has a B.S. degree in business from Louisiana State University and an MBA from Louisiana Tech University.
Louisiana Forest Seed Company procures, processes and sells tree and shrub seed for the forest and horticulture industries throughout the southeastern United States. LFSCo also exports seed. The company handles approximately 200 species of seed. The seed plant covers 30,000 sq. ft. with 2 freezers and three coolers for seed storage. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/08.
Walter Dennis, Forest Ecologist, received a BS and MS from Mississippi State University. He has a broad range of experience in forest management, BMP assessment, environmental regulations, wildlife management, and public affairs for industry, U.S. Forest Service and landowners in five southeastern states. He is also a registered forester in Alabama and Mississippi, and a certified wildlife biologist. Source: Préceda Education & Training Course Description, 5/99.
Trey DeLoach is an Extension Forester in the Department of Forestry at Mississippi State University. Trey provides Enhanced Forestry Education in six counties in southwest Mississippi. He received both a BS and a MS in forest management from Mississippi State University. He is a member of the Society of American Forester, Mississippi Forestry Association and a registered forester in Mississippi. Source: Personal Résumé, 2/04.
Ashley DeRamus is the great-granddaughter of Elmer S. Miller, founder of Miller Lumber Co. Ashley has Down Syndrome and has her own foundation, The Ashley DeRamus Foundation, and works tirelessly to advocate for children and adults with Down Syndrome. For countless people, Ashley has changed their perspective of what people with Down Syndrome are capable of accomplishing. She has met with luminaries such as Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich. She has shown athletic excellence by winning 43 medals while competitively swimming, has her own clothing line designed for the special sizes of young ladies with Down Syndrome and has been traveling the United States on a Pledge of Allegiance Tour, showing people across the country that people with special needs have the ability to be informed registered voters. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/13.
Ted DeVos is a Registered Forester, Wildlife Biologist and, since 2003, Co-owner of Bach and DeVos Forestry and Wildlife Services in Montgomery, Alabama. He has served as an appointed Commissioner on the Alabama Forestry Commission and as President of the Alabama Wildlife Federation. Ted is also involved with the Alabama Prescribed Fire Council, Alabama Quail Council, Alabama Forest Resources Center, among other committees and appointments. Bach and DeVos assists in management of forestland and recreational properties throughout the southeast, primarily in Alabama. They specialize in incorporating wildlife management into timber management regimes. In addition, they manage and establish quality under stories in woodlands with herbicides and woodland grinders to clear thick undergrowth and saplings for hunting, forestry, wildlife management and aesthetics. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/09.
Lamar Dewberry is a private forest landowner in Lineville, Alabama where he and his wife Felicia own Dewberry Lands, LLC and Mountains Streams Realty, Inc. Lamar manages their forestland for multiple uses. Lamar obtained a Masters Degree from Auburn University and spent the first twenty-three years of his career teaching forestry to young people in the Agriscience program. His students were very successful in national competitions and many went on to further their education in forest related careers. Since leaving the teaching profession he has been able to spend more time managing their forestland. He has developed a blog, www.dewberrylands.blogspot.com to show how they use their multiple use forest. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/12.
Daniel C. Dey is Research Forester for the U.S. Forest Service, Northern Research Station, located in Columbia, MO. He is also Project Leader of a research unit there that studies the ecology and sustainable management of Central Hardwood Forest ecosystems. Dan’s personal research emphasis is the silviculture of eastern hardwood forests. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/15. See also: http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/people/Dey.
Stephen G. Dicke is Extension Forestry Professor, Mississippi State University, based off-campus at the Central Mississippi Research and Extension Center, Raymond, Mississippi. Stephen is a Certified Arborist, International Society of Arboriculture, and a Registered Forester, Mississippi Board of Registration for Foresters. He has served in his current position for 24 years. Before that Stephen was with Weyerhaeuser and LSU. In 2011 Stephen received the Meritorious Service to Forestry Award from the Mississippi Forestry Association, and in 2010 the Forest Landowners Association named him Extension Forester of the Year. Stephen has been married 32 years to the former Susan Gourley of Starkville. They have three adult children. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/13.
David Dickens is an Associate Professor of Forest Productivity at Warnell School of Forest Resources, The University of Georgia. There he works through the Extension Service at Statesboro and has written extensively on southern pine forest management.
David earned his B.S. in Forest Management from The University of Georgia and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Forest Site Productivity from Clemson University. He has worked in Forestry Extension at Clemson and then, UGA since 1988. Source: Warnell School of Forest Resources web site, 02/08.
Chris Dillard is the Geospatial Extension Specialist for the Alabama Cooperative Extension System. He received his undergraduate degree in finance and a master’s degree in management information systems from Auburn University. Chris began working on precision agriculture projects in 1998 with Dr. Paul Mask and was responsible for program global positioning systems, geographic information systems, and computer technology. As the specialist for geospatial technologies, Chris conducts targeted programs that promote the use of geospatial tools and applications, and integrate geospatial concepts. The Geospatial Extension Program serves the state of Alabama, primarily in the areas of agriculture, forestry, and natural resources. Objectives of the program align with the programmatic objectives of the National Geospatial Technology Extension Network, to advance knowledge for agriculture, the environment, human health, well-being, and communities, and to expand and accelerate the realization of economic and societal benefits from Earth science information and technology. Chris participates in the Map@Syst and YouthSET eXtension communities of practice. Source: Personal Résumé, 10/09.
Mike Dixon, Jr. grew up in Eufaula, AL (Barbour Co) where he developed a love for the abundant natural resources of the state. He is a proud but humble fifth generation Alabamian and land steward through his paternal line. In 1858, his great great grandfather James Monroe Dixon purchased the family’s first land holding in Arguta (Dale Co). Mike graduated from the McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1986 and received a BA in Political Science from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX in 1990. He worked in the family lumber business for over 13 years, leaving in 2003 to pursue his own business interests that now include timber, land, and property management. Mike is a Certified Prescribed Burn Manager and spends a significant part of his time in the practice of forestry. He is married to Dr. CiCi Dixon, and they have two children, Will (13) and Hope (11). Mike has been a member of AFOA for many years now and currently serves on the board of directors. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/14.
Will Dixon, a Eufaula, Alabama native, is a finance graduate from the University of Alabama with a minor in real estate. After graduating magna cum laude, Will managed over $220 million in assets as a property manager at the prestigious Yellowstone Club in Montana. In 2024, he returned to Eufaula to join Dixon Land Company, working alongside his grandfather, Michael C. Dixon, Sr., who also serves on the Alabama Forest Owners Association’s Board of Directors. Will is eager to continue the family legacy in land management and development, bringing his strong finance background and commitment to the company’s future. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/24.
William E. Dixon is a Property Manager for Larson & McGowin, LLC, an Alabama-based consulting forestry firm. In that role Dixon handles timber sales, timber sale inspections, timber marking, road maintenance and construction projects, invasive species management, new client proposals, client yearly budgets, client monthly and quarterly reports, and timber estimates and inventories across the southeastern United States. Some of his early experience with the firm included timber marking, GPS field work, prescribed burning, application of herbicide on invasive plant species, seedling survival inventories, and boundary line maintenance. In 2011 and 2012 Will was a Research Assistant at Auburn University where he was responsible for all aspects of herbicide research projects on agricultural and invasive plant species in controlled and natural environments. Will is a Registered Forester in Alabama, a Certified Prescribed Burn Manager in Alabama and the Board President of the Alabama Invasive Plant Council. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Forestry from Auburn University in 2010, and a Masters of Natural Resources from Auburn University in 2012. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/19.
J. Kevin Dodd is the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the Alabama Wildlife & Freshwater Fisheries Division of the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Kevin is a native of Marshall County and a 1984 graduate of Auburn University with a Bachelor of Science in wildlife biology. He has been employed with the Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division since 1984. Kevin is married with two children. He lives in Prattville, Alabama. Kevin is an active outdoorsman. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/13.
Jim Doescher is president of Jim Doescher and Associates and vice president of Abbeville Forest Products, Inc. He received his Bachelor’s degree in forestry from Mississippi State University and recently completed an advanced negotiating program at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Doescher spent 18 years working in the forest industry prior to beginning his own firm. He is a guest lecturer for the School of Forestry at Auburn University and teaches numerous short courses and workshops on the negotiating process. Doescher is active in Toastmasters International and the National Speakers Association and is listed in Who’s Who in Professional Speaking. Source: Mississippi State University Continuing Education Course Description, 4/99.
Erskine G. (Don) Donald, ALC, the qualifying broker of The Great Southern Land Co., Inc., is a graduate of the University of Alabama with a degree in Aerospace Engineering. He has taken graduate courses in business, and worked for NASA for nearly 30 years prior to volunteering for early retirement in 1992 to pursue a second career in real estate and appraisal “back home”. He holds the REALTORS Land Institute (RLI) Accredited Land Consultant (ALC) designation and is a member of Omega Tau Rho honor society of the National Association of Realtors. He is also a licensed real property appraiser in Alabama. Don resides in his hometown of Pine Apple. Source: Great Southern Land Website, 10/01.
Tom Donald is retired from the data-processing profession. He owns timberland in DeKalb County east of Mentone. His family also owns timberland in St. Clair County on Big Canoe Creek. He was sued by a neighbor who claimed a prescriptive easement over a roadway which had long been used as the only access to the neighbor’s land. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/15.
Matt Donegan is a co-founder and principal with US Forest Capital, an investment management group solely dedicated to forestland investments. At USFC, Mr. Donegan developed and now leads the group’s commercial investment services, providing transaction and investment management services to private and institutional investors. In this capacity, he launched a joint venture with Resource Management Service, and continues to serve as USFC lead. Mr. Donegan also leads the development of USFC’s operating strategy, serving as the group’s managing partner. He has appeared in numerous public speaking engagements and authored several articles in industry trade publications.
Prior to co-founding US Forest Capital, Mr. Donegan served as Portfolio Officer at the Hancock Timber Resource Group in Boston. While there, he managed three timberland portfolios totaling $1.4 billion on behalf of institutional investors, including the nation’s largest institutional timberland investor. At HTRG, Mr. Donegan reviewed billions of dollars in timberland transactions across North America and New Zealand. In addition to portfolio management, his roles at HTRG included investor relations, corporate strategic planning and technical research and development. Previously, he served at Georgia-Pacific Corporation in Atlanta, where his responsibilities included investment analysis, and technical services including environmental policy. Mr. Donegan earned a Bachelor’s in Forestry from the University of Florida and a M.B.A. with concentrations in Forest Industries Management and Finance from the University of Tennessee. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/00.
Rich Donnell is the Editor at Hatton-Brown Publishers, Montgomery, Alabama, which publishes the new Wood Bioenergy magazine, as well as several other magazines in the forest products field, including Panel World, Timber Processing, Timber Harvesting, Southern Loggin’ Times and Southern Lumberman. Donnell has been with Hatton-Brown for 25 years. Previously he worked in the newspaper business as a reporter. He received his undergraduate degree in journalism at Auburn University, and a Master’s in Journalism at Penn State University. Donnell also operates The Donnell Group, a regional book publishing firm, which specializes in sports autobiographies as well as specialty books. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/09.
Patti Donnellan is a native of Cleveland, Ohio. She attended Penn State University, where she majored in Wildlife and Fisheries Science. While at Penn State, she worked on projects focusing on grassland bird monitoring and wildlife mortality due to vehicle collisions. Ms. Donnellan has been the naturalist at Lake Guntersville State Park for 7 years and enjoys the bald eagles, wildflowers, and the edible and medicinal properties of plants located in the park. She has also volunteered at a local environmental center, which ignited her interest in raptors. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/14.
Susan Dooley of Collinsville, Alabama grew up on the family farm in the Portersville Community of DeKalb County. Susan, along with her brother, Mark, and mother, Pat, are private landowners with natural forest stands and planted pine plantations ranging in age from 9 to 14 years old. All three inherited land from great grandparents, grandparents and parents. Susan, Mark and Pat are managing their timberland located in DeKalb County, Alabama for hunting of deer and small game, as a bird sanctuary, and for timber harvesting. Susan is a graduate of Auburn University’s School of Agriculture in Food Science and has a Master of Science degree from the University of Georgia in Nutritional Sciences. She is employed by Bud’s Best Cookies in Birmingham, Alabama as Quality Assurance/Food Safety Manager. Susan currently serves as vice-president of the AFOA. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/14.
Derek Dougherty is CEO of Dougherty & Dougherty Forestry Services, Inc. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Forest Resources from the University of Georgia in 1993, Derek worked as District Manager for James M. Vardaman & Co., Inc. in Lumberton, North Carolina until starting Dougherty & Dougherty Forestry Services, Inc. in September 1995. Derek is a registered forester in the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi and Real Estate broker in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Derek also serves as manager of Progressive Realty Services, LLC, specializing in the sale of rural land, and co-manager of Progressive Forest Properties Group, LLC, managing pooled monies invested in timberland properties. Derek is a member of Society of American Foresters and President-elect of the Forest Landowners Association. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Forest Landowners Association. Derek is an accomplished writer and speaker on forest management in the southeastern United States. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/09.
W. Alfred (Billy) Dozier, Jr. received the B.S. degree in agriculture education in 1963 and M.S. degree in horticulture in 1965 from Auburn. Billy worked as a research assistant in horticulture fruit crops from March 1965 to September 1968. He left Auburn in September 1968 to work on a PH. D. in Pomology (fruit crops) at VPI. He completed the PH. D. program in January 1971 and returned to Auburn February 1971 in fruit crops research and teaching programs. Billy has conducted research on many different fruit crops in Alabama. Tree crops research includes apples, pears, peaches, plums, satsuma, and chestnuts. Small fruit research includes blueberry, kiwi, and strawberry. Patents for 8 new chestnut cultivars and 5 new kiwi cultivars from the program have recently been issued. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/11.
Anthony C. Drake grew up in East Alabama on a family farm. Tony is a graduate of Auburn University School of Veterinary Medicine and has practiced Veterinary Medicine in Montgomery for over 30 years. Presently he is actively involved in intensively managing his 3,300 acres of timberland and serves as a Forest Service Provider for AgraGate which is an aggregator for the Chicago Climate Exchange. Source: Personal Résumé, 10/08.
Eleanor J. Drake is a native Alabamian and a graduate of Auburn University. Now a retired school teacher and wildlife enthusiast, she has had ten years experience leasing land for hunting. She is married to veterinarian Tony Drake in Montgomery, Alabama, and is the mother of two children. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/07.
Kerlin Drake is Vice President-Marketing of Anthony Forest Products in El Dorado, Arkansas. His main responsibilities include all marketing functions, marketing initiatives for residential/commercial construction, new-product development, customer development, trade associations executive, and technical sales support activities for the sales team with the laminating plants in Washington, Georgia and El Dorado, Arkansas and Anthony-Domtar Inc. I-Joist plant in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. Mr. Drake graduated from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge receiving a Bachelor of Science Degree in Forest Management in 1976. Mr. Drake previous employment was with Timber Products Inspection in Conyers, Georgia serving as a senior regional supervisor out of Baton Rouge, LA for 10 years. Mr. Drake joined Anthony Forest Products in 1987 as quality control director for all manufacturing operations. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for Anthony-Domtar Inc., President and CEO of Power Building Systems, LLC, Chairman of the Southern Pine Council, Chairman of the Executive Task Group of the Grants and Partnership Committee with the Southern Pine Council, Chairman of the Glulam Management Committee, member of the I-Joist Management Committee, and Marketing Advisory Committee of the APA-The Engineered Wood Association. He sits on numerous other committees within APA, SFPA, American Wood Council of AF&PA, and Wood Products Council. He served as past Chairman of the Board of Advisors of Timber Products Inspection and board member of the Wood Truss Council of America. Mr. Drake and his wife, Elise, live in El Dorado, Arkansas. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/10.
Scott Drenkard is an Economist with the Tax Foundation. Scott’s research areas include excise taxes, income taxes, and sales taxes. He is the editor of the most recent edition of the popular handbook, Facts & Figures: How Does Your State Compare? His analyses of tax and spending policy have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Orange County Register, CNN.com, Reuters, the Associated Press, NPR, CBS and the peer-reviewed Journal of State Taxation. Prior to joining the Tax Foundation, Scott was selected as a Charles G. Koch Summer Fellow by the Institute for Humane Studies and served as a Ronald Reagan Fellow in the Goldwater Institute’s Center for Economic Prosperity. His work can be seen in their quarterly publication, For the Record. In 2012, he completed a year of non-profit management training through the Koch Associate Program. He holds a B.S. in economics from the University of Mary Washington, where he founded the Libertarian Readers Society and served as the Vice President of Omicron Delta Epsilon, the international economics honor society. He is a candidate for an M.A. in economics at George Mason University. Source: http://taxfoundation.org/staff/scott-drenkard, 9/12.
Mitch Dubensky is Director of Forest Environment for the American Forest & Paper Association in Washington D.C. He represents private forest landowners on a variety of regulatory and legislative issues including water quality, wetlands, air, forest inventory, global climate change and resource assessment. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/01.
Ann Dugan is the founder, executive director and assistant dean of the Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence, part of the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. Created to foster the growth and development of family businesses and entrepreneurial firms, seed innovation and promote technology transfer, the Institute engages the enterprising community with teaching, research and outreach to a range of organizations through its many initiatives and programs. Ms. Dugan is an accomplished author, lecturer and family business consultant with more than 20 years of experience researching, developing and writing in the areas of family business, strategic planning, development of the franchise system and the dynamics of the entrepreneurial firm. Ann Dugan is an associate of the Family Business Consulting Group, an organization that provides leadership in the field of education and consulting to the closely held or family firm. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/09.
Gilbert F. Dukes, III born Mobile, Alabama, September 4, 1963; admitted to bar, 1988, Alabama. Education: Washington & Lee University (B.S., Accounting and Business Administration, cum laude, 1985); University of Alabama School of Law (J.D., 1988); New York University (LL.M., Taxation, 1989). Phi Kappa Phi; Order of the Coif. Hugo L. Black Scholar. Bench and Bar. Graduate Editor, Tax Law Review, 1988-1989. Member: Mobile County and American (Member, Taxation Section) Bar Associations; Alabama State Bar (Chairman, Tax Section, 1996-1997). Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. Former Adjunct Lecturer of Taxation, Spring Hill College, 1995—. Faculty Member, Southern Trust School. President, Alabama 1031 Property Exchange, Inc.; Member, Federation of Exchange Accommodations. Author: “Tax Deferred Exchanges of Property-Mistakes and Misconceptions,” Taxes, The Tax Magazine, December 2001; “Tax Deferred Exchanges, Selected Issues,” The Alabama Lawyer, September 2001; “Direct Deeding May Avoid Intermediary’s Environmental Exposure in Like-Kind Exchange, “The Journal of Taxation, October 1993; “Beware of Tax Liens and the IRS Right of Redemption After Foreclosure,” BNA Tax Management Financial Planning Journal, October 1993, BNA Tax Management Weekly Report, September 6, 1993, BNA IRS Practice & Policy Bulletin, August 13, 1993, The Alabama Lawyer, January 1993; “Tax Deferred Exchanges: Mistakes, Misconceptions and Traps,” Gulf Coast Condo Owner, Fall 1999. Member, Board of Directors of American Institute on Federal Taxation; Mobile Estate Planning Council; Advisory Board of Directors, Wachovia Bank. Practice Areas: Estate Planning; Trust Planning; Estate Administration; Taxation; Corporate Law; Real Estate; Tax Deferred Exchanges. Source: Lawyers.com, 3/08.
Michael A. Dunn is an economist with the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, specializing in forestry related economics and policy analysis. He researches resource related economics and policy issues pertinent to Louisiana. He also conducts extension programming within the LSU AgCenter Extension Natural Resources Program, which is responsible for education and outreach to Louisiana’s non-industrial, private forestland owners and managers.
Dunn received a PhD in Forest Economics and Policy Analysis from Auburn University, a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Forestry from Louisiana Tech University, and a Bachelor’s of Business Administration Degree in Economics from Northeast Louisiana University.
Dunn has written approximately 90 natural resource related publications in his 11 year academic career. He is an active forest and farm landowner in Louisiana. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/09.
Willie R. Dunn is Senior Vice President with First United Security Bank which has branches in Clarke, Choctaw, Bibb, Shelby and Tuscaloosa Counties. Mr. Dunn has 27 years banking experience in the rural timber producing counties of Wilcox, Clarke, and Bibb Counties. He grew up working with his father as a logging contractor in the early 1960s. First United Security Bank operates in an economy that is largely dependent on timber production and wood fiber. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/01.
Darrell L. Dunteman is a 1975 graduate of the University of Illinois. Dunteman is a practing agricultural accountant and financial consultant with offices in Bushnell, Illinois. Dunteman edits Ag Executive as well as the Farm and Ranch Tax Letter (www.agexecutive.com). Dunteman may be contacted at (309) 772-2168. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/06.
Pat Dye was Auburn head football coach from 1981 to 1992. Coach Dye led the Auburn Tigers to four SEC championships, nine bowl games and five top 10 finishes. He was SEC Coach of the Year once. He is currently host of “Alabama Outdoors” which airs live on Monday nights from 6 to 7 p.m. As a landowner, Coach Dye uses some of his “outdoor” knowledge to develop and improve his own properties. He is converting his 585 acres in Notasulga, Alabama from a cattle farm into one managed for timber and wildlife. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/01.
John Earle graduated from the University of Georgia School of Forest Resources with BS and MS degrees in 1985 and 1991. John has worked for the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Wildlife Refuge system since 1991 and has served at six stations (nine refuges) in Alabama, Arizona, California, Georgia, and Louisiana. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/11.
Bruce N. Eason is President of Piedmont Foresters, Inc., a forestry consulting firm based in LaFayette, Alabama. Bruce has been with the firm since receiving a BS degree in Forest Management from Auburn University in 1976. He is a member of the Association of Consulting Foresters and numerous other forestry organizations. Bruce received a Bachelor of Theology Degree from Christian Life School in November 1992. Source: Personal Résumé, 10/00.
Don C. East was born in his Cleveland grandparents’ home in Clevelands Cross Roads, Alabama. He was immersed in American Indian tales, legends and ways of life during his youth from his grandmother, great grandfather and great great Uncle of the Nail family. His great great great great grandmother and great great grandmothers of the Nail family were Creek Indians. After graduation from Bibb Graves High school in Millerville, Alabama, Don joined the United States Navy and spent 8 years as an enlisted Cryptologic Technician. He then received a commission as a Naval Flight Officer during the Vietnam War. During his flying tours he operated off aircraft carriers and land based sites performing airborne electronic reconnaissance missions. He was the commanding officer of two Navy electronic reconnaissance squadrons during his career. He spent the majority of his Navy tours overseas in Europe and the Middle East. Don holds bachelor and masters degrees from Monterey College in Monterey, California in International Relations and a second masters degree from Salve Regina College in Newport, Rhode Island in Russian Studies. During his Navy career, he was based in Spain, Germany, Turkey, Russia, Norway, Iceland, Italy, Greece, and other countries in the region. He was on numerous assignments to Russia, both before the breakup of the USSR and afterwards. During the latter portion of his Navy career, he was a professor at both the Navy and the Air Force War colleges, where he taught Russian and Middle East studies and naval operations. After retiring as a Captain with 35 years of active duty Navy service in 1992, he built a home on Lake Wedowee where he still lives. He owns and operates The Creeks Tree Farms in Clay and Randolph Counties. He has won several state, regional and national awards for exceptional forestry and wildlife management on his tree farms. He writes often for local newspapers and magazines, and his book “A Historical Analysis of the Creek Indian Hillabee Towns and Personal Reflections on the Landscape and People of Clay County, Alabama” was released in December 2008. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/09.
Myron Ebell is director of energy and global warming policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He also serves as director of Freedom Action, a web-based grassroots activist organization dedicated to putting freedom on the offensive, and chairs the Cooler Heads Coalition, which comprises over two dozen non-profit groups in this country and abroad that question global warming alarmism and oppose energy-rationing policies.
The Business Insider in 2009 commented that, “Myron Ebell may be enemy #1 to the current climate change community.” Eric Pooley devotes a chapter of his 2010 book, The Climate War, to Mr. Ebell and calls him “a superstar of the Denialosphere” (that is his term for those who oppose global warming alarmism). The Financial Times this year called him “one of America’s most prominent climate-change skeptics” and the San Francisco Chronicle recently noted that he “for years has been one of the fiercest critics of global warming science.” Among numerous other recognitions, Vanity Fair magazine published a long, highly critical profile of Mr. Ebell in their May 2007 “second annual Green Issue” and seven members of the British House of Commons from all three major parties introduced a motion in 2004 to censure him “in the strongest possible terms.”
Prior to coming to CEI, Mr. Ebell was policy director at Frontiers of Freedom, a public-policy advocacy organization founded by former U. S. Senator Malcolm Wallop. While at Frontiers of Freedom, he worked on property rights, the Endangered Species Act, federal-lands policies, and global warming. He previously served as senior legislative assistant to Rep. John Shadegg, where he helped develop landmark legislation that would reform the Endangered Species Act, and before that as Washington representative of the American Land Rights Association and as assistant to the chairman of the National Taxpayers Union.
A native of Baker County, Oregon, where he grew up on a cattle ranch, Mr. Ebell holds a B.A. (cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) from Colorado College and a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, where he was a pupil of renowned political philosopher Michael Oakeshott. He was also a graduate student at the University of California at San Diego, where he was a Board of Regents’ Fellow, and a research student at Peterhouse, Cambridge University. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/10.
Thomas J. Ebner received a BS degree in Forest Engineering from Oregon State in 1956 and an MBA degree from the University of Oregon in 1968. After 3 years in the Marine Corps, from 1956 to 1959, Ebner began work for Roseburg Lumber Co. as a timber cruiser (1960-1962). He then went to work for the Bureau of Land Management as an Engineer (1962-1967), followed by 17 years with Weyerhaeuser Company where he worked first as a modeler and then as a forest business manager in Columbus, Mississippi. He has been a private consultant since 1986. Tom is a co-author of a book entitled Timberland Investments, published in 1992. He also co-authored with Bob Daniels a paper entitled The Benefits of Marking the First Pine Thinning, 2006. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/08.
Jane Eckert, Eckert AgriMarketing. It is no wonder that Jane Eckert, a farmer’s daughter and former corporate marketing executive, has become a recognized expert on agritourism, a growing travel trend in America. She created one of the most successful tourism farms in North America and now helps members of the travel industry tap into the agritourism market. Jane, now in her second year of consulting with the travel division of the State of Kansas, works with travel professionals, farmers and ranchers in order to develop agritourism in the state.
Jane was raised on her family’s apple orchard outside of St. Louis, Missouri, and eventually pursued an executive career in corporate marketing for more than 15 years, working for such giants as Atlantic Richfield Oil Company.
Combining her marketing expertise and her passion for agriculture, she returned to her roots as Vice President of Marketing for Eckert’s Country Store and Farms. Through her innovative ideas and through working closely with CVBs and tourism authorities, she helped develop the farm into one of metropolitan St. Louis’ most popular entertainment and tourist destinations, attracting 500,000 guests annually.
Jane has been featured in U.S.A. Today and interviewed for hundreds of newspapers, magazines and radio shows throughout the country. In her speeches and workshops, she has helped thousands of tourism professionals to see the financial benefits of promoting the niche product of agritourism.
In 2001, Jane created Eckert AgriMarketing, a full-service marketing and consulting firm that offers a variety of services to the tourism industry and agricultural operations to help them harvest the rewards of agritourism. Jane was given the leadership award by the North American Farmers’ Direct Marketing Association in 2005. Source: http://www.eckertagrimarketing.com/meetjane/JaneBio_06_05.doc, 8/08.
Dr. Lori G. Eckhardt is an Assistant Research Professor of Forest Pathology and Entomology at Auburn University in the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences and the Director of the Forest Health Cooperative at Auburn University. Her research interests include the biology and ecology of ophiostomatoid fungal species and their bark beetle vectors as components of southern pine decline and mortality. Primary areas of interest include mycology, host-fungal interactions, fungal-insect interactions, fungal and insect ecology, forest health, and disease risk mapping. She earned her BS from the University of Maryland in Cell Molecular Biology and Genetics and PhD from Louisiana State University in Plant Health and Entomology. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/09.
Katherine Milner Eddins is the Executive Director of the Alabama Land Trust, based in Jacksonville, Alabama. She graduated from the University of Alabama School of Law, Juris Doctorate, with honors in 1986. Katherine also holds a Master of Forestry degree from Auburn University, graduating summa cum laude in 1997. She has been published in the Journal of Forestry and has practiced both law and natural resource management as well as working in the land trust for six years. She is a board member on the Rivers Alive board. Katherine also is an owner and manager of agricultural and forest land. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/03.
Anthony J. Edwards is a Vice President and Geologist in The Natural Resource Department of Regions Bank for the past 22 years. Tony is a Licensed Geologist in Alabama and Tennessee and a Certified Professional Geologist by the American Institute of Professional Geologists. In his job as a property manager, he uses GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and GPS (Global Positioning Satellites) to help manage several million acres of mineral rights located primarily in the Southeastern United States.
While Tony uses professional GIS and GPS equipment at work, he also uses many iPhone “apps” to help collect and add GIS and GPS information when work equipment might not be available. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/11.
Dave Edwards, Jr. graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelors degree in Wildlife Ecology and earned a Masters degree in Wildlife Management from Mississippi State University. Dave is a Certified Wildlife Biologist and is currently the Manager of Westervelt Wildlife Services in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where he provides a range of wildlife management advice to landowners throughout the southeast. Dave worked as a wildlife biologist for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission for 5 years. He also is the founder and past president of the NE Florida branch of the Quality Deer Management Association. Dave specializes in creating quality recreational properties and producing quality deer herds. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/05.
Joseph W. Eiland received a B.S. Degree from Mississippi State University in 1976 with a major in forest management. He is a licensed Real Estate Salesman and a registered forester in Alabama and Mississippi. He has been a consultant forester since 1976, and is the owner of Eiland Forestry and Real Estate, LLC. Eiland Forestry and Real Estate is engaged in professional forestry management, timber appraisals, real estate brokerage, consulting forestry, and land management throughout the eastern United States. From 1976 to 1987 Joe was with the firm of James M. Vardaman and Co. and was the Alabama District Manager and Vice President. In 1987 Joe and Bob Hatcher formed a new consultant forestry company named Hatcher and Eiland, Inc. Bob Hatcher and Joe each formed their own firms in 1999, and Joe has operated Eiland Forestry and Real Estate since then. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/15.
Andrew B. Eills is the Shareholder-Director of Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell in Concord, New Hampshire. He represents a wide range of business clients before state regulatory agencies and his practice includes advising clients on issues concerning New Hampshire’s Administrative Procedure Act and state rulemaking. Andrew is chair of the New Hampshire Bar Association Health Law Section and a member of the Federal Communications Bar Association, where he advises telecommunications carriers on local competitive regulatory issues under the Telecommunications Act of 1996. He also represents clients before municipal boards on issues relating to municipal law, including planning and zoning, and advises aggregate manufacturers on statewide regulatory issues. Andrew graduated with honors from Stanford University in 1984 and from Tulane University School of Law in 1987. Source: “Andrew B. Eills,” Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell, Professional Association http://www.gcglaw.com/profiles/eills.html, 06/04.
Rosemary Elebash is the Alabama State Director of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB). Rosemary is a native of Opp, Alabama, and a graduate of Troy University. She was appointed as state director of NFIB/Alabama in January 2003 and represents NFIB’s 12,000 Alabama members as the public policy advocate. She represents the members’ interests before all branches of state and local government. Prior to the NFIB appointment, she was the state director of law and government affairs for AT&T overseeing legislative and regulatory affairs in both Alabama and Mississippi. She was also served as a staff assistant to U.S. Senator Donald Stewart and she was a legislative staff assistant to former Governor Fob James during his first term. Rosemary is an active participant in several organizations, including the Alabama private sector chair for the American Legislative Exchange Council, past chairman and current board member of the Baptist Hospital South Advisory Board, board member of the Alabama Hospital Association Special Care Facilities Financing Authority, and Treasurer of the Alabama Civil Justice Reform Committee. In 2010, she was appointed to the Troy University National Alumni Board of Directors. In 2004, Governor Bob Riley appointed her to serve as a member of the Unemployment Compensation Reform Committee and in 2010, he also appointed her to serve on the Coastal Recovery Commission to create a roadmap to resilience related to the oil spill on the coast. Governor Robert Bentley appointed her to the Long-Term Recovery Partners Committee for the April 2011 Severe Weather Event. In 2011, she was also appointed to serve on the Alabama Workforce Training Council by the Chancellor of the Alabama Department of Postsecondary Education. She was appointed by Senate President Del Marsh to serve on the Alabama Health Insurance Exchange Study Commission. As a member of this 14-member commission, she represented the small business community. In 2013, Governor Bentley appointed her to the Governor’s College and Career Ready Task Force. Governor Bentley tapped her to serve as the Chair of the newly created Alabama Small Business Commission and the Small Business Advisory Committee. She is a member of Leadership Alabama Class XXVI. Previously, she was appointed by Governor Fob James to serve on the State Task Force on Welfare Reform and Governor Jim Folsom, Jr. appointed her to the Board of Department of Human Resources where she served as the vice chairman. She was nominated by U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions and appointed by President George W. Bush to the National Advisory Council on Violence Against Women. Source: Personal Résumé, 2/21.
Geoff P. Ellison is a timber dealer and reforestation contractor. After receiving his BSF in Forest Management from West Virginia University in 1980, he became the 1980-82 Alabama area manager and reforestation contractor for Davis Forestry Corporation in Monticello, Arkansas. Since 1982, Ellison has been President of Drennen Forestry Services, Inc. in Cullman. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/03.
Chris Erwin is a graduate of Eufaula High School in Eufaula, Alabama. He enlisted in the Air Force after high school and was stationed at Elmendorf, AFB Alaska. He later attended Troy State University in Dothan, Alabama where he received the Bachelor’s of Science in Biology. He then earned his Master of Forestry from Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. Chris currently is the Education Coordinator at the Alabama Forestry Association in Montgomery, Alabama. He is the state coordinator of the PreK-12 environmental education program, Project Learning Tree. He is also the coordinator of the Alabama Forests Forever Campaign, funded by the sale of the Forests Forever specialty license plate. He resides in Wetumpka, Alabama. He is married and has one daughter. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/03.
John E. Estes, Jr. is a 1990 graduate of Auburn University’s School of Forestry with a Bachelor of Science in Forest Management. The fourth generation in the forest industry, Estes has been a procurement forester with both land management and procurement responsibilities since 1990. He is a registered forester with J. E. Estes Wood Company, Inc, who has been buying timber in south Alabama and north Florida since 1966. Source: Personal Résumé, 04/04.
Terry Ezzell is the North Regional Forester of the Alabama Forestry Commission, supervising all AFC activities in the 12 county region. Terry began working for the Forestry Commission in 1986 as a part time laborer. After receiving a BS degree in Forest Management in 1991, he returned to the AFC as the Franklin County Forester. In 2008 he was promoted to Work Unit Manager for Franklin, Marion, Colbert, and Winston counties. In 2010 he was promoted to his current position. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/13.
Lenny D. Farlee is an extension forester with the Hardwood Tree Improvement and Regeneration Center, Purdue University Department of Forestry and Natural Resources. Lenny graduated with a B.S. in Forest and Wildlife Management in 1985, and a M.S. in Silviculture in 1991, both from Purdue University. He worked with the Indiana Division of Forestry at Vallonia State Tree Nursery from 1988 to 1991 as a Nursery Forester in charge of field operations, producing over 40 species of tree and shrub seedlings. From 1991 to 2006, Lenny was a district forester for the Indiana Division of Forestry. He served landowners in a 10 county area, providing advice and assistance with tree plantings, plantation and forest management, and forest improvement, harvesting, and regeneration. Lenny has presented forestry and conservation education programs to a wide diversity of audiences on topics ranging from Indiana forest history to planning a successful tree planting or timber harvesting operation.
In January of 2007, Lenny joined the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources as the extension forester for the Hardwood Tree Improvement and Regeneration Center. Lenny will provide programs and publications in a variety of media directed toward improving the regeneration and sustainable management of high quality hardwood trees and forests in the Central Hardwood Region. Source: https://ag.purdue.edu/fnr/Pages/Profile.aspx?strAlias=lfarlee&intDirDeptID=15, 3/14.
Mike Farr has worked with Wood-Mizer South for five years. He brought with him 25 years of machine shop and tool and die experience. Mike enjoys helping people and loves the outdoors. Working with WoodMizer allows him to combine these into a job. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/05.
Jennifer Fawcett is an Extension Associate in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, Extension Forestry at North Carolina State University (NCSU). She serves as Coordinator for the Southeast Regional Partnership for Planning an Sustainability (SERPPAS) Prescribed Fire Work Group and assists in implementing prescribed fire-related education and outreach programs across the Southern region. She received her M.S. in Forest Resources from Clemson University, and she is working toward her Ed.D. in Agricultural and Extension Educadtion at NCSU. She currently serves as an Advisory Board member for the Southern Fire Exchange and Vice President of the North Carolina Prescribed Fire Council. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/21
Gary M. Faulkner has served as Forest Economic Development Specialist (retired state employee) with the Alabama Forestry Commission since 2018. Prior to this appointment, he was Principal of The Faulkner Group LLC in 2015 through 2017. Mr. Faulkner retired with the State of Alabama, Alabama Department of Commerce in 2014 as Director of Business Development reporting to the Secretary of Commerce. Prior to his retirement at Commerce, Mr. Faulkner held a position with the Alabama International Trade Center as an International Trade Specialist, and began his professional state career at the Alabama Forestry Commission where he served as Chief of Utilization & Marketing. Gary was an Honor Graduate of the Alabama Forestry Academy in 1983.
Mr. Faulkner has degrees from Auburn University in Industrial Management (1974) and Forest Management (1982). Further, he has Certificates of Training from the Auburn University Intensive Economic Development Training Course and the University of Oklahoma Economic Development Institute. He is also an Alabama Registered Forester (#1196 – current). Source: Personal Résumé, 10/20.
Jack Fillingham is Vice Chairman of Sizemore & Sizemore, Inc., a forestry consulting firm located in Tallassee, Alabama. He is a member of the Association of Consulting Foresters, currently serving as the Alabama Chapter Chairman. Sizemore & Sizemore, Inc. provides timberland appraisal and inventory services throughout the Southeast and Forest Management services in Alabama. Jack has been employed by Sizemore & Sizemore for 31 of his 32 years in practice. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/03.
Chad Fincher grew up in the Tanner Williams community and resides in Semmes, Alabama. He is a Realtor and owns Fincher & Associates Realty Services. He is a licensed real estate agent in the state of Alabama and Mississippi. He graduated from Auburn University with a B.S. in Forestry Operations and is a Registered Forester in the State of Alabama. Chad serves on the Mobile County Republican Executive Committee, is past chairman for the Mobile County Young Republicans, and a member of the Mobile County GOP. He is actively involved in the Mobile Area Association of Realtors and serves on the Governmental Affairs Committee. He is a past president Tanner Williams Community Club and past vice-president of the Tanner Williams Civic and Historical Society. Representative Fincher is also a past board member for CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) of Mobile. Among the organization that he belongs to: Tanner Williams Civic and Historical Society, Friends of Semmes, Semmes Historical Society, Citronelle Historical Society, Mobile County Landowners Association, Mobile Area Association of Realtors, Alabama Farmers Federation, Alabama Treasure Forest Association and Alabama Forestry Association. Representative Fincher is married to Caresse Hughes Fincher, and they have one daughter Anna Catherine. They attend West Mobile Baptist Church. Source: http://www.legislature.state.al.us/house/representatives/housebios/hd102.html , 7/09.
Alyne Fitzgerald is an Enrolled Agent, a tax professional serving the public for over 47 years, and owner of Fitzgerald Financial and Tax Services. She has been active in public advocacy for private property rights for over 25 years. Her ancestors came to Texas with the immigration of German settlers in the 1840’s. “I am the daughter of a farmer, born and raised on a farm, and have been a farmer or farmland owner all my life. I am quite proud of my rural heritage.“, she says.
Alyne is the president of the Medina County Environmental Action Association, Inc., a grassroots organization she and her husband Dr. Robert Fitzgerald, formed in January, 2000, in Medina County, Texas. This was in response to the news that their historic Quihi neighborhood would be the site of a proposed 1760-acre Vulcan Materials quarry with a private 7 mile rail spur.
As the newly organized MCEAA members set out to learn more about the proposed project and how it would affect their lives, property and historically-rich area, they discovered that this was only the beginning of a 16 year odyssey that would take them through learning from the ground up many of the applicable laws, rules, regulations and practices of state, federal, and county agencies and governments. They were alarmed about what they discovered. It would take much time, work, and money to save their area from the effects of this huge project. There would be many meetings, rallies, letter-writing campaigns, petitions, phone calls, etc.
In 2002, MCEAA efforts and resistance caused Vulcan to create a railroad company, Southwest Gulf Railroad, a wholly-owned subsidiary, and to apply to the U.S. Surface Transportation Board for a permit. SGR checked a box on the STB’s T4 application claiming it would ‘hold itself out to be’ a common carrier. Thus, upon finally receiving a permit in 2008, SGR has claimed it is a common carrier with powers of eminent domain. Vulcan Materials with their self-appointed ’common carrier’ paper railroad company, filed condemnation proceedings February 2, 2016, on the remaining landowners who are choosing to protect their cherished land from the grasp of a privately owned company that exists only on paper.
As of this writing, important environmental studies have been done. More are required in the future. MCEAA has had significant successes in saving the Quihi environment, and has over 100 households in its membership of farmers, ranchers, landowners and businesses.
Fighting eminent domain abuse is everyone’s job, everywhere. It cannot be left up to a few dedicated organizations and individuals. We all lose when one has their private property forcibly taken from them by a private company for their own private gain. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/16.
Michael A. Flannery is currently Professor and Associate Director for Historical Collections at Lister Hill Library, University of Alabama at Birmingham. He earned his MLS from the University of Kentucky and an MA in history from California State University at Dominguez Hills. Mr. Flannery’s research interests have largely been devoted to the history of pharmacy, therapeutics, and herbal medicine. He is the author of John Uri Lloyd: The Great American Eclectic (Southern Illinois University Press, 1998), a biography of America’s most noteworthy pharmacognosist; with Alex Berman, America’s Botanico-Medical Movements: Vox populi (Haworth Press, 2001), a history of botanical physicians in the U.S., and Civil War Pharmacy (Haworth Press, 2004), the first comprehensive study of pharmaco-therapeutic during the period; and most recently edited a reprinting of Nicholas Culpeper’s 1708 English Physician (University of Alabama Press, 2007). Source: Personal Résumé, 7/07.
Warren A. Flick is an Alabama attorney and a retired forestry professor. He worked at Auburn for over 20 years, teaching forest economics and law, and doing research on Alabama’s forest economy. He has written about the contribution of forest-related industries to Alabama’s economy, forest investments, taxation, and forest policy. He is working with the Ladd Firm in Mobile to help submit claims to the BP Settlement Fund. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/13.
Clint Flowers is the managing broker for National Land Realty throughout the Gulf Coast region. He was National Land Realty’s Top Producer nationwide in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020, was named the Alabama Land Agent of the Year in 2019, is a four time recipient of the Realtors® Land Institute (RLI) Apex Award, named twice as National Timberland Broker of the Year by RLI, and one of the few agents in the southeast to be awarded the designation of Accredited Land Consultant (ALC). He has been in the land business since 2004 and joined the NLR team in late 2015. Clint is licensed in Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida. He specializes in the sale, acquisition, and assemblage of commercial, agricultural, recreational, timberland, and conservation properties, as well as the tax advantages of owning, buying, or selling land. His clients include the largest landowner in the United States, professional athletes, coaches, large business owners, estates & trusts, public company executives, and similar high income individuals that can benefit from land sales or investment. He is a previous board member of the Alabama Chapter of RLI, current board member of the Alabama Forest Resources Center land trust, and sits on the Governmental Affairs committee of RLI National. Clint is a graduate of the University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration, where he received a degree in Investment Management. Raised in Jackson, Alabama and the son of a consultant forester, he grew to be an avid hunter and outdoorsman from a young age. Clint currently lives in Spanish Fort, Alabama with his wife Gina, a middle school teacher, their son Mason, and their daughter Olivia. He is active in the Rotary Club of Mobile, the Order of Fuse, Alabama Wildlife Federation, Ducks Unlimited, Quality Deer Management Association, and the National Wild Turkey Federation. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/23.
M. Dale Floyd, Jr. earned a Bachelors in Business and Marketing from the University of South Carolina. Dale started Alabama Fish and Pond, LLC, based in Horton, Alabama about 5 years ago. He provides live pond stocking fish at over 130 locations across Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia each Spring, Summer and Fall. His previous work experience included, Driver and then a Marketing and Route Manager for Southland Fisheries in South Carolina, Estate Manager for a 125 acre high profile Estate in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina for 10 years, and Owner and Operator of a successful landscaping and lawn care businesses in South Carolina for 12+ years. Source: Personal Résumé, 2/23.
Robert Flynn is Director of Consulting Services with Wood Resources International (WRI). WRI is a consulting firm which has successfully completed more than 170 consulting assignments in 35 countries worldwide since 1987. WRI has two quarterly publications which track domestic wood fiber prices in all of the world’s major pulp producing regions: the Wood Resource Quarterly and the North American Wood Fiber Review. In addition, Mr. Flynn is co-author (along with Dennis Neilson of DANA Ltd) of The International Woodchip and Pulplog Trade Review, now in its twelfth edition. Mr. Flynn has extensive experience in consulting for the forest products industry, with emphasis on wood fiber and log supply and demand, international trade, and wood products markets. His past experience includes nearly 28 years in the wood products industry, including 17 years consulting and 9 years as a forester with Champion International. Source: www.pulpwoodconference.com , 6/05
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Travis E. Ford is the Chief Law Enforcement Investigator for the Alabama Forestry Commission. He began working with the Forestry Commission in 1991 following 14 years as a deputy sheriff with the Talladega County, Alabama, Sheriff’s Department. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/02. Editor’s note: While working with the Sheriff’s Department, Mr. Ford won awards for his work in fighting illegal dumping.
Mike Foreman has been working for the Virginia Department of Forestry for 15 years. His current position is program manager for riparian and land conservation. He has worked for forest industry in Mississippi and Louisiana for 5 years and North Carolina State University for 4 years. He holds a Master’s degree in Forest Management from Duke University. Source: Personal Résumé, 06/01.
Dr. Paul Fowler has nearly 30 years of experience working at the interface of business and academia in the United Kingdom and the United States, translating the best of academic research into actionable outcomes for companies in the pulp, paper, bio-based plastics, and packing industries. He is the Executive Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Sustainable Technology (WIST) at UW-Stevens Point. With a keen eye to detail and a PhD. in organic chemistry, Fowler guides WIST to provide technical excellence, exemplary customer service, and world-class results. Fowler speaks regularly at conferences addressing matters of sustainability, paper and paper-based packaging, bio-based plastics, compostability, and recyclability.Source: Personal Résumé, 11/23.
Edward Carlyle Franklin is Professor of Forestry and Director of the Woodlot Forestry Research and Development Program at North Carolina State University, Raleigh. He is also an associate member of the Fisheries and Wildlife Faculty. He received his B.S. in Forestry from NCSU, his M.S. in Forestry (Genetics) from the University of California and his Ph.D. in Forestry (Genetics) from NCSU. He has done research and written several papers on vegetated filter zones. He is a member of Forest Landowners Association, North Carolina Forestry Association, North Carolina Wildlife Federation, Society of American Foresters, Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry (TAPPI), and The Wildlife Society. Dr. Franklin is an FAA Certified Private Pilot, a NC Real Estate Broker, a NC Certified Consulting Forester and a Certified Burn Boss in North Carolina and Virginia. Source: Personal Résumé, 07/01.
David A. Frederick is a Division Director for the Alabama Forestry Commission and is currently responsible for Fire and Emergency Programs. Past responsibilities have included Forest Management, Nurseries, Genetic Tree Improvement, Forest Inventory and Analysis Survey, and Management of Geneva State Forest. David received a B.S. degree in Forest Management from Mississippi State University and also graduated from the University of Alabama Law Enforcement Academy as honor graduate. He is an Alabama Registered Forester (License No. 842) and served on the Alabama Board of Registration for Foresters Examination Panel. He is currently chairman of the Montgomery Chapter of the Society of American Foresters and is a member of the Alabama Forestry Association. He is a past president of the Alabama Forest Resources Center, a past member of the Board of Directors of the Alabama Agribusiness Council, a member of Trinity United Methodist Church in Prattville, a scoutmaster with Boy Scouts of America and Vice Chairman of the Southern Forest Fire Chief’s Association. He was born and reared in Hamilton, Alabama in Marion County, is married with two sons. Source: Personal Résumé, 04/02.
Rick Frederick is the Community Relations Manager for the Gulf Region at Enviva. Rick is a seasoned business development professional with over 20 years of diversified experience in sales and marketing for the healthcare, insurance, hospitality, and utility industries. He joined Enviva from Mobile Bay National Estuary Program where he served as their Community Relations and Business Resource Manager for five years. In that capacity, he worked with private industry, community leaders, and local citizens of Mobile and Baldwin counties to ensure they understood the purpose, goals, and objectives of the organization, adopting a community-based approach to advancing local environmental projects. Rick holds a BS in Business Management from Auburn University.
Will Freise was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Fairhope, Alabama. In 1960 he graduated from Auburn University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. He is a commissioned U.S. Naval Officer and has served in the U.S. Navy for 23 years. After retiring from the Navy in 1983, Mr. Freise worked in real estate sales and actively managed the family timberland and mobile home park. He is president of the W. A. Freise & Sons Timber and Land Co., Inc. and is proud to have accumulated 1,200 acres of timberland and to have received designation as Tree Farmer, Stewardship Forest and FSC Certified. Mr. Freise has been married to his wife Shelby for 52 years and has 3 children and 10 grandchildren. He and his wife now reside in Powder Springs, Georgia. Source: Personal Résumé, 04/14.
Robert Frommer is a senior attorney at the Institute for Justice, where he litigates cutting-edge constitutional cases to defend economic liberty, free speech, and private property rights. Rob is the director of IJ’s recently launched Fourth Amendment Project, which aims to enhance all Americans’ right to be secure from unreasonable searches and seizures. Rob is currently litigating Rainwaters v. Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, a case challenging Tennessee game wardens’ authority to conduct warrantless surveillance on private land. IJ recently scored a major victory in that case on behalf of two private landowners. Source: Personal Résumé, 05/22.
Dennis W. Fulbright is a professor in the Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences at Michigan State University. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside in 1979 after which he took the position at Michigan State. He has worked on diseases of wheat, vegetables, chestnut, oak, including oak wilt and other orchard and forest trees. He has been working with diseases of Christmas trees in Michigan since 2001. His research has focused on needle cast diseases of Douglas fir and spruce, and root rots of fir and white pine. He is best known for his work on the biological control of chestnut blight on American chestnut and helping to establish an edible chestnut industry in Michigan. He is president of the Northern Nut Growers Association and the Michigan State University advisor to three nut grower groups. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/12.
Stephanie Fuller is the Director of Promotions and Economic Development for the Forest Workforce Training Institute (ForestryWorks®). She is responsible for the marketing and promotional efforts of FWTI’s brand, ForestryWorks®, economic and workforce related research and projects, and the expansion of the ForestryWorks® programming across the United States. She is also the author of the forest industry specific children’s book series the “Tiny Timber Crew” featuring titles Lucy Meets a Logger, Travis Visits a Tree Farm and Sam Visits a Sawmill. Stephanie is a graduate of Auburn University with a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Economics and is a part of a fourth-generation logging family from Chambers County, Alabama. She is a member of the Economic Development Association of Alabama and has been actively involved with the Piedmont District Log-A-Load for Kids Foundation and Alabama Loggers Council her entire life. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/25.
Steven Glen Fuller, Jr., was born in Atlanta Georgia, and moved to Jacksons Gap, Alabama when he was one year old. Steven attended Elementary and High School in Alexander City and graduated in 2007. He then attended Auburn University, where he received a B.S. degree in Forestry in May 2012. Steven started working for White City Nursery in August of 2012 as a laborer and has worked his way up to Nursery Manager in 4 short years. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/17.
Jim Furubotten has been a self employed forester for 32 years doing business as Forestry Consulting Services, Inc., based in Aberdeen, Washington. He worked in Washington, Oregon, and Alaska. The business was reorganized about 15 years ago to include forestry consulting and licensed armed security company with Washington state. The reorganization allowed the company to improve services to their clients. Jim turned the business over to his daughter and son in law in 2014, and then started a business, Aerial View Solutions, to assist landowners with gathering aerial imagery and data using unmanned aerial vehicles. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/15.
Tim Gables is a Consulting Forester with Chattahoochee Valley Forestry Services, Inc., Clayton, Alabama. He received an ASFR degree from Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, Tifton, Georgia, and a BSFR degree from the University of Georgia. Tim is an Alabama Registered Forester, a Certified Burn Manager in Georgia and Alabama, and a licensed pesticide applicator. He is a member of the Society of American Foresters, the Longleaf Alliance, the Natural Resources Technical Advisory Committee of the Upper Choctawhatchee River Watershed, and a member of the Alabama Cooperative Extension System Advisory Board. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/00.
Marisa Futral serves as the Hunter Education Coordinator for the Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries. Her duties include presiding over the hunter education program, shooting sports outreach programs, and the division’s shooting and archery ranges. Marisa is a certified wildlife biologist and firearms instructor. In her spare time, she enjoys hunting, recreational shooting, and hiking. She is passionate about introducing others to the outdoor sports as well. Marisa holds a master’s degree in education and a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Auburn University. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/22.
Deborah A. Gaddis specializes in forest taxation issues for the Mississippi State University Extension Service and Department of Forestry. Gaddis has had over a decade of experience working as an industrial forester. She has an MBA from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. She recently graduated with a Ph.D. in forestry from North Carolina State University where she studied wetlands regulation and the North Carolina Conservation Easement Tax Credit program. Source: Mississippi State University Continuing Education Course Description, 1/00.
Jennifer Gagnon is an Extension forester at the Virginia Tech Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation. She coordinates the Virginia Forest Landowner Education Program, which aims to provide forest landowners education about forest land management within the framework of sound stewardship and sustainability. She received her B.S. (1998) and M.S. (2001) in Forest Conservation and Management/Silviculture at the University of Florida (watch for her picture on their home page). Prior to moving to Virginia, she worked at the J. W. Jones Ecological Research Center in Newton, GA where she studied longleaf pine and fire ecology. In her spare time, Jennifer enjoys hiking and camping in the Appalachian Mountains with her 2 dogs (yellow lab, Bob, and hound dog, Elvis), kayaking on the New River, running, traveling, and biking. Personal Resume, 1/11.
Tyson Gair is Senior Editor-Broadcast with the Office of Agricultural Communications at Mississippi State University. He’s done a variety of broadcast work with MSU for the past 25 years, including 10 years as anchor and host of Farmweek, a farm-related TV program that airs statewide on the Mississippi ETV network, and 10 years as the host of the Better Farming radio program. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/02.
Tom Gallagher is Regions Professor, Forest Operations, at Auburn University’s College of Forestry, Wildlife, and Environment. He holds the following degrees: AAS, New York State Ranger School, 1977, Forest Technology; BS, University of Maine at Orono, 1981, Forestry; MS Virginia Tech, 1984, Forestry; and PhD, Virginia Tech, 2003, Forestry. Tom’s expertise is in forest operations, biomass harvesting and wood procurement issues. His teaching responsibilities include: Timber Harvesting, Application of Timber Harvesting Techniques, Industrial Wood Procurement Practicum, Procurement Cruising Practicum, and Forestry in the Private Sector. Gallagher’s professional interests include: industrial forestry, including timber harvesting and wood procurement; short rotation hardwood plantations for pulp mill use and as an inventory tool; SFI certification as it applies to operations; improving efficiency of harvesting operations; and the harvesting and transportation of forest biomass. His main focus of research is the harvesting and transportation of biomass for consumption at an alternative fuels plant and addressing other challenges that face us today such as improved utilization, forest fragmentation, timber stand improvement, improving forest health and reducing fuel load. Source: http://cfwe.auburn.edu/profile/tom-gallagher/ , 4/12/23.
Brent Galloway is the General Manager for The Coal Creek Company and Chief Forester of Southeastern Forest Management (one of Coal Creek’s subsidiaries). Brent graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1997 with a B.S. in Forestry. He has 15 years of experience as a consulting forester. He is a member of Association of Consulting Foresters (ACF), Society of American Foresters (SAF), and Tennessee Forestry Association (TFA). Brent is a Certified Forester through SAF. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/13.
Bob Gambacurta served as Press Secretary to Alabama Gov. Fob James, Jr. (April 1998 – January 1999). As a Cabinet-level advisor and spokesman for Governor James, he responded to political crises, natural disasters, election year politics, even a state funeral for Gov. George Wallace. He maintained a good working relationship with local, state and national media. He regularly conducted one-on-one sessions with a dozen reporters and because of his extensive broadcasting background, received high marks for his on-camera TV and live radio interviews. Since the end of the James administration (January 1999 – present) Gambacurta has served as a public relations/media relations/political consultant to a number of clients dealing with a variety of issues. Gambacurta has also spent more than 20 years in radio and television, holding positions as News Director, TV anchor, reporter and talk show host at stations in Atlanta, Birmingham, Montgomery and Tuscaloosa. He has also held executive positions with advertising agencies in Montgomery and Birmingham. His work in broadcasting and advertising has received numerous awards from Sigma Delta Chi Society of Professional Journalists, Associated Press, United Press International and Ad Clubs in Birmingham and Montgomery. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/03.
Josh Gamblin is co-founder and CEO of TMBR.Market, a company bringing timber owners, consultants, and buyers together. TMBR makes it easy for anyone to participate in their local timber market. The process is automated, transparent, and guided at every step by TMBR Certified forestry professionals.Source: Personal Résumé, 11/23.
Robert N. Gandy is a registered forester in Alabama and vice-president of Creekside Consulting, Inc. (CCI), a consulting and communications firm that he formed with his wife, Jennifer Greer. His forestry practice focuses on forest seed and regeneration, with additional expertise in longleaf pine, containerized seedlings, aerial seeding and international forestry consulting. Before forming CCI, he worked at Resource Management Service, Inc., Tropical Research and Development, Inc. and International Forest Seed Company, Inc. An award-winning Peace Corps volunteer with service in Honduras, Costa Rica and Panama, Robert speaks and writes excellent Spanish. He is a 1974 graduate of Auburn University and has been active in the Society of American Foresters since 1978 and recently was awarded SAF’s Certified Forester designation. He is a Registered Forester in the state of Alabama and a member of various professional organizations including the International Society of Tropical Foresters, Forest Landowners Association and Alabama Forest Owners’ Association. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/03.
Bill Garland graduated from Louisiana Tech University with an MS degree in Wildlife Biology in 1975. He has worked as a wildlife biologist for Weyerhaeuser Company, Dames and Moore International Consulting Company, along with government agencies that include the U.S. Army and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He held the position of Installation Forester on Fort McClellan from 1985 to 1992. As an employee with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, he has worked in both the Ecological Services Division and the National Wildlife Refuge System. He has been stationed on Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge since 1999. Mr. Garland’s current work primarily involves management and restoration issues associated with old growth and second growth longleaf pine forests on the refuge. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/05
Darrell A. Gates, is a Registered Forester (RF), an Alabama Certified Forester (ACF), and a Qualifying Broker. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia, (B.S.F.R.). Darrell established Chattahoochee Valley Forestry Services, Inc. in Clayton, Alabama in 1980 and has been in business for 31 years. He has recently extended the service offered to his clients by establishing G & T Realty, LLC which specializes in land sales. In 2007 he was appointed to the Board of Registration Foresters by the Governor of Alabama (term to end 2012). He is currently Chairman of that Board. Darrell’s other professional affiliations include: Society of American Foresters, Association of Consulting Foresters (Past Alabama Chapter Chairman), Chairman Alabama Society of American Foresters for 1997, Chairman of Association of Southeastern Boards of Registration for Foresters (ASBORF) 2009/2010. Darrell is married to Sherry Gates of Eufaula and combined they have four children, April, Kim, Donnie and Daniel, and four grandchildren. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/11.
Keith Gauldin is Chief of the Wildlife Section of the Alabama Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries. Originally from Homewood, Alabama, Keith graduated from Auburn University in August 1992 with a B.S. in Wildlife Biology and has worked across the several states with different state and federal agencies eventually coming back to home base in Alabama with the Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries as a wildlife biologist. He has been employed with the Division a little over 12 years, beginning this leg of his career in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta and moving up to Montgomery in 2012 as Assistant Chief of Wildlife Operations and then to Chief of Wildlife in 2015. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/18.
James C. Gauntt is a 30 year veteran of the wood preserving industry having worked as Director of Product Acceptance for Osmose Wood Preserving Company, and as Vice President-Sales for Randall Brothers, Inc. – a 119-year old architectural millwork and building material manufacturer/distributor. During his tenure with Osmose, Gauntt was primarily responsible for new product promotion of both fire-retardant treatments and wood preservative products. Working directly with building codes and in the architectural markets he helped build a national market for Osmose brands. Since 1995 he has held the position of Executive Director of the Railway Tie Association – a 91-year old timber trade association dedicated to improving the life-cycle economic performance of the engineered wood crosstie system. He is responsible for publishing RTA’s Crossties magazine, conducting training sessions on tie grading, and hosting the annual symposium and technical conference of that association. Gauntt is the published author of numerous articles, papers and publications on the subject of wood tie research and wood tie performance and a frequent speaker on wood preserving and tie industry subjects. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/09.
Crystal Gauvin is a senior economist at Forest Economic Advisors (FEA), a leading North American wood products analysis firm. With over 16 years of experience in the wood products industry, Crystal provides clients with in-depth market analysis and actionable insights. She has led the development and launch of PricePulse, North America’s first transaction-based price report for wood products–a multi-year initiative transforming price discovery in the industry. Additionally, she serves as the lead author of FEA’s weekly Wood Markets Status & Trends (WMST) report and is responsible for FEA’s Sawmill Profiles. Her expertise extends across numerous other projects and reports, enabling the company to deliver deeper, data-driven analyses to clients. Crystal’s dedication to excellence extends beyond FEA. A three-time World Cup Champion professional archer and ESPN color commentator, her commitment to hard work and precision translates into her work at FEA, where she cultivates lasting client relationships by providing individualized support and ensuring prompt follow-up. She holds a BS in Mathematics from Xavier University and an MS in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics from the University of Rhode Island.Source: Personal Résumé, 2/25.
Matthew Gaw is a data manager and research professional at TimberMart-South. In this role, he manages timber price data and provides market intelligence to clients. Matthew is a Georgia Registered Forester and a member of the Society of American Foresters. He earned a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in Forestry, both from the University of Georgia. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/23.
Eric D. Gee, Director, Expo & Forest Resources, began his forest products career in 1994 as a forester at James M. Vardaman & Company in Jackson, Mississippi. In 1997, he joined SFPA as a marketing manager and was promoted to director of government affairs in 2000 then director of industrial markets 2002. He became director of expo of forest resources in 2005 where he produces and manages a trade show for the sawmilling and forest products industry. He also acts as a liaison between the forest industry and the community answering questions relating to environmental issues and forestry.
Eric is a 1994 graduate of Auburn University where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Forest Resources. He is a member of the Society of American Foresters, a Licensed Registered Forester in the State of Alabama, and a Society of American Foresters Certified Forester. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/11.
Bernard Geschke has worked with the Progressive Agriculture Safety Day program since it began 21 years ago. During the first 8 years, Bernard contracted with the program, while working as the Rural Safety and Health Coordinator for the Nebraska Rural Health and Safety Coalition. For the last 13 years, Bernard has been the Program Specialist for the Foundation with the majority of his time spent training and assisting more than 500 volunteer coordinators as they conduct Safety Days each year. With his help, the program reaches more than 100,000 kids and volunteers each year in the United States, Canada, U.S. Virgin Islands, and American Samoa. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/15.
James W. Gewin, is a Partner with Bradley Arant Rose & White, LLP, and Member of the American Bar Association, Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, Fellow of the Alabama Law Foundation, and a Municipal Judge for the City of Mountain Brook, Alabama. Jimmy is a forest owner in Hale County and currently serves as President of the Alabama Forest Owners’ Association. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/03.
Mark Gibbs has had his own consulting forestry practice since early 1994, providing timberland management services to private landowners. Prior to that he managed timberland for Nations Bank and its predecessor (C&S) for 11 years. He also served nine years with the Florida Division of Forestry as county forester and State Education Supervisor. Source: The University of Georgia Continuing Education Course Description, 2/00.
Larry H. Gibson is a native of the Aliceville area having grown up in Panola, Alabama about 20 miles south of Aliceville. He graduated from Mississippi State University in 1994 with a degree in forest management. That same year Larry founded Gibson Forest Management, Inc, providing complete forest management to private landowners including the following:
Forest Management Plans, Timber & Land Appraisals, Timber Marketing & Sales, Timberland Acquisition Appraisals, Litigation-serving as expert witness, Long Term Forest Management Services, Site Preparation, Reforestation, Chemical Release Treatments, Timber Stand Improvement, Prescribed Burning, Insect & Disease Monitoring, Boundary Line Maintenance, Timber Damage Evaluation, Wildlife Habitat Management, Herbaceous Weed Control. Larry is a forest landowner in both Sumter and Pickens Counties and feels that this land ownership helps him to be a better consulting forester because he personally knows many of the problems that landowners face in making various management decisions. Gibson is involved in several industry and civic organizations ranging from the Alabama Forestry Association, Mississippi Forestry Association, and the Tree Farm program to Rotary International and Aliceville area organizations. His wife is Suellen Ashmore Gibson and they have two children: a daughter – Reagan Elizabeth, 2 ½ years old and a son, William Clay Gibson, 1 year old.
Mark D. Gibson received a Bachelor of Science degree in Forestry from Clemson University in 1972, a Master of Science degree in Forestry from Clemson University in 1974, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Forest Products from Oregon State University in 1982. His research and teaching experience in forestry and wood technology and utilization at major U.S. universities includes California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo, Clemson University, Oregon State University, and Louisiana Tech University. Dr. Gibson is currently Associate Director of the School of Forestry and Professor of Wood Utilization at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, LA and is a faculty scientist with the Louisiana Forest Products Development Center. His current research examines the influences of forest management practices on wood quality in plantation-grown and naturally-grown hardwoods and southern pines, and the influence of wood quality on manufacturing processes. His expertise includes primary and secondary wood products processing, microscopy, wood anatomy, wood quality, and wood species identification. Source: Personal Résumé, 02/05.
John C. Gilbert is the Assistant Director of the Solon Dixon Forestry Education Center (SDFEC) in the Auburn University College of Forestry, Wildlife, and Environment (CFWE). He has been at the SDFEC since 2015 and assists in all levels of forest management and the facilitation of activities and instruction for various user groups and courses. For 7 years before that, he worked as a Research Associate on numerous projects and as an instructor in GIS/GPS application courses and various continuing education short courses. His major areas of interest are applied forest management, stand dynamics, prescribed fire, longleaf pine conservation and restoration, GPS/GIS applications, and database development. Mr. Gilbert holds a Bachelor of Science in Forestry and a Master of Science in Forest Stand Dynamics with a Graduate Minor in Statistics from Auburn University. Source: Personal Résumé, 2/23.
Patrick A. Glass is the Assistant State Forester for the Alabama Forestry Commission. Patrick holds a Bachelors degree in Forest Management and a Masters degree in Forest Biometrics from Mississippi State University. Glass has worked in the private sector as a consulting forester providing inventory assessments and management plans for a variety of clientele, including the US Army Corps of Engineers and the US Army. His research career includes efforts focused on the reclamation of disturbed sites from molybdenum mining operations conducted at high altitudes; quantitative genetics research performed as part of the New Mexico Tree Improvement Program; ecosystem level assessment of piñon-juniper woodlands in the Carson National Forest; and directing field operations for wide-area forest assessments at Mississippi State University. Originally from California, Patrick has also lived in the Midwest and the Desert Southwest, but considers the South as his home. He and his wife Terri have two children, Zach, age 13, and Zoie, age 9. Source: Personal Résumé, 03/11.
John Godbee is the forest certification and environmental compliance programs manager with F & W Forestry Services, a forest resource management and consulting firm. He has a B.S. and an M. S. in Forest Entomology from University of Georgia. His professional expertise includes forest policy, sustainable forest management, forests, wood manufacturing and land development environmental and regulatory compliance, environmental auditing of forest and manufacturing facilities. His numerous professional experiences have included manager of Environment, Health & Safety and ISO Certification Program for International Paper Company and manager Environmental Affairs for the Forest Resources Group. He has written publications in technical and refereed journals, and has provided expert testimony on forest policy and regulatory programs to U.S. Senate, U.S. House and Georgia Legislative Committees. His honors include being elected AGON, University of GA Agricultural Honor Society; Appointed by GA Governors to Forest Research Council, Parks Recreation, Historic Sites and Natural Areas Study Committee; River Care 2000 Coordinating Committee; Recipient of GA Forestry Association Outstanding Service and Presidents Awards; Leadership Georgia. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/04.
James R. Gober is Coordinator for Marketing and Economic Development with the Alabama Forestry Commission. He has a B.S. Degree from Auburn University in Forest Management and has been with the Forestry Commission for 25 years. Jim is married and has three children. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/01.
Anthoni Goodman is a neuroscience researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham who founded and leads the Alabama Mushroom Society. He attended Northern Arizona University for a masters in Clinical psychology where he was introduced to and became a member of the very active Mushroom Society in Arizona. When he moved to Birmingham for his PhD work he was unable to find a similar type of social and educational club and decided to make one for the Great State of Alabama! His interest in fungi are primarily based on a general study of their morphology, distribution, ecological niche, and of course value as an addition to the dinner
K. Ben Gore is CEO/President of the Federal Land Bank Association of North Alabama, FLCA. Ben received his B.S. in Business Administration with Major in Accounting from Auburn University. Ben has 32 years lending experience with the Federal Land Bank making and servicing long term real estate loans. Source: Personal Résumé, 2/09.
Rich Goyer, professor of forest entomology, has been at Louisiana State University for 26 years. He also serves as forest pest advisor to the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry. Dr. Goyer teaches a senior level course in forest insects and conducts research in pine bark beetle management and impacts of insect defoliators in forested wetlands. Source: Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service Course Description, 6/99.
Joseph “Chip” Graham has 30 years of experience in silvicultural services and land management. In 1993 he founded J. H. Graham, Inc. to provide forestry services with integrity and professionalism to landowners in North and Central Alabama. Chip’s initiative, willingness to make decisions and to accept responsibility along with the experience of working with people in many different geographic areas allow him to recognize client needs and to develop plans to achieve their desired results. He also enjoys sharing information regarding the issues facing today’s timberland managers to his extensive network of clients and associates. Chip graduated from Auburn University in 1987 with a bachelor’s degree in Forestry Management. He is a State of Alabama Registered Forester, a Licensed Real Estate Broker and a Licensed Residential Home Builder in the State of Alabama. Chip served consecutive terms as President of the Walker County Board of Realtors. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/19.
L. C. “Fudd” Graham is an entomologist at Auburn University. He coordinates the Alabama Fire Ant Management Program, the Pesticide Safety Education Program, and the School IPM Program. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/07.
Ryan Graves is a Senior majoring in Electrical Engineering from Madison, Alabama. His most recent job experience has been through a co-op with PREMIER System Integrators in Decatur, Alabama.
Frank Green is a graduate of the University of Georgia School of Forestry. He is Coordinator of the Georgia Forestry Commission’s statewide Forest Management Programs and of the GFC’s Environmental Affairs program including forest water quality/wetland Best Management Practices (BMPs), Endangered Species, Environmental Impact Studies, and Georgia Environmental Policy Act. Frank serves on the Georgia Forestry Association’s Environmental, Logging, and Transporation Committees, and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative Inconsistent Practices and Logger Education Committees. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/09.
Zachary Green graduated from Bowling Green State University in northern Ohio. Zachary servered as an infantryman in the United States Marine Corps and also worked briefly for the US Secret Service. Zachary spent 10 years in the software industry prior to pursuing an eight year career in the pharmaceutical industry focusing on sales, sales management, training, and strategic development. As a volunteer firefighter for the past six years, Zachary discovered glow technology with the help of his longtime friend and business partner. Zachary has now turned his avocation of firefighting into his vocation as the president and co-founder of the company MN8 that specializes in the different applications of photoluminescent technologies in various products and applications. Zachary is an avid outdoorsman and hunter. Zachary is married with a six year old son who enjoys camping with his dad. Source: Personal Résumé, 10/10.
Cathryn (Katie) H. Greenberg is a Research Ecologist with the Upland Hardwood Ecology and Management Research Work Unit, USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station at the Bent Creek Experimental Forest in Asheville, North Carolina. She received her MS from the University of Tennessee and her PhD from the University of Florida, where she studied the ecology of sand pine scrub in Ocala national Forest. Her current research focuses on developing information and tools that are useful to forest managers and planners. Research areas includes (1) effects of prescribed fire and wildfire, mixed-oak regeneration harvests, and other forest management practices on reptiles, amphibian, and breeding bird communities; (2) production of forest food resources, such as native fleshy fruit and hard mast, in relation to forest types and silvicultural disturbances; (3) long-term monitoring of amphibian populations in longleaf pine-wiregrass sandhills in relation to forest health and climate change. She has co-edited books on early successional habitats, natural disturbances, and fire ecology and management in US forests. Source: Personal Résumé, 2/24.
John L. Greene is a Research Forester with the USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Economics and Policy Research Unit, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. He has over 30 years experience studying economic and policy issues important to family forest owners. For the past 18 years he has specialized in forest taxation, and is a coauthor of the Southern Region Management Bulletin series “Tax Tips for Forest Landowners,” Agricultural Handbook 718, “Forest Landowners’ Guide to the Federal Income Tax,” and General Technical Report SRS-112, “Estate Planning for Forest Landowners: What Will Become of Your Timberland.” Prior to joining the Forest Service in 1992, John was a member of the forestry faculty at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. He holds a B.S. degree in business from the University of Maryland, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in forest economics from West Virginia University. Source: Personal Résumé, 10/10.
W. Dale Greene is Professor of Harvesting at the Daniel B. Warnell School of Forest Resources, the University of Georgia, Athens. Dr. Greene received his BSF from Louisiana State University, MS from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and Ph.D. from Auburn University. He has carried out extensive research in thinning operations in southern pines and has taught many continuing education courses to professional foresters and loggers. Source: The University of Georgia Continuing Education Course Description, 4/99 & Préceda Education & Training Course Description, 3/00 & Forestry Information Services Course Description, 5/02.
Mary H. Gregg. Dr. Molly Gregg has worked with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System for 18 years; serving as a 4-H Youth Development Specialist and as Assistant Director for Alabama 4-H for the last three years. Prior to Extension, Dr. Gregg was a middle school teacher in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dr. Gregg has developed policy and procedures, publications, curriculum, and even iPad apps, to support the work of 4-H in leadership, health education, STEM, program impact, volunteerism and risk management. As Assistant Director of Alabama 4-H, Dr. Gregg focuses her time on supporting 67 county 4-H programs, 52 4-H field staff, 10 state staff, and the Alabama 4-H Center located in Columbiana, Alabama. The “field” are the boots on the ground that make Alabama 4-H what it is…relevant, innovative, and responsive to today’s young people.
Dr. Gregg holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Government from Wheaton College, a Master of Education from Harvard University, and a Doctorate of Education from Auburn University.
When not working, Molly does laundry and enjoys spending time with family. She is expecting her first grandbaby any day now. Source: Personal Résumé, 04/18.
J. Bishop Grewell is a research associate with PERC and is currently studying law at Northwestern University School of Law. He has a master’s degree in environmental management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a bachelors’s degree from Stanford. In addition to agricultural policy, Grewell writes about wildlife, international environmental policy, and public lands. Source: PERC Policy Series, Issue Number PS-31, 6/04.
H. Morgan Griffith was first elected to represent the 9th Congressional District of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives on November 2, 2010, and is currently serving his second term. Morgan is a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over some of the most important issues facing Virginia’s Ninth District including public health and federal regulations.
For his second term in the U.S. House of Representatives, Morgan was named to the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Health. In addition, Morgan will continue serving on its Subcommittee on Energy and Power and the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
Prior to his election to the U.S. House of Representatives, Morgan served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1994 to 2011, where he represented the 8th District. In 2000, Morgan was elected House Majority Leader, the first Republican in Virginia history to hold that position.
Morgan is a graduate of Salem’s Andrew Lewis High School and an honors graduate of Emory and Henry College. After completing studies at the Washington and Lee University School of Law, Morgan returned to Southwest Virginia where he practiced law for nearly three decades.
Morgan is married to Hilary, and together they have three children. Source: http://morgangriffith.house.gov/biography/, 5/14.
Mike Griggs has been with International Paper for 29 years. He has worked all across the south from coastal North Carolina to central Louisiana and is currently located in Prattville. He has worked in both land management and fiber procurement with International Paper. He is currently the Business Support Manager for the Alabama Region – Forest Resources. He is a graduate of Clemson University class of 1976 with a B.S. in Forest Management. He is also a Registered Forester. Source: Personal Résumé, 01/05.
Richard W. Guldin, Ph.D., CF, RPF, is Director of Quantitative Sciences, Research & Development, Forest Service. Since 1996, he has led the Forest Inventory and Analysis program, preparation of national assessments and reports on forest conditions and trends, and coordinated international research collaboration. The FIA program is the nation’s forest census, tracking the health and productivity of all of America’s forests. The FIA program also includes surveys of the management objectives and interests of private forest landowners and of the wood consumption and outputs of the forest products industry. He has also led or been a member of many interagency and international projects aimed at improving the quality of environmental statistics and indicators being reported at regional, national, and global scales. Prior to assuming his current position in 1996, Dr. Guldin served four years as an Assistant Station Director of the Northern Research Station, responsible for all Forest Service research in New England. From 1985 to 1991, he held several senior staff positions in the Research & Development headquarters and for a time was the forestry expert for the U.S Senate Committee on Agricultural, Nutrition, and Forestry. He began his Forest Service research career in 1978 at the Southern Forest Experiment Station in New Orleans, Louisiana, studying southern forest management and forest economics issues. He has a B.S. in Forest Science from Penn State (1970), and a Master of Forest Science and Ph.D. from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (1976, 1979). Dr. Guldin is a Registered Professional Forester and Certified Forester. Source: Personal Résumé, 01/12.
Will Gulsby is Assistant Professor, Wildlife Ecology and Management, at the College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment at Auburn University. Will earned a B.S. in Biology from the University of North Georgia, an M.S. and Ph.D. in Wildlife Ecology and Management from the University of Georgia. His teaching responsibilities include: Wildlife Habitat Management; Wildlife Conservation History and Law; Wildlife Summer Practicum. Will’s research interests include: White-tailed deer ecology and management; Wildlife habitat management; Integrating forest management and wildlife habitat. Source: https://deerlab.auburn.edu/faculty-and-staff/, 04/24.
John E. Gunter is professor of forestry in the Department of Forestry at Mississippi State University. Gunter has extensive tax experience including serving as a forest finance and taxation specialist with the USDA Forest Service and co-chairing national forest taxation symposia. He has held timber tax workshops from coast to coast and authored numerous publications on a variety of timber taxation issues. Gunter has received several awards for his timber tax reform activities in the state of Georgia. He is the slightly-scarred survivor of two IRS audits. Source: Mississippi State University Continuing Education Course Description, 1/00.
Andy Gustafson is a managing member of Atlas 1031 Exchange, LLC, a worldwide accommodator of Internal Revenue Code Section 1031 with an office in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. He founded the company in 2007 and has spoken to hundreds of investors at Wealth Camps and Real Estate Investment Clubs nationwide. As an approved continuing educational provider, he has helped hundreds of Realtors, Attorneys, and CPAs understand the application of the 1031 code. To date he has accommodated over 600 simple and complex, real and personal property exchanges.
In 2006, Mr. Gustafson qualified and received the professional designation of Certified Exchange Specialist® (CES®) created by the Federation of Exchange Accommodators to set a standard of 1031 accommodator ethics and excellence. The CES® recognizes his expertise and commitment to providing clients with prudent investment standards and procedures ensuring security and compliance with IRS 1031 regulations. He works with owners of highly appreciated assets deferring capital gains through 1031 exchanges and Deferred Sales Trusts.
In 2003, Mr. Gustafson co-founded Old South 1031 Exchange Services, LLC located in Destin, Florida. As President and Managing Partner, he accommodated over 300 forward and reverse exchanges of condominiums and rental properties representing over $300 million of exchanged property.
A native of West Lafayette, Indiana, Mr. Gustafson graduated from Vanderbilt University with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics in 1978. For 13 years prior to entering the 1031 exchange industry, he worked in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) manufacturing software market helping companies in North, Central and South America improve production efficiencies. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/13.
Steve Guy is the Director of the Forestry, Soybean and Wildlife Divisions of the Alabama Farmers Federation. He has been in that position for 26 years. He is a 1972 graduate of Auburn with a degree in Forest Management. He has been involved in many property tax issues including passage of the Current Use Bill in 1982 and the fight against Amendment One in 2003. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/07.
Steven Guy is a Senior majoring in Electrical Engineering from Hoover, Alabama. His most recent job experience has been through a co-op with Southern Company in Birmingham, Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/12.
Darlene Guzman is the Customer Service Manager of Wood-Mizer Products. Darlene’s team provides complete customer care for all of the products Wood-Mizer manufactures, including sawmills. The Wood-Mizer Customer Service Team is responsible for complete customer care after the sale. This includes everything from parts and blade sales to field service and locating sawyers to help out Woodlot owners who do not own a sawmill. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/02.
John Gwaltney received his B.S. from Auburn University in Biological Science with an emphasis in Wildlife Management. He obtained his Master’s Degree from Auburn University in Wildlife Biology. He joined Forestry Suppliers, Inc. in 1976, and worked his way to become the President of Forestry Suppliers, Inc. in Jackson, MS in 1984, a position he still holds. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/09.
Steven Hague grew up on a dairy farm in Northwest Texas. He received his Ph.D. in plant breeding from Texas A&M University. He was a cotton and soybean agronomist at the LSU AgCenter’s Northeast Research Station. Steve then took a position with Bayer CropScience as a cotton breeder in Mississippi. In 2006, he became a cotton breeder and assistant professor at Texas A&M University. Last summer he became the Head of the Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences at Auburn University. His department engages in teaching, research, and extension activities. Personal Résumé, 8/24.
Robert G. Haight is a Research Forester at the USDA Forest Service, North Central Research Station at St. Paul, Minnesota. He received BS & MS degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and the PhD from Oregon State University in Forest Management. Dr. Haight is an internationally recognized scientist for his contributions in operations research, forest management and conservation biology. Throughout Bob’s career, he has applied strong quantitative methods to solve complex problems in a real-world context. His latest work is centered on risk – cost tradeoffs for the protection and management of wildlife populations and models to determine wildland fire protection investments and priorities. Bob directs North Central’s Landscape Change Integrated Research Program. The research team is looking at four broad questions: 1) How is the landscape changing? 2) What drives landscape change? 3) What are the consequences of landscape change? 4) What do we do about it? Source: Personal Résumé, 6/02.
Mark J. Hainds was raised as the sixth generation on a Missouri farm. He secured a BS in Forestry Management from the University of Missouri, and an MS in Forest Biology from Auburn. He was the first science graduate from the Jones Ecological Research Center in southwest Georgia. He became a Research Associate with Auburn University and the first employee of the Longleaf Alliance, holding these dual positions for twenty years before resigning to walk the Texas-Mexico border. Mark returned to work as the Forestry Instructor at Lurleen B. Wallace Community College, and he became the first person to walk the entire US-Mexico Border in 2017. He published two books (Year of the Pig and Border Walk) and is the subject of the movie La Frontera. Mark and his family are fifteen-year vendors at the Palafox Market in Pensacola where they sell mushrooms, herbs, vegetables, fruits, and specialty wood products. Mark inoculates approximately 1,000-1,500 logs annually with multiple species and strains of mushrooms. He also forages several dozen species of wild mushrooms for personal use and sale. Source: Personal Résumé, 03/25.
John Hall is the Director of the Black Belt Museum Project at the University of West Alabama in Livingston. He is retired from the Alabama Museum of Natural History at the University of Alabama. He has been involved with Natural History and Alabama history and archaeology projects since the 1970s. Dr. Hall and environmental photographer Beth Young of Birmingham are the authors of the recent prize-winning book on Alabama Rivers, HEADWATERS, and are among the authors of the upcoming book on longleaf pine, LONGLEAF AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE. He will share his favorite topic with AFOA members at their 2012 Annual Meeting, the question of what Alabama looked like in the historic past – which he says is “nothing like what it looks like today.” Source: Personal Résumé, 4/12.
Richard W. Hall serves as president of Buckhead Resources, Inc., a natural resource management and advisory firm based in Atlanta, Georgia. He has over 20 years of experience in natural resource finance and investments. In addition to his position at Buchead Resources, Inc., Richard serves as an affiliate faculty member and instructor of various forest finance and pre-law courses at Auburn University’s College of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences. Prior to his current position at Buckhead Resources Inc., Richard worked with several other firms including Forest Investment Associates and Bank of America. He received a B.S. in forestry from Auburn University and a J.D./M.B.A. from the University of Alabama. Richard is a registered forester, a licensed attorney, and a member of the Society of American Foresters. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/22.
Susan Pace Hamill has been a Professor of Law at the University of Alabama since 1994 teaching in the areas of tax law, business organizations and ethics. Since completing the masters in theological studies degree at the Beeson Divinity School of Samford University during her first sabbatical her scholarship has focused on evaluating tax policy under the moral principles of Judeo-Christian ethics. Her 2002 article attacking Alabama’s state and local tax laws on faith-based grounds received national attention, including a front page story in the Wall Street Journal and being named on the list of best ideas for the New York Times in 2003. In 2006 she published an article criticizing the federal tax policy trends of the Bush administration and her most recent scholarship, which was the subject of a feature article in the New York Times on December 25, 2007, illustrates why the state and local policy of thirty-one states grossly violates the moral principles of Judeo-Christian ethics. Professor Hamill has also published numerous articles, and, a chapter in BUSINESS TAX STORIES, focusing on business organizations, especially limited liability companies. Before joining the law faculty Professor Hamill practiced tax law in New York City and served as a government attorney for the Chief Counsel’s Office of the Internal Revenue Service in Washington DC. She received her B.A. (in English and History) from Emory University (after first completing the A.A. degree from Oxford College), her J.D. (magna cum laude) from Tulane University (where she served on the Tulane Law Review), and her LL.M (in taxation) from New York University (where she served on the Tax Law Review). Professor Hamill’s work to improve the state of Alabama includes publishing an article arguing, on faith-based moral grounds, that the state should provide drug courts in all counties and serving on the board of directors of the University of Alabama Wesley Foundation, the Alabama Poverty Project and Turning Point, an organization dedicated to helping victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in West Alabama. On a pro bono basis she served as an expert witness and authored an amicus curiae brief for the 11th Circuit in a lawsuit challenging Alabama’s property tax structure on race-based equal protection grounds and continues to assist the plaintiffs as a consultant. She is married, the mother of two, and a member of the United Methodist Church. Source: www.law.ua.edu/directory/People/view/Susan_Pace_Hamill, 11/11.
Rick A. Hamilton is an Extension Forestry Specialist at NC State University. Rick has many years of experience in assisting landowners with valuation, taxes, and estate planning, including 22 years of extension experience in North Carolina. Source: North Carolina State University Forestry Educational Outreach Program Course Description, 11/98.
Kent Hanby is Alabama Registered Forester # 605, Society of American Foresters Certified Forester # 1582, and an Alabama Certified Burn Manager. Kent received his Bachelor of Science Forestry Honors, December 1965, from Auburn University and a Master of Forestry, June 1971, from Yale University. He retired from the Auburn University School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences in June 2003 as Director of Student Services and the instructor of the Fire Management course. He currently teaches the Auburn University School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences Fire Management course as part time instructor and he also currently teaches the Alabama Certified Burn Manager Certification courses and the recertification workshops as a professional services contractor for the Alabama Forestry Commission. Kent is active in the Alabama Prescribed Fire Council. He has served as an expert witness in litigation pertaining to prescribed burning. Source: Personal Résumé, 2/09.
Lawrence Charles Hancock, III, is regional manager at F&W Forestry Services, Inc., located in Albany, Georgia. He has worked as a consulting forester for over 20 years in various regions across the southeast. His career includes working with non-industrial private landowners, timberland management organizations, governmental agencies, and industry on various forest management projects during his career. He received an Associates of Applied Science in Forestry from Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from Valdosta State University. He is a registered forester, certified general appraiser, and real estate salesperson in Georgia and a member of the Association of Consulting Foresters, Society of American Foresters, and Georgia Forestry Association. Source: Personal Résumé, 2/21.
Harry L. Haney, Jr., Harry L. Haney, Jr. specializes as a consultant on forest management focusing on income tax, estate planning and financial analysis. He is Garland Gray Emeritus Professor, Department of Forestry, College of Natural Resources, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. Haney served in the Department of Forestry for over 28 years, from January 1,1975, through October 1, 2003.
He teaches numerous short courses on timber taxation, estate planning, forest finance, and management of private timberland. He is an author of landowner guides on Essentials of Forestry Investment Analysis (1984); The Forest Landowners’ Guide to the Federal Income Tax, (2001); Estate Planning for Forest Landowners: What Will Become of Your Timberland? (1993); Federal Income Tax on Timber: A Key to Your Most Frequently Asked Questions (2001); and The Landowner’s Guide to Conservation Easements (2001). He has written numerous technical publications on forestry investment analysis, timber taxation, and forest management. His columns on “Taxing Questions”, Virginia Forests magazine and “Timber Tax Issues”, Forest Landowner magazine are widely read. He consults with forest landowners, forest industry, forestry associations, public agencies and educational institutions.
Haney’s research focuses on the management of nonindustrial family forests. Current research examines local forestry laws, ordinances, and regulations; timber income and estate taxes; forest valuation; and conservation easements.
He has received numerous honors that include the National Technology Transfer and Extension Award (1992) and Fellow (1990) from the Society of American Foresters, the Outstanding Forestry Alumnus from Auburn University, and the 2000 Public Service Award from the Association of Consulting Foresters of America, in which he now is a candidate member. He was the first Extension faculty member of the College of Natural Resources at Virginia Tech awarded a named professorship and the College’s first faculty member to receive the university’s Alumni Extension Award. He is a life Member of the Virginia Forestry Association which awarded him their “Man of the Year in Forestry” in 1985, and more recently in 2003 recognized him with its Distinguished Service Award, the Association’s highest honor. He has served on the Executive Committee of the Forest Landowners Association from 2001to the present, President for 2003-2005, and currently is Past-President for 2005-2007.
Haney earned his Ph.D. in 1975, M.S. in 1973, M.Phil. in 1971, and M.F. in 1969 from Yale, and his B.S. from Auburn University in1959. He served as Visiting Professor, College of Forestry, Oregon State University in 1991-1992, and as a Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Forestry, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in the Spring of 1999.
He worked in procurement and logging supervision with Melvin and Quitman Lumber Companies, Alabama-Mississippi in 1959 and 1962-65; as a manager with St. Regis Paper Company, Florida in 1965-67; and as an economist with Weyerhaeuser in 1970. In the interim of 1959 to 1962 he served as an artillery officer and helicopter Aviator in the U.S. Army.
Haney is a registered forester in Alabama where he owns and manages J.L.H. Tree Farm with Jacqueline Taylor, his wife and J. Lee Haney, Esq., his daughter. Source: https://www.bae.lsu.edu/lnrs/speaker_bios/index.htm, 7/08.
Ben Hanna is senior manager of business and industrial for eBay, The World’s Online Marketplace. In this role, Hanna is responsible for the management and development of eBay Business’ agriculture, food service and retail, and construction categories, overseeing all aspects of their business strategy, business development, and marketing. Prior to joining eBay, Hanna was vice president of marketing for IronPlanet, an online commerce site for the construction industry. Hanna also served as CEO of Crystal River, a strategic marketing agency. For several years, Hanna was an executive program moderator at Stanford University. Hanna graduated with a Ph.D. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He has a BA in Psychology from the University of Michigan. Source: Personal Résumé, 03/05.
James L. Hanula is a Research Forest Entomologist with the U.S. Forest Service in Athens, Georgia. He has a B.S. degree in Forest Management from Texas A&M University, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in forest entomology from the University of Georgia. He worked on insect pests of pine seed orchards and on ornamental shrubs and trees before he joined the Forest Service in 1991. He currently works on invasive species affecting Southeastern forests. This includes biological control of Chinese privet, the redbay ambrosia beetle, and the kudzu bug. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/13.
Russell Hardee is Forest Manager for Clemson University and the 17,500 acre, SFI Certified Clemson Experimental Forest. He received his BS in Forest Resource Management from Clemson University in 1996 and his MBA/MSL from Pfeiffer University in 2011. A third generation forestry professional, his career began working across the southeast in herbicide sales and application managing over 100,000 acres of aerial herbicide application. He later gained valuable experience with the NC Forest Service fighting wildfires, prescribed burning, and assisting landowners with forest management. Later working in the Real Estate Department of Progress Energy (now Duke Energy), he was responsible for management of 82,000 acres in NC, SC, GA, and FL. Russell is also a Consulting Forester, licensed real estate Broker, Registered Forester, Certified Forester, ISA Certified Arborist, and a SC Prescribed Fire Manager. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/21
Karen Hardy, along with her husband, Jim, is owner of Overland Adventure Rentals. The company is based on what the Hardy’s live and love on a daily basis. The outdoors and creating their own adventures has always been special to the family, and they offer others the chance to create and experience their own outdoor adventures. Source: Personal Résumé, 2/21
Michael Hardiman is President of Hardiman Consulting, a lobbying and public relations firm based in Washington, DC. His clients include private property owners located within and adjacent to federal land holdings. He has also lobbied for the American Conservative Union and the American Trucking Association. He is a former staffer for three members of congress and a state legislator. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/02.
William W. Hargrove received an M.S. in Entomology from University of Georgia in 1983, and a Ph.D. in Ecology from University of Georgia in 1988. He moved to Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1990, and joined the ORNL staff in 2000 as a part of the Geographic Information and Spatial Technologies Group. He moved to the ORNL Environmental Sciences Division (ESD) in 2001, and became part of the senior research staff in ESD in 2005. He joined the Forest Service in October 2006, as part of the Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center at the Southern Research Station in Asheville, NC. At EFETAC, he works on a satellite-based forest disturbance monitoring system for the conterminous United States. It delivers new forest change products every eight days and provides tools for attributing abnormalities to insects, disease, wildfire, storms, human development or unusual weather. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/12.
Craig Harper is a Professor of Wildlife Management and the Extension Wildlife Specialist at The University of Tennessee. Craig is responsible for developing wildlife management programs for UT Extension and assisting extension agents with matters concerning wildlife throughout the state. Craig is a Certified Wildlife Biologist and remains active in research with on-going programs in quality deer management and several applied habitat management projects, including the effects of forest management and prescribed fire on wildlife habitat. Craig recently completed a book on food plots entitled A Guide to Successful Wildlife Food Plots: Blending Science with Common Sense. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/09.
Joshua Kane Harrell is the recently appointed Programs Coordinator for the Forest Landowners Association. He graduated with a B.S. in Forestry from Virginia Tech and an M.F.r. from the University of Georgia. Prior to his current position, he worked as a staff forester for F&W Forestry Services, Inc. and as a market reporter for Timber Mart-South. Josh can be contacted at jharrell@forestlandowners.com.Source: Personal Résumé, 02/05.
Timothy B. Harrington is a Research Forester with the USDA Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Research Station in Olympia, Washington. His career in natural resources began while he was working on a B.S. degree in Botany at Louisiana State University (LSU). In summer 1977 he worked for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) as a range assistant and initial attack firefighter in Kemmerer, Wyoming. In the summers of 1978-80 he worked for the BLM as a forestry assistant and fire-retardant plant operator in Lewiston, Montana, after which he graduated from LSU (1980). He continued his academic training at Oregon State University (OSU) where he completed an M.S. degree in forest ecology (1982) and a Ph.D. degree in silviculture (1989). While working on his Ph.D. he worked for a forest vegetation management research cooperative between OSU and members of the forest industry and BLM. In 1991 he served as director of the cooperative and was promoted to Assistant Professor. From 1992-2002, Tim was on the faculty of the School of Forest Resources at the University of Georgia where he annually taught an undergraduate course in silviculture, a graduate course in forest stand dynamics, and Continuing Education courses in herbicides and thinning methods. His research at UGA included topics in forest stand dynamics, restoration of longleaf pine communities, and exotic pest plant management. He has authored 20 journal articles and numerous papers in conference proceedings and symposia. He has been the director or co-director of over 25 Continuing Education courses presented at universities throughout the Southeast. Since early 2002, Tim has worked as a Research Forester with the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station in Olympia, Washington. He is a member of the Westside Silviculture Options Team, a research unit that currently is investigating methods for sustainable management of Douglas-fir ecosystems. Current projects include responses of conifer seedlings to different densities of overstory and understory vegetation and effects of climate and soil properties on Douglas-fir seedling responses to woody debris removal and competing vegetation control. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/02.
John Harris, DVM, is a practicing veterinarian who has always been deeply connected to agriculture and rural communities. His primary work, focusing on animal health, has led him naturally to develop a deep love for the land. Over the years, John’s experiences caring for livestock and working alongside farmers has given him a unique understanding of the challenges landowners face. John is most pleased when he has the opportunity to combine his emphasis in agriculture with cutting-edge technology. John brings a practical, results-oriented approach to the services he offers. Source: Personal Resume, 04/25.
Louie Harris is a biosystems engineering master’s student at Auburn University. He is the driving force behind the innovative techniques and technologies used at Harris Precision Solutions. With a focus on environmental sustainability and advanced land management practices, Louie applies his education to develop smarter, more efficient ways to tackle drone spraying, land clearing, and forestry solutions. His academic background leads him to methods that are not only effective but also environmentally responsible. Source: Personal Résumé, 04/25.
Thomas G. Harris, Jr. is a Professor at The Daniel B. Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, The University of Georgia, where he teaches courses in Fiber Supply Management, Marketing and Finance. He is publisher and managing director of TimberMart-South, a timber price reporting service housed at the Warnell School. His research interests include Timber Supply and Demand, Forest Industry Structure and Strategic Management. His experience includes Forest Industry Management and Financial positions and international consulting assignments. He has a B.S. degree in Forestry from N. C. State University and a MBA from the Wharton School. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/14.
William M. Harris, Jr. is the Director of Political Affairs for the Alabama Forestry Association and is a State House lobbyist. Prior to that position with the AFA, Bill had been Executive Director of the Alabama Loggers Council. He is a licensed Real Estate Broker, and Founder of the Southern Forestry Real Estate School. Bill retired from the United States Army as Lieutenant Colonel (Reserves, National Guard and active duty) in 2015 after 32 years of service. Bill was executive director of the Alabama Republican Party in 1997-1998 and currently serves on the Autauga County GOP Executive Committee. Bill received a BS in Business Administration from Troy University, Troy, Alabama. He is an active member and deacon of East Memorial Baptist Church, Prattville Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/16.
Barry Hart is a terrestrial zoologist for the Alabama Natural Heritage Program, a non-government organization committed to producing and developing an inventory and databank of Alabama’s natural heritage resources. He conducts surveys and produces habitat assessments for Alabama’s rare and uncommon wildlife. Source: Personal Résumé, 2/04.
Michael Hartley is Vice-President at McKinley and Lanier Forest Resources, Inc. in Northport, Alabama. He earned his B.S. in Forestry from Auburn University in 2010, and his M.B.A in Real estate from the University of Alabama in 2012. Upon finishing his graduate degree, Michael hired on at McKinley and Lanier as a forester in May of 2012. In 2015 he became a partner in the business. He is involved in all aspects of managing timberland for private landowners. Michael is a registered forester in Alabama and Mississippi. He is a certified prescribed burn manager and a member of the Association of Consulting Foresters. Michael lives in Northport with his wife Samantha and his sons Daniel and Briar. He is a deacon at Valley View Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa and strives to serve God in all that he does.
Source: Personal Résumé, 1/20.
Asa C. Hartwig has practiced law in Cullman County, Alabama, for 32 years. He received his BS and LLB degrees from the University of Alabama. Asa served as Captain in US Army JAG Corp and is past president of the Lutheran Foundation and the Cullman County Bar Association. He is admitted to practice before the Alabama Supreme Court, the US Supreme Court, and the US Court of Military Appeals. Three hundred fifty-five acres of improved timberland – pine, poplar and walnut – rely on Asa to make decisions for them. Asa is a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church , Cullman, Alabama, and has three daughters – Betsy, Amy and Scottie. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/99.
Joe Harwood is Principal and Partner at Real Estate Portal USA (founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 2006). Joe is the lead on the parcel data and coverage integration, as well as heavily involved in the business development side of the company. Real Estate Portal USA’s parcel data products covers over 2,480 counties and 92 percent of the population. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/15.
John Ross Havard joined National Land Realty in 2016. He has been in land sales since 2010 when he received his real estate license. John Ross obtained his Bachelor of Science in Forestry from Sewanee: the University of the South and is a Registered Forester in the state of Alabama. As a Consulting Forester his particular area of expertise is timber and timber land management. He has intimate knowledge of the local timber markets which allows him to be able to help buyers and sellers to understand the actual market value of timber and help landowners achieve their long term goals for their property. John Ross lives in Hoover, Alabama with his wife, two children, and two dogs. He enjoys hunting, fishing, and spending time with his family. Source: https://nationalland.com/john-ross-havard, 04/18.
Deborah Hawkinson is President of Forest Resources Association. Prior to joining FRA, she served as the Executive Director of Hardwood Federation for five years, where she oversaw the organization’s day-to-day operations and overall federal public policy goals for the hardwood industry and managed the Hardwood Federation Political Action Committee. Deb has over 20 years of industry experience in Washington, DC, including 15 years in Weyerhaeuser Company’s Federal and International Affairs office, and as director of operations and director of issues management for the American Forest and Paper Association. Her experience has been in the alignment of business and public policy goals, and political involvement efforts including grassroots and PAC objectives. Deb earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Leadership and Development from Regent University and studied Association Management at George Mason University’s School of Public and International Affairs. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/14.
Roger Hayes grew up in Addison in Winston County, where he also attended high school. Later, he attended barber school in Huntsville and married Connie Thomas. The couple has two sons. Roger has served for twelve years as county chairman of Winston county, and is hoping to serve the county in this position for more years to come. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/04.
Vernon R. Hayes, Jr. is the government affairs director for the Forest Landowners Association (FLA), and is based in the Washington, DC area. A graduate of Virginia Tech and Marshall University, he has been with FLA since 1999, after teaching public administration for one year at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. Issues being closely followed by FLA include the Canadian softwood lumber dispute, the permanent repeal of the Estate Tax, and implementation of the 2002 Farm Bill. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/02.
Charles D. Haynes holds advanced degrees in mining and petroleum engineering and has held executive and academic positions in mining, petroleum, and civil engineering. He is retired as a faculty member in the College of Engineering at the University of Alabama and is licensed to practice engineering in Alabama. He consults in mining, petroleum and coalbed methane (www.mineralconsultant.com) specializing in mineral property appraisal. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/07.
James D. (Dave) Haywood is a Supervisory Research Forester with the USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station. He has been located in Pineville, Louisiana since 1978, and has a PhD, Forestry, from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is currently involved in collaborative research with Mary Anne Sword Sayer and Shi-Jean Susana Sung to: (1) evaluate longleaf pine seedling container sizes and types, field nutrition trials, and influence of prescribed fire on seedling physiology; (2) assess the effects of prescribed fire, herbicide application, and fertilization on the growth and stand structure of young longleaf pine plantations; and (3) assess the effects of harvesting and regeneration practices on long-term productivity of pine stands through multiple rotations. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/12.
Suzanne Hearn manages several functions at Forest2Market, including mid-market sales, marketing strategy, and information technology. Among Hearn’s accomplishments are the 2009 redesign of Forest2Market’s website, leading Forest2Market’s lumber product development team and the design and implementation of a customer relationship marketing strategy.
Prior to joining F2M, she was national accounts manager for Crop Data Management Systems, Inc. and held executive marketing positions in the agricultural industry, where she is a recognized expert in customer relationship marketing.
A forest landowner herself, Suzanne earned her bachelor’s degree in environmental studies from the University of California at Berkeley and has completed executive marketing courses there and at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. When working on her degree, Suzanne was a programmer for the U.S. Forest Service. Source: Personal Résumé, 10/09.
Donald W. Heath is Senior Vice President, Trust Natural Resources and Real Estate, Private Client and Institutional Services, Wealth Management Group at Regions Bank. Don oversees Regions Bank’s Natural Resources and Real Estate Department. He joined AmSouth in 1995. AmSouth merged with Regions in 2007. Prior to joining AmSouth, Heath was employed by JSC/CCA in Brewton, Alabama from 1979-1995. During his tenure at JSC/CCA, Heath held various positions including Manager of Wood Procurement. From 1977-1979 he served as Procurement Forester at M. W. Smith Lumber Company in Jackson, Alabama. He also worked as a Forester with C.D. Williamson Lumber Company from 1973-1977. Heath holds a bachelor’s degree in Forest Management from Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. He completed Southern Trust School at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama. Don currently serves on the boards of directors for White Smith Land Company and Kaul Land Company. He is active with the Cahaba Chapter of the Society of American Foresters and the Alabama Forestry Association. He is currently a commissioner with the Alabama Forestry Commission. During 2000-2004, he was a member of the Chairman’s Club. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/08.
Michael W. Heatherly is Chairman, State Registered Forester, Real Estate Salesperson and Trainee Real Property Appraiser at Sizemore & Sizemore, Inc. Forest Appraisal, Analysis, and Management. Michael received a B.S. Degree in Forestry from Auburn University in 2008 and has worked with Sizemore & Sizemore since before graduation from Auburn. Michael oversees forest management activities on over 50,000 acres of timberland. His work involves forest inventories, timber sales, herbicide application, prescribed burning, GIS (Geographic Information Systems), and developing and implementing timber management plans. He is a member in the following organizations: Association of Consulting Foresters, Alabama Forestry Association, Alabama Invasive Plant Council, Alabama Prescribed Fire Council, Natioal Deer Association (the old QDMA), National Wild Turkey Federation, and Alabama Wildlife Federation. Source: Personal Résumé, 4.22.
Mal Heaton is operations manager for International Paper Company’s sawmill at Washington, Georgia, one of the highest-producing lumber mills in the U.S. He has previous experience supervising specific parts of sawmill operations. Source: The University of Georgia Continuing Education Course Description, 7/00.
Ralph G. Hellmich is a resident of Foley Alabama. He graduated in 1980 with a BS in Geology from the University of Alabama. Ralph has worked with the State of Alabama Oil and Gas Board since 1980 and is currently the Operations Supervisor for South Alabama. He has specialized in field operations, safety management, drilling and production of wells which includes all facets of production onshore and offshore in Alabama. Ralph has assisted the U.S. State Department with developing countries in the formation of oil and gas regulations in Central Asia. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/12.
Jeff Helms is Communications Director for the Alabama Farmers Federation. Raised on a farm in Jackson County, he attended Auburn University majoring in agricultural journalism. He worked for USDA’s Farm Service Agency for six years before being hired by the Federation in 1998. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/10.
Vic Hemard, MBA, ACF is the Founder and President of Hemard & Company, a consulting firm providing information systems and technology for the effective management of forestry and forest products companies. He has been a consultant for 31 years and professional forester for 47 years. Vic earned a BS in Forestry from Louisiana State University and an MBA from Centenary College. He is a member of the Association of Consulting Foresters, Texas Forestry Association, Louisiana Forestry Association, Arkansas Forestry Association, Oklahoma Forestry Association, and the ASCII Group of IT Consultants. Vic is the author and publisher of Client Connection, the Hemard & Company newsletter. He has also written technology-related articles for forestry periodicals, the most recent appearing in The Consultant magazine entitled “Ransomware in Forestry-Not a Time to Go Phishing.” He resides in Texarkana, Texas, with his wife, Nancy. They have three married children and eight grandchildren living in Charleston, Cleveland, and Dallas. Source: Personal Résumé, 02/22.
James Henderson is an assistant extension professor in the Department of Forestry at Mississippi State University. He specializes in natural resource economics and leads the state wide forestry extension education program in forest economics and management. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/08.
Brian Hendricks graduated from Southern Illinois University – Carbondale with a BS in Forestry in May of 1981. He worked as a foreman for Osmose Wood Preserving Company in the early 1980’s where he inspected/treated utility poles for rot and supervised a 2 to 3 man crew that assisted with the operation. His forestry career began in 1989 when he was hired by the Alabama Forestry Commission (AFC) as a staff forester in Choctaw County. Brian’s duties included the development of management plans and cost-share plans for forest landowners, southern pine beetle detection and notification, prescribed burning, fire suppression, etc. In 1997 Brian was recruited by the AFC to work with the Forest Inventory & Analysis (FIA) program as a field forester collecting forest resource data from FIA plots. In 2003 he was promoted to FIA Coordinator (supervisor) and holds that position today. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/12.
Holmes A. Hendrickson is the Alabama Area Manager and a Southern Forestry Consultants partner. He has over 18 years extensive forestry experience, and major areas of experience in estate appraisals, timber sales and marketing, and pine establishment and management. Holmes is a Certified Forester, a Registered Forester, a Licensed Real Estate Associate, a Certified Tree Farm Inspector, and a Certified Prescribed Burn Manager. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/15.
Carter Hendrix is a Lieutenant with the Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division Law Enforcement and has been with them for 21 years. Lt. Hendrix has been the Captive Animal Coordinator for the past 3 ½ years, primarily focusing on Licensed Deer Breeders. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/16.
Camilla M. Herlevich is the founder and Executive Director of North Carolina Coastal Land Trust. This regional non-profit conservation organization is responsible for identifying critical natural areas for protection, raising funds for acquisitions, preparing protection plans, negotiating land acquisitions, and developing conservation policy initiatives. Ms. Herlevich has been involved in conservation easements and real estate planning since 1992. She is a graduate of Duke University and the Boston University School of Law. Source: Pradcom Course Description, 4/00.
Matthew Herring joined GeoVantage in 2000 as Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Matthew has significant experience managing sales and marketing in business-to-business environments. Since joining GeoVantage, Matthew has become an expert in the remote sensing market and has formed relationships with seven of the top ten forestry companies in the United States. Source: Personal Résumé, 09/04.
Aimee Hess was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1949. The oldest of nine children, she was raised in Chicago, Illinois and Detroit Michigan. Aimee graduated from Marian High School in Birmingham, Michigan in 1967, with honors. She graduated summa cum laude from Southern Methodist University in 1973 with a B.A. in Economics. She spent a year in graduate studies in economics at SMU, and then attended Southern Methodist University Law School, graduating in 1977. While in law school, she was a law clerk for the Texas Attorney General’s Office and wrote for the Southwestern Law Journal.
After graduation from law school, Aimee joined the Dallas firm of Besing, Baker and Glast, and became a partner in 1978. In 1981, she began her own firm, Law Offices of Aimee Hess P.C.
She is currently admitted to practice before the Texas Supreme Court, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, U.S. District Courts in the Northern, Eastern and Western Districts and U.S. Bankruptcy Courts in the Northern, Eastern and Western Districts.
Aimee concentrates her practice in the areas of real estate and equipment financing (representing both lenders and borrowers), real estate conveyancing (representing both sellers and buyers), real estate and equipment leasing (representing both lessors and lessees), real estate defaults (including work outs and foreclosures), oil and gas law (primarily representing land owners and mineral owners in connection with testing agreements, oil and gas leases and pipeline or access easements), construction law (representing contractors, lenders, and consumers), development law (representing developers from project planning through zoning, construction and lease-up) and representation of rural water and sewer companies (rate-setting; preparation of corporate documents such as tariffs, bylaws and conflicts policies; government loan applications and loan management; and developer and nonstandard service contract negotiations and oversight).
Aimee and her husband Carl Ward, a petroleum consultant, enjoy sailing, hiking, kayaking, windsurfing and finding homes for abused and orphaned dogs, and parrots, many of which share their home at any given time. Source: Personal Résumé, 06/09.
Calder M. Hibbard is a research fellow at the University of Minnesota, Department of Forest Resources. His research focuses on forest resource policy and economics. He has conducted research in many areas concerning forest resource policy including: property taxation; regulatory programs; federal-state linkages; state boards, councils, and commissions; property rights; indicators of sustainability; public participation; and conflict management. Calder has conducted this research in conjunction with a host of public and private organizations including the USDA-Forest Service, the Minnesota Forest Resources Council, and the Minnesota Department of Revenue. Source: Personal Résumé, 09/03.
Patrick Hiesl is an Associate Professor of Forest Operations at Clemson University. His research is focused on timber harvesting operations and the needs of family forest owners. He is actively engaged in Extension activities and frequently collaborates with family forest owners in South Carolina. He has a Ph.D. in Forest Resources from the University of Maine and has worked with family forest owners across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/23.
Craig Hill has served as Chief of the Alabama Forestry Commission’s investigative unit since 2008. He is an advocate of stronger forestry laws to protect landowners and industry. He has authored and co-authored several articles pertaining to timber trespass and timber/equipment theft prevention. He strongly believes all timber trespass is not a civil issue and legislation should be sought to protect landowners. Prior to coming to the AFC he worked 28 years with the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Gadsden Police Department. He earned a B.S Degree from Faulkner University in Management of Human Resources and an A.S. Degree from Gadsden State Community College in Law Enforcement. Source: Personal Résumé, 03/13.
John Hill is Director of Research for the Alabama Policy Institute in Birmingham, where he has been for the past nine years. Dr. Hill is the author of Environmental Indicators 2002, an examination of environmental trends in Alabama and the United States; Cultural Indicators 2002; From This Day Forward, a survey of attitudes and values shaping marriages in Alabama; Breaking Up is Hard on You, a clinical analysis of divorce effects on parents and children; a revised edition of Video Vice: The Consequences of Legalizing Video Poker in Alabama; and Theft by Consent, an examination of the social and economic results of legalizing an Alabama lottery. In addition to his work at the Policy Institute, John teaches introductory statistics, research methods and quantitative business analysis at Faulkner University’s Birmingham campus. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/04.
J. Hudson Hines is owner of Hudson Hines Real Estate (real estate brokerage), part owner of Hines, Steele & Steele, Inc. ( timber dealership and forestry services), and part owner of DHH Land Company (land acquisition and development). He as been a member of the Society of American Foresters since 1990. He graduaged from Auburn University in 1990 and Monroe Academy in 1985. He belongs to the National Association of Realtors, the Alabama Association of Realtors, the Monroe County Board of Realtors (current treasurer), has a Forest Masters Bronze designation, and is involved with Master Tree Farmer, Master Wildlifer, Alabama Cattlemen’s Association. Hines is owner of J. Hudson Hines Farm and is a lover of the land and private property rights. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/05.
Andy Hinson, a longtime Maine resident, is the general manager of Sawmill & Woodlot magazine, a national publication intended for small-scale woodlot owners and managers, loggers, and sawyers. Hinson is also the contest coordinator of the Great Portable Sawmill Shootout, an annual contest that bring leading sawmill manufacturers together to determine how the mills perform in a head-to-head contest format. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/01.
James Arthur Hitt is the Alabama Forestry Commission’s Landowner Assistance Coordinator. He received a B.S. degree in Forest Engineering from Auburn University in 1982. His work experience includes 10 years in Hardwood Sawmill Management and Procurement in Alabama and Tennessee and 15 years as a County Manager for the Alabama Forestry Commission. The primary responsibility of the Landowner Assistance Coordinator is to administer cost-share programs for forestry practices and provide program information to AFC county personnel to carry out technical service responsibilities. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/09.
Jacob M. Hodnett graduated Auburn University in 2006 with a degree in Agronomy and Soils. Jacob worked with the Alabama Department of Transportation as an Agronomist for almost 4 years, and then went to work with Dow AgroSciences He has been a Sales Representative with them for almost 4 years. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/15.
Ben Hoffman received a BA from the University of Virginia in 1951 and, after four years with McHale’s navy, his MF from Yale in ’57. After 12 years in government service and 8 with private industry, he taught forest management and timber harvesting at U. Maine and did research in timber harvesting. He earned a PhD from Yale in 1982. In 1990 he retired and spent 11 years in Alaska and British Columbia as a volunteer, teaching forest technology at Covenant Life College. When not teaching, he consulted in forestry and wood products for 9 US, Canadian and Russian church communities. He has written over 150 technical and trade publication articles, most aimed at forest landowners and loggers, plus a business management handbook for loggers. He returned to Maine in 2001 to dabble in consulting, writing and play with model trains. He is retired as a Maine licensed forester, an SAF certified forester and a Vermont land surveyor. Source: Personal Résumé, 10/08.
Lanford Holloway is currently the Founder and C.E.O. of TerraStride Inc., a Columbia, SC based company. TerraStride produces mapping software for the land sales and outdoor recreational markets and has dominant products in both of those verticals. TerraStride’s software has been downloaded over 6 million times and has users in nearly every country in the world.
Lanford received a BA from Emory University in 2006 with a double major in Political Science and History. He then went on to receive an International MBA from the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina in 2013. Lanford has worked in both the public and private sectors on a wide variety of projects, has two issued patents, and has raised millions of dollars in private equity.
Russell Holmes lives in central Mississippi and attended Mississippi State University, where he earned degrees in Landscape Architecture and Landscape Contracting. He is an environmental specialist with New South Access and Environmental Solutions, where he also manages All Terrain Bridge, a subsidiary of New South. Russell is a Certified Natural Resources Professional, and is a member of the National Wild Turkey Federation, Ducks Unlimited, and the Quality Deer Management Association. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/14.
Harrison Hood is a Forest Economist and Research Editor at TimberMart-South. Dr. Hood’s expertise includes timber markets and prices, timberland investment, and strategic land management. His experience includes the furniture import and export business, real estate development, and land management. Dr. Hood received a B.A. in Finance from the University of Mississippi as well as a Masters of Forest Resources in Forest Business and a Ph.D. in Forest Economics from the University of Georgia. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/19.
William C. Hopewell is Senior Appraiser with the Alabama Farm Credit Association. Bill was born in Talladega, Alabama and graduated from Talladega High School. He received a BS degree in Agricultural Education from Auburn University in 1978. Bill started his career with Farm Credit in 1980 after two years with Auburn University Cooperative Extension Service. He was a Loan Officer and Branch Manager in Talladega for 20 years. Bill was licensed as General Appraiser by the Alabama Real Estate Appraisers Board in 1994 and has been licensed in Georgia by the Georgia Real Estate Appraisers Board since 2006. He is currently Staff Appraiser, responsible for rural appraisals for the Alabama Farm Credit Association in 26 north Alabama counties. He maintains a sales database of current sales comparables and conducts staff training in five branch offices for loan officers that are approved evaluators for the association. Source: Personal Résumé, 10/10.
Alva J. Hopkins, III is a fourth generation forest landowner from southeast Georgia and has been involved in forestland management all his life. After graduating from Emory University in 1974 and Mercer Law School in 1977, Joe practiced law until 1989 when he closed the practice to manage personal and family timberland full time. Mr. Hopkins has been a member of the Forest Landowners Association (FLA) since 1993, was elected to the FLA Board of Directors in 2005, and began his term as FLA President in 2013. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Georgia Forestry Association since the early 90’s, serving as President in 1997. In 1994 Mr. Hopkins founded the Greater Okefenokee Association of Landowners (GOAL), an association dedicated to combating forest fires around the Okefenokee Swamp by coordinating the needs of the local forest landowners with the firefighting and prevention resources in the area. He has also served on the Joint Georgia House and Senate Future of Forestry Study Committee and Georgia Land Conservation Partnership. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/14.
M. Reed Hopper is a Principal Attorney in Pacific Legal Foundation’s environmental law practice group. He oversees the Foundation’s Endangered Species Act Program that is designed to ensure that species protections are balanced with individual rights, the rule-of-law, and other social values. Mr. Hopper also oversees PLF’s Clean Water Act Project that targets illegal federal regulation of wetlands and other waters. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/08.
Steven G. Horwitz is Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY. He completed his MA and PhD in economics at George Mason University and received his A.B. in economics and philosophy from The University of Michigan. He is the author of two books, Microfoundations and Macroeconomics: An Austrian Perspective (Routledge, 2000) and Monetary Evolution, Free Banking, and Economic Order (Westview, 1992), and he has written extensively on Austrian economics, Hayekian political economy, monetary theory and history, and macroeconomics. In addition to several dozen articles in numerous professional journals, he has also done nationally recognized public policy work on the role of the private sector during Hurricane Katrina for the Mercatus Center, where he is an Affiliated Senior Scholar. The author of numerous op-eds, Horwitz is a frequent guest on TV and radio programs, particularly on the Great Recession and monetary policy. His current research is on the economics and social theory of the family, and he is at work on a book on classical liberalism and the family.
Horwitz also serves as the book review editor of Review of Austrian Economics, and co-editor of the book series Advances in Austrian Economics. He is a contributing editor at The Freeman, where he has a weekly column at The Freeman Online, and he blogs at “Coordination Problem” and “Bleeding Heart Libertarians.” Horwitz is a past recipient of three fellowship research grants from the Earhart Foundation and has been a visiting scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University. He was awarded the Hayek Prize in 2010 by the Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Order for his work on the economics of the family among other contributions. At St. Lawrence, he has been the recipient of the the Frank P. Piskor Lectureship for 1998-99 and the J. Calvin Keene Award in 2003, and served as Associate Dean of the First Year from 2001 to 2007. A member of the Mont Pelerin Society, Horwitz has spoken to professional, student, policymaker, and general audiences throughout the US, Canada, Europe, and South America. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/12.
Allan Houston is a Research Professor in the Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries at The University of Tennessee and he is Director, Forestry and Wildlife Research and Management at Ames Plantation. Allan was born in Clayton, Georgia in 1952 and raised in the high Appalachian town of Brevard, North Carolina. His old stomping grounds include the north Georgia mountains and the rare air between Brevard and Murphy, NC –this was before the whole place became condos and golf. Allan attended Brevard College, graduating in spring of 1973 with an AA degree. He then attended North Carolina State University, earning a BS degree in Forestry in 1976 and BS Wildlife Biology 1977. He attended N.C. State University earning a MS degree in Forest Management in 1979. In 1979 Allan began work as a Research Assistant at the Tennessee Agricultural Station and Hobart Ames Foundation, and was promoted to Research Associate with completion of the Master’s Degree the same year. He achieved a one year’s leave of absence from the Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station in 1986 to pursue a PhD in Ecology at the University of Tennessee. During the year-long period from July 1986 to July 1987 he completed his foreign language requirements, all course-work, prelims and comprehensive exams toward a PhD in ecology. Allan earned a PhD in Forest and Wildlife Ecology in 1991 after completing his research on Beaver Immigration and Reclamation of Beaver-Killed Wetlands. He was promoted to Research Assistant Professor in 1991, Associate Professor in 1998, and Professor in 2004. He is adjunct in the Biology Departments of The University of Memphis and Mississippi State University. Allan manages the Hobart Ames Foundation’s forest and wildlife on the 18,430-acre Ames Plantation in southwest Tennessee, including: hardwood and pine management and sales, administration of annual work plans and budgets, crew supervision, wetland issues, animal damage, land transactions, boundary control, road construction and maintenance, fleet and building maintenance and sawmill operation. He also manages a recreational enterprises program, including deer hunting and Quality Deer Management, turkey, squirrel, dove, duck, quail and fishing. He has initiated or co-developed forestry/wildlife research, including: large-scale and intense studies and development of hardwood seed orchards, silvicultural systems to enrich post harvested stands with genetically improved seedlings, and manage ensuing stands with crop tree management techniques; natural resource enterprises, large-scale quality deer management studies, mammalian predation, telemetry studies on quail, hawks and coyote, predator/prey relationships on bobwhite quail, whitetail deer food habits, beaver control, and a multi-disciplinary projects to determine the environmental impacts of converting crop land to short rotation forest systems. He is author or coauthor of 60+ scientific publications in forest and wildlife journals. Allan enjoys writing and writes outdoors columns for the local publications. He has been a member of the Society of American Foresters (SAF) since 1976, was instrumental in forming the west Tennessee Chapter of the KY/TN Section of SAF, served as chair W. TN Chapter several times and Chair of the Kentucky/Tennessee Section in 1997 and 2009, organized and served on the Executive Committee for the ’97 National SAF Convention, and is a Fellow in SAF. Allan teaches silviculture to the forestry students in residence at Ames during the Spring (now Fall) Semester, UT Knoxville, Forestry Camp and wildlife techniques to wildlife students, UT Martin and ecological principles to other students from around the country. He is actively engaged in numerous forest education activities for landowners including a week-long Conservation Workshop for Teachers, also a program initiated in 1991 called “Woods Walk – Woods Talk” to teach the teachers about forest ecology. WW-WT exposed over 1,200 teachers and media to forest issues. Allan likes to read, hunt ‘n fish, and listen to big tales. He is married to Rebecca Houston, formerly of Washington D.C. They have two children, Brian, Chief Resident at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland; and Laura, recently graduated from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and teaching at Ohio Valley Voices, a school for deaf children in Cincinnati, Ohio. Allan has three dogs, two goldens and a refugee mutt. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/11.
David Howse is President and CEO of the Federal Land Bank Association of North Alabama, FLCA. Howse began his career with Farm Credit in 1972 after receiving his B.S. Degree from St. Bernard College in his native Cullman, Alabama. While the majority of his career has focused on the Northern twenty-seven (27) counties of Alabama, he at some point in the last thirty-plus years has worked in every county in the State. This experience has given him a very diverse background to draw from in fulfilling his responsibilities as CEO of the FLBA of North Alabama for the past thirteen (13) years. He is presently a member and director of the Alabama Chapter of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers. Also he serves on the Board of Directors of the Alabama Agribusiness Council and is Secretary of the North Alabama Agriculture Museum and Hall of Fame. Howse’s roots are planted firmly in rural Alabama and he is a believer of how both the forest industry and rural economy benefit the state as a whole. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/02.
Edward H. “Tony” Hubbard earned, his Juris Doctor from the University of Alabama School of Law, and his Bachelor of Science in Geology from the University of Alabama.
Tony served as Assistant General Counsel for over fifteen years, and later as Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel for The Westervelt Company, formerly Gulf States Paper Corporation. He managed all litigation, and worked extensively with the company’s real estate development, timberland, environmental, oil and gas and natural resource operations. Prior to his tenure with The Westervelt Company, Tony worked for the Mississippi based law firm of Markow, Walker, Reeves and Anderson preparing drill site title opinions and assisting clients with regulatory and other legal issues related to oil and gas development.
Tony is admitted to practice in the State of Alabama and is a member of the Tuscaloosa County and Alabama State Bar associations
Tony is active in the First Presbyterian Church of Tuscaloosa, and serves as Chairman of the Board for the Presbyterian Apartments of Northport, Alabama, a HUD facility that provides housing to over one hundred low income elderly individuals in the community.
Tony is married to the former Lora Hurst from Chatom, Alabama, and they have one son and two daughters. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/17.
William G. Hubbard is the Southern Regional Extension Forester and is based at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. He facilitates regional education, Extension and technology transfer programs among the 13 southern land-grant universities, the USDA Forest Service, state forestry agencies and others within the southern forestry community. He received his forestry training at the University of Florida and taught forest management and economics there for five years. He also managed the Florida Forest Stewardship and urban forestry Extension efforts while a faculty member at the University of Florida. He has been in his current position for 22 years. Just some of his current projects include The Master Tree Farmer/Master Wildlifer Satellite Video Series and the development of an online regional peer-reviewed Extension publication process. After receiving his B.S. 1985 from The University of Florida, Hubbard received his M.S. from Florida’s School of Forest Resources & Conservation in Forest Economics. His thesis was Estimating the Profitability of Returns to Private Forest Landowners Receiving Professional Forestry Assistance in Northeast Florida. Bill received his PhD at the University of Georgia in the area of Adult Education. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/16.
Marianne Hudson performs a variety of conservation education duties as the Alabama Wildlife & Freshwater Fisheries Division’s Conservation Outreach Specialist. One of her duties is to counsel the public on how to avoid conflicts with wildlife and how to handle wildlife in need. She studied Wildlife Biology and Wildlife Management and is particularly interested in encouraging others to take advantage of Alabama’s abundant natural resources through hunting and shooting sports She enjoys mentoring new hunters and challenging other outdoorsmen to become mentors themselves. She is highly interested in habitat needs for both game and nongame species and in how Alabama’s public lands are managed for wildlife conservation. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/21.
Stephen J. Hudson is a native of Fayette, Alabama. He received a Bachelor of Science and Masters of Science degree in Forestry from Auburn University. He was employed as an assistant field work forester for the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences throughout his undergraduate career at Auburn, and as a research assistant for The Longleaf Alliance for approximately three years. He is currently the managing editor for a cooperative effort between the Alabama Forestry Commission, Alabama Forestry Association, and the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences at Auburn University in developing a reference guide to forest management for landowners in Alabama to serve as a companion to the Alabama Wildlife Federation book entitled Managing Wildlife on Private Lands in Alabama and the Southeast. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/04.
Dr. H. Glenn Hughes is primarily responsible for private landowner education in southeast Mississippi. This involves working with Extension Agents, local county forestry associations, and others to conduct educational programs of interest to private landowners. He also works with youth, teachers, and the general public about forestry issues in Mississippi, and recently completed a two-year effort targeting small landowners in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/04.
William C. Humphries, Jr., is president of Forest Resource Consultants, Inc., based in Macon, Georgia. He most recently served two years as president of the Association of Consulting Foresters of America and serves on the board of directors of Forest Landowners Association. Billy and his family are long time Georgia forest landowners and has always had a keen interest in the impact of government activity on private forestry and free enterprise. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/04.
David J. Hunnicutt is the Director of Legal Affairs for Oregonians In Action, a non-profit corporation dedicated to preserving the rights of private property owners. Dave received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Oregon in 1988, and a Juris Doctorate from the Northwestern School of Law, Lewis & Clark College in 1992. During the legislative session, Dave lobbies for Oregonians In Action. At the end of the 1999 session, thirteen OIA bills were enacted into law. Dave has been a member of the Oregon State Bar since 1992. Dave has appeared and argued before LUBA, the Oregon Court of Appeals, the Oregon Supreme Court, and in district and circuit courts throughout the state. He has also appeared as a speaker at numerous planning and legal seminars. Prior to joining Oregonians In Action, Dave was a partner with Hunnicutt & Hunnicutt in St. Helens. A native Oregonian, Dave is married and has three children. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/01.
Jim Hyland is the Chief of the Forest Health Section of the Alabama Forestry Commission. He is currently responsible for the Forest Health Monitoring Project and the Southern Pine Beetle Project. He is responsible for the use of GPS technology in SPB detection. He has spoken Statewide at landowner meetings and has written numerous articles on SPB control and Prevention. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/02.
Lou Hyman is Fire Support Officer for the Alabama Forestry Commission. Prior to his present position Lou has held the titles of Chief, Forest Resource Planning Section; Chief, Forest Management Section; Chief, Information and Education Section; Chief, Forest Marketing; Tax Specialist and Forest Economics Specialist. Lou was employed as a tax consultant with Sizemore and Sizemore, a consulting forestry company, before joining the staff of the Alabama Forestry Commission. He holds a Masters Degree from Duke University in Forest Economics. Source: Alabama Forestry Commission, 1/01.
Craig D. Idso is the founder and former President of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change and currently serves as Chairman of the Center’s board of directors. Dr. Idso received his B.S. in Geography from Arizona State University, his M.S. in Agronomy from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, and his Ph.D. in Geography from Arizona State University, where he studied as one of a small group of University Graduate Scholars.
Dr. Idso has been involved in the global warming debate for many years and has published peer-reviewed scientific articles on issues related to data quality, the growing season, the seasonal cycle of atmospheric CO2, world food supplies, coral reefs, and urban CO2 concentrations, the latter of which he investigated via a National Science Foundation grant as a faculty researcher in the Office of Climatology at Arizona State University. Since 1998, he has been the editor and a chief contributor to the online magazine CO2 Science.
Dr Idso is the author of several books, the most recent of which, The Many Benefits of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment, details 55 ways in which the modern rise in atmospheric CO2 is benefiting earth’s biosphere. Dr. Idso has also produced three video documentaries, Carbon Dioxide and the Climate Crisis: Reality or Illusion?, Carbon Dioxide and the Climate Crisis: Avoiding Plant and Animal Extinctions, and Carbon Dioxide and the Climate Crisis: Doing the Right Thing, and he has lectured in Meteorology at Arizona State University and in Physical Geography at Mesa and Chandler-Gilbert Community Colleges.
Dr. Idso is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society, Association of American Geographers, Ecological Society of America, and The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. He also serves as co-editor of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) and he is the former Director of Environmental Science at Peabody Energy in St. Louis, Missouri. Source: http://www.co2science.org/about/chairman.php, 5/13.
Ahmad Ijaz is Director of Economic Forecasting at the Center for Business and Economic Research, University of Alabama. Ahmad has over twenty-five years of experience in economic analysis and forecasting, economic impact studies, research related to national and regional economic issues, and industry analyses. His professional interests include: applied macroeconomics, economic analysis and forecasting, financial instruments and markets, international trade and currency markets. Ahmad holds an undergraduate degree in Finance and a graduate degree in Economics. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/12.
Jon R. Ingram graduated from Auburn University with a BS degree in forest management. Jon began his career as a field forester for Resource Management Service. After two and a half years, he worked for seven years as a hardwood procurement forester for Buchanan Lumber in Birmingham. Since 1988, Jon has been a consulting forester based in Thorsby, Alabama, specializing in managing private landowner timber. Jon is a registered forester in Alabama and Mississippi and a real estate broker with Cypress Partners. He has been active as a Boy Scout and leader for 49 years. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/15.
Lloyd C. Irland earned his Ph.D. at Yale. He served with the U.S. Forest Service, and also in Maine state and local government. He served as Budworm manager, Director of the Bureau of Public Lands, and State Economist. Since 1987 he has been a consultant. His work has covered a wide range of subjects, mostly in the Northeastern US and eastern Canada. He has written 5 books and more than 350 articles. He has served twice on the faculty of the Yale School of the Environment. Respecting Ukraine, he has served on two study tours there, is principal author of a paper for the Proceedings, Forestry Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and was on a panel for the ten – part series of Webinars on the subject by Penn State University Cooperative Extension. He is also Treasurer of a small NGO supporting firefighting and demining in Ukraine. His work on forests has also brought him to China, India, Germany, Austria, Greece, Bhutan, France, Yugoslavia, Mexico, and South Africa. .He is a Fellow of the Society of American Foresters. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/25.
Jason Irving has a degree in Chemical Engineering, and has been working in the Forest Products industry for the past ten years. He has been with Forestweb since it’s inception in 1999, and has played a key role in the development of the company and its line of industry intelligence products. Jason’s current role in Forestweb is the leadership of the sales team. Source: Personal Résumé, 2/04.
Dr. Kris Irwin is a Senior Public Service faculty member at the University of Georgia’s Daniel B. Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources. Dr. Irwin has been at the Warnell School since 1996, and will assume the role of Associate Dean for Outreach on July 1, 2019. Kris has a diversity of experience teaching and leading education outreach programs, and has served as an instructor for the Forestry for Non-Foresters short course since 2004. In addition to his outreach responsibilities, he also teaches undergraduate and graduate courses. In 2004, Dr. Irwin published Science of Forestry Management, which serves as the primary technical reference for the National Agricultural Education (FFA) Forestry Competition. He is co-founder of the Advanced Training for Environmental Education in Georgia (ATEEG) Program, which is the first accredited state environmental education certification program in the nation. . Source: Personal Résumé, 6/19.
Chris Isaacson joined the Alabama Forestry Association in 2006 as the Executive Vice-President responsible for all operations of the Association as well as all AFA-affiliate organizations including the Alabama Forestry Foundation. Early in his career, Chris worked for MacMillan Bloedel, Inc. in a variety of positions including land management, wood procurement, corporate planning and corrugated container plant management. He then joined the faculty of the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences at Auburn University and, most recently, Chris was a partner in a wood supply company with harvesting, woodyard, and sawmill operations in Alabama and Georgia.
Chris currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Alabama Forest Products Industry Workmen’s Compensation Fund, Alabama Forests Forever Foundation, National Alliance of Forest Owners, Alabama FFA Foundation and the Alabama Forest Resources Center. He has also served as a member of the Woodlands Committee of the American Forest Foundation and the Auburn University School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences Advisory Council.
Chris earned a Bachelor of Science degree in wildlife management and a Master of Science degree in forest ecology from Auburn University and has completed an advanced education program at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. He currently holds designations as a Registered Forester and Certified Wildlife Biologist. Source: www.alaforestry.org/?page=ChrisIsaacsonBio 4/18
Michelle A. Isenberg owns and operates Habitat Solutions LLC in Alabama. She has over 25 years of experience in the forestry herbicide business. Her company primarily executes turnkey application work for both aerial and ground applications. Prior to establishing Habitat Solutions, Michelle was a Managing Partner, working from Alabama, of a private company based in Mississippi. She spent over a decade working for American Cyanamid/BASF building her herbicide knowledge and business acumen. Michelle received her B.S. in Fisheries and Wildlife from the University of Missouri in 1995. Michelle is the past president (2017 & 2018), (2007 & 2008) of the Alabama Invasive Plant Council (ALIPC). She was one of the founding board members of ALIPC in 2003. In 2007, Michelle joined the Advisory Council to the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences at Auburn University, where she was chairman (2017 & 2018).
Robert L. Izlar was founding Director of the University of Georgia Harley Langdale, Jr. Center for Forest Business from 1998 until he retired in 2022. He also has 24 years of operational forestry experience in the forest industry. He is the Chair of the Board of Directors for the Forest History Society for 2021-2023 Bob is a retired United States Army Colonel with 36 years’ service. He is a forestry consultant in Georgia. Source: Personal Résumé,
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.
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.
William C. Jones is Assistant Director, Southern Loggers Cooperative, having served in that position since 2009. Bill was formerly Executive Director of the Alabama Loggers Council. He completed forestry school at Auburn University 1978. Bill gathered forestry work experience with Pope-Jones Pulpwood Co., St. Joe Paper Company, Gulf States Paper Company, and Louisiana Pacific. He worked as Private Woodlands Coordinator with Alabama Forestry Association from 1981 to 1991. While serving as Director of the Alabama Loggers Council his responsibilities included logger training, transportation safety, and DOT compliance. Bill is a former member of the Southern Alliance for Utilization of Biomass Resources. He also served on Board of the Wood Supply Research Institute, and serves on Utilization Committee, American Loggers Council. He participates in Log A Load For Kids. Bill is married to Rachael who is a retired reading Coach for Coosada Elementary School. They have three children; Sarah, a graduate of Auburn in Bio Systems Engineering, Ned, service manager Albertville Chevrolet, and Margaret, a Lab Technician Baptist Hospital South. Bill is Grandfather to 3 wonderful grandchildren that live in Huntsville; Pierce, Joel, and Victoria Susan. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/25.
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&M 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.
Yanshu Li is an Associate 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, 02/25
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:
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, and the Harry E. Murphy Endowed Associate Professor in the College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment at Auburn University. He is a 2015 graduate of Oklahoma State University where he received his PhD in natural resource ecology and management. He also has master’s degrees in business management from the University of Florida and natural resource ecology and management from Oklahoma State University. He specializes in financial and economic aspects of forest management and planning, multiple-use management and sustainability, productivity of managed forest stands, business planning and management of timber and non-timber forest products. In addition, he teaches courses in forest management, forest economics, and leadership. Source: Personal Résumé, 02/25.
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.
Leon Mangasarian grew up in Wisconsin and earned his BA degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Ph.D. at the London School of Economics. He has lived in Germany since 1987 and is married with one son. He has worked for Bloomberg News, Deutsche-Presse Agentur and the United States International as a news agency reporter and editor. He has covered East Germany under communism before the fall of the Berlin Wall and had close ties with the Lutheran church there. He later reported on the opening of the Berlin Wall and German reunification. During the past decades, he reported from Berlin, Bonn, and Brussels and was in Ukraine during the Maidan protests and the start of the first Russian invasion in 2013-2014 and in Athens during the Greek debt crisis. He now writes for The Spectator in the United Kingdom. He purchased his first forest in eastern Germany in 2001. He currently owns approximately 1,850 hectares (about 4,500 acres) in eastern Germany, as well as a 600-acre forest in Randolph County, Georgia. Leon is chairman of the advisory board for a Germany forestry cooperative, Markische Walddienstleistungen GmbH, which currently has approximately 500 members with about 23,000 hectares (57,000 acres) under its management and annual turnover of approximately $7 million. Source: Personal Résumé, 2/25.
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.
Tom Manuel is a consulting forester and wildlife biologist, as well as a real estate broker. He and his wife manage a tree farming operation in Louisiana and Mississippi. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/25.
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.
Franklin McAliley graduated from Auburn University with a degree in Forest Management in 1976. He retired from the Alabama Forestry Commision as a Regional Forester in 2005 after 27 years of service. With over 38 years of forestry experience, Franklin is a huge asset to his clients. Franklin is an active member of the Association of Consulting Foresters, Society of American Foresters, and the Alabama Forestry Association. He is a Registered Forester of Alabama and Georgia and Alabama certified burner. Source: https://www.mwforest.com/about 3/19.
Tyler McCaughn is a native of Morton, MS where he and his wife Carrie now reside along with their son Whit. Professionally, Tyler is an attorney and cattle farmer in central Mississippi. Additionally, Tyler serves as State Senator for District 31 which includes all of Newton County, Scott County, and part of Lauderdale and Rankin Counties. In this capacity, he serves as Chairman of the Forestry Committee and Vice-Chair of the Judiciary A Committee. Known to advocate for natural resources and agriculture, Tyler attempts to balance interest for the overall good of Mississippi. Tyler is active in several civic organizations including the Newton Rotary Club, the Newton Chamber of Commerce, the Morton Chamber of Commerce, and the Scott County Bar. As an Eagle, Tyler continues to serve scouting with the Choctaw Area Boy Scouts of America and is a member of Forest Methodist Church. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/25.
Mike McCommons graduated with a Forestry Degree from Abraham Baldwin Agriculture College in 1980. He worked in the logging business managing a small company, then started his own small sawmill and pine shavings plant for bagged horse shavings until 1991. Later, he reversed his roles in the tree business and began a landscaping and mulch business on Lake Oconee because he realized he could be paid more to plant a tiny tree with a shovel than cut a large tree and transport it with a million dollars worth of equipment. After 9-11, however, the landscaping business collapsed. Luckily, he found his hobby as his family’s property manager subsidized his landscaping business. Better yet, riders knew he owned a lot of property and offered money to utilize his small dirt bikes, ATV knowledge, and lands. So, he opened up ½ of the property to the riders for additional income and kept ½ for hunters, and Durhamtown Plantation was born. Today, they have a good cash flow from riders and an amazing hunting plantation with riders’ money to support it. The hunting gives them something to fall back on and is fully developed and paid for. Durhamtown Plantation has been featured on the Speed Channel twice, and ATV Television/ OLN will be filming a show on an upcoming riding and a turkey hunt event. In addition, Field and Stream will also be doing a story soon, and even a magazine from Japan has sent a reporter to do a story on how Durhamtown uses Japanese products for recreation. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/04.
Edward Gray McDermott is a member of the Alabama Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and is a principal in the firm Crow Shields Bailey PC. Gray received his BSBA with a major in accounting from Auburn University. His background is in accounting, tax and consulting services. He has over 18 years of experience in public practice with an emphasis in the manufacturing, construction, timber and real estate industries. Gray has a broad wealth of experience which includes tax research, preparation and review of corporate, partnership, individual, estate and fiduciary tax returns. He also supervises audits and accounting services. Gray is a member of St. Ignatius Catholic Church and has served as a member and president of the St. Ignatius School Board. He also supports McGill-Toolen Catholic High School and has twice served as Annual Fund Major Gifts Chairman. Gray is a current member of the Auburn University School of Accountancy Advisory Board and former board member of the Mobile Chapter of the Alabama Society of Certified Public Accountants. Married to Elizabeth Rosalie Woodward with three children: Elizabeth (21), Annie (16) and Julia (13). Gray loves sports of all kinds and considers them all to be his main hobby. Source: http://www.csbcpa.com/partners/edward_mcdermott.php, 5/14.
Tina McDonald, AIC, Claims Adjuster, Southeastern Claims and the Davis Garvin Companies. Tina has been a property casualty adjuster for 14 years. She has been with major companies such as Travelers, Aetna and Seibels Bruce before joining Southeastern Claims. Formerly a litigation adjuster for Seibels Bruce, she brings with her substantial experience in the arena of casualty and liability claims. She has earned her Associate in Claims designation from the Insurance Institute of America. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/03.
Marty McElhaney is a member of the Board of Directors and Secretary of Liberty Matters, Inc. and writes Liberty Matters’ popular email newsletter. She is a long-time member of the livestock community, from the cow-calf sector to the feeding industry. She is past president of Idaho Cattle Women and served as legislative chairman for American National Cattle Women. She has been legislative chairman for Texas Cattle Women since 1990. Additionally, she publishes The McElhaney Report, a conservative view of current events. Source: libertymatters.org, 6/08.
Margaret McElroy is the State Coordinator for Alabama’s Adopt-A-Mile Program, a program administered by Alabama PALS (People Against a Littered State) for the Alabama Department of Transportation. Margaret retired from the State of Alabama after 27 years and then worked for a attorney for five years before beginning work with PALS fifteen years ago. She is from Talladega but has lived in the Montgomery area since 1970. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/15.
Thom J. McEvoy is Professor Emeritus of Forestry Extension at the University of Vermont (UVM), retired as of July 2011. He is author of more than 250 Extension publications, technical bulletins on forestry subjects, and seven books, including: Owning and Managing Forests — A Guide to Legal, Financial and Practical Matters (2004 Island Press), a national book award winner that year, and his most recent book: Positive Impact Forestry – A Sustainable Approach to Managing Woodlands (2005 Island Press), recipient of two national book awards. Professor McEvoy is also a regular contributor to regional, national and international trade journals for woodland owners, logging contractors, mill owners and others in the forest products business.
Among his other accomplishments during his 30 years at UVM, Professor McEvoy is co-founder of the Coverts Initiative in 1984. It is an award-winning curriculum for forest owners on how to manage for wildlife that has since spread to more than 20 states. Thom also co-founded LEAP (Logger Education to Advance Professionalism), a multi-day curriculum for logging contractors that covers topics ranging from ecosystems to ethics, and safety to liability. Since its inception in 1991, LEAP has served as a model for logger education in every major timber-type in North America. He also holds the prestigious Sinclair Cup for his “distinguished service and exemplary leadership” to the UVM College of Agriculture, Life Sciences and Extension, awarded in 2009.
Now, busier than ever, Thom offers consulting services in a wide-range of areas, from carbon accounting to timber taxes, along with expert testimony and mediation for families that want to develop strategies for keeping forests intact and in the family. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/13.
Jeffrey A. McFall is a fourteen-year veteran of the forest products industry. For the past three years he has served as Timber Market Analyst for Forest2Market. In this capacity he has been responsible for all timber data acquisition, monitoring of the southern US timber markets, statistical and analytical analysis of timber market data, as well as authoring and editing Forest2Market’s publications, The Southwide Timber Report, the Timber Owner Market Guide, and the Timber Market Price Guide. Prior to this Jeff managed the wood procurement activities for McCants Forest Products, Inc., a wood dealership and logging company in South Carolina. While there. he was responsible for purchasing timber to support the 160 load per week production capacity of three company logging crews, planning and coordinating wood deliveries to Georgia-Pacific and International Paper, as well as numerous other wood using facilities, through sixteen local wood producing entities, as well as managing all office and administrative support. He also was employed as a Resource Forester for Georgia-Pacific Corporation in both land management and procurement from 1991-1997. He helped develop and implement procurement strategy and raw material inventory management, managed local harvesting operations and relationships of local wood suppliers, as well as silvicultural operations on company lands. Jeff is a 1989 graduate of Texas A&M University with a B.S. in Forestry. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/03.
As an Account Manager, Jason McGee, RF, ACF, manages forestry projects on clients’ properties located in northwest Georgia and northeast Alabama. He joined the Forest Resource Consultants staff in 2016 through FRC’s acquisition of Coosa Forestry Services, Inc. Jason has also worked as a forestry consultant in southwest Georgia and a forestry research coordinator at the Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center at Ichauway. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Forest Resources and a Master of Forest Business from the University of Georgia. Jason is a member of the Association of Consulting Foresters and a Registered Forester and licensed Real Estate Salesperson in Alabama and Georgia.
Joseph A. McGlincy joined Southern Forestry Consultants, Inc. in February, 1995 as director of wildlife and environmental services. Joe became a partner in the firm in 1997 and The Wildlife Company, a division of Southern Forestry Consultants, Inc. was formed in 2001. He specializes in project management, wildlife resource management, aquatic and terrestrial ecological assessments; endangered species management, surveys, marking and monitoring; environmental permitting; environmental assessments; environmental auditing; Sustainable Forestry Initiative guidance; workshops and training seminars; outdoor recreation market analysis. Joe has been involved in several endangered species projects including development of Habitat Conservation Plans and Safe Harbor Plans. He has conducted numerous third party Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) certification audits focusing primarily on wildlife, biodiversity and water quality issues. Joe has conducted large scale wildlife habitat evaluations on forest industry land, developed habitat models for sensitive species and provided SFI, wildlife and biodiversity training. Joe is a graduate of Auburn University with a BS degree in Wildlife Management. He is a Certified Wildlife Biologist and a member of The Wildlife Society. Source: Personal Résumé, 10/09.
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.
(Deceased) Bill McKee, McKee Wildlife and Forestry Service, Inc., received his formal training in forestry, wildlife management and agricultural economics from Mississippi State University. He has over 27 years experience in timberland acquisition, disposition, forest operations management, and wildlife management. Previous employers include Weyerhaeuser Company, James River Timber Corporation, Alabama River Woodlands, and The Molpus Woodlands Resource Management Group. From 1982 to 1987 he was on staff at Auburn University as a forest economist. Bill is a Registered Forester in Alabama and Mississippi, a Certified Wildlife Biologist, a Certified Forester, and a licensed real estate sales person in Mississippi. Source: Préceda Education & Training Course Description, 3/00.
Tracy K. McKee, GIS Analyst/Instructor, FORS Institute. Ms. McKee brings a solid knowledge of forestry and management practices to teaching GIS from her work with consulting foresters and landowners. Tracy has extensive experience applying GIS technologies to forestry and natural resource management. Source: The University of Georgia Continuing Education Course Description, 6/99.
Keith McKinley has more than 12 years in the lending arena and is currently a Relationship Manager with Alabama Ag Credit in Monroeville, Alabama. In charge of business development at Ag Credit, Keith offers all types of lending products including land, rural home, rural home site, equipment, operating and agribusiness loans. Before joining Alabama Ag Credit two years ago, Keith served as the President/CEO of The Infirmary Federal Credit Union Mobile, Alabama. Keith is a 2000 graduate of Excel High School and a 2004 graduate of Auburn University. Keith married his high school sweetheart, Candice, in 2006 and they have three children, Mason, Matti and Myers. In his spare time, you can find Keith on the golf course, in the woods or in Auburn, supporting his beloved Tigers. War Eagle! Source: Personal Résumé, 4/19.
Monty D. McKinley started with Gulf States Paper Corp. in 1967 as a Project Forester involving land acquisition, inventory and timber procurement. In 1974 he became a district forester and managed 100,000 acres for the company. Then in 1979 Monty became the Manager of Timber Managers Company, a forestry consulting company owned by Gulf States Paper Corporation In 2002 he and a partner bought the consulting company and renamed it McKinley & Lanier Forest Resources, Inc., where he is still working. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/12.
Steve B. McKinney is the Assistant Director of Storm Water Management Authority, Inc. (SWMA). He began working for the agency in 1997, when it was created as a public corporation to locally administer federal water quality laws that set limits for polluted runoff entering waterways. SWMA currently manages these requirements for unincorporated Jefferson County and 25 municipalities. McKinney created the agency’s GIS program to be radically functional and responsive to regional needs, and currently manages spatial and attribute information for approximately 1,400 square miles. Proficient in 10 programming languages, he designed and developed several large GIS databases and structures in addition to customized programs. McKinney and his staff stay involved in many cooperative grant projects in the region, and frequently respond to requests for the extensive watershed analysis data available through the agency. He also is the creator and manager of SWMA’s intranet, extranet and internet services. McKinney received a Bachelor of Science degree in environmental geographic information science in 1997, and a Master of Science degree in environmental management in 1999 from Samford University. He currently is pursuing a Doctorate in environmental health engineering at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. In addition, McKinney has had extensive professional training in computer languages and technical programs. He is an Adjunct Professor at Samford University for graduate studies in environmental management and geography. McKinney has served as technical coordinator and GIS specialist for several outside projects, including one in Tsavo, Kenya, Africa with Samford University and the EPSCOR Project with NASA. He is a member of many professional organizations, and serves the Alabama Geographic Information Council (AGIC) as a Technical Subcommittee Member and serves on the Board of Directors for the URISA Alabama Chapter. Source: Personal Résumé, 10/04.
Kevin McKinstry is a recreation manager/certified wildlife biologist for Westervelt Wildlife Services in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He has over 37 years of professional experience in wildlife management and outdoor sporting activities. Kevin joined the Westervelt Company in 1989 as a hunting lease manager and wildlife biologist for the recreation business. He has held a leadership and business management role since 2000 and has experience leading teams for our hunting lease business, wildlife consulting, domestic and international commercial hunting/fishing lodges. He is a certified wildlife biologist®, and has a seat on the Board of Directors for the Georgia Wildlife Federation and the Alabama Wildlife Federation. He was appointed by Alabama Governor Kay Ivey to serve as a Commissioner on the Alabama Environmental Management Commission in 2018. Earning his bachelor’s degree in Forest Resources and Conservation from the University of Florida, Kevin specializes in marketing, branding and strategy, coaching, leadership and team development. Source: https://westerveltwildlife.com/team/, 10/19.
John McMillan, CAE, serves as Executive Vice President, of the Alabama Forestry Association. He was appointed to that position on May 8, 1985 and had served as Administrative Vice President of AFA beginning in February of 1983. Prior to his appointment, the native of Stockton in Baldwin County had served as Commissioner of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources during the administration of Governor Fob James. McMillan also served six years in the Alabama House of Representatives where he was Chairman of the Conservation and Natural Resources Committee. Before his election to the House, he was a member of the Baldwin County Commission.
McMillan graduated from Baldwin County High School and Rhodes College, and was active in his family hardwood sawmill operation for 20 years. In 1976 and 1979, he was named Conservation Legislator of the Year by the Alabama Wildlife Federation in recognition of his efforts in securing passage of legislation that benefited conservation, wildlife and forestry in Alabama. He also sponsored legislation which created the Alabama Forestry Legislative Study Committee and served as its chairman until his appointment to the James Cabinet.
McMillan, a Certified Association Executive, is a member of the Society of American Foresters, National Council of Forestry Association Executives, the Alabama Forest Council, Alabama Resource Development Council, which he has served as chairman; Alabama Council of Association Executives, past president; and other professional and civic organizations.
McMillan and his wife, Kathryn, have two sons, Murphy and William. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/02.
Kenneth L. McNabb is the Mosley Environmental Professor and Extension Specialist at the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University. Ken has expertise in (1) outreach methodologies and administration, (2) international education (c) plantation establishment and nurseries, and (d) international forestry.
Ken’s accomplishments and activities include: Winner of numerous Extension awards including the Society of American Foresters national Technology Transfer Award (2010). Twelve book chapters, 12 refereed journal articles, 54 non-refereed articles, 7 videos, 68 professional meetings organized, over 100 state/county presentations, 44 regional presentations, 16 international presentations. Total grantsmanship $2,172K as PI and 816K as Co-PI. International consultancies in Pakistan, Cape Verde Islands, Romania, and Brazil. Teaches a class in International Forestry. Extensive academic interchange activities with Brazil through the coordination of student and faculty interchange, multiple team field research missions, professional tours, and five academic interchange agreements. Fluent in Brazilian Portuguese, moderate level Spanish. Fellow in the Society of American Foresters, current Chair-elect of the Alabama Division, past chair of the International Forestry Working group and member of the World Forestry Committee. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/14.
John R. McNeil is a Senior Partner in the firm of McNeil, Jackson, Ahrens Financial Group, an Estate & Retirement Planning Firm in Mobile, Alabama, established over 50 years ago. Mr. McNeil is a Life & Qualifying member of the Million-Dollar Round Table and has been for the past 20 years. He has addressed numerous groups of non-profit organizations, financial planners, CPAs and attorneys throughout the United States on the topic of charitable trust and how to solve many estate planning problems through charitable planning. Source: Alabama Cooperative Extension System Program Invitation, Mobile, 2/00.
Dana McReynolds is the Forest Health Coordinator for the Alabama Forestry Commission’s Forest Management Division. She received a Master of Forestry degree from Auburn University in 1994 and has worked in the field of forestry for approximately 12 years. She has been employed with the Alabama Forestry Commission for 7.5 years, first as the Outreach Forester for the Northeast region, then as the agency’s GIS Mapping Forester. She has been in her current position as Forest Health Coordinator for nine months. Her job duties consist of identifying forest pests and recommending control methods for these pests. In addition, she administers federal grants that pertain to forest health. She maintains a knowledge of forestry-related herbicides and threatened and endangered species. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/06.
Steve McWilliams is the President of the Georgia Forestry Association. Steve has spent his entire career in the Association Management field, for the most part as the chief staff officer of Georgia trade associations, including the Georgia Mining Association for twelve years and the Georgia Retail Association for seven years. He was appointed to the position of President of the Georgia Forestry Association in June of 2003. He also serves as Executive Director of the Association’s companion foundation, the Georgia Forestry Foundation.
Steve brought thirty years of association management experience to GFA where he has the overall management responsibilities in addition to serving as the chief lobbyist for Georgia’s forestry community. In his position he monitors and responds to legislative and regulatory activity that impacts all aspects of the state’s $27-plus billion forestry community, including tens of thousands of private landowners who own more than 90% of the state’s 24 million acres of forest land.
Most recently he has served on the Advisory Committee for Georgia’s proposed Statewide Water Management Plan and currently serves on the Implementation Committee for Georgia’s Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation program and Tree Farm National Operating Committee. In 2010 he attended the Institute for Georgia Environmental Leaders. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/11.
Steve Meadows is Principal Silviculturist with the USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Center for Bottomland Hardwoods Research, Southern Hardwoods Laboratory, in Stoneville, Mississippi. His research program is designed to develop intermediate silvicultural practices that enhance growth, development, and value of southern bottomland hardwood forests. He is responsible for basic studies of stand development and applied studies of intermediate stand silviculture. Steve received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Forestry from Louisiana State University and his Ph.D. in Hardwood Silviculture from Mississippi State University. He has been at the Southern Hardwoods Laboratory since 1987. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/01.
Jeremy Meares is is the Wildlife Services Manager for The Westervelt Company. He holds Bachelor and Master of Science degrees from The University of Georgia and is a certified wildlife biologist with 16 years of experience working with hunting clubs and private landowners helping them to maximize the recreational value of the lands they lease or own. Source: Personal Résumé, 02/23.
Augustine Meaher, III, is a lawyer and a landowner. Mr. Meaher graduated from Tulane University Law School in 1963 with undergraduate education at Tulane. He has been engaged in the practice of law in Mobile, Alabama since 1965. His office is involved in the general practice of law including representation of landowners. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/02.
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
Brooks Mendell is President and CEO of Forisk Consulting, LLC. He has twenty-five years of consulting, operating, and research experience in the forest products and timber industries. His experience includes roles in harvest operations and procurement with Weyerhaeuser, in management consulting with Accenture, and as a faculty member in forestry and finance at the University of Georgia. A Fulbright Scholar in Uruguay, Dr. Mendell founded Forisk in 2004. He has broad domestic and international experience supporting small businesses, Fortune 500 corporations and public organizations. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Forest History Society. He earned B.S. and M.S. degrees at MIT, an MBA at the University of California at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Forest Finance at the University of Georgia. Source: www.forisk.com/about-forisk/forisk-team/, 11/19.
David Mercker has worked as a professional forester for 34 years, including 13 years in consulting and 21 years in his current role as Extension Forester with the University of Tennessee Extension. Through extension programs he educates landowners, loggers, foresters, educators, youth, and society about sustainable forest management. He is a Fellow with the Society of American Foresters (SAF), has received the National Family Forest Education Award, and was chosen as the 2020 National Extension Forester of the Year. He recently developed a series of educational videos titled “Back Porch Forestry.” Source: Personal Résumé, 11/20.
Emily Merritt is originally from Long Island, New York, but she has lived in Auburn, Alabama for the last two and a half years. Emily just finished her wildlife science Master’s program at Auburn University, and will soon be starting a Research Associate position at Auburn working on ticks and tick-borne illnesses in Alabama. “I am passionate about this topic because Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses are present in the Southeast, but not much is known about the current distribution and prevalence of them in Alabama – I want to help find out.” Source: Personal Résumé, 5/15.
Miles L. Merwin: Along with his wife, Miles owns and operates Ridgeback Tree Farm, an ATFS-certified tree farm near Portland, Oregon that is managed for timber and non-timber forest products and wildlife. He is currently Webmaster and a Board member of the Oregon Woodland Cooperative. With degrees from Pitzer College and University of California Davis, his career included tree improvement research, temperate agroforestry education and outreach, and modeling carbon sequestration in agroforestry systems. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/15.
Michelle Metcalf is the Recreation Access Manager – Northwest Region at Weyerhaeuser in Longview, Washington. She oversees Weyerhaeuser’s recreation access program for the company’s Oregon and Washington lands. In that role, she cultivates and implements new ideas for the recreation access program. She earned her B.S. in Forestry Resource Management from the University of Montana. Source: LinkedIn 08/19.
Drew Metzler is currently the forest health coordinator for the Alabama Forestry Commission, a role he accepted in January 2024. His primary emphasis is leading the forest health monitoring program each year, to help detect both native and non-native forest pests with the use of aerial, ground, and remote sensing efforts. In addition to detection efforts, he provides guidance and support regarding forest health matters to all of the agency’s county personnel as needed throughout the year as well as technical assistance to private landowners through education and outreach. Fostering partnerships with other agencies and grants administration is another primary focus to enhance the agency’s ability to survey and respond to forest health issues, educate landowners, and provide cost-share assistance for forestry practices that enhance long term forest health and sustainability.
Prior to his appointment as forest health coordinator, he worked as a regional extension agent for Auburn University from January 2020-January 2024, providing technical assistance and outreach to the public regarding forestry, wildlife management, and other natural resources topics and issues. In the years prior to 2020, he served as a county forester with AFC for two years and a wildlife technician with Alabama DCNR and Georgia DNR, conducting all facets of land management for several years. In 2013, he graduated from Auburn University with a Bachelor’s degree in Wildlife Ecology and Management and followed that up with a Master of Natural Resources-Professional Forestry degree in 2018. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/25.
Lynn O. Michael is is a Partner in the firm Forest Economic Advisors, LLC. Lynn has nearly 40 years experience in the forest products industry. Most of the experience was with Weyerhaeuser Co., where Lynn was the Chief Economist and Vice President, Marketing and Economic Research for over 20 years. In this capacity, Lynn led a team of economists and market research analysts covering every aspect of the industry that was important to Weyerhaeuser. This included timber, wood products, containerboard, pulp and paper, plus housing issues which were crucial to their real estate companies.
As Chief Economist, Lynn participated in the annual strategic and investment reviews with the Senior Management Team. Lynn has managed several special strategic review teams, including the Oregon Lumber Optimization Review (after the Willamette acquisition) and several international investment projects related to Uruguay and New Zealand. Lynn believes that helping business executives deepen their understanding of the markets and helping them develop strategic responses to changing industry conditions is the primary goal for his work.
Prior to becoming the Chief Economist, Lynn served as the Business Manager for the Particleboard/MDF business and as Planning Manager for the Diversified Business division. In the latter capacity led the investment team for Weyerhaeuser’s first OSB plant.
After leaving Weyerhaeuser in 2009, Lynn worked with RISI focusing on housing and wood products issues.
Over the course of his career Lynn has spoke at numerous customer meetings, annual investors meeting in New York and elsewhere to a wide variety of industry groups. His presentations have covered a wide range of topics including: macroeconomics, housing, wood products, timber, containerboard packaging, pulp and paper.
Lynn has been active in a variety of economist groups, including serving as the past President of the National Association of Business Economists. He is currently an adjunct faculty member of the Forestry Department of the University of Washington.
Lynn earned his PhD from Washington State University in Economics and a B.A. degree from the University of Utah in Mathematics. Source: www.getfea.com/component/content/article/206, 1/14.
Eric Michel is currently the Co-Director of the Deer Ecology and Management Lab at Mississippi State University. He has experience studying white-tailed deer across their range and most recently has experience managing the deer population in Minnesota where he conducted deer research for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Eric is an alum of the MSU Deer Lab where he earned his Master’s degree and PhD. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/25.
David Miller holds a Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture from Auburn University and has dedicated 45 years to the field of agriculture. With extensive experience in grain crops, hay, beef cattle, and timber production, he has built a career deeply rooted in the agricultural industry. David’s commitment to sustainable practices and the stewardship of his land reflects a lifetime of hands-on engagement with farming and rural development. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/24.
James Miller has been a forest ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service, Southern Research Station, and affiliate Professor of Forestry with Auburn University School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences for 22 years. He performs research in Forest Vegetation Management, especially on effective forest herbicide treatments and their impacts. He directs a region-wide study team that has been tracking pine plantation development in seven southeastern states over 16 years. He studies changes in forest plant communities and soil productivity following forest management activities. Jim has published over 100 reports, most noteworthy is the recent book Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses. He earned a B.S. in forest management from Oklahoma State University, a M.S. in forest ecology and silviculture from Purdue University, and a Ph.D. from Oregon State University. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/00.
Karl V. Miller is Professor of Wildlife Management at the D. B. Warnell School of Forest Resources. Dr. Miller’s research focuses on the physiology, habitat requirements and management of white-tailed deer and on the impact of forest management practices on deer and other wildlife species. He is an author of books entitled “Quality Deer Management” and “Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses” along with over 150 other professional reports, publications, and book chapters. Source: Forestry Information Services Course Description, 3/01.
Dave Milton is the Broker/Accredited Land Consultant/President of Southeastern Land Group, Inc. Dave is a graduate of the University of Montevallo and has been in the Real Estate business for almost all of the 20+ years since he graduated. He started his career auctioning farms with J.P. King Auction Group in Gadsden, moved to selling Lake Property and Land with Lake Martin Properties in Dadeville before founding AlaLandCo in 2003.
Dave is the proud father of four children and is the husband of Kelly. Dave and his family live on a farm between Dadeville and Auburn. The whole family enjoys various outdoor activities like hiking, canoeing, hunting and fishing that take them to many different parts of our beautiful state. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/16.
Rich B. Minnis – Coordinator, Mississippi Gap Analysis Program, Mississippi Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. Source: Mississippi State University Continuing Education Course Description, 3/00.
Ralph E. Mirarchi was born in Mt. Carmel, Pennsylvania in 1950 and was raised in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. He received the B.S. degree in biology from Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1971. Following employment for 1 year with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources, he began studies in wildlife management at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University where he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Wildlife Biology. While at Virginia Tech, he was honored as the outstanding member of the student chapter of The Wildlife Society, and was awarded the A.B. Massey Honorarium for outstanding professionalism as a graduate student and the Graduate Dissertation Award of Merit for the outstanding dissertation in the College of Agriculture. Ralph joined the wildlife section of the then Department of Zoology-Entomology at Auburn University as a full-time teacher in 1978. Since then he has been involved in the growth and expansion of the wildlife program into the Department of Zoology and Wildlife Sciences in the College of Sciences and Mathematics in 1984, and into the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences in 1999. During this time he has taught courses and/or laboratories in Principles of Ecology, Principles of Wildlife Management, Wildlife Conservation History and Law, Conservation in the United States, Fish and Wildlife Law Enforcement, Wildlife Ecology and Management, and Wildlife Resource Philosophy and Policy. He was honored as the Outstanding Teacher of the Year by Auburn’s chapter of Beta, Beta, Beta (National Biological Honor Society) in 1995; the Outstanding Wildlife Teacher in the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences by Auburn’s Student Chapter of The Wildlife Society in 2001, 2002, and 2004; and the Outstanding Faculty Member in the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences by Auburn University’s Student Government Association in 2002. He and his graduate students have published, edited, and presented well over 100 scientific papers, books, book chapters, journals, and popular articles. In 1994, he was a co-recipient of The Wildlife Society’s Outstanding Publication Award in the Editorship Category for Ecology and Management of the Mourning Dove, which was published by Stackpole Books. He recently has written and edited, along with numerous other biologists from across the state, a four-volume book set entitled Alabama Wildlife. A member of The Wildlife Society since 1972, Ralph served twice as the advisor to the Auburn University Student Chapter, and is a past president of the Alabama Chapter of The Wildlife Society, and a past Editor in Chief of The Journal of Wildlife Management, the primary research outlet for professional wildlife biologists. He is a Certified Wildlife Biologist, Certified Prescribed Burn Manager, Certified Alabama Water Watch Monitor, Certified Treasure Forest Landowner, and is also a member of the Wildlife Management Institute, American Ornithologists’ Union, Cooper Ornithological Society, the Raptor Research Foundation, Inc., The National Wildlife Federation, The Audubon Society, The National Parks and Conservation Association, and the Alabama Wildlife Federation. He also has been very active in university, state, and local organizations. He is a former departmental representative to the Auburn University Faculty Senate and Chair of the University Grievance Committee, a former board member of The Alabama Conservancy, past president of the Lee County Chapter of People Against a Littered State and Save Our Saugahatchee, Doves Unlimited, Inc, and currently serves on the Board of Alabama’s Forever Wild Land Trust. In January 2004, Ralph was re-appointed to a second three-year term as the William R. and Fay Ireland Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Science in the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/04.
Ryan Mitchell is the Southeast Private Lands Prescribed Fire Outreach Coordinator with Tall Timbers, where he works to increase the outreach capacity of the Private Lands Prescribed Fire team and with Tall Timbers coordinated Prescribed Burn Associations. He has an extensive background in educating, planning, and conducting prescribed burns and managing native forested systems across the southeast, including longleaf. He is a Certified Prescribed Burn Manager in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida, a Past-Chair of the Alabama Prescribed Fire Council, Certified Wildlife Biologist®, and a Commercial Pesticide Applicator in Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé, 2/25.
Hugh Mobley, Registered Forester and Consultant, has a BS in Forestry from the University of Florida. Hugh’s experience includes positions in the forest industry, the US Forest Service as fire specialist, and Chief, Fire Control Section, Alabama Forestry Commission. He has been instrumental in developing smoke screening systems currently used throughout the Southeast. Source: Préceda Education & Training Course Description, 4/99.
Melissa Moeller has been a Public Affairs Manager for the American Forest Foundation since February 2010. She manages grassroots advocacy programs and influences public policy issues important to family forest owners. Prior to joining the staff at AFF, Melissa has worked for the National School Boards Association (NSBA) and the United Motorcoach Association, with experience in grassroots advocacy and membership relations. Melissa received her MA in Political Communication from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD and her BS in Psychology and Political Science from Furman University in Greenville, SC. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/13.
Bill Moffitt is a veteran of a number of technology companies, including Sun Microsystems, Cisco Networks, AutoFarm, and many smaller ones no one has ever heard of. He founded Ayrstone Productivity in 2007 with his partner, Robert Hill, and currently serves as the company president. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/12.
Hunter Moncrief is the Landowner Assistance Coordinator for the Alabama Forestry Commission. He graduated from Auburn University’s School of Forestry and Wildlife Science with a Bachelor of Science in forestry. In the summer of 2019, he served as the Forest Health Intern for the Alabama Forestry Commission, and upon graduation joined the commission full time in his current role. During his short time in this position, he has worked closely with numerous cost share programs and has played a role in implementing different special projects, such as the CARES Act Forestry Financial Assistance Program and the Hurricane Michael Block Grant Program. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/21.
Gary H. Moody was born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama. He graduated from Sidney Lanier High School and then from Auburn University. Gary taught high school biology and chemistry in Thomaston, Georgia for two years and in 1974 was appointed Area Manager at Hollins Wildlife Management Area. In 1981 he transferred to Montgomery as Assistant Chief of the Wildlife Section of the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and in March 1989 was appointed Chief of the Wildlife Section. The Wildlife Society recognizes Gary as a Certified Wildlife Biologist. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/02.
Clark Moore is a native of Monrovia community near Huntsville in Madison County, Alabama. Mr. Moore was raised on a working farm – more than 30 years in a beef cattle operation – which is now 130 acres of unimproved timberland. His family have been landowners for many generations. He derives the majority of his income from rental of real properties and is greatly concerned about the loss of real property rights and unrestricted tax increases. Mr. Moore organized Citizens Against Zoning Madison County and successfully defeated a zoning referendum in November 2002. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/03.
Elizabeth Moore, press secretary, contacts and maintains relationships with reporters and pitches stories to print, television, radio and Internet news sources. She writes and edits news releases, op-eds and letters to the editor. Elizabeth has a BA in Political Science and minor in Journalism from Auburn University. She previously served as a contributing reporter and editor for The Auburn Plainsman, a press intern for National Environmental Trust and a legislative assistant for Public Citizen. She has been with Environmental Working Group for four years and works mainly on agricultural issues. Source: Personal Résumé, 2/05.
Patrick Moore, Ph.D. Dr. Patrick Moore has been a leader in the international environmental field for more than 35 years. He is a co-founder of Greenpeace and served for nine years as President of Greenpeace Canada and seven years as a Director of Greenpeace International. As the leader of many campaigns, Dr. Moore was a driving force shaping policy and direction while Greenpeace became the world’s largest environmental activist organization. In recent years, Dr. Moore has been focused on the promotion of sustainability and consensus building among competing concerns. He was a member of British Columbia government-appointed Round Table on the Environment and Economy from 1990 – 1994. In 1990, Dr. Moore founded and chaired the BC Carbon Project, a group that worked to develop a common understanding of climate change. Dr. Moore served for four years as Vice President, Environment for Waterfurnace International, a manufacturer of geothermal heat pumps for residential heating and cooling with renewable earth energy. He is now a Director of NextEnergy Solutions, the largest distributor of geothermal systems in Canada. As Chair of the Sustainable Forestry Committee of the Forest Alliance of BC from 1991 – 2002, he led the process of developing the “Principles of Sustainable Forestry” which were adopted by a majority of the industry. In 2000, Dr. Moore published Green Spirit – Trees are the Answer, a photo-book that provides a new insight into how forests work and how they can play a powerful role in solving many of our current environmental problems. Dr. Moore currently serves as Chair and Chief Scientist of Greenspirit Strategies Ltd., a consultancy focusing on environmental policy and communications in forestry, agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture, mining, biodiversity, chemicals, energy and climate change. Awards and Degrees: US National Award of Nuclear Science, National Atomic Museum Foundation, 2009, Honorary Doctorate of Science, North Carolina State University, 2005, Ph.D. in Ecology, Institute of Resource Ecology, University of British Columbia, 1974, Ford Foundation Fellowship, 1969-1972, Honours B.Sc. in Forest Biology, University of British Columbia. Source: Personal Résumé, 10/10.
Rebecca L. Moore is an Assistant Professor of Natural Resource Economics at the University of Georgia, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. She has a PhD from the University of Wisconsin, and a Bachelor’s in Geology from the University of Colorado. Her primary research objective is to combine the knowledge and methods of economics with that of the natural sciences to solve natural resource problems. Current and recent projects involve organic agricultural, non-timber benefits of forested land, water use and allocation, whooping crane protection, and invasive species management. She is a current Lilly Teaching Fellow and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in natural resource economics, including a graduate course designed for students in the natural sciences. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/08.
Rebecca Moore is a professional computer scientist. As a member of the Google Earth Engineering team, she has served as the Technical Lead for the Google Earth Layers and now manages Google Earth Outreach (http://earth.google.com/outreach/) a new program designed to help nonprofit groups learn how to apply the power of Google’s mapping tools to further their missions. Prior to joining Google, Rebecca served as Vice President of Engineering at Voxeo, Inc. and Vice President of R&D at Baypoint Innovations, a division of Mitel, Inc. She holds degrees from Brown University and Stanford University. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/07.
David J. Moorhead is a Professor of Silviculture and Extension Forester in the Warnell School of Forest Resources at the University of Georgia working out of the Coastal Plain Experiment Station in Tifton, GA. He has a B.S. in Forestry from the University of Kentucky, an M.S. in Silviculture/Soils from Mississippi State University, and a Ph.D. in Forest Ecophysiology from the University of Missouri. He has been with the University of Georgia for twenty years providing statewide and regional extension programs on silviculture, forest regeneration, prescribed fire, forest herbicides, forest health, and forest management for county extension agents, private landowners, foresters and natural resource managers. In addition, he is the co-coordinator of the Bugwood Network which consists of 15 educational web sites, including four digital image archives: ForestryImages.org, Invasive.org, IPMImages.org, and InsectImages.org, which provide information, fact sheets, publications, and high quality digital images on forestry, entomology, Integrated Pest Management, invasive species, and natural resources. Also, since 1985, he has been involved in research and service programs on establishment and management of forest stands on marginal agricultural lands in the Conservation Reserve Program. His other research areas include invasive species, forest health issues, stand management, and prescribed fire use. He is also a Georgia Prescribed Fire Certification Instructor, and has been a member of the Society of American Foresters for twenty-two years. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/04.
Angela Morgan is the Education Specialist for the Anniston Museum of Natural History. She holds a BS in Biology with a minor in Anthropology and will receive her MS in Education in April 2006. This diverse background is helpful as she works on numerous projects with many different agencies and individuals throughout Northeast Alabama. Over the last eight years, she has been developing, implementing and evaluating educational programs at the museum but also has conducted nature camps for the Cottaquilla Council of Girl Scouts and summer programs at DeSoto State Park. Museum programs she develops include: exhibit tours, the Third Grade Outreach program, the History Kit program, and special events such as Spring Break and the Firefly Festival. In her spare time, she writes grants for educational exhibits/displays and program materials and therefore works with closely with her community, such as the Calhoun County Board of Education, Jacksonville State University, and the Talladega National Forest. Ms. Morgan finds getting paid to educate folks about natural resources and world history to be very rewarding. Source: Personal Résumé, 03/05.
James (Jim) A. Morris, Jr., is a Registered Forester in Alabama and owner/operator of Morris Forestry Services in Wedowee, Alabama since 1981. He is a retired teacher, where he developed and taught Forestry & Wildlife Science to high school students for over 25 years (State Outstanding Agriscience Educator Award), having county, district, state and national winners. He has been a volunteer instructor helping 4-H and FFA students and advisors for Forestry Judging Contests. Married to Deb W. Morris over 30 years, daughter Debbie Roberts (owner/operator Plant Concepts) and son Christopher Morris (Landscape Maintenance Manager for Gibson Landscape). Source: Personal Résumé, 04/09.
Larry Morris is a professor of forest soils at The University of Georgia Daniel B. Warnell School of Forest Resources where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in forest soils, hydrology, and forest soil management and directs seniors in their capstone management projects. Larry has served as chairman of the Southern Forest Soils Council and is active in several organizations with interests in forest management. He currently directs a cooperative project with forest industry to evaluate the use of pulpmill residues as soil amendments. Source: The University of Georgia Continuing Education Course Description, 9/98.
Andrew P. Morriss. Professor Morriss is the author or coauthor of more than 60 book chapters, scholarly articles, and books. He is affiliated with a number of think tanks doing public policy work, including the Property & Environment Research Center in Bozeman, Montana, the Regulatory Studies Center at George Washington University, the Institute for Energy Research, and the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. In addition, he is a Research Fellow at the New York University Center for Labor and Employment Law. He is chair of the editorial board of the Cayman Financial Review. His scholarship focuses on regulatory issues involving environmental, energy, and offshore financial centers. Over the past ten years he has regularly taught and lectured in China, Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong, and Nepal.
Morriss earned an A.B. from Princeton University and a J.D., as well as an M.Pub.Aff., from the University of Texas at Austin. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After law school, Morriss clerked for U.S. District Judge Barefoot Sanders in the Northern District of Texas and worked for two years at Texas Rural Legal Aid in Hereford and Plainview, Texas.
Morriss was formerly the H. Ross and Helen Workman Professor of Law & Professor of Business at the University of Illinois College of Law and the Galen J. Roush Profesor of Business Law & Regulation at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Source: UA School of Law, 11/12.
Robert Morrow is a specialist in addressing the unique options facing private forest landowners and companies. Rob works closely with individuals and families throughout the Southeast, focusing on protecting family and business forest assets, optimizing returns on those assets, and enhancing personal use of the forest. Morrow has more than 20 years of diversified business planning and forest management expertise, including long-range strategic planning and forest management operations with Boise Cascade, before joining RMS in 1993. Morrow holds a bachelor’s degree in Forestry from Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas, and a master’s degree with an emphasis in finance, from Northwestern State University in Louisiana. Rob is a member of the Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Texas Forestry Associations and the National Forest Landowners Association (NFLA). Morrow serves as Treasurer of the NFLA’s Tax Council, working on federal tax issues affecting non-industrial private forest landowners. Source: Resource Management Service Web Page, 2/01.
Kenneth J. Muehlenfeld has been Director of the Forest Products Development Center, Auburn University’s School of Forestry & Wildlife Science for the past eleven years. In that position he directs programs aimed at the development of the forest industry in Alabama, provides technical information and analytical assistance to existing and prospective industry regarding technology evaluation, resource requirements, and market suitability of new forest business opportunities and coordinates forest industry development activities with public and private agencies and organizations. Ken received a B.S. in Forestry from the University of Missouri and a M.S. in Industrial Management , Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior experience included ten years of international forest products consulting experience with Jaakko Pöyry Consulting. Sixteen years of previous industrial work experience were gained with International Paper Company, Container Corporation of America, Arrowood Technologies, Inc., and Trus Joist Corporation. These industry experiences included responsibilities in timberland management, wood procurement, wood products manufacturing management, new business start-up, and corporate planning. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/00.
Nicholas Muir, CF, is a Forest Geneticist for International Forest Company (IFCO). Nick has had the opportunity to work with plantation forests in several countries and with the major tree genera of Pinus, Eucalyptus, Acacia and others. His work has always focused on the same primary objective: To make available to landowners genotypes expressing superior growth, form and health. In the Southern United States these have been species of Pinus including Pinus palustris (Longleaf Pine) and others. IFCO produces quality planting stock of locally adapted and genetically improved reforestation species for sale as containerized and bareroot seedlings. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/17.
Ed Mumm is the Founder/Owner of Dig This. Dig this is America’s first ever heavy equipment play arena in the United States located in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Half and full day experiences will give participants an opportunity to operate Caterpillar 10 ton bulldozers,15 ton excavators and large skid steer loaders in a fun, safe 10-acre adult sand box. Source: Personal Résumé, 08/08.
Ian A. Munn has been a professor in the Department of Forestry at Mississippi State University since 1993 and teaches the department’s capstone course – Professional Practices and a course in advanced forest management. He also coordinates student internships for academic credit. His research focuses on nonindustrial private forest landowner issues, including landowner willingness to provide logging residues and short rotation woody crops for biofuels and other ecosystem services such as recreational opportunities. Prior to pursuing his PhD degree, Munn was a timberland manager for a forest products firm for ten years. He has a PhD in forestry and economics from North Carolina State University, a MBA from Louisiana Tech University, a MS in resource management from SUNY ESF and an AB in biology from the University of North Carolina. He is an active member of the Society of American Foresters (SAF). He is a SAF Fellow, SAF Councilman from District 11 (Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi), and has served as a chair of the MS state society and local SAF chapter. He is also very active in the Mississippi Forestry Association where he is currently serving on the Executive Committee. Munn is a SAF certified forester and a MS registered forester. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/12.
Brian Murphy Brian Murphy is a wildlife biologist with a B.S. in Range and Wildlife Management from Texas Tech University and a M.S. in Wildlife Resources from the University of Georgia. He currently serves as V.P. of Strategic Partnerships for HuntStand, the largest and most widely used hunting and land management app in North America. Brian previously served 23 years as CEO of the Quality Deer Management Association during which membership increased from 3,000 to 60,000 and the group became regarded as the most respected and influential whitetail organization in North America.
Brian has earned several honors for his contributions to conservation including the National Conservation Award from the Australian Deer Association, the E. L. Cheatum Wildlife Excellence Award from The University of Georgia and being recognized as one of Outdoor Life’s Top 25 Conservationists in the United States in 2011. Brian also is a prolific speaker and writer. He has conducted over 800 lectures and 120 television, radio, and podcast interviews. He also has published more than 125 popular articles as well as 28 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and training manuals.
Brian is a passionate hunter having harvested more than 20 species of big game in five countries, though his passion remains hunting white-tailed deer, especially with his daughters.
He has been married to his high-school sweetheart, Heidi, for more than 30 years and shares his love of the outdoors with his two daughters, Lauren and Jordan, both of whom are avid and accomplished hunters and anglers.. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/22.
D. Gannon Murphy has a 20+ year corporate marketing background, with an additional 9 years experience in commercial real estate in the Atlanta area. He recently created Just Trails, LLC, the development and operating company of Doc Hilt Trails, an ATV/dirt bike trails riding and camping facility located in Clay County Alabama. He runs Pruet Family, Inc. leasing multiple family members’ timberland holdings to hunters. He manages his wife’s timberlands in Clay, Randolph and Talledega counties. He is a long time member of the Alabama Forest Owners Association, the Forest Landowners Association, and a recent member of the Cheaha Trail Riders Association. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/09.
Glenn Myers has been actively involved in motorized activities for the past 36 years. He is a businessman, conservationist and volunteer and has received numerous recognitions for his local, in-state, and national activities. Such activities include off-highway recreation, education and preservation, building a positive public image for youth and trail building and maintenance. He has served leadership roles in such originations as the Founder and First President of Cheaha Trail Riders, Inc., ATV Safety Instructor for ASI, original member of Alabama Recreation Advisory Board, AMA Congress representative and NOHVCC state representative for the past 20 years. Just a few of his awards include the National 4-H Bronze Four Leaf Clover, NOHVCC’s Positive Public Image, American Trails Volunteer of the Year and Take Pride in America, presented by then First Lady Barbara Bush. Myers and the Cheaha Trail Riders, Inc. were instrumental in working with the U.S. Forest Service in the early 1990’s in developing Kentuck ORV park in the Talladega National Forest which was the first public OHV park in the state of Alabama.
In 1997 Myers was presented the W. Kelly Mosley Conservation Award, which made him the only recognized off-road motorcyclist world wide to be presented this type award. He also has received the AMA and ATVA MVP awards. He designed the Minooka Park trails in Chilton County and designed and helped build the Warfield Point Park trails in Greenville, Mississippi. He has worked as a volunteer with the National Forest Service interim group of Trails Unlimited, Inc. on the Pinhoti and Minooka trails. Myers experience is currently being used by the San Dimas Experiment and Technology Department of the National Forest in a National study on water control at Minooka OHV Park. He is also heavily involved in the fighting to see the Coosa River Storage Annex property located in Talladega County to be transferred to the City of Lincoln to become one of the largest OHV parks in the Southeast.
Myers is currently the President of the Cheaha Trail Riders, Inc., which is considered one of the leading OHV proponents in the State of Alabama and across the Nation. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/09.
Kozma Naka graduated from the Agricultural University of Tirana, Albania in 1984 with a B.S. in Forestry. He received a M.S. degree in Computer-Science from the University of Tirana in 1986 and a Ph. D. degree in Forestry and Wood Products from Virginia Tech in 1998.
Dr. Naka is currently an Associate Professor of Forest Operations at Alabama A&M University. He teaches Wood Products, Forest Mensuration, and Forestry Field Techniques. His research includes timber/biomass harvesting, utilization, and impact, hardwood management, and agroforestry. He is a member of the Society of American Foresters, Forest Products Society, Alabama Forestry Council, and Alabama Forestry Association.
Dr. Naka resides in Huntsville with his wife Enkela who is a social worker, daughter Gilda, and son Peter. Source: Personal Résumé, 2/09.
Michael Nance is currently serving on a rotational assignment as a senior manager in the TVA generation construction department. He formerly served nine years as a forester in the Right-of-Way department, and in 2014 was selected to manage the North area of ROW operations. While serving in the ROW department Michael authored several segments of the overall vegetation management program while maintaining an emphasis on public safety. He is a registered land surveyor in Tennessee and Mississippi and holds a B.A. in History from the University of Memphis.
John Hawkins Napier, III is the author of Lower Pearl River’s Piney Woods: Its Land and People (University, Mississippi, 1985), a history of that region of South Mississippi his maternal ancestors settled in 1816. Afterwards he had several historical articles published on that region. Napier is not a forester, but his grandfather Eastman Francis Tate was a late 19th century lumberman and banker in Hancock County (now Pearl River), Mississippi. He is an Ole Miss alumnus and a retired professional soldier who served in World War II, the Korean War, and the Viet Nam War. Brig. Gen. Napier is the recipient of the Legion of Merit and 16 other decorations and service medals. He is also a historian and a past president of the Alabama Historical Association. He continues to write local historical articles about his ancestral Picayune, Mississippi and his adopted Montgomery, Alabama. Napier and his wife Cameron live in a restored plantation house in Montgomery County, Alabama where they have planted 300 trees over the years. Source: Personal Résumé, 2/09.
Stacy Newstead brings experience in advanced materials and manufacturing technology across renewable energy, battery storage, national defense, and supply chain resiliency. As CEO of a US subsidiary of an international graphite mining company, she led early-stage planning and site exploration for a US anode processing plant. Her executive career includes senior positions at Huntington Ingalls Industries and Textron Systems, collaborating with the US Department of Defense (DoD) on critical mineral supply chains, defense systems, advanced technologies, and manufacturing capabilities. Stacy holds a BS in Materials Science and Engineering and an MBA, and currently serves as Vice-Chair of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) Manufacturing Division. She blends her technical and leadership skills to build effective teams and new company capabilities. Source: www.carbonscape.com, 8/25.
Stephen M. Newton was raised on a farm near Millen, Georgia. He attended the University of Georgia and received a BS and MS in AG Econ. Later he received an MBA in Finance from DePaul University in Chicago. Steve worked for the Georgia Farm Bureau as Legislative Director, and the American Farm Bureau in Chicago, Illinois as Commodity Director. From there he went to U.S. Senator Paul Coverdell’s office as Legislative Assistant to Agriculture, Energy and the Environment. In 1994 Steve was selected to become the Executive Vice President of the Forest Landowners Association. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/02.
John Allen Nichols joined the External Affairs Department of the Alabama Farmers Federation in 2019. Nichols serves as its agriculture counsel. Nichols earned a bachelor’s degree in poultry science from Auburn University in 2016, graduated from Faulkner University’s Jones School of Law in 2019 and is admitted to the Alabama State Bar. Nichols provides legal advice and services to the Federation; drafts legislation; monitors and reviews regulations to ensure compliance; drafts, reviews and negotiates contracts; and researches issues. He lives in Auburn and with his free time, Nichols enjoys spending time with his wife and friends, training his dog and reading. Source: https://alfafarmers.org/federation-welcomes-nichols-as-agriculture-counsel/, 03/25.
Allen and Ginny Nipper and their family are owners of Landowner Legacy Communication which provides group seminars and individual family counselling related to development and implementation of family meetings to make intergenerational transfer of land and assets successful. The Nippers are Tree Farmers in Arkansas and Louisiana and developed their program because of issues they experienced after inheriting some of their land. The Landowner Legacy Communication program provides a step-by-step method to help encourage a culture of family landowner meetings. The 10 Family Involvement Best Management Practices© were developed to provide landowners with a logical sequence to follow as they consider how to best develop their own family meetings and encourage family involvement. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/15.
Kim G. Nix is the Information and Education Section Chief for the Alabama Department of Conservation Natural Resources. Her job includes supervising print, electronic and video communications as well as developing and implementing marketing strategies for the Department’s many outreach programs. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/16.
Stephen K. Nodine is President of Forest Resources Systems (FORS) Institute. He reviews software designed for use in forestry and other natural resources professions, makes recommendations to FORS members and others about appropriate software features, gives them unbiased advice in their software selections, and provides technical assistance to software users. He teaches workshops in computer applications including basic computer skills, forest inventory, forest finance, growth and yield, forest mapping, advances in computer technology applications in natural resources, and the use of the Internet. Steve earned three degrees from Clemson University: a BS in Forestry in 1976, an MS in Forestry in 1978, and a Ph.D. in Forest Resources in 1990 with an emphasis in Forest Economics. Before coming to the FORS Institute in 1997, Steve served 18 years on the faculty at Clemson University as an Extension Forester. Source: Personal Résumé, 2/01.
Wade Nutter, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Forest Hydrology, The University of Georgia; and President of Nutter, Overcash & Associates, Inc. Dr. Nutter specializes in the hydrology of forested and natural systems and restoration and mitigation of wetland ecosystems. He served on a national taskforce to develop a functional assessment model for riverine and depressional wetlands. Source: The University of Georgia Continuing Education Course Description, 3/00.
Micheál O’Brien is a systems consultant with Foresters Incorporated of Blacksburg, Virginia, specializing in GPS-GIS applications and land planning and management. Micheál is also an adjunct faculty member in the Landscape Architecture department at Virginia Tech where he teaches land analysis and planning methods. His educational background includes degrees in Landscape Architecture as well as Architecture, with emphases on environmental design and natural resources planning. His professional experience in environmental management has ranged from wildland to urban landscapes. Source: The University of Georgia Continuing Education Course Description, 5/99.
Dylan Ogle started his professional career serving s an infantry rifleman in the United States Marine Corps from 2013 to 2018. His enjoyment of the wildlife that he saw both in the U.S. and in other countries are what inspired him to go to college at the end of his enlistment. Upon his honorable discharge from active duty, he went to Auburn University, and in May 2023, earned his bachelor’s degree in wildlife ecology and management. Soon after graduation, he began working at Wind Creek State Park as a park naturalist, sharing his passion for the natural world with the public. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/24.
Mary Anastasia O’Grady is a senior editorial page writer at The Wall Street Journal and editor of “The Americas,” a weekly column that appears every Friday and deals with politics, economics and business in Latin America and Canada. Ms. O’Grady joined the paper in August 1995 and became a senior editorial page writer in December 1999. She previously worked as an options strategist, first for Advest Inc. and then for Thomson McKinnon Securities in 1983. She moved to Merrill Lynch & Co. in 1984 as an options strategist and was also a product manager and a sales manager for Merrill Lynch Canada and Merrill Lynch International during her 10 years with the company. In 1997 Ms. O’Grady won the Inter American Press Association’s Daily Gleaner Award for editorial commentary, and in 1999 she received an honorable mention in IAPA’s opinion award category. Ms. O’Grady, who was born in Bryn Mawr, Pa., received a bachelor’s degree in English from Assumption College and an M.B.A. in financial management from Pace University. Source: Wall Street Journal bio, 1/04
William T. O’Hara is founder and executive director of the Institute for Family Enterprise. He is a former president of Bryant University. He has taught Family Business Management at the University and has consulted with over 100 families during his 15 years as an advisor in the field. His recent book, Centuries of Success, addresses succession in families around the world who have survived for at least 200 years. It was selected as one of the ten business books on J.P. Morgan’s Private Bank “Must Read” fifth annual summer reading list in 2004. Dr. O’Hara holds Fellow status at The Family Firm Institute, Inc., Boston, MA. Source: Institute for Family Enterprise, http://web.bryant.edu/business/int_fam_ent.html, 01/06
John O’Reilly is currently president of the Minnesota Forestry Association, an 800-member organization consisting mostly of private woodland owners. John, along with his wife, Sandra, operate a bed and breakfast on their land in rural Minnesota. They call the B&B Woodland Trails reflecting the fact that it is situated on their 500 acres of woodland with four miles of groomed trails. While some guest walk over the trails, most take advantage of the complimentary golf carts for touring in comfort.
John & Sandra opened the B&B after turning their pest control service company over to their daughter. Yes, believe it or not, one can make a living by controlling pests in Minnesota. While there are virtually no termites and few cockroaches in the state, ants, spiders, mice and rats are important pests to northern citizens. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/13
Sarah O’Sullivan graduated from Auburn University in 2001 with a BS in Forestry. After graduation she worked as a naturalist for 3 years and is now the Assistant Health Coordinator at the Alabama Forestry Commission. Source: Personal Résumé, 10/05.
Randal O’Toole is a Cato Institute Senior Fellow working on urban growth, public land, and transportation issues. O’Toole’s research on national forest management, culminating in his 1988 book, Reforming the Forest Service, has had a major influence on Forest Service policy and on-the-ground management. His analysis of urban land-use and transportation issues, brought together in his 2001 book, The Vanishing Automobile and Other Urban Myths, has influenced decisions in cities across the country. In his book The Best-Laid Plans, O’Toole calls for repealing federal, state, and local planning laws and proposes reforms that can help solve social and environmental problems without heavy-handed government regulation. O’Toole’s latest book is American Nightmare: How Government Undermines The Dream of Homeownership. O’Toole is the author of numerous Cato papers. He has also written for Regulation magazine as well as op-eds and articles for numerous other national journals and newspapers. O’Toole travels extensively and has spoken about free-market environmental issues in dozens of cities. An Oregon native, O’Toole was educated in forestry at Oregon State University and in economics at the University of Oregon. Source: www.cato.org/people/randal-otoole, 7/13
Richard J. Oates, CAE, graduated from The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee with a Bachelor’s Degree in Natural Resources in 1990. He earned a Master of Science Degree in Forestry from Auburn University in 1993. Rick joined the Alabama Forestry Association staff in 1993 as the Forest Resource Coordinator. His responsibilities included: logger, forester and landowner education programs, membership activities and coordinating several other Association activities and committees. In 1995, Rick was appointed Executive Director of the Alabama Loggers Council, where he was responsible for conducting the day-to-day activities of the Loggers Council, including education and safety programs and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative in Alabama.
In March 1997, Rick was named Executive Director of the Alabama Pulp and Paper Council. His responsibilities include working with their environmental committee as well as handling governmental affairs and public relations issues affecting the pulp and paper industry. He also works with forestry education programs such as Project Learning Tree, Teachers Conservation Workshop and the Alabama Forests Forever Program. Rick, a native of Corpus Christi, Texas, and his wife Kelly, have a son, Andrew, age 10, and a seven-year-old daughter, Lauren. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/03, updated 01/08.
Richard G. Oderwald, Associate Professor of Forest Biometrics, Department of Forestry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia. Dr. Oderwald received BS and MS degrees from Virginia Tech and a Ph.D. from The University of Georgia. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in forest inventory techniques and has taught many point sampling short courses. He has conducted extensive research in the methods and characteristics of point sampling. Dr. Oderwald is also an associate with Foresters Incorporated, a consulting firm that provides forest management software, hardware, and services. Source: The University of Georgia Continuing Education Course Description, 5/99, & Préceda Education & Training Course Description, 4/00.
Mark Olis is the Content Marketing Manager for Moultrie Mobile cellular game cameras. Moultrie Mobile cellular game cameras utilize Verizon or AT&T cellular service to transmit trail camera image from the field to the Moultrie Mobile app on your smartphone. Mark is an avid outdoorsman who loves to spend time managing forest land for wildlife in east-central Alabama. Source: Source: Personal Résumé, 08/21.
Louis Olivier is Director, Nursery, Tree Improvement and Environmental, for Alliance Forest Products U.S. Corp., Coosa Pines, Alabama. Louis has managed forestlands and nurseries for nearly 24 years in Central Alabama for Kimberly-Clark Corporation and Alliance Forest Products. His experiences have also included forestland acquisitions and sales, forest recreation, and minerals management. He has been a Registered Forester in Alabama for over 20 years, a member of Alabama Forestry Association and Alabama Forest Owners’ Association, and a member of the State of Alabama, Sustainable Forestry Initiative Implementation Committee. Louis resides in Birmingham, Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/00.
David Osborn has worked as the deer research coordinator at the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources since 1993. Before then he served as a state wildlife biologist in Arkansas and Florida. He earned degrees in wildlife science from Arkansas Tech University and Texas Tech University. His current responsibilities include oversight of all UGA deer-related research and daily operation of the Whitehall Deer Research Facility, located in Athens, GA. He also works with Georgia landowners to survey their deer herds and to prescribe habitat and population management strategies. His current interests include the use of tree orchards for the purpose of attracting and feeding deer on hunting lands. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/11.
Sonja N. Oswalt is a Forest Resource Analyst with the USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program. She is the analyst for Mississippi and Louisiana, as well as for national and global forest statistics reporting. Sonja’s background is in botany and wildlife, with a specialty in wetland forest response to extreme sedimentation. Her family has owned property in rural Lamar County, Alabama for over a century. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/15.
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.
Dale Pancake, Assistant Director, Solon Dixon Forestry Education Center, Andalusia, Alabama, received a BS in Forestry from Louisiana State University and a MS in Forestry from Auburn University. Dale has worked in various land and resource management positions throughout his career both in southeastern US, as well as, South America. Source: Préceda Education & Training Course Description, 4/99.
Zack Parisa is the co-founder and CEO of SilviaTerra. He grew up in North Alabama and is a forester and biometrician by training. He’s spent the last decade developing cutting-edge tools for precision forest management, which SilviaTerra has put to work for some of America’s largest landowners. More recently, SilviaTerra collaborated with Microsoft to create “Basemap,” the first high-resolution forest inventory of the US. They are now using this data to build the Natural Capital Exchange (NCAPX), a data-driven market for carbon. Zack earned an MFS from Yale University, where he developed SilviaTerra’s core technology, and a BS in Forestry from Mississippi State University. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/21
Robert Parker – Associate Professor of Forest Biometrics, Mississippi State University. Source: Mississippi State University Continuing Education Course Description, 3/00.
Troy Scott Parker is the president of Natureshape LLC, offering trail design services, trail training workshops, and consulting services. He has designed and built trails for the National Park Service, USDA Forest Service, The Nature Conservancy, and others. He authored the newly published full-color book, “Natural Surface Trails by Design: Physical and Human Design Essentials of Sustainable, Enjoyable Trails.” He authored the popular “Trail Design and Management Handbook” for the Open Space & Trails Department of Pitkin County, Colorado, an internationally used design guide for multiple use concrete/asphalt trails, crushed stone trails, boardwalks, and other trail features. For the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, he authored a major portion of “Site-Level Design and Development Guidelines for Recreational Trails,” a comprehensive planning, design, construction, and maintenance guide for all trail types and uses (unpublished as of this writing). Involved in trail research and education since 1985, he is a past president of the Professional Trailbuilders Association (trailbuilders.org) and a popular presenter at trail conferences. See www.natureshape.com for more information or to order books. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/06.
Don Parmeter is a native Minnesotan and a West Point graduate. He received an EPA scholarship to attend grad. school at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. in the field of energy and environmental policy. He has worked 35 years in the environmental field, mostly in Minnesota. Don received the Grassroots Leadership Award from the Property Rights Foundation of America. He is currently Co-chair of the National Water and Conservation Alliance, a group established to promote local and regional alternatives to the proposed Clean Water Restoration Act. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/09.
Jimmy Parnell is President of ALFA Insurance and the Alabama Farmers Federation. Parnell is a native of Stanton, Alabama, and a graduate of Auburn University in agricultural business and economics. He served on ALFA’s board of directors from 1999-2008; was chairman of the Alabama Farmers Federation Young Farmers State Committee in 1997; and has been president of the Chilton County Farmers Federation since 2006. In 1999, he and his family were named Alabama’s Outstanding Young Farm Family.
Parnell, 48, is fifth-generation farmer and a partner in his family’s beef cattle farm and timber business. In 2006, the Alabama Forestry Association named him Alabama Logger of the Year. He has served in numerous leadership roles for business, environmental, agricultural organizations that include Central Alabama Farmers Co-op board of directors, Chilton County Water Authority, Chilton County Soil and Water Conservation District, National Cattlemen Beef Association and the Alabama Forest Fund.
He and his wife, Robin, have two children, James Robert and Anna Grace. They are active members of Hillcrest Baptist Church in Maplesville. Source: www.alfafarmers.org, 4/13.
Don R. Parrish is the Senior Director, Regulatory Relations, for the American Farm Bureau Federation’s Public Policy team in Washington, D.C.
His primary area of responsibility at the American Farm Bureau is the Clean Water Act, which encompasses a wide range of issues affecting farmers and ranchers. These include Federal authority over waters of the U.S., wetlands, concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), water quality standards, and conservation issues related to the farm bill (such as swampbuster). Don supports state Farm Bureaus in their legislative and regulatory efforts and works with numerous agricultural organizations, as well as a diverse group of industry and trade associations in Washington DC.
His expertise on these issues has placed him in leadership roles. He currently chairs the Waters Advocacy Coalition (WAC), whose purpose is to prevent the expansion of the regulatory definition of “waters of the United States.” The WAC is made up of diverse organizations representing virtually every aspect of the nation’s economy. Don also chairs the Agricultural Nutrient Policy council. ANPC is made up of agricultural organizations that want to strengthen their ability to work effectively on nutrient related policy and regulatory issues important to the agricultural community.
Before joining the AFBF staff, Don was an economist at Auburn University. Prior to his working at Auburn, he was employed by the Farm Credit System as a Research Analyst.
Don received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Agronomy from Auburn University and a Master of Science Degree in Agricultural Economics from Auburn University.
Originally from a farm in Alabama, Don now resides in the Washington, D.C. area with his wife, Dee Dee. His daughter Leslie Anne now lives and works in Birmingham, Alabama and his son Austin is a sophomore majoring in pre-med and business at the University of Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/14.
Gregory Allen Pate was appointed as the 7th State Forester for Alabama in 2014. He had been the 9th State Forester of North Carolina and is one of only a few people who have held the position of State Forester in two states. Greg is a native of Anniston, Alabama, graduating there from Wellborn High School. He is a 1981 graduate of Auburn University with a Bachelor of Science in Forest Management. Greg has 30 years of experience in forestry: 5 in the private sector and 25 with state government. In the private sector he worked as a forestry contractor and with private forestry consultants. Greg joined the North Carolina Forest Service in 1988 and worked 25 years in various capacities including forest management, fire, nursery and genetics, and management. Fire suppression has been an important part of his career having worked numerous incidents in North Carolina and some in the Western US. As North Carolina Regional Forester for the Coastal Plain in 2011, operated as an on-the-ground Agency Administrator for five major fire incidents across the four districts under his supervision. Ten Type 1 and Type 2 Incident Management Team rotations occurred during this period. He has worked to bring out the leadership qualities in all the personnel who have worked with him through the years and credits his wife, Mary, as having been an integral part of his forestry career. They and their three children are heavily involved in church, community, and school activities. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/14.
Dick Patten: For over thirty years, Dick Patten continues as an influential voice for business communities in America. His work can be seen in The Wall Street Journal, The National Review, USA Today, the New York Times and newspapers throughout the nation. Dick’s testimonies have been presented to the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives and many state legislatures. He has spoken throughout the United States and Europe.
Dick founded and led the American Family Business Foundation which generated ground-breaking intellectual work that defined the debates regarding family businesses and farms in Washington DC. He also built and commanded the American Family Business Institute. Most recently Dick founded and leads the Family Business Defense Council representing the needs and interests of family businesses and farms in Washington DC. Dick maintains a web of strong relationships with members and staff members throughout the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives.
Dick has directed and guides the movement in Congress to dismantle death taxes. He built and championed the Death Tax Repeal Working Group, the coalition which fought against Federal and State Inheritance & Estate Taxes. Under Dick’s leadership, over 500 House and Senate candidates signed the Death Tax Repeal Pledge. Of those, 131 were elected as Senators and House Members. His efforts accomplished the successful repeal of death taxes in the states of Washington, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee and North Carolina.
Dick is a member of the Sons of the Revolution, Sons of the American Revolution, Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, Baronial Order of the Magna Charta, and the Order of the Crown of Charlemagne.
Before turning his attention to a patriotic calling, Dick established and ran two hugely successful businesses. He employed 18,232 Seattle-area workers and Inc. Magazine listed him as CEO of the 353rd fastest-growing privately owned business in the nation. As his firms grew, he conducted six buy-out mergers, exponentially growing the success of the companies and its employees. Troubled by the political scene, he headed to Washington DC to project his voice as a leader in public policy where he continues on behalf of America’s family businesses.
Dick lives in downtown Washington, D.C. near the White House. Source: www.pattenandassociates.us/dick-patten-2, 5/16.
Tommy Patterson is the owner/operator of Gulf Coast Aerials, an aerial photography company based on the coast of Alabama. In addition to full scale aircraft, Gulf Coast Aerials uses radio controlled helicopters, airplanes and telescoping masts to create very unique views of properties and structures. Tommy is a retired forester. He received his forestry degree from the University of Georgia and served 28 years with the Alabama Forestry Commission in a variety of positions relating to forest management and technology. With a lifelong interest in anything that flies as well as photography, it was a natural progression to put the interests together as a service. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/10.
Darryl Patton, MA., ND, Master Herbalist, Clinical Hypnotherapist. Darryl has been hunting, gathering and working with medicinal plants for the past thirty-one years on Lookout Mountain in the Southern Appalachians. He is an ND as well as a Master Herbalist and brings many years of experience to the field of alternative medicine. Known for his easy going approach towards teaching the identification and uses of medicinal plants, Darryl has been called a walking encyclopedia of herbal folklore.
For 12 years, Darryl was privileged to spend thousands of hours studying under the late A. L. “Tommie” Bass, one of the last of the old mountain herb doctors. Known internationally among herbalists as well as the common folk living near Lookout Mountain, Alabama, Tommie Bass used his God-given ability and vast knowledge of medical herbs to help thousands of people from all walks of life. During his apprenticeship with Tommie, Darryl was taught the identification and medicinal uses for literally thousands of plants found in the hills and hollows of the South. His passion in life is to pass the “old way” of using medicinal plants to his students and others wanting to continue the tradition of gathering wild plants as food and healing.
Darryl is the author of Mountain Medicine, The Herbal Remedies of Tommie Bass published by Natural Reader Press and has appeared on Alabama Public Television and the Comedy Channel. Darryl has also been featured in many newspaper and magazine articles relating to the uses of medicinal plants and is in demand nationally as a speaker on alternative medicine. He has lectured in such diverse places as Las Vegas, New York City and Atlanta. An Adjunct faculty member of Clayton College of Natural Health, Darryl publishes The Southern Herbalist, and Stalking The Wild….The Magazine of Outdoor Discovery. Darryl operates a wilderness survival training school in the mountains of North Alabama where he teaches a wide range of classes such as medicinal plant walks and also offers one-on-one apprenticeships for those seeking to further their knowledge in the world of herbs and alternative medicine. A past publisher of Wilderness Way Magazine, Darryl is the editor and publisher of Stalking The Wild…The Magazine of Outdoor Discovery, The Southern Herbalist, and co-founder of Wild Alabama, a nationally recognized environmental magazine. Primitive and wilderness survival expert, outdoorsman, adventure traveler, herbalist—you name it and Darryl does it. He is a member of Randall’s Adventure Training and is a veteran of many trips to the Peruvian Amazon, where he graduated from the Peruvian Air Force’s Jungle Operations and Survival School. He has instructed classes and training seminars on primitive and wilderness survival skills. Living with his wife, Jane, on Lookout Mountain, not far from Tommie’s shack, Darryl operates a wilderness training school in the mountains of north Alabama. Source: http://www.thesouthernherbalist.com/aboutdarryl.html, 1/10.
Rory Paul is the CEO of Volt Aerial Robotics. Rory has a very strong background and interest in all things technical! He started his working career in product engineering roles in the graphic arts and communication industry working for international companies and startups. His technical interest took him to the field of nondestructive testing and he started his own business in 2003 in South Africa. He relocated to the US in 2005 and continued this business while investigating the uses of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems with specific applicability to the US agricultural sector. Since 2006 Rory has been actively working with both fixed wing and rotary wing UAV platforms. In the past seven years he has accumulated hundreds of hours using unmanned aerial systems for both mapping and aerial inspection missions. He is one of the original members of the Diydrones.com community group which advocates open source autopilot systems. He is a contributor at sUASnews.com which is a central clearing house for all UAV related news where he manages the agricultural UAV section. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/13.
Stephen Pecot is a Forester and Environmental Specialist with Larson & McGowin in Mobile, AL. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Forestry from Louisiana State University. He worked for 10 years as a Research Associate at the Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center where he conducted research on the longleaf pine-wiregrass ecosystem. He also worked at Silvics Solutions in Birmingham as a GIS analyst before coming to Larson & McGowin in May 2009. Stephen is going to talk about the invasive weed cogongrass and a grant funded through the ARRA stimulus bill. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/10.
Arlyn W. Perkey is a silviculturist working for the USDA Forest Service in the Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry’s Morgantown, West Virginia, field office. He is best known for his award-winning work on Crop Tree Management which is designed to improve communication between natural resource professionals and owners of family-owned forests. He publishes a technology transfer periodical called Forest Management Update for service foresters and consultants in the 20-state Northeastern Area. Arlyn provides forest management technical assistance to state forestry organizations in Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland. In addition, he conducts training and informational presentations on Crop Tree Management in the eastern United States. He has established crop tree demonstration areas in 12 locations in four states. He is also responsible for the federal role of providing technical assistance to support the Forest Stewardship Program. Arlyn is also a forest steward and tree farmer. His 78-acre tree farm in southwestern Pennsylvania has provided him with the opportunity to experience the joy and challenge of managing a forest to accomplish his timber, wildlife, and aesthetic goals. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/01.
Matthew H. Pelkki is a Professor and holds the George H. Clippert Endowed Chair of Forest Resource Economics, Management, and Policy at the School of Forest Resources at the University of Arkansas-Monticello. A native of Saginaw, Michigan, Dr. Pelkki has a Bachelor’s degree (Forestry) from the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources & Environment (SNR&E), and Master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota’s College of Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS). Dr. Pelkki was on the faculty of the Department of Forestry at the University of Kentucky from 1991 to 2001, and joined UAM’s School of Forest Resources in 2001. He teaches courses in financial analysis, forest economics, and forest management. His current research projects include numerical methods applied to forest optimization, non-industrial private forest management in the mid-Gulf South, economics of biomass production and carbon sequestration in forestry, and forest-based economic development. An author of more than 100 research publications, Dr. Pelkki was a member of a 1996 National Academy of Science’s forest research team to Russia and held a Fulbright Senior Scholarship to Novosibirsk State University (Russia) in 1998-99. Dr. Pelkki was named the Arkansas Forestry Association’s “Communicator of the Year” in 2008 for his outreach work in the state and throughout the South. Dr. Pelkki is a member of the Society of American Foresters, is a Certified Forester and a Registered Forester in the state of Arkansas. Source: Personal Résumé, 10/09.
Oliver Pergams is a conservation scientist at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Field Museum. He views conservation as a problem-focused discipline, and has utilized diverse methodologies to solve various conservation problems. These methodologies derive from biology (molecular genetics inc. ancient DNA, morphometrics, extinction prediction) as well as the social sciences (sociology, economics). Dr. Pergams is able to draw on experience from his first career trading various financial instruments, and which he ended as Chairman of the Board of the trading firm Chicago Options. During his career in conservation he has received a number of awards, including a Smith Conservation Research Fellowship and a Fulbright Senior Lecturing/Research Award. Source: www.redrockinstitute.org/founders.html, 3/08.
James D. Petersen is a co-founder and executive director of the non-profit Evergreen Foundation, and publisher of Evergreen, the Foundation’s periodic journal. The Foundation was established in Medford, Oregon in 1986 to help advance public understanding and support for science based forestry and forest policy. The organization’s original sponsors were all members of the Southern Oregon Timber Industries Association.
Jim is the recipient of many prestigious awards, including the 2003 Society of American Foresters National Journalism Award, for his work on “The New Pioneers,” a special Evergreen report profiling entrepreneurial solutions to the Southwest’s forest health crisis. Among Jim’s other awards: Best Forestry Public Relations Program in the Nation, American Forest & Paper Association, 1991; Whistle Punk of the Year, Southern Oregon Timber Industries Association, 1994; National Public Service Award, Association of Consulting Foresters, 1996; Outstanding Contributions to Forestry Education, Northeastern Loggers Association, 1999; Outstanding Forestry Activist in the Western United States, Forest Resources Association, 2000; Woodpecker of the Year Award, Hoo-Hoo International, 2002 and Communicator of the Year Award, Montana Wood Products Association, 2004, for his leadership in the national forest health debate and, in particular, his role in congressional ratification of the Bush Administration’s Healthy Forests Restoration Act.
Jim is the author of two books: Flying Finns, the history of Columbia Helicopters, an Oregon-based company that pioneered helicopter logging and Can’t Never Could Do Anything, the remarkable story of Oregon lumberman, Milt Herbert. He is now working on a third book, The Independents, the story of the post- World War II rise of family-owned sawmills in the western United States.
Jim also writes periodically for the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Times, and he is also under contract to write a fourth book, Nothing Much But Ambition, which will chronicle the 100-year history of western Washington’s West Fork Timber Company, and a fifth book, the yet untitled story of Longview Fibre, one of the most storied paper manufacturers in American history.
Jim grew up in Kellogg, Idaho. His family roots are in logging, sawmilling, cattle ranching and mining. He is a graduate of the University of Idaho, where he majored in journalism and broadcasting. He was a newspaper reporter and editor for several years before founding his own public relations firm. He is a member of the Society of American Foresters, the Forest History Society, the Intermountain Logging Conference and the Pacific Logging Congress [President, 2007]. He lives in Yamhill, Oregon and can be reached via e-mail jim@evegreenmagazine.com or by phone, 406-871-1600. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/12.
George David Peterson is retired from retail sales and is a lifelong resident of Baldwin County (63 years), a small property owner, and resident of Bay Minette, Alabama (Baldwin County). David is an avid outdoorsman who enjoys hunting and fishing mainly in the Delta region. For the past 23 years he has fought, on the local level, to defeat issues that would have diverse effects on private property owners rights. I am currently leading the fight to protect the Mobile/Tensaw Delta from Federal takeover in the form of designating the Mobile/Tensaw Delta a National Park. If this issue moves forward it will effect approximately 260,000 acres of privately owned property in the Delta region.
David and the Save Our Delta group have developed a web site, www.saveourdelta.com, which has many links to articles pertaining to this issue, and an online petition you can sign. They also have a Face Book page where they try to update the public on recent activity regarding this issue — Save the Mobile/Tensaw Delta. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/14.
Douglas J. Phillips. Popularly called simply “Dr. Doug,” Doug Phillips is known widely for his adventurous travels in Alabama’s wildlands as host of the highly-rated public television program Discovering Alabama, an educational documentary series featuring the natural history and natural wonders of Alabama. In addition to creating and producing this Emmy – honored series, Dr. Phillips has pioneered many other important Alabama initiatives for education and conservation, including the acclaimed model school curriculum Discovering Our Heritage: Incorporating Environmental Education to Integrate the Teaching of History, Geography, Science, Mathematics, and Language Arts – A Community Collaborative Approach and the nationally-recognized model for wildland conservation, the Alabama Forever Wild Program. Dr. Phillips holds the position of Coordinator for Environmental Information and Education with the Alabama Museum of Natural History at the University of Alabama, where he has also authored numerous publications including the national award – winning books, Discovering Alabama Wetlands and Discovering Alabama Forests. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/17.
Jody Phillips, RF, graduated from Mississippi State with a B.S. in Forestry Management, Serving the timber needs of their landowners. AlaMiss Inc., a timber company in State Line Mississippi. In 2015, he partnered with George Alsworth to create Alsworth Phillips Forest Consultants. They assist landowners in all of their forestry needs. B.S. in Forest Management from Mississippi State. Jody is married and has two daughters. Source: Personal Résumé, 08/19.
John E. Phillips is the author of more than 100 books, including print and Kindle ebooks, on the outdoors, Phillips is a founding member of the Professional Outdoor Media Association (POMA) and an active member of the Southeastern Outdoors Press Association (SEOPA). Phillips also is the owner of Night Hawk Publications, a marketing and publishing firm, and president of Creative Concepts, an outdoor consulting group. Source: Amazon.com, 5/16.
William H. Phillips, Jr., AIA. In the past forty-five years, Bill Phillips has achieved a reputation as one of the most notable architects in America. His abilities as a restoration architect, directing the renovation of much of the West Wing of the White House, and as staff architect and consultant for Colonial Williamsburg, have given him national recognition.
Yet Phillips is just as comfortable with commercial buildings including restaurants, retail and office spaces, and both multi-family and single family residences. His hugely popular portfolios of homes, published regularly by Southern Living magazine attest to that. Phillips has also been involved in the master planning of several retirement and destination resort developments.
“One of the reasons we enjoy our practice so much is that we can’t be put in any niche. One week we’ll be designing a contemporary office building, the next week we’ll be working on the restoration of a two hundred year old home.”
A native of Mobile, Alabama, and a graduate of Auburn University, Phillips spent 18 years in Williamsburg, Virginia. He was associated with the historic village for 10 years, was a lecturer at the College of William and Mary, opened his own practice and then in 1979, moved his offices to his hometown of Mobile. In 1991, Bill relocated his practice to Dauphin Island, Alabama (his studio is attached to his residence overlooking the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi Sound) where his practice thrives today. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/12.
Mel Harkrader Pine is Director of Communications and State Government Relations for the American Wood Preservers Institute (AWPI). He began his professional career in Philadelphia and New York City newspapers, then served from 1976 to 1995 as an executive in the Corporate Public Relations Department of Mobil Corporation, where his responsibilities included executive speeches, annual reports, crisis communications and advocacy advertising. Before joining the AWPI staff in 2000, Mr. Pine maintained his own consulting business, MHP Communications, whose clients ranged from ExxonMobil to AWPI. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/02.
Paul Pingrey, a twenty-nine year veteran with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR), is the state’s Private Forestry Specialist. Paul develops policies for the state’s private forestry assistance programs and provides technical training to state and private foresters. He is the DNR liaison to groups such as the Wisconsin Woodland Owners Association, Association of Consulting Foresters and the Tree Farm organization. Previously, Paul had been a DNR field forester in central and southern Wisconsin. Paul graduated with a bachelor’s degree in forest management from Iowa State University in 1974. He received U.S. Forest Service Silviculturist Certification in 1988. Digital mapping techniques and Geographic Information Systems have been of special interest to Paul since the early 1990’s. He launched an Internet site called Digital Grove Mapping in August 2002 to share information with fellow foresters and woodland owners. The site is a popular resource, receiving nearly 200,000 hits per month. Source: Personal Résumé, 02/03.
Keith Polk is a native of Prentiss, Mississippi. He is a graduate of Mississippi State University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Forestry and Wildlife Science. Keith is a Registered Forester in the State of Mississippi and an Associate Wildlife Biologist. He has several years of forestry and wildlife field experience and is now serving as a New Product Specialist with Forestry Suppliers Inc. in Jackson, Mississippi. Source: Personal Résumé, 10/00.
Mike Powell is Forest2Market’s Client Solutions Specialist. He is responsible for product sales throughout North America, where he helps clients uncover supply chain inefficiencies with the application of Forest2Market reports and price databases. He previously worked as a Procurement Forester at Carolina Forest Products, where his responsibilities included evaluating timberland values, pricing and procuring standing timber through sealed bids and private consultations, negotiating contractual terms and conditions between consultants and landowners and coordinating wood flows from contractors to mills. He received a B.S. in Forest Management from N.C. State University and is a registered forester in North Carolina. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/21.
Richard Porterfield is a Certified Forester and currently teaches Natural Resource Economics at The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA. Dick was an Executive Vice President with Champion International Corporation until July, 2000. He has been responsible for all solid wood production, uncoated free-sheet paper production, human resources, and management of some 5 million acres of forest land at various times in his career with Champion. He has taught forestry at the University of Arkansas, Mississippi State University and Yale University. Dick received his B.S. degree in forestry and business from Ohio State University, M.S. degree in forest economics from North Carolina State University, Ph.D. in forest economics from Yale University and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University. He is active in The Society of American Foresters and Chairman of the Board, The Forest History Society. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/03.
Jeffrey P. Prestemon has been with the U.S. Forest Service in the Research and Development Branch since 1995. Jeff is Project Leader of the Forest Economics and Policy unit in the Southern Research Station, in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Dr. Prestemon’s research focuses on forest product market structure and the evaluation of trade policy as well as the economic impacts and management of forest-based disturbances in the United States and internationally. Dr. Prestemon received his B.S. in Forest Management in 1983 from Iowa State, M.S. in 1989 in Forest Economics from North Carolina State with research into the illegal logging sector of Ecuador, and his Ph.D. in Forest Economics in 1994 from the University of Wisconsin focusing on the forest sector impacts of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/16.
Walt Prevatt is Extension Economist and Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Auburn University. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Florida and a Ph.D. degree from Clemson University. His Extension and research responsibilities include livestock economics, futures and options marketing, and farm real estate. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/04.
Arthur Pruet grew up in Atmore, Alabama. He graduated from both Marion Military Institute and the University of Alabama. Arthur owned Alabama Parts Company before going into business with State Farm Insurance from which he will retire in July after 36 years. He and wife Madelyn purchased their farm in 1985. It is owned as a family corporation. Farm is managed for timber and wildlife. The Pruets have 2 sons – Daniel, an attorney and graduate of the University of Alabama and Wes, a forester and graduate of Auburn University – and 4 grandchildren. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/12.
Daniel Pruet graduated from the University of Alabama in 2000 with a degree in English and History. In 2005 he received his Juris Doctorate at Thomas Goode Jones School of Law. From 2005-2006, he worked as a law clerk at the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals for Presiding Judge William C. Thompson. From 2006-2011, Daniel was a violent crimes prosecutor with the Tuscaloosa County District Attorney’s Office. He opened his own solo practice in Tuscaloosa in August of 2011. Daniel is married to Caryn Pruet. They have three children. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/12.
Gordon Wes Pruet is both a registered forester and a certified burn manager in the state of Alabama (RF #2082). Wes finished his forestry degree at Auburn in 2006 with an enphasis in wildlife management. He worked for Southern Forestry Consultants in Enterprise, Alabama for two years, and has now been with Glenwood Forest Products out of Crenshaw County for 4 years. Wes buys both pine and hardwood stumpage throughout southern Alabama and conducts prescribed burns on about 3,000 acres a year. He currently reside in Enterprise, Alabama with wife, Paty, and daughter, Caroline. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/12.
Bruce Pruitt, M.S., Wetland Delineation and Functional Assessment. Mr. Pruitt specializes in Piedmont and Coastal Plain problem soil assessment and biogeochemistry of hydric soils. He has participated in several large-scale intensive wetland mapping, classification, and regional functional assessment procedures throughout the Southeast. He is also a Regulatory IV certified wetland delineator through the Corps of Engineers and is a Professional Wetland Scientist. Source: The University of Georgia Continuing Education Course Description, 3/00.
Eric Pugh is Forestry Profit Center Manager for Great American Insurance Company, based in West Des Moines, Iowa. Mr. Pugh is a professional forester with 14 years experience in both government and private forestry consulting in addition to 6 concurrent years of experience in the development and underwriting of timber insurance. Eric has met the criteria for and been designated as a “Certified Forester” by the Society of American Foresters. Source: Great American Insurance Company, TimberGuard Fact Sheet, 2/02.
Richard Quina was born in Mobile, Alabama, and has lived in several states following his father from one small paper-mill town to the next. Since then, Quina has been working for almost thirty years in every aspect of the timber industry, from land management to wood procurement. He has worked in the business as co-owner of his own company and with forest products firms across the South, though the majority of his work history has been in South Alabama. Currently, he works for Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation in Brewton. He became interested in Log a Load for Kids several years ago, and since 1997, has been the Log A Load Chairman for the Longleaf District, which is comprised of Monroe, Conecuh, Escambia, Covington, Butler, and Crenshaw counties. He raises funds from loggers, foresters, mills, and a few landowners and to date has been relatively successful. Since the inception of Log A Load in 1992, he has raised approximately $4,000,000 that has gone to Alabama hospitals, with the Longleaf District having raised in excess of $300,000.
Patrick J. Raffaniello. As a principal in Raffaniello & Associates, Patrick J. “Pat” Raffaniello advocates in Washington on behalf of his clients’ legislative and regulatory matters.
Mr. Raffaniello primarily represents businesses before the tax-writing committees and the Congressional leadership. With over 25 years of experience serving corporations, trade associations, and other business enterprises, he maintains strong working relationships with key policymakers and is committed to effective, ethical advocacy.
Prior to founding Raffaniello & Associates, Mr. Raffaniello was a Director in the Federal Policy Group, a division of Clark & Wamberg LLP, where he provided legislative and lobbying support to a wide range of clients on tax and other important issues. Mr. Raffaniello was also a partner in the Washington National Tax Services office of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP when that practice was acquired by the Federal Policy Group of Clark Consulting in February 2002.
Mr. Raffaniello has also served as a partner at Collier, Shannon, Rill & Scott, a Washington law firm specializing in government relations, international trade, antitrust, and Federal Trade Commission practices. There he served as counsel for numerous associations and corporations.
Mr. Raffaniello also served as Chief of Staff to U.S. Congressman Bill Brewster from 1991 to 1995. In this capacity, he also served as Tax Counsel on legislation before the Ways & Means Committee.
Previously, Mr. Raffaniello served as Director of Federal Affairs for the National Rifle Association. His advocacy experience also includes working as Manager of State Public Affairs for Unocal Oil Corporation, where he lobbied state governments on behalf of this Fortune 100 integrated oil company. He also served as Executive Director to the Southwest Energy Council, an association of nine energy-producing states lobbying on federal energy issues.
Mr. Raffaniello holds a Juris Doctorate from The Washington College of Law; a Bachelor of Arts from The American University, College of Public Affairs; and an Associate of Arts from The State University of New York. He served in the United States Army Military Police Corps from 1975 through 1978. Source: Raffaniello & Associates website, 11/12.
Tom Randall is a member of the Save Our Species Alliance, is a senior partner in the public policy consulting firm, Winningreen LLC. Prior to that he was a director of the John P. McGovern Center for Environmental and Regulatory Affairs. He also served as managing editor of Environment and Climate News, a publication of the Heartland Institute in Chicago. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/05.
Charles F. Raper, Professor of Forestry, Auburn University, School of Forestry, received a BS in Forest Management from North Carolina State University and an MBA in Finance and Juris Doctorate (J.D.) from the University of Connecticut. His teaching responsibilities include Appraisal of Commercial Timberland, Forest Law, and Forest Policy. Charles worked for thirty years with the Real Estate Investment Department of Travelers Insurance Company where he specialized in timberland loans and investments. His research interests include: Forest bare land market values in the Southeast; Investment returns from timberland ownership, and Timberland as a portfolio asset. He is a director of Resource Management Service, Inc., Birmingham, AL and South Alabama Land and Timber Company, Inc., Jackson, AL and Chairman of the Investment Committee, North Carolina Forestry Foundation, Inc., Raleigh, NC. Source: Personal Résumé and Auburn University, Faculty of the School of Forestry, 7/98.
Jordan Rappaport is a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. He joined the Bank in 1999 following completing his Ph.D. in economics at Harvard Univerity. Jordan also holds a bachelors’ degree from Brown University, from which he graduated in 1990. Jordan’s research focuses on issues related to local growth. His articles for the Bank’s Economic Review primarily focus on U.S. metropolitan area growth and on housing. His empirical research published in peer-reviewed journals has documented the persistence and causes of long run local population growth. His published theoretical research shows that even small costs associated with moving are sufficient to cause high persistence in net population flows and that small productivity and amenity differences can cause very large differences in local population density. Jordan is an associate editor of Regional Science and Urban Economics and the Journal of Regional Science. Source: www.kansascityfed.org/speechbio/rappaport.cfm, 3/14.
Charles R. Rath is President of the Alabama Trappers and Predator Control Association and Director-at-Large on the Board of Directors of the National Trappers Association and Board Representative on the Executive Council. Charlie has trapped wild fur for thirty five years in four different states and is a Trapper Education Instructor. Before retiring in 1999, he worked as a Registered Dietitian and Chief, Nutrition and Food Service, Veterans Administration Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin, March 1979 – July 1999. His military career was with the US Navy – three years active duty and twenty five years active reserve duty. He retired with the rank of Commander, Medical Service Corps. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/14.
Brock Ray is a native of Oxford, Alabama. Being a man of great ideas, another of Brock’s projects is Brock Huntin Cabins and Brocks Log Cabins. The log cabins come in kits, with high quality materials, so that the handy man can put them together with a few simple tools or his crew will assemble them for those who may not have the time. These cabins are perfect for hunters or those who just enjoy spending time outdoors. The cabins also serve as excellent guest houses, offices, a child’s playhouse, pool house, workout room or just a place to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city life.
Brock lives in Blount County, Alabama and enjoys spending time with his family. You will often find him in the wild outdoors, which seems to fuel even more dreams. He is a man of high moral fiber and has a work ethic that is rare in this day and age. If Brock has a dream, you can bet he will make it come true with his determination and hard work.
Mike Ream is “semi-retired” after working for many years advising the use of forestry herbicides. His educational background was in psychological counseling, but he joined Resource Management Service (RMS) in 1988 in the herbicide distribution arm of the company. He was initially hired for industrial right-of-way sales, but soon became more involved in forestry herbicides. “I had the joy of helping landowners and forest products companies maximize their investments of time and resources.” RMS discontinued herbicide sales when, in 1993, the company began managing timber investments for John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. Red River Specialties of Shreveport, Louisiana assumed the herbicide distributorship and Mike went to work for them. “I love forestry because it serves both God and people.” Source: Personal Résumé, 2/16.
Lawrence W. Reed: Economist and author Lawrence W. Reed is president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), the nation’s oldest free enterprise think tank and publisher for half a century of “The Freeman” magazine. FEE is headquartered in Irvington, New York, and its popular Web site is www.fee.org.
In the past twenty years, Reed has authored over 1,000 newspaper columns and articles, 200 radio commentaries, dozens of articles in magazines and journals in the U. S. and abroad, as well as five books. His articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, Baltimore Sun, Detroit News and Detroit Free Press, among many others. Reed’s most recent book is Striking the Root: Essays on Liberty. Since 1978, he has visited 69 countries on six continents and delivered more than 1,000 speeches in 40 states and 15 nations, including one at People’s University in Beijing, China. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/09.
Tom Reed represents the Southern Tier and Finger Lakes Regions of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. He is a member on the House Ways and Means Committee, and serves on the Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures and the Subcommittee on Social Security. Source: http://reed.house.gov/about-me/full-biography, 5/15.
Austin Reese is a Forest Health Coordinator at the Alabama Forestry Commission (AFC). In this role, which he has held since August 2021, he oversees all AFC programs relating to insects, diseases, and invasive species. He graduated from the College of Forest Resources at Mississippi State University in July 2021. He is also a registered forester in Alabama and Mississippi. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/23.
Teddy Reynolds is President of Reynolds Forestry Consulting based in Magnolia, Arkansas. He received a B.S. Degree in Forestry with a Wildlife Minor from the University of Arkansas at Monticello and is a registered forester and a registered appraiser. Teddy hosts the weekly radio show Timber Talk which is broadcast from 99.5 FM in Nashville, Arkansas and 100.5 FM in Magnolia, Arkansas. He is Vice-President of Reynolds Forestry Products, Inc., which does research and development work with new technology, such as weight and volume software, marking paint tracers, and voice activated computer inventory systems. He lives on a small cattle farm in McNeil, Arkansas and is a timberland owner. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/02.
Erica Rhoad is the Society of American Foresters (SAF) director of forest policy. In this position Rhoad is responsible for assessing forest management and natural resources issues, and developing policies and strategies that promote the mission and goals of the Society. Among her duties are serving as a liaison between SAF and members of Congress, federal natural resources agencies, national and international conservation and environmental organizations, the forest products industry, and other professional natural resources associations. Before coming to SAF, Rhoad was government affairs advisor at Ball Janik, LLP in Washington, DC, from 2007 to 2008, where she represented clients in the fields of forestry, natural resources, and wildlife. From 2002 to 2007 she served as a member of the legislative staff of the House Natural Resources Forests and Forest Health Subcommittee, where she worked on the Healthy Forest Restoration Act and several other forestry-related bills and laws. She also served on the staffs of congressional members from Colorado and California. Source: Personal Résumé, 10/09.
Jack Rhodes is a native of Tallassee, Alabama, who graduated from Auburn University with a degree in Accounting. Retired from Sears, Roebuck & Company, Jack has served as a Controller in retail stores, served in staff capacity in Territorial Headquarters in Atlanta, and has opened a number of stores in managerial capacities and Logistical units. Jack has commercial real estate experience, with brokers licenses and instructors licenses, including the opening of Legends Ltd., Inc. in Birmingham and Keller Williams Realty (associated). He has been married to Janice Spigener Rhodes for 44 years and they have 2 sons, Mike and John Rhodes. Mike is an attorney in Jackson, Mississippi, and John is a sales representative with Central Paper Co. in Birmingham. Jack and Janice own timber property in Elmore County which they enjoy. Source: Personal Résumé, 10/05.
Cathy Rice is a Certified Public Accountant and Shareholder at Jamison, Money, Farmer and Company, P.C. where she provides the following services: Tax & Estate, Pre-estate and post-estate, gift and fiduciary planning and taxation; Including generation-skipping transfer taxation, special use valuation, family limited partnerships, LLC’s, split interest trusts and succession planning. Prior to joining JMF in 1987, Cathy worked for a national firm. Her expertise in the estate planning industry led her to become manager of the Estate Tax and Planning Department at JMF. Cathy’s education background includes a B.S. degree and a Masters in Tax Accounting from the University of Alabama. She is a member of the Alabama Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Cathy has been active in Altrusa International, Kentuck Festival of the Arts, and is a former President of the Tuscaloosa Estate Planning Council. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/12. See also: https://jmf.com/our-team/shareholders/cathy-rice/
Beth W. Richardson is an Area Forester and Distinguished County Agent for the Clemson University Extension Service. Her work responsibilities include the education of non-industrial private landowners and professionals on forest management to include wildlife benefits, forest economics, forestry taxation, and other related forest issues. She holds a B.S. in Education with emphasis in Music from Georgia Southwestern College at Americus, a B.S. in Forest Management from Auburn University, and an M.S. in Agricultural Education from Clemson University. Beth was born and raised in Anniston, Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/17.
Russell Richardson serves as the director of Treated and Industrial Markets for the Southern Forest Products Association, and in that role he oversees marketing of Southern Pine lumber products in residential and nonresidential construction applications. Addressing green building markets, Richardson also promotes the environmental attributes of wood products. Richardson’s previous experience includes management in a family timber sales business. He is a member of the Louisiana Forestry Association and certified as a professional logger with the Mississippi State University Extension Service under the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) program. Richardson holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Louisiana State University and a master’s degree in public relations from the University of Southern Mississippi. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/11.
Will Ricks graduated from North Carolina State University in 2007 with a B.S. degree in Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences and minors in Agroecology and Environmental Science. He received an M.S. degree in Forest Resources in Wildlife Ecology and Management in 2010 from the University of Georgia. In 2010 Will worked for the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources as a Private Lands Biologist and a Coordinator for the MC 252 Gulf Oil Spill Wildlife Response Team. He is currently the Assistant Region Supervisor for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Game Management Division in Region VII. Will has worked for North Carolina State University, The University of Georgia, The Quality Deer Management Association, and as a wildlife consultant for many properties in the Eastern United States. he has written many articles and participated in many presentations all over the United States. Will enjoys spending time with his family and friends and hunting and fishing in his free time. Source: Personal Résumé, 10/10.
Dennis Riecke received a BS degree in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences from the University of Southwestern Louisiana in 1982 and a MS degree in Fisheries Management from Mississippi State University in 1985. He worked as District Fisheries Biologist for the Kansas Fish and Game Commission and as an Aquaculture Research Associate at the Rice Research Station in Crowley, Louisiana. For the last 21 years he has been employed as a Fisheries Coordinator with the Mississippi Dept. of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/10.
Joseph E. Rigsby, ARA, RF, ACF, has been the owner of Rigsby Investment Company, Inc. since May 1983. This firm is engaged in real estate appraisal, real estate brokerage, consulting forestry services, farm management and mortgage loan placement. Prior to founding Rigsby Investment Company, Inc., Joe was for 16 years employed by Resource Management Service, Inc. in Birmingham, Alabama as head of its Real Estate Investment Department and Vice-President of the firm. While at Resource Management Service, Inc., his duties consisted of consulting forestry work, mortgage loan placement, real estate appraisals and timberland brokerage. Prior to joining Resource Management Service, Inc., Joe was a field mortgage loan representative and rural real estate appraiser for four years with the farm loan department of The Travelers Insurance Company.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND AND TRAINING: Received a B. S. Degree from Auburn University in 1960 with a major in Forest Management. Licensed Alabama Real Estate Broker since 1968. Successfully completed the Rural Appraisal, Advanced Rural Appraisal and A-30 (expanded version of Advanced Rural Appraisal) schools offered by the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers. Successfully completed the Basic Principles, Methods & Techniques course of the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers. Successfully completed the Capitalization Theory and Techniques Courses, Parts A and B offered by the Appraisal Institute. Successfully completed the Standards of Professional Practice, Parts A and B by the Appraisal Institute. Successfully completed Forest Appraisal II course at Duke University. Graduate of the Practicing Foresters Institute offered by the Association of Consulting Foresters.
AFFILIATIONS: Lifelong member of the Wesley Chapel Methodist Church of Georgiana, Alabama. Longtime member of the Capital City Kiwanis Club, Montgomery, Alabama. Accredited member of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers (former state chairman) which is a member of the Appraisal Foundation and which conducts a mandatory program of continuing education. Member of the Association of Consulting Foresters (former state chairman), Society of American Foresters, the Alabama Forestry Association and the Alabama Forest Owners’ Association.
DESIGNATIONS: Designated an Accredited Rural Appraiser (ARA) by the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers. Certified General Real Estate Appraiser in the State of Alabama. Registered Forester (RF) in the States of Alabama and Mississippi. Authorized to use the ACF designation by the Association of Consulting Foresters. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/16.
Robert A. Rimer is Manager of Westervelt Realty, Inc., a subsidiary of Gulf States Paper Corporation. Rob is responsible for the acquisition and disposal of company lands, including the real estate appraisal of those lands. He also does fee appraisals/brokerage services for external customers. Rob is a Registered Forester in Alabama, a Real Estate Broker in Alabama and Mississippi, and a Certified General Real Property Appraiser. He received a B.S. degree in Forest Science from Penn State University. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/02.
Rick Roark is a certified Erosion Control Specialist with Midwest Construction Products Corp in Nashville TN. He is a graduate of the University of Tennessee. Rick has many years experience in erosion control & soil conservation and using specialty products such as gabion baskets to improve erosion issues. Midwest Construction Products has been in the erosion control business for over 25 years and offers a wide variety of erosion control materials including gabion baskets and gabion mattresses. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/10.
Ben Robbins is a practicing attorney in Sylacauga. His practice focuses mostly on real estate and probate matters. He was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in a special election in January 2021. He is married to Melanie Robbins and they have one son, Gabe. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/22.
Steve Roberson is the founder and CEO of MapRight and the driving force behind its product development. He has over 15 years of professional GIS experience in the real estate world along with a masters of applied geography with a concentration in GIS from Texas State University. Steve’s goal with MapRight is to make it incredibly easy for everyone to make high quality, professional maps without any formal GIS training. Source: Personal Résumé, 2/23.
Danny W. Roberts received his Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Alabama in 1976 and joined the firm of Jamison, Money, Farmer & Co., PC in 1987. He was admitted as shareholder in 1998. Danny brings with him a great deal of expertise in the timber industry, with over ten years of previous experience with a regional firm in Birmingham. Danny co-manages the Tax Department with Janet Moore. His expertise lies in individual and business taxation, taxation of foreign-owned businesses, Alabama sales tax and family partnership taxation. He serves clients in timber-related industries along with clients in construction, oil and gas, and farming. One of his contributions to the firm is in understanding and monitoring the complex and constantly changing nature of tax laws and keeping our clients informed of the impact of new regulations. His expertise has led him to give numerous speeches to various organizations on related taxation topics. He currently serves on the Tax Technical Committee for CPAmerica. A member of the Alabama Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Danny is also a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. He has participated in various fundraisers for United Way, Muscular Dystrophy and The American Heart Association and has been a member of various PTA/booster organizations. He served as Treasurer for The Northwood Lake Homeowners Association and has participated on the board of The Institute for Management Accountants. Danny and his wife, Linda, have two children, including a son who recently married. He and his wife like to travel, and they enjoy involvement within their church where Danny has taught Sunday School and Royal Ambassadors. He has also served as a Deacon at various churches. Source: Jamison, Money, Farmer & Co., PC, 3/04.
Preston Roberts is director of agricultural legislation at the Alabama Farmers Federation. Since joining the Federation staff in 2014, Roberts has diligently fought for farmers and rural Alabama — first as a field man representing farm families in east Alabama. He joined the organization’s lobbying team in 2019. A graduate of Auburn University, Roberts also holds a juris doctor from the Thomas Goode Jones School of Law at Faulkner University. He and his wife, Mandy, reside in Auburn with their three children — Sam, Ben and Lucy. They attend First Baptist Church of Opelika. Source: Personal Résumé, 05/25.
Tance E. Roberts, LL.M., is a Florida Bar Board Certified Tax Attorney in private practice with Clark & Roberts, PLC in St. Augustine, Florida. Ms. Roberts concentrates her practice in the areas of federal and state taxation and estate planning and administration. She is a frequent speaker at Florida forestry events on estate planning and timber taxes and represents many forest owners in the State of Florida. Source: Personal Résumé, 03/05.
Kate Robie is an independent consultant providing forest business and instructional services since 1994. She previously served as one of the founders and owners of a timberland investment firm, where forest investment analysis and modeling were central to her work. Kate also worked in land management for the paper industry and in forest policy for the federal government and U.S. Congress. She is a forest landowner and adjunct assistant professor in the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forest Resources. Source: The University of Georgia Continuing Education Course Description, 2/00.
Douglas R. Robillard is the owner of A3 Aviation. He is a USMC and Army veteran and has been flying tactical drones for over 12 years for the US military as a certified instructor operator. He started flying small commercial drones 2 years ago and established his new company in January of 2023. His company provides imagery and analytic services for agriculture, commercial and residential applications. Source: Personal Résumé, 03/23.
Walter G. Robillard, Attorney, Walter G. Robillard and Associates, Atlanta, Georgia. Walt is a graduate forester and a licensed surveyor who has consulted with private organizations and governments throughout the world. He has taught numerous workshops on the subject of property, boundary, and contract law. Source: Préceda Education & Training Course Description, 2/00.
J. Quinn Roe earned a B.S. in Accounting and Marketing and a Master of Accountancy from the University of Alabama. Quinn is a Certified Public Accountant in Alabama and is a Staff Accountant with JamisonMoneyFarmer PC (JMF) in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He focuses on providing income tax return reporting and preparation, bookkeeping, payroll services, and preparation of both compiled financial statements and contractors’ reports to clients in a variety of industries — Timber, Medical, International, Estate, Fiduciary, and Gift Tax. He is a member of both the JMF Trust and Estate Department and the JMF Timber Practice group where he specializes in tax planning, accounting, and compliance services. Quinn is affiliated with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Alabama Society of Certified Public Accountants. He is treasurer of the Good Samaritan Clinic of Tuscaloosa, a member of the Tuscaloosa Exchange Club, a board member of the Tuscaloosa Exchange Club Foundation and an Ambassador of the Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/17.
S. Marvin Rogers is an Alabama assistant attorney general assigned to the Alabama Oil and Gas Board. Marvin represents the State in litigation involving oil and gas and environmental matters. After graduating from the University of Alabama Law School in 1978, he worked for several oil companies in New Orleans and Houston. Marvin has written a number of oil and gas publications, including a Landowners’ Guide to Oil and Gas in Alabama. He is originally from Butler, Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/02.
Lori B. Rose is a Major Case Specialist for Southeastern Claims Services, a Davis-Garvin Company. She oversees all claims filed in connection with the hunt club insurance program offered by AFOA. Ms. Rose has 20 years of experience in the insurance industry, and enjoys many outdoor pursuits including hunting and fishing. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/07.
Knesha Rose-Davison is the Public Health Program Director for AgriSafe Network. Knesha obtained her Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences (2002) and a Master’s of Public Health (2006) from Northern Illinois University. In June 2016, she obtained a certificate in Agricultural Medicine, which focused on rural occupational health and environmental health and safety. She has dedicated her career to health education and promotion to underserved and vulnerable communities. She has wide-ranging experience in public health with subject areas including maternal child health, rural health, and health disparities. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/21.
Matthew D. Ross, a native of upstate New York, received his B.S. in Wildlife Conservation from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and his M.S. in Wildlife Ecology from the University of New Hampshire. He worked as a wildlife biologist and forester for a small natural resource consulting company in southeastern New Hampshire for four years after the completion of graduate school. In 2006, Matt became the New England/Canada Regional Director for the Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA) and was recognized as the Regional Director of the Year in 2007. More recently, Matt was named the QDMA’s Certification Programs Manager and is currently in charge of the QDMA’s advanced education programs, including the personal Deer Steward classes and the Land Certification Program. He is a Certified Wildlife Biologist, a New Hampshire Licensed Forester, a founding member and the former vice-president of the First New Hampshire Branch of the QDMA, and a resident of Clifton Park, New York. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/12.
Robert J. Ross is a Project Leader with the USDA Forest Service – Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin. His research focuses on developing non-intrusive field testing methods to evaluate the quality of wood in standing timber, buildings, and historic structures. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/04.
Timothy A. Rowell, Vice President for GIS & Mapping Technologies, FORS Institute. As a geographer, Mr. Rowell has a diverse background in GIS and Remote Sensing. Trained by ESRI in ArcView and Avenue programming, Tim is an ESRI Authorized Instructor. Source: The University of Georgia Continuing Education Course Description, 6/99.
George Rowland is employed by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service and currently serves as Coordinator for the North Central Resource Conservation and Development Council they refer to as “RC&D”. The Council serves 10 counties in north Mississippi that include Benton, DeSoto, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Pontotoc, Tate, Tippah, Union, and Yalobusha counties. His office is located at New Albany, Mississippi. Source: Personal Résumé, 02/06.
Dr. Greg Ruark has been the Director of the USDA National Agroforestry Center (NAC) since 1998. The Center is a partnership between the Forest Service and the Natural Resources Consservation Service. In January 2005, the headquarters for NAC was moved from Nebraska, where most of its staffing still resides, to the campus of Alabama A&M University in Huntsville. This move increases NAC effectiveness as a national center and better positions it to address the interest of landowners in the southeast for more agroforestry, especially silvopasture. Source: Personal Résumé 5/06.
Rusty Rumley was born and raised on a ranch in Cogar, Oklahoma. He graduated from Oklahoma State University and then earned his juris doctor from the University of Oklahoma. After law school, Rusty earned his LL.M in Agricultural Law at the University of Arkansas and began working at the National Agricultural Law Center. He is licensed to practice law in the states of Oklahoma and Michigan. His primary areas of interest are in estate planning, taxation, business organizations, landowner liability, leasing, and agritourism. Source: Personal Résumé 2.24.
Robert B. Rummer is the Project Leader for the US Forest Service, Forest Operations Research Unit in Auburn, Alabama. His research group studies many aspects of forest operations including productivity, costs and site impacts in order to find a better match between systems and modern forest management objectives. Bob has a BS degree in Forest Management and an MS degree in Logging & Engineering from the University of Idaho, and a PhD in Industrial Engineering from Auburn University. He has been with the Forest Service in Alabama since 1983. Bob spoke to AFOA members at their 2000 Annual Meeting on the problems of cutting timber in the growing conflict with ecological awareness. Some of his current projects include a biomass harvesting study on the Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky, development of a new safety standard for forest machine windows and cabs, testing of chemical stabilizers to improve forest road strength, and examination of alternative transport methods for forest products.Source: Personal Résumés, 4/00 & 1/10.
David Runyan is a wildlife biologist who specializes in Bobwhite Quail. He recently won the 2003 Progressive Farmer/Rural Sportsman Upland Game Management Farm of the Year award for Uphapee Plantation, one of the privately owned properties he currently manages. He has achieved ground-breaking success restoring populations of quail to areas under his management by combining textbook habitat improvement with his own quail liberation methods. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/03.
Eric Rutkow is renowned as a “promising young historian.” His first book, American Canopy: Trees, Forests, And the Making of a Nation tells the extraordinary story of the relationship between Americans and trees across the entire span of the nation’s history. Like bestsellers Michael Pollan with Second Nature and Mark Kurlansky with Cod, Rutkow reconceives America’s historical relationship with the trees and forests that shaped the development of the nation.
Rutkow has presented arboretums, universities, historical societies, museums, libraries, and many other organizations all over the country. His topics on American Canopy and its political and environmental implications are perfect for history buffs and nature lovers alike and have been praised by members at all parts of the political spectrum.
Rutkow is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School who has worked as a lawyer on environmental and corporate issues. He currently splits his time between New York City and New Haven, Connecticut, where he is pursuing a doctorate in American history at Yale. American Canopy is his first book. Source: www.simonspeakers.com/EricRutkow, 11/14.
Spencer Ryan is the Executive Director of Alabama PALS, a nonprofit statewide organization dedicated to providing and implementing anti-litter programs and enhance the environmental and economic impact through a litter free environment. Source: Personal Résumé, 05/24.
Arthia W. “Billy” Rye is a native of Sulligent, Alabama. He received his Bachelor of Science in Forest Management from Mississippi State University in 1988. For eight years, Billy coordinated the forest management programs of the Alabama Forestry Commission’s Northwest District. While with the Forestry Commission, he provided landowners in a seventeen county area with valuable information on reforestation, timber stand improvement, timber marketing, and tax treatment of forestland and timber related income. In June 1996, Billy left the Forestry Commission to fulfill a lifelong dream of owning his own business. The company that he founded, Forest Management Specialists, Inc. specializes in marketing timber for landowners in the Mid-South region. Since its inception, Forest Management Specialists, Inc. has assisted over 600 landowners in five different states. Billy is a Registered Forester in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi, and he holds a Real Estate Broker’s license in Alabama. He has served as the Chairperson for the Northwest Alabama Chapter of the Society of American Foresters, is currently the Chapter Chair for the Alabama Chapter of the Association of Consulting Foresters of America, currently serves on the TREASURE Forest Certification Subcommittee, and has received two accommodations from the Governor of Alabama. Billy, his wife, Mary-Frances, and daughters, Taylor and Anna Grace, reside in Florence, Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé, 08/21.
Salem G. Saloom along with his wife Dianne and son Patrick own and manage Saloom Properties, LLC, awarded the National Outstanding Tree Farmers of the Year in 2010. Saloom Properties has been transitioning into longleaf pine since Hurricane Ivan in 2004, and as of year end 2014 have planted 650 acres into longleaf. Their 2,191 acre tree farm is located in Conecuh County near Evergreen, Alabama. As a general surgeon, Salem and his wife, Dianne, serve as short-term surgical/medical missionaries in developing countries overseas. From a private landowner’s viewpoint he has given many presentations where longleaf has been the center point. Saloom Properties has been host for numerous educational field days where longleaf is the centerpiece for large and small woodland owners. They annually participate in a Forest in the Classroom/Classroom in the Forest educational 5th grade program where the 175 school children visit their Tree Farm. Other numerous larger educational field days have been hosted by the Salooms. Salem gave one of the keynote addresses at the 2012 Nacogdoches Biennial Regional LLA Conference titled “Spirituality of Longleaf: An Ethereal Experience.” He has been featured on two television outdoor programs featuring longleaf and education. He served in 2014 as chairman of the Board of Commissioners for the Alabama Forestry Commission and presently chairs the Woodland Operating Committee for the American Forest Foundation, and serves on the AFF Board of Trustees as well as on the Board of the Longleaf Alliance. With his experience on the AFF’s National Public Affairs Committee, Salem has organized and facilitated the first two of Alabama’s Grassroots Advocacy Workshops in 2012 and 2013. He had served as the private landowner member of the Longleaf Partnership Council and assumes membership in other forestry and conservation organizations as well as being a member of Congresswoman Martha Roby’s Agriculture Advisory Committee. He was awarded the 2010 Alabama Governor’s Forest Conservationist Award and the 2011 National Wild Turkey Federation’s National Woodland’s Conservation Award. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/15.
Lisa Samuelson, Associate Professor of Tree Physiology at the School of Forestry, Auburn University, received a BS and MS in Forestry from the University of Georgia and a Ph.D. in Forestry from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Lisa has been at Auburn University for the past five years where she teaches Dendrology and Tree Physiology. Research interests include: stress physiology and water relations of trees; scaling physiological processes; and ecophysiology of forest vegetation management. She is the author of Guide and Key to Alabama Trees and is currently constructing a website entitled Trees of Alabama and the Southeast. Source: Personal Résumé and Auburn University, Faculty of the School of Forestry, 7/98.
Jeff Sanford is the director for Program Development and Quality Assurance for The University of Georgia Business Outreach Services. Mr. Sanford has served The University of Georgia Business Outreach Services/Small Business Development Center (SBDC) in several capacities, including Rural Economic Consultant and area director of the Augusta SBDC office. Many of his innovative approaches have evolved into special SBDC programs. Source: The University of Georgia Continuing Education Course Description, 1/01.
Paul Sanford was elected to the Alabama Senate, June 9, 2009, to fill the unexpired term of former Senator Parker Griffith, who resigned from the Senate upon being elected to Congress. Senator Sanford is a restaurant owner in Huntsville, and was educated at the Culinary Institute of America. He is a Christian and enjoys hunting, fishing and cooking. Source: www.legislature.state.al.us/senate/senators/senatebios/sd007.html, 9/13.
Thomas Joseph Saunders is the General Counsel and Director of Government Affairs for The Alabama Forestry Association. In this capacity, he is responsible for legislative, legal and political support to a 1,800 member association representing all segments of the forestry industry including landowners, loggers, timber dealers, lumber manufacturing and pulp and paper mills. Specifically, he is involved directly in member development and administration of the association’s political action committee, fundraising, candidate recruitment and strategic planning.
Prior to joining AFA, he formed and managed a renewable energy project development company, served as general counsel to an energy management consulting firm and worked in various capacities with an Alabama based oil and natural gas production and distribution company.
He served as a loaned executive with the American Gas Association in Washington DC and was responsible for lobbying the executive and legislative branches on financial issues affecting the natural gas industry. He has experience before the Alabama Public Service Commission, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Alabama legislature and the U.S. Congress.
He graduated from Auburn University with a degree in Chemical Engineering and has a Juris Doctorate from Jones Law School. He lives in Montgomery, Alabama with his wife Catharine and daughter Anne. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/11.
Tom Sauret spent 32 years in college teaching, 21 at Gainesville State College in Georgia. During that teaching career, Tom bought a mountain bike and quickly fell in love with the sport and became concerned that there were so few legal open places to ride. Deciding that he could contribute and help to open public lands to mountain bikes, he joined the Southern Off- Road Bicycle Association (SORBA) in 1994, established the first SORBA Chapter in 1996 and became the first SORBA Executive Director in 2000 (a voluntary position). Since then SORBA has grown to over 4,000 members in 33 Chapters in six southeastern states. In 2008, the organization merged with the International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA) in Boulder, Colorado. In that same year Tom retired from teaching and accepted the full-time position of IMBA Southeast Regional Director. Tom works with the 33 Chapters to improve mountain bike trails and access in the Southeast. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/11.
Shawn Schafer has served as the Executive Director of the North American Deer Farmers Association for the past 5 years. Shawn also serves on several animal health related boards to include a Director of the United States Animal Health Association, a Director on the North Dakota State Board of Animal Health, North Dakota State University Veterinary Diagnostic Lab Advisory Council, and Kansas State – Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases (CEEZAD) Advisory Board. Shawn also is an avid hunter and is a long time member of the Safari Club International, Dallas Safari Club, and a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association (NRA). Source: Personal Résumé, 3/12.
Ken Schmidt is president of SteelintheAir, a communication tower consulting company. He has been instrumental in the formation of two tower companies and has negotiated/reviewed hundreds of leases for ground space on the behalf of wireless carriers such as T-Mobile and Nextel and numerous tower companies. He has a law degree and is familiar with the legal and technical sides of tower leases and construction plans. Using his background on the other side, Mr. Schmidt and SteelintheAir now provides comprehensive review of proposals for ground leases for towers and can assist landowners in determining the true fair market value of such proposals. Contact Ken Schmidt here. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/04.
A. F. (“Rick”) Schober is a consulting forester with Schober Forestry and Land Companies, a forestry consulting and contracting business established in 1984 and located in Orrville, Alabama. Rick and his father Al have over 50 years of combined experience in the forest industry. The company serves private landowners of all sizes, providing services in ALL aspects of forest management, including forest management plans and implementation, timber appraisals, timber sales, site preparation, planting, prescribed burning, and GPS mapping. In addition to forest management, Rick is a licensed real estate broker who works with clients on land sales and acquisitions throughout the state and surrounding areas. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/07.
Neil Schroeder is the president of the Oregon Woodland Cooperative and has held that office for the past seven years. “My father was a logger, graduate forester, professor of forestry at Oregon State and retired as chief forester with Crown Zellerbach. Even though I have always held an interest in Forestry, he discouraged me from the same profession and I taught math at the high school level, sold educational materials and then retired to manage the 300 acres of forestland that he and I accumulated over the years. My wife and I have a daughter and a son and four granddaughters ages 15 to 25. Our hope is to pass on our lands to the family and encourage them to continue the sustainable goals and beliefs we espouse.” Source: Personal Résumé, 5/14.
Palmer Schoening is President of Schoening Strategies LLC, a government affairs and economic consulting firm that advises associations and family businesses on tax policy. Palmer is the founder and chairman of the Family Business Coalition – a diverse collection of organizations and industry groups united for the common purpose of protecting America’s family businesses across the country. Palmer has been a key player in the fight to repeal the federal estate tax and helped to usher in repeal of state transfer taxes in Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Palmer is a graduate of Hillsdale College and George Mason University’s School of Public Policy where he earned his Masters in financial economics. Source: www.familybusinesscoalition.org/about.html, 7/16.
Al Schuler received his doctorate in Forest Economics & Marketing from Iowa State University and B.S. in Forestry from SUNY Syracuse. Since 1999, he has been a Research Economist with the USDA Forest Service at their Princeton, WV Research Laboratory. Prior to his work with USDA, for nearly ten years Al was Manager of Economics and Market Planning at Norbord Industries in Toronto, providing the company with economic forecasts used in strategic planning, demand/supply and resource analyses. He succeeded to this position after spending approximately nine years as Manager of Market Research at the Forintek Research Lab in Ottawa, Canada. Over the past eight years with the USDA Forest Service, Al has been responsible for studies on the impacts of the economy, globalization, technological change, and demographics on solid wood product markets including framing lumber, structural panels, and engineered wood products. In addition, Al has studied the impacts of globalization trends on the domestic furniture industry and its supply chain. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/09
Bob Schumacher, Atterbury Consultants. A 1973 graduate of the University of Missouri, Bob began his career in Louisiana with International Paper Company and later held forest management positions in Texas and Arkansas. He presently manages Atterbury Consultants’ office in Perry, Georgia. Source: The University of Georgia Continuing Education Course Description, 7/98.
Callie Jo Schweitzer is a Research Forester attached to the Southern Research Station, U.S. Forest Service, and based in Huntsville, Alabama. Dr. Schweitzer received a B.S. in Biology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, an M.S. in Forest Ecology and a Ph.D. in Forest Resources from Pennsylvania State University. Her current research focuses on the ecological role of disturbance in hardwood forest ecosystems of the Cumberland Plateau and associated highlands including prescribed fire use to promote desired species composition and structure. Callie has authored numerous publications and presented her research findings at many workshops and forestry field days. Source: www.srs.fs.usda.gov/staff/527, 04/18.
George Screpetis, has over 40 years of forestry experience and currently serves as the President and Chief Consultant of George Doyle, Inc. He helps lead the annual Hardwood Log, Lumber and Tree Grading Workshop sponsored by Louisiana Tech University.
After receiving his B.S. in Forestry from Louisiana Polytechnic Institute and his M.F. from Duke University, George spent 14 years at the UDSA Forestry Service as a Forester and, later, a Timber Quality Specialist. Leaving the USDA in 1979, he spent two years operating a cross-tie sawmill and ten as a Forester and Wood Products Consultant. Since 1991 he has been with George Doyle, Inc.
George is a member of ACF and the Southern Hardwood Forestry Group and is a Registered Forester in Mississippi. He is also a member of the Louisiana Tech Forestry Alumni and past member of SAF and the Forest Products Research Society. Source: Personal Résumé 2/08.
Jay Sears is the chief growth officer for Tentrr, where he works with public and private landowners to create elevated camping experiences for people that love the outdoors. He has worked in the areas of general management, business development, strategy and marketing for two successful IPOs, one successful merger, and one business failure so spectacular it was the subject of a book. Source: Personal Résumé 5/21.
Brian Seasholes is an independent consultant. His work deals with wildlife and land-use issues, especially the Endangered Species Act, property rights, wildlife conservation, including private approaches to conservation in the U.S. and around the world, the effects of wind and solar energy generation on wildlife, and the intersection between wildlife conservation and energy development. His writings have appeared in Forbes, National Review Online, Christian Science Monitor, Houston Chronicle, Orange County Register, The Daily Caller, and The Washington Times.Source: Personal Résumé 02/22.
Roger A. Sedjo is a senior fellow and director of the Forest Economics and Policy Program at Resources for the Future, Washington, DC. His recent work is related to biomass energy and carbon emissions accounting. Other research interests include forests and the global environment, climate change and biodiversity, industrial forestry, and timber demand and supply modeling. He has written or edited 15 books related to forestry and natural resources as well as hundreds of peer reviewed papers. Sedjo has served on the EPA Scientific Advisory Board addressing questions of carbon regulations for biomass energy. Other relevant activities include: his service on several Boards, co-chair of the committee of authors that wrote the chapter on biological sinks for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Third Assessment Report; work on the Board of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, and his participation on the Forest Service’s Second Committee of Scientists. Source: Personal Résumé 3/16.
John Seiler is an Alumni Distinguished Professor of Forest Biology in the Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation at Virginia Tech. His research focuses on carbon flow through managed forest ecosystems and he along with his students have published over 90 refereed research papers. He teaches classes in forest biology, tree identification, ecology and ecophysiology. He has received numerous teaching and faculty awards including: W. E. Wine Award for Excellence in Teaching (1997), Institute for Distributed and Distance Learning Fellow (2000), University Student Leadership Award ¬- Service Learning Educator Award (2001), University XCaliber Award (2001), U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Agriculture Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award (2001), University Diggs Teaching Scholar Award (2002), and Ernest L. Boyer International Award for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Technology (2004). Additionally, Seiler was selected for membership in the Virginia Tech Academy of Teaching Excellence and is the repetitive recipient of numerous college-level teaching awards. In 2002, Seiler received the Commonwealth of Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award, which recognizes superior accomplishments in teaching, research, and public service. It is the commonwealth’s highest honor for faculty members at Virginia’s public and private colleges and universities. Also known as Dr. Dendro, John, along with creative co-workers has developed multimedia tools for tree identification including Woody Plants in North America published by Kendall/Hunt which contains over 23,000 color photographs for 940 trees and shrubs found throughout North America and the Virginia Tech Dendrology web site. Source: Personal Résumé 1/13.
Dr. Brady Self is an Associate Extension Professor with Mississippi State University Extension. He has served as the NWMS Forestry Specialist in the MSU Department of Forestry since 2012. He is tasked with outreach education for landowners and forestry professionals in the northwest region of state as well as pine/hardwood silviculture and forest herbicide training across the state.
Jon D. Sellars graduated from East Carolina University with a BS in Biology in 1998 and a MS in Biology in 2001. Since 2003 he has worked in the Remote Sensing Division of NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey. Source: Personal Résumé 5/11.
William “Walt” Sellers received a Bachelor of Science in Forestry Management from Auburn University in 1962, graduated from Jones School of Law in 1994, and passed the Alabama State Bar Exam in 1995. From 1962 to 1972 Mr. Sellers was an owner, director, and procurement and management forester at Sellers Inc. In 1972 Mr. Sellers began W. W. Sellers and Associates, Forestry Management and Consulting as a part of Sellers Inc. Mr. Sellers also formed Sellers-Messick, Inc., a forestry consulting firm and timber dealership, and also W. W. Sellers Realty, a real estate brokerage firm that specializes in rural properties. In 1994 Mr. Sellers formed W. W. Sellers and Associates, Inc. He is a licensed real estate broker and attorney in Alabama and is a registered forester in both Alabama and Georgia. Source: Personal Résumé 4/14.
Curtis Seltzer is a Virginia-based land consultant who is author of How To Be a DIRT-SMART Buyer of Country Property at www.curtis-seltzer.com. He writes two weekly columns on rural real estate and has been investing in land since 1970. He has a Ph.D. and was voted second funniest in his high school class. Source: Personal Résumé 7/09.
Jonathan Shears serves as the American Forest Foundation’s Regional Scaling Manager for the Family Forest Carbon Program. He is leading the expansion of the Carbon program beyond the Central Appalachians and into new regions. Jonathan previously worked on AFF’s southern conservation projects, including longleaf pine restoration and the Sustainable Forestry and African-American Land Retention Program. Before AFF, Jonathan worked as an outdoor educator with inner-city elementary school students. He is a graduate of Elon University. Source: Personal Résumé 11/10/20
James P. Shepard is Dean and Professor of the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences at Auburn University. He is a native of Mississippi and received his BS in forest management from Mississippi State University in 1979, a masters degree in tree physiology from Purdue University in 1981, and a PhD in forest soils from Mississippi State in 1985.
Jim began his research career by studying the biogeochemical effects of atmospheric deposition in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. For 14 years he led a national research program in sustainable forestry and wetlands ecology for the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, a non-profit environmental research organization supported by forest products companies.
From 2005-2008 Jim was Head of the Department of Forestry at Mississippi State University and from 2009-2010 was the Associate Director of the MSU Forest and Wildlife Research Center.
He and his wife Cathy live in Auburn, Alabama. They have a daughter Melissa who lives in Gainesville, Florida. Source: Personal Résumé 4/11.
David Sherer grew up around the timber industry because his father, Jimmy Sherer, is a forester. He served 10 years in the US Marines as an explosive ordinance disposal (EOD) tech. David also spent 15 years working in the UXO (unexploded ordnance field). After leaving active duty in the Marines in 2001, David started baling pine straw part time/on the side. He started producing baled pine straw full time in 2015. Source: Personal Resume 11/19.
Barry D. Shiver is Emeritus professor of Forest Management with the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources of the University of Georgia. Since his retirement in 2005 Dr. Shiver has focused on forestry consulting through ForesTech International, a company he co-founded eight years ago, and teaching forestry short courses through the Georgia Center for Continuing Education. As a faculty member, Shiver developed and taught the forest inventory course. He and Bruce Borders wrote the forest inventory text, “Sampling Techniques for Forest Resource Inventory”, that is widely used in forestry curricula across the country. He was director of the Plantation Management Research Cooperative (PMRC) at Georgia for ten years and is widely recognized as an expert on southern pine responses to silvicultural treatments and growth and yield. His company designs inventories and works with landowners to insure that information collected in forest inventories is sufficient for use not only in estimating current value, but also in projecting future values. Source: Personal Résumé 8/08.
William Alex Shumate, CFS, is with Strategic Financial Consultants in Charlotte, North Carolina. Alex is a graduate of Appalachian State University with a degree in Business Administration. After graduation he managed his family’s furniture manufacturing company in Hickory, North Carolina. He started his financial planning career after the family business was sold in 1980, in recognition of the need for professional financial planning for closely held businesses. Alex focuses his practice on business succession, exit strategy, estate, investment and fringe benefit planning for closely held businesses and timberland owners in the Southeast. Alex is dedicated to the preservation of his clients’ wealth. Source: Saving the Family Tree brochure, 7/00.
William C. (Bill) Siegel is one of the nation’s foremost authorities on forest tax matters. He is a practicing attorney, a timber tax consultant in private practice, was national president of the Society of American Foresters in 1995. He has retired from the U.S. Forest Service where he served as research project leader for forest resource law, taxation and economics and now manages his own tree farm. He serves as adjunct professor of forest economics and policy at Louisiana State University and has testified before Congress on pending tax legislation.
Siegel has written over 200 technical publications on forest economics, taxation and law and authors a timber tax article in each issue of National Woodlands. Siegel co-authored Forest Owner’s Guide to the Federal Income Tax and Estate Planning for Forest Landowners: What Will Become of Your Timberland?
He received his bachelor and master degrees in forestry and forest economics from Michigan State University, and his juris doctorate from Loyola University of the South’s School of Law. Mr. Siegel is a member of Louisiana State Bar Association and American Bar Association and serves on the boards of the Louisiana Forestry Association and the Forest Landowners Tax Council (of which, he is currently Chairman of the Board). Source: Mississippi State University Continuing Education Course Web Page, 4/99.Updated 4/03.
Mike Sievering has been the president of the ATPCA for the past five years. He was elected as the National Trappers Association Conservation Director by the general membership of the National Trappers Association in 2018 and will begin to serve in that position in July of this year. He was elected the President of Furbearers Unlimited in 2019. Mike earned a BS degree in Wildlife Management in 1978 and a MS degree in Wildlife Ecology in 1982 from Eastern Kentucky University (EKU.) Mike and his family moved to Alabama in 1985 where he began his career as a Wildlife Biologist with the Alabama Department of Conservation (DCNR.) He was an area biologist for four years then was promoted to District Supervisor for 14 west central Alabama counties. In addition he was state furbearer biologist during this time period (26 years.) In recognition of his achievements Mike was awarded the following; Certified Wildlife Biologist 1986, Alabama Wildlife Biologist of the Year 1996, National Trappers Association (NTA) Leadership Award 2009, appreciation award from the ATPCA in 2009 and Trapper of the Year East 2015 by the NTA. Source: Mike Sievering, 2020
Ron Simmons is the area director of the Gainesville office of The University of Georgia Business Outreach Services/Small Business Development Center. Before he joined UGA in 1990, Mr. Simmons was a retail site manager for the British Petroleum Oil Company in Pittsburgh, PA and Cleveland, OH. He also served as district sales manager for Stone Construction Equipment Company for the southeastern United States. Prior to that, he was the district sales manager of Kennametal, Inc. for a ten state area after working in industrial management with the Milliken Companies. Source: The University of Georgia Continuing Education Course Description, 1/01.
Robert S. Simpson is Senior Vice President, American Forest Foundation, Center for Family Forests. He was elected to that position in January 2004 after ten years as Vice President and Director, American Tree Farm System.
His responsibilities at AFF include developing long-term forestry program visions, strategic planning and elevating AFF’s forestry program profiles both domestically and internationally. The American Forest Foundation hosts three Centers; Center for Environmental Learning, Center for Conservation Solutions and Center for Family Forests.
Prior to joining AFF, Mr. Simpson enjoyed a 16-year career as a procurement and land management forester. From 1984 to 1994, he was employed with Chesapeake Corporation, located in Richmond, Virginia. Simpson acted as coordinator for Chesapeake’s landowner assistance program and external communication program.
From 1979 to 1983, Simpson worked for Champion International, Timberlands Division, in Missoula, Montana. While there he worked as District Forester and helped manage the company’s 600,000-acre regional ownership.
Currently, Mr. Simpson is elected to the Board of Directors for the Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Systems (PEFC) and is co-founder and chairman of the International Family Forestry Alliance, an organization of 22 countries in Europe and North America working to develop information and policies regarding family forest ownership and its value to the global community.
Simpson received his BS in Forest Resource Management in 1979 from Virginia Tech’s College of Forestry and Wildlife.
AFF is an independent 501c3 foundation dedicated to improving the active stewardship of America’s natural resources through education and landowner outreach. Source: Personal Résumé 8/08.
Thomas B. Skaggs serves as the Senior Program Underwriting Manager assisting with business development and risk management for all of Outdoor Underwriters’ specialty markets. Tom works with our clients and insurance markets to identify emerging exposures that can be addressed during the application process. Utilizing claims data he has created a loss analysis model to identify risk related to hunting club and landowner demographics. Furthermore his model is applied to OUI’s equipment and standing timber insurance programs. It is designed to recognize inherent risk based on certain underwriting criteria and also addresses the possibility of moral hazards.
Prior to his appointment with Outdoor Underwriters, Tom worked with Ed Wilson for a period of 15 years when he departed in July 2004 to establish the risk management and loss control company, Material Risk Assessment (MRA). Tom served for 5 years as the Director of Loss Control for MRA, a division of Appalachian Underwriters whose writings were in excess of half a billion dollars annually.
Tom graduated from the University of Montana’s School of Forestry with concentration in Forestry and Business Management. He has worked as a forester with both the government and private sectors. Tom has over 25 years of insurance experience as it relates to the to the forest products industry. He brings a unique perspective to our clients addressing their non-typical exposures to loss. Tom works extensively with our Lloyd’s of London markets developing safety programs and risk management strategies.
Tom has been a featured speaker at Universities, State Forestry and Wildlife Organizations as well as landowner groups and hunting club workshops. His presentations cover Landowner Liability, Hunting Lease Liability, Risk Management and Timber Harvesting Safety. He currently serves or has served on the Board of Directors for the following organizations: Forest Resource Association, South Carolina Wildlife Federation and the Tennessee Forestry Association. Source: Personal Résumé 1/15.
David F. Slonaker completed formal training as a chemist and as a psychologist. He is primarily self-taught in the areas of still photography and forest management. His Ph.D. degree in human resource psychology and a varied work history allow him to apply practical psychological principles to numerous work and interpersonal situations. David is a forest owner in Georgia and a long-time member of the Alabama Forest Owners’ Association. Source: Back Cover of Do What You Can When You Can & AFOA records, 3/09.
Peter J. Smallidge works for Cornell University through extension and applied research. Peter is the NYS Extension Forester and the Director of the Cornell University Arnot Teaching and Research Forest. These activities take him throughout the state serving woodland owners and maple producers. As Arnot Forest Director, Peter provides leadership for the production, management, research and extension activities working with a core of dedicated and capable county and campus colleagues. Peter also teaches NTRES 3250 – Forest Management and Maple Syrup Production.
Peter coordinates ForestConnect, Cornell’s Forest Resources Extension Program, by providing leadership for education to enhance the sustainability and stewardship of private forest lands in New York. This program depends upon a close working relationship with CCE educators throughout the state. ForestConnect includes several activities, such as the monthly web conference, development of demonstration sites, writing and editing bulletins, and providing training for Cornell Cooperative Extension educators, foresters, forest owners and maple producers.
His applied research addresses sugarbush management, forest production, and vegetation management of native and invasive plant species. Peter has a B.S. in Forestry from Purdue University (1986) and a M.S. (1989) and Ph.D. (1993) in forest ecology from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse. Source: Personal Résumé 3/14.
Mathew Smidt is the assistant extension specialist in forest operations with School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University. Mathew’s primary responsibility is working in logger education through the Alabama Professional Logging Manager (PLM) Training Program. Mathew has worked in logger education and training for about ten years. Prior to coming to Auburn in July 2000, Mathew held a similar position at the University of Kentucky. He earned a Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in 1996, a Master of Forestry from Duke University in North Carolina in 1989, and a B.S. from Doane College in Nebraska in 1987. Nebraska is Mathew’s home state where his family owns and operates a diversified farm. How do you get from the cornfields of Nebraska to the plains of Alabama? As they say in Kentucky, ‘You can’t get there from here’, at least not without some stops in between. Source: Personal Résumé 10/01.
Ashley Smith currently serves as director of education programs for the Alabama Forestry Association. She serves as the Alabama SFI State Implementation Committee coordinator, manages the Alabama Professional Logging Manager program, and is the Alabama Project Learning Tree coordinator. Prior to the Alabama Forestry Association, Ashley worked six years with urban tree non-profit Trees Columbus in Columbus, Georgia, and 11 years with Mead Coated Board and MeadWestvaco in fiber supply and forestry education/outreach. Ashley graduated in 1995 from Auburn University’s College of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences with a B.S. Forest Operations. Ashley and her husband Ben Smith (who is also a forester) have two teenagers and reside in East Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé 06/19..
Brian Smith is the Chilton County Management Specialist of the Alabama Forestry Commission. As a Management Specialist, his job is to oversee all the county operations. This includes prescribed burning and installing permanent firebreaks. Other activities include management plans, cost share programs offered by the state and federal government, Southern Pine Beetle, BMP complaints, school programs, individual stand management recommendations and works hand in hand with the volunteer fire department. He graduated from Auburn University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Forestry in 2001. Source: Personal Résumé 4/16.
Don Smith is Chief Strategy Officer for SkywayUSA. As the retired President & CEO of Smith & Company LLC, Mr. Smith has over forty five years of International executive level management, sales and marketing experiences. He has helped many companies take products and services to market very successfully. He is talented in sales & seminar planning across many industries, managed strategic negotiations, acquisition analysis and execution with companies like Weyerhaeuser, General Electric, Comdisco, Hewlett Packard, OnDisplay and many others. He is a leader in business plan development and investor introduction in start up and expanding companies. Don remains active in the national and international business community,. He is a board member and advisor to several corporations including SkyWayUSA and resides in Floyds Knobs, Indiana near Louisville, Kentucky with his lovely wife Kathy. Don, the Chief Strategy Office is also Chairman of SkyWay’s Advisory Board, Chairman of the Compensation Committee and is a member of the Board of Directors. Source: Personal Résumé 6/10.
Greg Smith is a recently retired physician living in metro Atlanta, Georgia. He now spends a lot of his time enjoying his family and helping in the community, especially through his local church. He was raised in the U.S. Air Force and also spent over 10 years in the Air Force himself. His family has deep roots in Alabama, and he is proud to own some timberland in north Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé 2/24.
Jonathan W. Smith is Executive Director of The Frank Norris Foundation, publisher of TimberMart-South. In his role, he is responsible for overseeing the collection and delivery of accurate timber market data to forestry organizations and individuals via TimberMart-South’s quarterly publications, The Journal of Southern Timber Prices and The Journal of Southern Timber Market News. With over 15 years’ experience at TimberMart-south, he has a thorough understanding of price data, timber markets, and mill capacities. Prior to joining TimberMart-South, Jonathan worked as a procurement forester with Cooper Marine and Timberlands in Alabama. He is a Georgia registered forester with experience managing timber sales and land management activities. He earned a B.S. degree in Biology from Georgia College and State University and a Master of Forest Resources degree from the University of Georgia.. Source: Personal Résumé 05/24.
Joseph K. Smith is the Director of the Forest and Wood Products Institute at Mount Wachusett Community College. He has a bachelor’s degree in Forest Management (University of Massachusetts, 1977) and twenty-eight years experience in the forestry field. He began at the Institute in 1996 as the Associate Director and became Director in 2001. At the Institute Joe created and administers the successful Southern New England Logger Education Program that serves three states, and assisted with the creation and operation of a wood products cooperative. In addition to providing training to all facets of the wood products industry, the Institute also promotes the greater utilization of our local forest resources, particularly through the development of biomass energy. Previous to working at the Institute Joe was a Service Forester with the Massachusetts Dept. of Environmental Management, and in that capacity assisted with the writing of the current state forest cutting regulations. He has also worked as a forester with the Bureau of Indian Affairs in California and with the Peace Corps in Micronesia. Joe is also a published author of fiction and non-fiction, and an artist whose drawings have appeared in a number of publications. Source: Personal Résumé 09/05.
Mark D. Smith is the W. Kelly Mosley Environmental Professor and extension specialist with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System in the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences at Auburn University. Mark received a B.S. in Fisheries and Wildlife from Michigan State University (1994) and after spending 2.5 years working temporary research positions with the Missouri Department of Conservation returned to academia to earn an M.S. in Wildlife Sciences (2001) and Ph.D. in Forest Resources (2004) from Mississippi State University. Mark’s research and extension efforts now focus primarily on wild pig damage management. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/21.
Matt Smith, ACF, CF, is the Vice President of Forest Operations at Finite Carbon. He has a B.S. in Forest Resource Management from State University of New York’s College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Matt oversees the implementation of Finite’s forest carbon inventory and project verification work and has led more successful forest offset project verifications than anyone in the industry. For two decades Matt was a forest operations specialist and management director for Forecon’s TIMO clients. Matt has extensive carbon project experience under the ARB, CAR, VCS, ACR and CCX programs. Matt is a forest landowner in western New York and has been published in The Forestry Source, Forest Landowner, The Consultant, and the Journal of Forestry. Source: Personal Résumé, 10/20.
Pat Smith is owner and operator of Sandy Creek Forestry, Inc. of Demopolis. A Registered Forester in Alabama and Mississippi, he graduated from Auburn’s School of Forestry with a Master degree in Forestry in 1998. He is also experienced in dealing with the Red Hills Salamander. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/04.
Yenie Tran Smith is the marketing director and a staff editor at Timber Mart-South, a timber price reporting service providing U.S. South timber prices and market information since 1976. Yenie worked on forestry and agriculture policy issues in Washington, DC before obtaining a PhD in forest economics at the University of Georgia. Yenie currently resides in Birmingham, Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/16.
Wesley Smith is District Sales Manager for United Rentals in Alabama. Wes is based in Birmingham, Alabama, but his responsibilities cover most of Alabama. He graduated from the University of Alabama in 2002, and has been in the equipment business for over 7 years. Wes is in charge of all sales activities for the his district. United Rentals is the largest rental equipment provider in the world and has 20 locations across the state of Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/13.
Jim Sollecito received a BS in Ornamental Horticulture from Cornell University in 1976. He is a lifelong avid hunter and fisherman, probably because he doesn’t play golf very well. He recently set 2 International Game Fish Association World Records for Chinook Salmon and Spanish Mackerel in 2011. He owns a 6 care garden center in Syracuse, New York, and also 170 acres of farm and woods within 4 miles of his home. He has been a disciple of QDMA for nearly a decade, and his minimum grade for harvesting a buck is 130. He has taken 3 12 pointers well above that mark in the last 3 years. Jim plans to keep planting until he is planted himself, and with his wife and 2 daughters raises more than 17 varieties of small and tree fruits on their land. Some for the table, most for wildlife. He raises and releases pheasants, and has agreed to come in early from turkey hunting to be interviewed on AFOA’s May 16, 2012 issue of Capital Ideas – Live!. Jim learned how and why to use cameras through QDMA seminars, and strongly believe that joining as many quality organizations as you can ( NWTF, Pheasants Forever) helps gain a global perspective in terms of adding value and protecting your land investment. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/12.
David South is Professor of Forestry in Auburn University’s School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences. He received BS & MS degrees in forestry and a BS degree in Wildlife Biology from North Carolina State University and PhD in forestry from Auburn University. He served seven years as director of the Southern Forest Nursery Management Cooperative. His teaching responsibilities include plantation establishment and management and forest nursery management. Dr. South’s research interests include nursery management, weed control, effects of seedling size on survival and growth, seedling dormancy, and artificial regeneration practices. Source: Auburn University School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences Faculty Directory, 12/99.
Holt Speir is a partner with the law firm of Capell & Howard, P.C. in Montgomery, Alabama. He received his J.D. Degree from the University of Alabama in 1988 and his LL.M. in Taxation from New York University in 1989. He is a member of the Montgomery County Bar Association, the Alabama State Bar, and the American Bar Association. He is also a former Instructor in Estate Planning at Jones School of Law, a member and former President and Director of the Montgomery Estate Planning Council, Chairman of the Tax Section of the Alabama State Bar, a member of Estate Planning Committee of Alabama Bar Institute for Continuing Legal Education, and a trustee of the American Federal Tax Institute. He practices primarily in the fields of taxation, corporate law, securities, and estate planning. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/99.
Don Spencer is a 55-year-old father of three and a lifelong resident of Southeast Limestone County, Alabama. A proud fourth-generation landowner, he holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Science and has a deep passion for the outdoors. An avid conservationist, Don is committed to preserving the natural beauty of his family’s land and heritage. His dedication to responsible land management reflects a strong connection to the land that has been in his family for generations. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/24.
Paul D. Spillers is a tax attorney who practices with the law firm of Theus, Grisham, Davis and Leigh in Monroe, Louisiana. Paul has an extensive income and estate planning practice and litigates tax disputes in the United States Tax Court and Federal District Court. He also owns and manages his own timber tracts located in Louisiana and Mississippi. Paul’s clients include many forest landowners. He is president of the Northeast Louisiana Forestlandowners’ Association. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/01.
Bruce Springer officially assumed the responsibilities of Assistant State Forester in February of 2018. A registered forester in the state of Alabama since 1986, Bruce holds a bachelor’s degree in forest management from Oklahoma State University and a master’s degree in forest management and business from Purdue University. Originally from Columbus, Ohio, he moved to Alabama in 1983 to work for Sizemore & Sizemore, an international forestry consulting firm. Mapping over a million acres of forestland while employed there, he says he gained invaluable experience in timber inventory and appraisals, as well as an understanding of forest industry and forest markets throughout the Southeast.
Beginning his career with the Alabama Forestry Commission as a staff forester in 1991, Springer has held various forestry and leadership positions over many years of service. He served as County Manager in Chilton County for ten years. He then transferred to state headquarters in Montgomery as Forest Management Division Director, a role in which he served for four years, overseeing all forest management assistance programs to forest landowners statewide. Named a Regional Forester in 2005, he supervised up to 60 regional- and county-level staff in 18 counties with an annual budget up to $5 million. He held that position until assuming his current duties.
Bruce and his wife, Virginia, live in Thorsby, Alabama. They have two children and three grandchildren.. Source: www.forestry.alabama.gov/Pages/Informational/Biography/BruceSpringer.aspx, 1/19.
Eric St. Clair is a Senior GIS Specialist with the State of Alabama Oil and Gas Board. He maintains the State’s Oil and Gas Board website as well as the online mapping system. He is originally from Centre, Alabama, but resides in Tuscaloosa. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/12.
Brian Stearns is an Applications Engineer at DeLorme, he solves customer problems by applying DeLorme technologies and translates customer needs into new products. Brian is a Registered Maine Guide, avid outdoorsman and active recreational user of DeLorme Mapping and GPS products. He holds an Electrical Engineering Degree from Rochester Institute of Technology. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/12.
Dwight Steedley is a graduate of the University of Alabama, Mississippi State University, and Auburn University. Dr. Steedley is currently a Professor of Mathematics and Chairman of the Mathematics and Natural Sciences Departments at the University of Mobile. He is president of the Mobile County Landowners Association and a member of the board of directors of the association for the past three years. Dr. Steedley has been a landowner for the past 15 years and his family’s property is designated a Treasure Forest. He has served two terms as president of the Faculty Council at the University of Mobile and is the author of two mathematics textbooks. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/03. Updated 04/04.
David F. Steele, Sr. was admitted to the Alabama Bar in 1982. David attended Auburn University and graduated with a degree in Forestry in 1979. He then attended the University of Alabama School of Law and graduated with his J.D. in 1982. David practices primarily in the areas of property and probate law. Outside the office he is a partner in the timber dealership and land management firm of Hines, Steele and Steele, Inc. He is a member of the Huntingdon College Board of Trustees. He is also the managing trustee of the Mary Elizabeth Stallworth Foundation Trust. Source: Personal Résumé, 10/20.
Ellen B. Steen is a partner with the law firm Crowell & Moring LLP in Washington, D.C. She specializes in environmental law, particularly environmental legal issues affecting forestry and agriculture. She has worked closely with the American Forest & Paper Association and other forestry groups in responding to efforts by environmental interests groups to increase the regulation of forestry and other land use activities through Clean Water Act permitting. She took part in the opposition to EPA’s 1999 proposal to revise its “silvicultural point source” regulation to allow Clean Water Act permitting for certain forestry-related “storm water discharges.” Since that proposal was withdrawn by EPA in 2000, Ellen has assisted in defending against several environmental group lawsuits seeking to re-define forestry activities as Clean Water Act “point sources” and to require Clean Water Act permits for storm water runoff from forest lands.
Ellen is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Law and of Tulane University. She serves as a vice-chair of the American Bar Association’s Forest Resources Committee and its Committee on Agricultural Management. Source: Personal Résumé, 10/03.
Taylor V. Stein is an Assistant Professor in Natural Resources Management – Ecotourism for the School of Forest Resources and Conservation at the University of Florida. He teaches ecotourism courses and conducts research focusing on how to best incorporate ecotourism planning and management into rural landscapes. (webpage) Source: Personal Résumé, 02/03.
Jennie L. Stephens has served as executive director of the Center for Heirs’ Property Preservation since its inception in 2005. At the Center, she is responsible for overall strategic planning, revenue generation, financial management, organizational development, staff management, and program operations. She has worked a total of 25 years in the nonprofit field in such positions as fiscal director at a community action agency, sponsored programs director at a historically black college, and senior program director at Coastal Community Foundation. She also has several years of experience in consulting as a program reviewer, strategic plan facilitator, and grants writer. Jennie’s passion in life is to help people help themselves.
Jennie received a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from the College of Charleston, a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the University of Charleston/University of South Carolina, and, most recently, earned a PhD in Organizational Leadership from Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Joseph L. (“Joey”) Stephenson is a native of Jasper, Alabama. He graduated from the University of Alabama in 1976 with a B. S. in Commerce and Business Administration. He worked as a bank auditor upon graduation from college. His land-related work experience consists of ten years as a landman in the surface coal mining industry of Alabama and twenty-nine years as a landman in the oil and gas industry, working on prospects in various parts of the United States with an emphasis on coalbed methane development. He has worked for River Gas Corporation (Vice President – Land), ConocoPhillips Company (District Landman), Dominion Exploration and Production Company (District Landman), and GeoMet Operating Company, Inc. (Land Manager). He has been an independent landman since September 2014 when GeoMet, Inc. closed its office in Birmingham, Alabama. Mr. Stephenson is a member, director, and past president of the Black Warrior Association of Professional Landmen. He is also a member and past director of the American Association of Professional Landmen. His other professional affiliations include the Southern Appalachian Association of Professional Landmen, the Utah Association of Professional Landmen, the National Association of Lease and Title Analysts, and the National Notary Association. He has also been a member of the Alabama Forest Owners Association for several years. Source: Personal Résumé, 04/17.
Frank M. Stewart, RF, is principal of Washington Resource, an association management and professional services firm that is located in Alexandria, Virginia – just inside the DC-beltway. Stewart grew up in a forestry family, began working in the woods of Southwest Alabama at the age of 13, later became a forest landowner, and earned a BS in Forest Management from Auburn University and a MF in Resource Economics & Policy from Duke University. Today, Stewart represents the interests of family forest landowners in our nation’s capital and has done so since founding Washington Resource in 1998.
From the earliest stages of his career, Stewart has been chosen by his peers to hold positions of responsibility in professional and scientific organizations in various capacities. He is a Registered Forester, a registered lobbyist, has served as an advisor to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture as Vice Chairman of the Forest Research Advisory Council, sat for three years as an inaugural member of the National Alliance of Forest Owners Operating Committee, writes the Washington Resource Report for AFOA, directs government affairs efforts for the Forest Landowners Association and is Executive Director of the Forest Landowners Tax Council. Stewart publishes, or regularly contributes to, four separate forestry-community publications. Source: Personal Résumé, 05/11.
Peter J. Stewart is a 32-year veteran of the forest products industry, founded Forest2Market in 2000, pioneering transaction-based wood fiber pricing. In 2019, when Battery Ventures partnered with Forest2Market and Fisher International, Stewart—a long-time trusted advisor to the executive management of major pulp and paper and other forest products companies globally—became President and CEO of both firms. Following the acquisition of Tecnon OrbiChem in 2020, Stewart expanded his role as CEO of all three companies, which were subsequently rebranded as ResourceWise. As President and CEO of ResourceWise, Stewart oversees the company’s growth through strategic acquisitions, including Tecnon OrbiChem in 2020, Wood Resources International and PRIMA Markets in 2022, and Chemical Intelligence in 2023. Under his leadership, ResourceWise has expanded its global reach in the biofuels and low-carbon feedstocks, chemicals, and forest products markets. A Texas native, Stewart holds a BS in Forestry from Texas A&M and an MS in Economics from the University of Georgia. Source: Pete Stewart, 8/24.
John R. Stivers completed a BS in Forest Management at the University of Arkansas @ Monticello in 1982. He spent 19 years with the USDA Forest Service as a Silviculturist &Timber Sales Specialist; 4 years with the USDA Forest Service, Fire & Aviation in Atlanta GA as Prescribed Fire & Fuels Specialist, and has worked for 18 years as a Private Consulting Forester in AL & GA. John is a Registered Forester in AL & GA, Association of Consulting Foresters, Society of American Foresters Certified Forester, and Alabama Forestry Association member. He is also a certified burn manager in AL, GA & FL and board member of the National Coalition of Rx Fire Councils and AL Prescribed Fire Council. John has taught at the AL Certified Burn Manager program for AL Forestry Commission for past 15 years, and is the owner of Fire Ignition Resources LLC (US distributor Premo aerial ignition machines and Fireballs). He is also a member of Gideons International, a devout Christian, and has been married 34 years with 2 sons. He resides near Talladega, AL.
Dana Stone started her collegiate education at Spelman College where she majored in mathematics. In 1991, she graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree. Mathematics being a broad academic discipline, she wanted to focus on a specific curriculum in science. Dana applied to Auburn University and in 1994, she received a Master of Forestry degree. After graduating in 1994, Dana Stone started her forestry career with Mead Coated Board. She was hired as a GIS technician and later worked as a research technician. In 1999, she began her career with the Alabama Forestry Commission as an Outreach Forester. This was a new program in the agency and its development was still progressing. In 2004, Dana Stone was promoted to the GIS Forester position at the State Office. With the rise of southern pine beetle infestations in the state, the agency wanted a permanent fulltime employee that can produce maps in an efficient manner. She worked in this section for approximately two years. In the latter part of 2005, Dana Stone was promoted to the Forest Health Coordinator position. She worked with insects, diseases, invasive plants, and catastrophic events that harm trees. She was in this position for 15 years. In 2020, Dana Stone was promoted as the Management Division Director for the Alabama Forestry Commission, responsible for supervising several programs such as Stewardship, Forest Health, Landowner Assistance, and Best Management Practices. She has over 25 years of forestry experience, working in areas of GIS, research, forest health, and forest management. Source: Personal Résumé, 08/24.
David Stone is the timber buyer for Cahaba Timber Company, Brierfield, Alabama, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of pressure treated utility poles for domestic and export use. David has more than 30 years experience in wood procurement in the Southeastern U.S. He received a B.S. in Forest Management from Auburn University and an MBA from the University of Alabama, Birmingham. David lives in Alabaster with wife, Jane. Source: Personal Résumé 11/12.
Eddie Stone is the president of Forever Green, Inc., a forestry consulting company that serves North and Central Alabama. Eddie has a Masters Degree in Forest Business and has worked in the industry for over 20 years. He has spent the last 10 years helping private landowners manage their forestland. Eddie is a Registered Forester and fully insured. He became a licensed real estate agent to better serve his clients and joined Great Southern Land, a real estate company that specializes in rural property, as their North Alabama Land Agent. As a realtor and registered forester, Eddie is uniquely qualified to guide clients through the process of buying or selling land. Source: Personal Résumé 03/16.
Richard Straight is originally from Iowa where he received his B.S. and M.S. in Forest Management. He has served as a City Forester in Iowa, a Field Service Forester, a State Staff Forester for the NRCS, both in Nebraska and for the last 7 years as the Technology Transfer Lead for the USDA National Agroforestry Center. The Center is a 3-way partnership of two divisions of the USDA Forest Service, those being Research & Development and State & Private Forestry, and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.
His primary focus at the Agroforestry Center is to promote the understanding and adoption of agroforestry in the U.S. This is done by providing information and training to natural resource professionals who in turn work with private landowners. Working as a forester in the land of corn, beans, and cows, and he has learned many lessons on the benefits and power of partnerships. Even his favorite past time of upland bird hunting is dependent on a partnership with his dog. Source: Personal Résumé 02/08.
Tom Straka is a forestry professor at Clemson University in South Carolina. His specialty is forest economics, management, and valuation. He has been at Clemson for 20 years and spent nearly 8 years at Mississippi State University prior to that. He also worked for International Paper Company as a forester for almost five years. His Ph.D. is from Virginia Tech; an M.B.A. from the University of South Carolina, and a B.S. and M.S. in forestry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Source: Personal Résumé 08/10.
Dr. Lee Stribling is a game management expert and an Associate Professor at Auburn’s School of Forestry & Wildlife Sciences. He graduated with a BS in Biology from the University of South Carolina in 1973, an MS in Wildlife Biology from Clemson University in 1978, and a PhD in Zoology from North Carolina State University in 1983. His professional interest involves applied wildlife management with a focus on upland Gamebirds (bobwhite quail and turkey) and white-tailed deer. Source: http://www.forestry.auburn.edu/directory/directory_search.asp?Name=Stribling, 06/04.
Bronson Strickland received a bachelor’s degree in Forest Resources from the University of Georgia and completed a master’s degree from Texas A&M University-Kingsville. In 2005, Bronson earned a doctoral degree from Mississippi State University and then worked as a research wildlife biologist with the National Wildlife Research Center. In 2006, Bronson became the Extension Wildlife Specialist at Mississippi State University where he works with landowners and natural resource professionals to solve wildlife management problems. Source: Personal Résumé 5/11.
David Strickland writes for Great Days Outdoors and has published articles on history, trapping, hunting, and fishing for various outdoor periodicals. He enjoys sharing stories from decades of float fishing, hunting, and wandering the nearby Sipsey swamps. He also discovered that nature is a grand assistant in his efforts to teach both serious and humorous lessons to his two grandsons. Source: Personal Résumé 10/21.
Richard Stroup is a professor of economics at Montana State University and a PERC senior associate. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington. From 1982 to 1984, he was director of the Office of Policy Analysis at the U.S. Department of the Interior. Stroup is a widely published author and speaker on economics, including natural resources and environmental issues, and he has written many articles for professional journals and popular media outlets. His work helped to develop the approach to resource problems known as the New Resource Economics or Free Market Environmentalism. Stroup is coauthor with James D. Gwartney of a primer on economics, What Everyone Should Know About Economics and Prosperity; as well as a co-author with James D. Gwartney, Russell S. Sobel and David Macpherson of a leading college economics textbook, Economics: Private and Public Choice, now in its tenth edition. His recent publications have focused on the Superfund program and on alternative institutional arrangements for dealing with endangered species, regulatory takings, and other regulatory issues. Source: Personal Résumé, 05/03.
Daniel E. Stuber, IV. As Vice President – Analytics, Stuber oversees development, design and quality of custom analytics at Forest2Market. He is responsible for all of Forest2Market’s project-based work, including resource studies and site evaluations, as well specialty forecasts. He is also the Operations lead for data infrastructure development.
Forest2Market’s third employee, Stuber began working as a timber market analyst for Forest2Market in 2002. Prior to the Operations department being split into two divisions, Stuber was Vice President – Operations. His other experience includes a variety of roles in the forestry industry, including stints in sawmills and with the U.S. Forest Service. He also has experience in timber inventory management, silvicultural applications and harvesting.
A graduate of University of Georgia’s Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Stuber earned a B.S. and an M.F.R. in Forest Resources. While in graduate school, Stuber collected survey data on timber prices for the Warnell School’s timber pricing service. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/14.
Larry Sullivan is the Bioenergy and Biochemical Sector Sales Manager at Forest2Market. Larry started his career with Dresser Europe after Geosciences graduate school at Texas A&M University. He earned his BA from the University of Texas at Austin and MA from Arizona State University. His MA Thesis was forestry fire management practices in California. He managed new technology for oil and gas drilling with Imperial Chemical Industries’ Petroleum from 1985 to 1989. He led strategy development for Conoco Europe and Dupont’s effort at the integration of refinery and petrochemical intermediates from 1990 to 1994. His MBA was completed in 1993 at Warwick University and Refinery Engineering at St. Catherine’s College of Oxford University. After his petroleum career, he led the strategic design and product marketing team at Crown Iron Works to develop novel biodiesel production technology establishing Crown as a leader. In 2005 and 2009, he provided critical reviews of a variety of ethanol, biodiesel, and renewable diesel technology platforms for the world’s leading petroleum companies and presented conference papers for the petroleum refining consulting firm Turner, Mason & Company. From 2007 to 2009, he served as Chief Technology Officer of public-traded Kreido Biofuels, helping with the asset’s sale. Also, he serves as an adjunct professor at Trident Technical College and The Citadel. He served on the DOE and USDA, as well as EPA Technical and Science Advisory Boards from 2018 to 2021. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/21.
Clayton T. Sweeney, admitted to Alabama State Bar October 1987, J.D. from Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama, B.S. in Political Science from the University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida, attended Auburn University and Pensacola Jr. College. I have practiced law as a sole practitioner since 1993 with a focus on Real Estate Law, in residential and commercial real estate closings, and all aspects of mortgage related and title insurance issues, including an emphasis on the closings of foreclosure properties. Source: Personal Résumé, 08/10.
Patrick Sweeney, Curator of the University of Georgia Herbarium. Mr. Sweeney’s expertise is in plant taxonomy and systematics and he is the coordinator of The Vascular Plant Atlas of Georgia Project. He has been a laboratory instructor for plant taxonomy and plant anatomy courses and received a graduate student teaching award from the University of Georgia. Mr. Sweeney has experience in teaching two aquatic vegetation identification courses. Source: The University of Georgia Continuing Education Course Description, 7/99.
Dr. Lloyd W. Swift, Jr., is an Emeritus Scientist of the Southern Research Station of the U.S. Forest Service. He served as Research Forester and Research Meteorologist/Hydrologist at Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory in North Carolina from 1958 to 1999 where he led studies of design, construction and impacts of access roads. He has served as a consultant to Federal and State forestry agencies and EPA and participated in development of road standards for Best Management practices guidelines for protection of water quality. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/14.
Tim Sydor joined Forisk Consulting in 2005 as Forest Economist. His professional experience includes roles in forest operations research at the University of Arkansas at Monticello and in forest management for the Tsuman State Forest Enterprise in the Ukraine. Dr. Sydor leads Forisk’s efforts in the areas of stumpage price forecasting and econometric modeling. He earned a B.S. in Forestry at the National Agriculture University of Ukraine, an M.S. in Forest Economics at Purdue University , and a Ph.D. in Forest Economics at the University of Georgia. Source: Personal Résumé, 03/11.
Chuck Sykes has been hunting since the age of six. He took his passion for the outdoors and earned a degree in wildlife biology from Auburn University. While in school, Chuck worked as a guide for some of the finest lodges the south has to offer. He assimilated the hands-on knowledge from the field with the scientific instruction from the classroom to create his own successful full-service management consulting firm. The Circle N Lodge which is under exclusive lease to Bill Jordan and Realtree Outdoors is among the many properties Chuck has managed. He is a member of the NRA, NWTF, QDMA, Buckmasters, and AWF. Chuck is the producer and creative director for The Management Advantage. Chuck also writes wildlife articles and gives seminars on his management practices. The Management Advantage won “Most Informative Show for 2001” during its first season. Source: Personal Résumé, 08/02.
Jay Taffet is owner/operator of Affordable Aerials. He specializes in perspective or “oblique” aerial photos that show off a farm or business. Jay has flown small airplanes since he was 18. He served as an Air Force pilot for five years after graduating from Vanderbilt in 1990. Jay is a third-generation pilot following both his father and grandfather who served as career military pilots. He also grew up in a “photography” household and learned from an early age how to capture special moments and places on film. Jay is convinced he has the best profession in the world bringing unique aerial perspectives back to earth for today’s collection and tomorrow’s memory. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/03.
John Tamny is Director of the Center for Economic Freedom at FreedomWorks, a senior economic adviser to Toreador Research & Trading, and editor of RealClearMarkets. He frequently writes about the securities markets, along with tax, trade and monetary policy issues that impact those markets for a variety of publications including the Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Financial Times, National Review and London’s Daily Telegraph. Tamny is the author of four books: Popular Economics, Who Needs the Fed?, The End of Work, and They’re Both Wrong: A Policy Guide for America’s Frustrated Independent Thinkers. Source: https://fee.org/people/john-tamny/, 10/19.
Tom Tanton is a Senior Fellow with the Institute for Energy Research, joining the group in 1997. Mr. Tanton is also Principal of T 2 & Associates, a firm providing consulting services to the energy and technology industries. T 2 & Associates are active primarily in the area of energy and interconnected infrastructures, analyzing and providing advice on their impacts on energy prices, environmental quality and regional economic development. Principles and associates of the firm have well over a half-century of experience in technology and legislative interface, having been central to many of the critical legislative changes that enable technology choice and economic development at the state and federal level. Tom is a strong proponent of free market environmentalism and consumer choice, and frequently publishes and speaks against alarmist and reactionary policies and government failures. As a General Manager at EPRI, from 2000 to 2003, Mr. Tanton was responsible for the overall management and direction of collaborative research and development programs in electric generation technologies, integrating technology, market infrastructure, and public policy. Mr. Tanton has over 35 years experience in the energy, economy, and environmental fields. Until 2000, Mr. Tanton was the Principal Policy Advisor with the California Energy Commission (CEC) in Sacramento, California . He developed and implemented policies and legislation on energy issues of importance to California, and U.S. and International markets, including electric restructuring, gasoline and natural gas supply and pricing, energy facility siting and permitting, environmental issues, power plant siting, technology development, and transportation. Mr. Tanton has been recognized for raising awareness of the connection of electricity to other important industries including agriculture, petroleum production, electronics, biotechnology, water supply, Internet, and finance. Mr. Tanton served as a team member of California Governor’s Office task force on critical infrastructure security, coordinating with national effort lead by White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He served as lead advisor on energy and infrastructure to California’s task force on 21st Century development (and provided unique leadership relative to California’s electric transmission needs), recommended positions and actions on major items before the California Energy and Public Utilities Commissions, and provided representation with external top-level management Boards, Commissions, Legislature and Congress. He has testified before several State legislatures and Congress, and provided expert witness testimony in power plant siting cases. Mr. Tanton is affiliated with the West Coast Region-Petroleum Technology Transfer Center (PTTC)-(University of Southern California), Urban Utility Center; New York Polytechnic Institute (Senior Research Associate), and is Co-Chair of the Pacific Southwest Region Initiative, US Combined Heat and Power Association. Source: Personal Résumé, 10/05.
Charles M. Tarver, President, Forest Investment Associates, Atlanta, Georgia. In the early 1980s, Mr. Tarver pioneered the timberland investment business for tax-exempt institutions beginning with the development of the country’s first pooled timberland investment fund while employed at a major Atlanta bank. He has been in the timberland investment business since 1979 and has acquired and managed many thousands of acres of timberland during this period. Charley is a registered forester, a member of the Society of American Foresters and the Association of Consulting Foresters. He is chairman of the Forest Landowners Tax Council and a director of the Forest Landowners Association. He has authored numerous forestry investment and appraisal articles and has been a featured speaker at numerous forestry investment seminars and workshops. He serves on the Advisory Council for the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences at Auburn University where he received a BS degree in Forest Management in 1968. Source: Personal Résumé, 10/00.
Al Tate, M.S., Wetland Ecologist. Mr. Tate’s expertise is in wetland vegetation, wetland ecology, and wetland restoration. As a former wetland ecologist for the Georgia Department of Transportation, he pioneered techniques for assessing and methods of minimizing impacts of highway construction on wetlands. Mr. Tate currently instructs students in wetland ecology and does consulting work in wetland delineation, functional assessment, and restoration projects. Source: The University of Georgia Continuing Education Course Description, 3/00.
Adam M. Taylor is an Associate Professor and the Forest Products Extension Specialist in Forestry, Wildlife & Fisheries at the University of Tennessee. His responsibility is to assist the wood products industry in Tennessee through information transfer and applied research. Dr. Taylor is based at the Center for Renewable Carbon in Knoxville.
An interest in the outdoors and work experience in commercial forestry operations led Dr. Taylor to pursue an education in Forestry. He earned a B.Sc.F, with a Wood Science emphasis, from the University of Toronto in 1996. He continued to explore his interest in wood quality while completing a Masters degree at the University of New Brunswick. The M.Sc.F. thesis examined the scientific basis of the ancient practice of girdling trees prior to using the wood for log building. After graduation in 1999, Taylor worked at the Wood Science & Technology Centre in New Brunswick. In his position as a Research Officer, he helped solve problems in the wood products industry in eastern Canada. He then moved to the west coast of the United States to join the Department of Wood Science & Engineering at Oregon State University. Dr. Taylor completed his PhD in 2004, with a dissertation that investigated the effect of environment on the natural durability of the wood of Douglas-fir and Western redcedar.
Although Dr. Taylor’s education and work experience has emphasized wood quality, wood deterioration and wood protection, he considers himself to be a wood generalist. Source: http://web.utk.edu/~mtaylo29/pages/Contact.html, 9/13.
Mykel Taylor is a Professor and the Alfa Endowed Chair in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at Auburn University. She holds a B.S. in Agribusiness and an M.S. in Applied Economics from Montana State University and a PhD from North Carolina State University. Mykel was raised on a cow-calf operation in Roberts, Montana and is actively raising three kids with her husband Justin. Currently, Mykel serves in a teaching and research role at Auburn University where her 12 years of experience working with stakeholders in extension roles has translated into an applied economics teaching program focused on farm management and appraisal as well as a global agricultural issues class for freshmen.Source: Personal Résumé, 8/25.
David P. Tenny is the founding President and CEO of the National Alliance of Forest Owners (NAFO). Under his leadership, NAFO has grown from 14 initial members in 2008 to 47 member companies that own and manage more than 45 million acres of private working forests and 29 state and national associations that represent tens of millions of additional acres. Dave’s passion for building trust and pursuing solutions-based advocacy has helped NAFO become a leading national advocate for the economic, environmental and social benefits of America’s sustainably managed private forests.
Dave previously served as Vice President for Forestry and Wood Products for the American Forest and Paper Association (AF&PA) and as Deputy Undersecretary for Natural Resources and Environment at the United States Department of Agriculture where he had responsibility for the U.S. Forest Service. He got his start in the U.S. House of Representatives where he served as Counsel and Natural Resources Policy Advisor for the House Committee on Agriculture and as Counsel for U.S. Representative Wally Herger of California.
A native of Boise, Idaho, he earned a bachelor’s degree in American studies from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and a law degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C.. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/19.
Dwayne Tew is a 1997 graduate of the Auburn University School of Forestry. He worked as a consultant forester for Southern Forestry Consultants in Enterprise for over five years. Dwayne is currently working for Wolf Creek Timber, Inc. in Pell City as a procurement forester. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/03.
Billy Thomas has been an Extension Forester at the University of Kentucky Department of Forestry since 2005. Prior to joining the University of Kentucky, Billy worked for the Kentucky Division of Forestry, in the private sector, and as a county extension agent. Billy has a masters and bachelor’s degree in forestry and is currently working on a Ph.D. His primary responsibilities include Non-Industrial Private Forest educational programming such as field days, workshops, extension publications, and newsletters. Another major focus of Billy’s is supporting county extension agents in Kentucky on forestry and natural resource related issues. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/14.
Christine L. Thomas is Dean and Professor of Resource Management at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point College of Natural Resources, which is the largest undergraduate program of its kind in the U.S. She holds the distinction of being the College’s first female tenured full professor.
In addition to her role as an award-winning educator for UW System, Christine is noted for developing “Becoming an Outdoors-Woman,” a program administered throughout North America that teaches women outdoor skills. In 2003 she was appointed by the governor of Wisconsin to serve on the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board and in January 2010 she completed her second term as Chair of this important body, which sets policy for the state’s Department of Natural Resources. At the national level, in 2006 Gail Norton, Secretary of the Interior at the time, appointed Christine to the Sporting Conservation Advisory Council.
Dr. Thomas, who holds a bachelor degree in biology from Central Michigan University, a master’s degree in Water Resources from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, and a Ph.D. in Land Resources from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received numerous awards during her career, including:
o UW-Stevens Point Excellence in Teaching Award
o Conservation Achievement award from the National Wildlife Federation
o American Sportfishing Association “Woman of the Year”
o Safari Club International Educator of the Year
o Budweiser/National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Outdoorsman of the Year
o Great Lakes Outdoor Writers Association Golden Glow Award
o Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Sports Show Hall of Fame for Conservation Achievement
In 2000, Christine was named by Wisconsin Outdoor Journal as one of the twenty most influential conservationists in the state of Wisconsin during the 20th Century. In addition to her teaching and outreach efforts, Dr. Thomas has research interests in resource agency administration, involvement of women in the outdoors, and Wisconsin conservation history.
Christine lives in Plover, Wisconsin with her husband Stan. They have one daughter, Shannon. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/10.
Lindsay Thomas, Jr., is the director of publications and managing editor of the Quality Deer Management Association’s flagship publication, Quality Whitetails, and works out of Bogart, Georgia. He is one of the authors of the book, Quality Food Plots – Your Guide to Better Deer and Better Deer Hunting, a comprehensive guide to good plots and wildlife. Thomas comes to the QDMA from Georgia Outdoor News, a monthly hunting and fishing news magazine, where he served as an editor for nine years. He grew up in Wayne County in southeast Georgia, where he honed his hunting and fishing skills at an early age. An avid deer hunter, Thomas spends as much time as possible in the woods each fall. Thomas and his wife Anne have two children, Jacob, age five, and two-year-old Laurel. Source: www.qdma.com
Mark W. Thomas is a Certified Wildlife Biologist through The Wildlife Society (TWS) and Forester. He has earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Wildlife Management and Conservation Education from Missouri State University – Springfield, and a Master of Science Degree in Forestry from the University of Missouri – Columbia. Post-Graduate education includes environmental and wildlife toxicology, statistics, calculus, plant physiology, trigonometry, and organic chemistry. He won the 2001 Presidential Field Forester Award from the Society of American Foresters. Past employment history includes 8 years as a laborer on the St. Louis – San Francisco Railroad (Frisco), Resource Forester with the Missouri Department of Conservation, Research Scientist at the Environmental Trace Substances Research Center, Pharmacy Technician with the University of Missouri Hospital and Clinics, and Research Associate at Auburn University School of Forestry. He was employed with American Cyanamid (AHP/BASF) for 11 years, five as a Forest Management Specialist for Alabama, North Georgia and East Tennessee and the last six as the Business Relations Manager for forestry and wildlife in the United States. He was responsible for supervising 13 field employees and two regional managers. He won the Circle of Excellence Award, Outstanding Performance Award, Outstanding Service Award, and Innovator of the Year Award (twice), was a Q Performer for 5 years and a Q+ Performer for 6 years. As a lobbyist with the American Cyanamid Agricultural Legislative Communicators, he was active in various lobbying efforts in Washington, D.C., in support of private property rights, estate tax relief, Endangered Species Act reform, and also performs as an Expert Witness. He was past SAF Program Chairman (Cahaba Chapter), past SAF State Chairman – Alabama Division, past Chairman of the SESAF (2009 Term), and served a two-year term on the Board of Registered Foresters – Oral Examination Board (Alabama). He holds past membership in the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Society of Toxicology, Society of American Foresters and Association of Consulting Foresters, and was a peer reviewer in the American Society of Testing and Materials. He is a noted author with over 200 scientific publications. He is a lead outdoor writer for Quality Whitetails, Alabama Wildlife, Hunt Club Digest, and is the past Wildlife Management Editor of Hunting Camp Journal. Currently he a lead writer for Mossy Oak GameKeepers Magazine, Wildlife Trends Journal and appears on GameKeepers Television. He is a voting member of the Professional Outdoor Media Association (POMA) and the Southeastern Outdoor Press Association (SEOPA). As a degreed and Certified Wildlife Biologist, he is a member of and is active in the National Wild Turkey Federation, Quality Deer Management Association (past Chairman of the Board – National Board of Directors – 17 Year Member), National Rifle Association, The Wildlife Society, the British Deer Society, and Safari Club International. He is also a member of and is active in the Alabama Forest Owners’ Association. He is also the Sons of the American Legion (SAL) Commander for American Legion Post 134 and serves on the Board of Directors and a member of the Marine Corps League. He recently served on two committees with the American Forest & Paper Association (Landowner Assistance Program Committee and Wildlife Committee) and is a past member of the Editorial Board of the Alabama Wildlife Federation. He presents approximately 85 – 90 seminars and symposiums annually pertaining to forest and wildlife habitat management. He works closely with private industrial forestry companies in the United States, State and Federal foresters, consulting foresters, hunting preserves, wildlife habitat managers, institutional foresters, trust officers, timber management companies, pension fund managers, nontraditional forestland owners, and nonindustrial private forest landowners. He has investigated over 500 alleged herbicide damage claims during his career. Mr. Thomas is President of a forest and wildlife management firm called FORESTRY/WILDLIFE INTEGRATION, LLC. Services offered include Wildlife Management, Quality Deer Management, Quail Management, Recreational Property Development, Endangered Species Management, Forest Management, Seminars & Symposiums, Expert Witness Testimony, Watershed Management, Riparian Zone Enhancement, Delineation of Federal Jurisdictional Wetlands, Wetland Mitigation Banking, Ecosystem Restoration, Non-Native Plant Eradication, and Hunting Guiding/Outfitting trips to Alaska, Quetico Provincial Park (Canada), Argentina, United States, and Newfoundland, sea duck hunts in Maine, goose hunts in Texas, and waterfowl hunts in Mexico. He likes canoeing, kayaking, camping, fishing, shooting, hunting and gardening. He is a husband (Vikki), father (Abby, Brooke) and grandfather (Jacob, Sam, Drew). Source: Personal Résumé, 4/17.
Marshall D. Thomas began with F&W in 1978 as a field and technical forester, eventually rising through the ranks of the company to become its President. Since 1988, Mr. Thomas has led F&W through a period of rapid growth and service-area expansion that now includes 19 offices in 11 states and international offices in Uruguay, Brazil and Europe. In addition to a variety of memberships in forestry associations, he is also a past president of the Albany Boys and Girls Club and currently serves as its Vice President in charge of financial affairs. Source: http://fwforestry.net/leadership/, 7/15.
Rans Thomas is the Sr. Wildlife Biologist for Cabela’s. He has over 20 years’ experience working with private recreational lands across the country. He holds an AASD in Forestry and Wildlife from ABAC and a B.S. in Wildlife Management from UGA. Rans now leads the Cabela’s Wildlife and Land Management team of Regional Wildlife Biologists. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/14.
Alex Thomasson – Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering. Source: Mississippi State University Continuing Education Course Description, 3/00.
Johnny Thompson has been using, testing, selling, supporting, and training others in GPS and GIS applications for the past 22 years. His company, LandMark Spatial Solutions, provides GPS, GIS, forest inventory, forest measurement, stockpile measuring, load ticketing, and UAV solutions to over 1000 forestry, wildlife, and environmental companies and agencies throughout the Southeastern U.S. Johnny works very closely with Trimble Forestry, F4 Tech, Haglof, Handheld, Esri, Laser Technology, NEI, and Juniper Systems to provide his clients cutting-edge, technology-based solutions that increase accuracy and improve efficiency in both the field and office. When Johnny is not busy helping his clients, he likes to read and encourage others from the Bible, ride horses, and spend time outside at his farm with his wife and 12 children. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/16.
Angela M. Thorpe is a Colorado native, has twenty years of experience in news media, corporate communications and has worked for State Farm for nine years and is a Public Relations specialist for the company. You can follow Angela on Twitter and her news room at these links. @SF_AngelaThorpe & Colorado News Room. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/13.
Bob Lee Tjaden, Jr., is Regional Extension Specialist-Natural Resource, at the Wye Research and Education Center, Queenstown, Maryland. He received a BS and AS degrees in Forestry and Wildlife Management and Forest Management Technology from the University of Maine, a MF degree in Forest Management and Economics from Duke University, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Environmental Management & Policy from the University of Maryland. He has been a very active Tree Farm Inspector and was named Forester of the Year in 1999 by the Maryland/Delaware Chapter of the Society of American Foresters. Source: Personal Résumé, 02/01.
Charles E. Tomlinson has been a forest manager and consultant since 1957. His clients include individuals, partnerships, corporations, estates, trusts, and government agencies. He has served as an expert witness in Federal and State Courts. Charles is a graduate of The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee and was a pilot in the US Air Force. He is the author of A View From My Stump and many essays dealing with forestry issues. He is Past Chairman of the Alabama Board of Registration for Foresters and presently serves as Editor of The Registered Forester. Charles serves on the boards of directors of the Forest Landowners Association and South Alabama Land and Timber Company and is chairman of the boards of directors of The Foundry of the Shoals, Inc., Tomlinson Forest, Inc., and Tomlinson Group, Inc. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/99.
Stephan Tomlinson graduated from Auburn University in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science in Forest Engineering. He is Co-Founder and Vice-President of the Woodall Corporation, one of the first independent harvesting companies in the South to purchase and champion high-tech logging equipment developed in Sweden and Scandinavia. In 1997 Stephan inherited and expanded his father’s consulting business, Tomlinson and Associates, by becoming a real estate broker in the states of Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, and a registered appraiser in the state of Alabama. In 2001 he founded Natural Resources Group, Inc. to house the expanded business. In 2008 the expanded business was divided with Natural Resources Group focusing solely on the real estate brokerage side of the business and the newly-established Growing Assets, LLC focusing on the business’ consulting and appraisal services. Stephan is a Registered Forester in Alabama and Mississippi, a Certified Prescribed Burn Manager in Alabama, and an active advocate for the forestry industry, private property rights, and professional ethics. He has served on the Alabama Forestry Association’s board multiple times, including as President and Chairman. Stephan has also served on Auburn University’s School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences Advisory Panel, and numerous private boards. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/14.
Jeff Toorish has a broad and varied communications background including radio, television and print. His specialty is strategic communications for industry. He is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Atlanta based Alliance for Southern Forests, a regional grass roots advocacy group for the forestry industry. ASF membership is open to a wide range of people, organizations and companies engaged in the forestry and logging industry in thirteen Southern states. Prior to assuming the presidency of the alliance, Mr. Toorish was the President of the Maine Pulp & Paper Association in Augusta, Maine, where he successfully fended off anti-forestry and anti-industry legislative and referendum assaults. During the 2000 election cycle, he was the chief political and media strategist battling anti-forestry Referendum Question #2 in Maine. At the ballot box voters defeated Question #2 by a 72 to 28 percent margin. At the time, many experts agreed that Question #2 would have effectively shut down forestry in Maine. Before working for the forestry industry, Jeff was a distinguished political journalist. He has won a multitude of journalism awards from many major journalism organizations, including the Associated Press, the Maine Association of Broadcasters, the Montana Association of Broadcasters and others. He is also an award winning television commercial producer with Tellie, Pollie and WorldFest awards to his credit. In 2000, Papermaker Magazine recognized Jeff’s contribution to the industry and awarded him the prestigious Vision 300 Award as the single person who has done the most to improve the image of the pulp & paper industry in the US. Jeff is also a contributing writer to Solutions Magazine, published by the Technical Association of the Pulp & Paper Industry. In addition to his work for the Alliance for Southern Forests, he is working on a book about environmentalism and the forestry, pulp & paper industry. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/01.
John F. Tourtellotte, Sr., President of Tourtellotte and Associates LLC, has fifty years experience in manufacturing, engineering, and construction for the chemical, petrochemical, pulp and paper, and metallurgical industries. Specializing in all aspects of process equipment design, Tourtellotte holds ten U.S. Patents and provides many services to hazardous waste management, including asbestos and toxic chemicals.
Tourtellotte and Associates’ goal is to construct the “first of a kind” process that will convert low-commercial-value forest biomass into an environmentally clean, high BTU synthesis. This would create a fuel free from Alkaline earth metals that have a tendency to poison SCR catalyst that are used to control NOX emissions from power plants. This process would net zero CO2 emissions to the atmosphere, and could be mixed with natural gas or other fuels in order to provide an economically acceptable fuel blend. The synthesis gas would also reduce the consumption of fossil fuel, increase the use of renewable fuel, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and enhance the value of local forest biomass.
Tourtellotte holds a Master of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering, and is an Alabama Registered Professional Engineer. He has held many positions in all aspects of process equipment design, including Process and project engineer, consultant, project manager, and even director of marketing. Source: Tourtellotte and Associates LLC’s Credentials, 10/03.
Edward F. Travis, RF, ACF, is principal of the Edward F. Travis, Company, Inc. Ed is a 1969 graduate of the University of Alabama where he earned a BS degree in Commerce & Business Administration with a real estate major. Ed began in the real estate appraisal business in 1971, after service in Vietnam as an Army artillery officer. Ed completed a Master of Forestry (MF) degree in 1992 from Duke University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in Durham, North Carolina. The firm encourages participation in professional societies. Ed has served as past chairman of several groups including the Alabama Chapter of the Association of Consulting Foresters (ACF), The Jubilee Chapter of the Society of the Society of American Foresters, the Alabama Chapter of American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers (ASFMRA) and the NW Florida Chapter of the Appraisal Institute. After serving as board chairman, Ed currently serves as a board member of the Alabama Forest Resources Center, which is a land trust seeking and managing conservation easements on working forestlands. Ed is a steering committee member of the Alabama Prescribed Fire Council (ALPFC). Ed, for many years, was a certified instructor for the ASFMRA. He taught national courses on appraisal, forestry subjects and conservation easement valuation. Ed is a Certified Burn Manager in Alabama and Mississippi and is trained and qualified as Wildland Firefighter II by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG). Ed is a Registered Forester in Alabama, Mississippi and North Carolina. He is a licensed real estate broker in Alabama and Mississippi.
The firm is actively involved in timber sales, rural land sales, prescribed burning, timber appraisal, timber basis allocation studies, estate valuations, forest litigation support, highest and best use analyses, hunting lease administration and numerous day-to-day forest management activities for clients.
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George Tremblay taught biochemistry and was active in biomedical research at the University of Rhode Island for thirty-four years before retiring as professor of biochemistry in December 2000. He lives with his wife and two dogs on twenty-eight acres of woodlot in Charlestown, Rhode Island, near enough to the ocean to dig his own clams and satisfy the family’s penchant for fresh seafood. Source: Sawmill & Woodlot Management Magazine August/September 2004: Issue No. 46, p. 16.
Shelley Tschida is the CEO of Quality Services, Inc. QSI has been providing access and recreation management services to private industrial forestland owners for the past eight years. Currently, QSI has over 1 million acres of forest land involved in custom designed active access management programs. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/08.
Wayne Tucker graduated from Oklahoma State University with a degree in Forest Management. He worked in many positions with Georgia-Pacific Corp for 28 years, mostly in forest management. He then spent 3 years with Forest Resources Association in the SouthCentral Technical Division. In January 2004, he started to work with the Mississippi Institute for Forest Inventory, which is working toward accomplishing a statewide forest inventory. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/04.
Robert A. Tufts is an Attorney and Professor Emeritus in the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences at Auburn University. Robert has earned a B.S. and M.S. in forestry from Louisiana State University; a Ph.D. in forestry from Virginia Tech; a J.D. from Jones School of Law, Faulkner University; and an LLM (taxation) from the University of Alabama. Robert taught courses in timber taxation, estate planning, property law, choice of business entity and environmental law, as well as the Senior Capstone Project, surveying and road design and maintenance. He retired from full-time employment in February of 2015 and is currently a Visiting Professor for the Alabama Cooperative Extension System (ACES) where he presents workshops on legal issues affecting landowners primarily in the areas of estate planning, business entities and property law. Robert also has a part-time law practice limited to tax planning, estate planning, business entities and property issues. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/16.
T. Adam Tullos currently serves as the North Mississippi Wildlife Associate for the Natural Resource Enterprises Program. His position is housed at the North Mississippi Research and Extension Center in Verona, MS where he covers the Northern 41 Counties of Mississippi. Adam holds a Bachelor of Science, 1993, in Marine Biology and Environmental Science form Livingston University, and a Master of Science from Mississippi State University, 2000, from the College of Forest Resources in Forest and Wildlife Management. During his past working experience Adam has held various positions dealing with environmental monitoring, habitat restoration, and wildlife ecology. He has also worked in industry as an environmental specialist with Entergy Operations and later with Geo-science Engineering. He has also worked as a planner and field forester with two national conservation organizations, The Great Outdoors Conservancy & Ducks Unlimited, Inc., and prior to working for the Extension Service he served as a District Wildlife Biologist with the Mississippi Dept. of Wildlife, Fisheries & Parks. His current position was formulated to provide technical assistance for private landowners in the areas of wildlife and fisheries and natural resource enterprise development. Adam routinely provides expertise for the development of wildlife enterprises on private lands and assists with other topics relevant to integrating forestry, agriculture and wildlife management. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/08.
Tom Urban began his professional career in banking with Goldman, Sachs & Co. in 1988. He subsequently spent 14 years in the agricultural seeds business with Pioneer Hi-Bred and E.I. DuPont de Nemours. In May of 2004, Urban left DuPont to become the CEO of CellFor Inc. Tom received his undergraduate degree from Middlebury College and a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard University. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/04.
Zoltan van Heyningen joined the U.S. Lumber Coalition in July 2005, and has been the Executive Director of the Coalition since April 2006. Mr. van Heyningen led the Coalition during the difficult negotiations that established the U.S. – Canada Softwood Lumber Agreement. Prior to joining the Coalition, Mr. van Heyningen worked on trade policy initiatives for over a decade during his time at Dewey Ballantine LLP. Mr. van Heyningen’s work at Dewey included trade policy initiatives related to various international trade disputes, including softwood lumber and seafood products, but primarily focused on trade policy issues related to the U.S. integrated steel manufacturers. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/16.
Eric D. Vance is a principal scientist with the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement (NCASI) (www.ncasi.org), a non-profit environmental research organization serving the U.S. and (now North American) forest products industry since 1943. Eric has published numerous scientific reviews, serves on advisory boards, and manages research projects in collaboration with industry, agency, and university partners on a range of sustainable forest management and productivity topics. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/10.
Curtis VanderSchaaf received his degrees in forestry from Stephen F. Austin State University, University of Idaho, and Virginia Tech. As an undergraduate at SFA, he was an analyst and field crew chief with the East Texas Pine Plantation Research Project (ETPPRP), his master’s and PhD work were funded by the Intermountain Forest Tree Nutrition Cooperative (IFTNC) at the University of Idaho and by the Loblolly Pine Growth and Yield Research Cooperative housed at Virginia Tech, respectively. For nearly 4.5 years, he has been working as a southwest regional forestry extension specialist with Mississippi State. Before that, he worked as a research specialist and an Assistant Professor of Forest Biometrics with the University of Arkansas at Monticello, a research associate with the Southern Forest Nursery Management Cooperative at Auburn University, a resource analyst with Texas Forest Service, a biometrician/forest modeler and within utilization and marketing with the Minnesota DNR, and an Assistant Professor of Forest Biometrics and Measurements with Louisiana Tech University. He has worked on numerous growth and yield studies and field trials as well as conducted economic and financial assessments of forests across the nation. He has developed many forest management applications and Timber Decision Support Systems (TDSSs), many of which included forest carbon components. During his career he has given nearly 30 presentations to forest landowners, foresters, and others about the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), Natural Capital Exchange (NCX), other forest carbon markets, and carbon estimation procedures. Plus, he is part of the Penn St led Forest Owner Carbon and Climate Education (FOCCE) landowner program. He has produced close to 35 articles and videos on forest carbon markets, including 17 extension articles. While with the Minnesota DNR he tried to implement carbon concerns into operationally used forest management harvest schedules. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/25.
Charles A. “Buck” Vandersteen is Executive Director of the Louisiana Forestry Association, a private non-profit trade association promoting forestry in Louisiana. His duties also include the management of the Louisiana Forestry Foundation and the Forestry Political Action Council, ForPAC. Mr. Vandersteen is a professional forester. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in forestry from the University of Massachusetts and a Masters in Business Administration from Louisiana Tech University. He is a graduate of the Institute of Organizational Management in Association Management from Oklahoma University. Buck has served in the forest products industry in various capacities – growing, harvesting, and utilizing forest resources. He has served with the Peace Corps in Liberia, West Africa as an advisor to that government in forestry related matters. In his current activities with the Louisiana Forestry Association, Mr. Vandersteen is involved in membership development, governmental affairs, education programs, and public awareness. Mr. Vandersteen serves as secretary/treasurer of the Southern Forest Heritage Museum. On the national scene he serves as Regional Director, and Treasurer of the Alliance for American and is on the Board of Trustees for the Forest Products Industry National Labor Management Committee. He has served on the National Operating Committee of The American Tree Farm Program. Mr. Vandersteen is also active in community affairs. He currently serves on the Board of the Louisiana State University Agriculture Development Council. He represents LSU on the Council for Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching (CARET) of the National Association of State Universities. He serves on the Governor’s Task Forces on Environmental Protection and Preservation and Oversize Vehicles. He serves as Treasurer of the Louisiana Society of American Foresters. He has served on the Boards of the Central Louisiana YMCA, United Way, Louisiana Society of Association Executives, Agricultural Leaders of Louisiana, Bolton Avenue Lions Club, Dixie Girls Softball and President of the Rapides High School PTA. Mr. Vandersteen received the Distinguished Service to Forestry Award in 1996 from the Louisiana Society of American Foresters. Mr. Vandersteen is married and has two children. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/02.
Dane VanDervoort is a geologist with the Geologic Investigations Program (GIP) at the Geological Survey of Alabama (GSA), and his recent work focuses primarily on Alabama’s critical and non-fuels mineral resources. Dane is a native of Georgia and he obtained his Bachelor of Science in Geology at Georgia Southern University and his Master of Science from Auburn University. His professional interests include economic and structural geology, igneous and metamorphic petrology, and geological mapping, and his professional research focuses largely on trying to decipher the early Paleozoic tectonometamorphic evolution of the Piedmont terrain in the southernmost Appalachian Mountains of east-central Alabama. Dane has been with the Geological Survey of Alabama since graduating with his MS degree in 2016, and in his current position, he serves as the Agency’s Liaison for the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Earth Mapping Resources Initiative Program.Source: Personal Résumé, 7/21.
Allen E. Varner is Registered Forester #1982. He has twenty-seven years forestry experience working in private industry and state government service. Twenty-four (24) years were spent with forest industry supporting the manufacturing process for a pulp and paper mill and the last several years managing state wide programs to assist private landowners achieve their forest management goals. His responsibilities with industry included: Forest Management, Landowner Assistance, Wood Procurement, & Support Staff. Varner served in both field and staff capacities managing field activities with the emphasis on site preparation and reforestation. He provided analytical and technical assistance to the forest management and paper/pulp manufacturing processes for a mill in central Alabama. Allen has been with the Alabama Forestry Commission since 9/2005. His principle program responsibilities include: Legacy, Stewardship, & Accomplishment Reporting. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/08.
Ian Vásquez is the director of the Cato Institute’s Project on Global Economic Liberty. His articles have appeared in newspapers throughout the United States and Latin America. Vásquez has appeared on CNBC, NBC, C-SPAN, Telemundo, Univisión, and Canadian Television as well as National Public Radio and Voice of America discussing foreign policy and development issues. He received his bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University and his master’s degree from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is the editor of Global Fortune: The Stumble and Rise of World Capitalism (2000) and coeditor of Perpetuating Poverty: The World Bank, the IMF and the Developing World (1994). Vásquez is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Mont Pèlerin Society. Prior to joining the Cato Institute in 1992, he worked on inter-American issues at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Caribbean/Latin American Action. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/04.
Pamela Villarreal is the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) expert on retirement, Social Security, economic growth and tax issues. Villarreal has written studies and analyses on specific topics such as the danger of 401(k) borrowing, Social Security disability, the expiration of tax cuts and the future of Social Security and Medicare. She authored and co-authored numerous publications on diverse topics such as medical malpractice reform, Medicaid reform, the estate tax, smart growth policies, monetary policy and teacher pay. One of her studies, “Wealth, Inheritance and the Estate Tax” was coauthored with noted economist Jagadeesh Gokhale. She also has written “The Coming Tax Tsunami” and “Would you Benefit from a Roth IRA,” among other reports.
Villarreal’s work on the NCPA’s 401(k) borrowing calculator and the negative consequences to borrowing from a 401(k) has been recognized by media throughout the country. Among those was Kathy Kristof, the award-winning personal finance columnist with The Los Angeles Times.
Villarreal routinely shares her insight with media outlets throughout the country, including The Washington Post, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Newsday. She also has written commentaries that have appeared in the Washington Times and the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, and provides interviews for radio stations in major markets.
Villarreal has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Applied Economics from the University of Texas at Dallas. Source: www.ncpa.org/about/pamela-villarreal, 3/09.
Neil Waer, Associate Director, Préceda Education & Training and Wildlife Biologist, Préceda Wildlife & Forest Management Services, received a BS in Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences from Texas A&M University and a MS in Wildlife Science from Auburn University, and will receive a PhD in Wildlife Science from Auburn University Summer 2000. Neil is a Certified Wildlife Biologist and has worked as a private wildlife management consultant for eight years, specializing in the development and management of wildlife and timber resources on private hunting lands. Source: Préceda Education & Training Course Description, 3/00.
Frank Walburn is Senior Vice President, Timber Fund Manager, Regions Morgan Keegan Trust, Birmingham, Alabama. Mr. Walburn comes to Regions from AmSouth Bank, which he joined in August 2003. Prior to joining AmSouth, Mr. Walburn worked at MacMillan Bloedel, Inc. where he began as a field forester, moved to sawmill and plywood mill management and ultimately became Woodlands Manager for over 400,000 acres of timberland. Mr. Walburn holds a B.S. in Forest Management from Auburn University and has served as President and Chairman of the Board for the Alabama Forestry Association and as Chairman of the Alabama Division of the Society of American Foresters. He currently serves on the Alabama Board of Registration for Foresters. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/10.
Mike Walker received an electrical degree at Gadsden State College and a degree in industrial maintenance from Marshall County Technical School. He has worked as a maintenance man, supervisor, and later manager at a local poultry plant, where he managed the plant for the next 21 years. When Davis Lee started building Lee Energy Solutions, a biomass facility in Crossville, Alabama, Mike transferred as plant manager and has been there for 8 years. Mike is married to Charlene Walker and has 2 grown children and a dog named Tucker. He likes to spend his spare time playing with his grandson and playing golf. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/14.
Lawrence E. Wall has a unique background to be able to address Estate Planning issues today. He graduated with a degree in Forest Management in 1980 and worked in the field for 7 years with the MS Forestry Commission. While there, Larry brought the county from dead last in the state (82nd) to consistently being in the Top 10 programs. From there he was with various bank trust companies assigned to roles such as an estate planner, a trust and estate administrator, a regional manager, and a bank-wide manager for all charitable trusts and private foundations. Since 2002, Larry has been a personal financial advisor with designations as a Certified Financial Planner and a Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy. Today, he directs WealthArc Advisors where his work focuses on “For Generations to Come.” Source: Personal Résumé, 3/23.
Howe Q. Wallace has served as Chief Executive Officer of PalletOne since its inception in 2001. Previously, he was the Executive Vice President of Human Resources for IFCO Systems North America, Chief Human Resources Officer for PalEx, Inc., and Director of Human Resources for Ridge Pallets, Inc. Wallace holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Florida and a master’s degree from the College of Education at Michigan State University. Since 2005, he has been sharing his thoughts on the organization, leadership, and communication in an online daily note to teammates called Daily with HQ. More than 50 of his notes were recently compiled in a Field Guide, available at Amazon.com.
Marc A. Walley graduated from Auburn University with a degree in Forest Management in 1985. He started his forestry career with Scott Paper Company in Mobile, Alabama where he held positions in timberland operations and management. He has been with Forest Investment Associates (FIA) since 1994 where he is Executive Vice President, leading the Portfolio Management Team which has responsibility for timberland management, land sale and disposition activities and client relationship management. FIA is a Registered Investment Advisor headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and acquires and manages timberland for institutional investors. The firm operates in 20 U.S. states and in Brazil managing approximately 2.5 million acres of timberland with a market value exceeding $4 billion. FIA is an employee-owned company and is recognized within the industry for its high standards and strong culture. Marc is a member of the Board of Directors at FIA as well as the Executive and Investment Committees. He is a member of the Auburn School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences Advisory Council and chairman of the school’s Campaign Leadership Team, and is on the Board of Directors of the Longleaf Alliance, a conservation organization dedicated to the restoration and conservation of longleaf pine forests. Marc is a Registered Forester and member of the Society of American Foresters and speaks frequently at conferences, forestry schools and civic groups on the subject of forest management, timberland investments and conservation. He is a deacon at First Baptist Church of Roswell, Georgia and is married to Penny, also an Auburn grad. They have two daughters, Adrienne and Madison, and reside in Milton, Georgia. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/15.
Noreen Walsh is the Deputy Assistant Regional Director for Ecological Services with the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Southeastern Region. The Fish and Wildlife Service is a Federal agency within the Department of the Interior whose mission is to work with others to conserve fish and wildlife and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. Ms. Walsh received a B.S. and M.S. in wildlife biology from Michigan State University and Colorado State University, respectively, and has worked for the Fish and Wildlife Service for 13 years. She has been involved with Endangered Species Act policy issues for the past eight years, and was in the Service’s headquarters office in Arlington, Virginia before coming to the southeast. In addition to endangered species issues, Ms. Walsh’s program responsibilities within the Ecological Service’s Division include working with States and other Federal agencies to review impacts of projects on fish and wildlife and providing technical advice and assistance to private landowners. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/03.
Dr. Linda Wang is a forest taxation specialist with the USDA Forest Service, a national resource located in Atlanta, Georgia. She is responsible for timber tax education to foresters, landowners, loggers and tax professionals and attorneys. She is the co-author of the frequently used Tax Tips for Forest Landowners for the 2006 Tax Year. She is also involved in timber tax policy studies and assessment. She has a Ph.D. degree in forest economics, master and undergraduate degree in taxation and a CPA certificate from Washington State. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/07.
Mike Ward: “I am a native Mobilian, a local business owner and an avid outdoorsman. It is my love for the great outdoors that ultimately led me into the real estate business, specifically, land and timber.
“In 1976, my dad, Fred Ward and I opened Ward’s Sporting Goods. It has been a successful business and has served Mobile with the best hunting and fishing products for 30 years. Owning this business gave me the opportunity to meet people who enjoy hunting and fishing as much as I do, like Mike and Sheree Dees. I learned how to be of service to our customers and give them products that would make hunting and fishing enjoyable. It also gave me the opportunity to be associated with organizations like: the National Wild Turkey Federation, Coastal Conservation Association, Alabama Wildlife Federation, Southern Kingfish Association and the Mobile Big Game Fishing Club and others.
“From 1989 until 1996, I co-hosted a weekly one hour live television show called the Mobile Sportsman. We traveled around the local area filming hunting and fishing events, aired it on the show and then answered callers’ questions. Now, every Thursday at noon, I co-host a weekly radio show on WNSP 105.5FM, with Wayne Gardner and Sean Sullivan.
“I really enjoy everything I do and do everything I enjoy with determination and commitment. That is why when you do business with SOUTHERN TIMBERLANDS, you’ll be doing business with people who are dedicated to our profession and; who like myself, have that same spirit of commitment and determination to help you obtain that perfect piece of property to suit your family or business plan.” Source: www.southerntimberlands.com, 7/08.
Neil A. Ward is Vice President, Public Affairs with the Forest Resources Association. Neil joined the FRA staff in 1982. As Vice President, Public Affairs, he is the point man for the 82-year-old Association’s public policy, external affairs, and communications functions, working out of FRA’s national office in Washington, DC. Neil edits the quarterly Forest Operations Review and the electronic FRA Bulletin, and he oversees the Association’s web site at www.forestresources.org, as well as several related web projects. Apart from his other responsibilities, including as an advocate for the Association’s policy positions, he serves as staff liaison for FRA’s national Public Policy/Advocacy Committee, Supplier/Consumer Relations Committee, and Bio-Energy Task Group.
Neil’s background is in the arts and letters. He holds a BA in theater arts and German literature from Brown University and an MFA in playwriting from Carnegie-Mellon. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/16.
Bob Warren is a Certified Wildlife Biologist who serves as Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Management in the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forest Resources. Since 1974, Bob has conducted research on wildlife physiology, reproduction and nutrition, mostly focused on wildlife populations in parks and urban/suburban areas. Source: The University of Georgia Continuing Education Course Description, 7/00
Portrice Warren is a teacher in the Birmingham City Schools system, where she has been teaching since 1997. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Child Development from the University of Montevallo, a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education from Miles College, and a Masters of Arts in Curriculum Instruction and Technology from Grand Canyon University. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/22
Garrett Watson is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Tax Foundation, where he conducts research on federal and state tax policy. His work has been featured in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Politico, the Associated Press, and other major outlets. Previously, Garrett was a program manager at the R Street Institute and conducted policy research on economic opportunity and labor markets, including non-compete clause reform. Garrett earned a bachelor’s degree from St. Lawrence University in upstate New York, where he studied economics and philosophy. Garrett lives near Fayetteville, Arkansas, and is an avid hockey fan and snowboarder. Source: Personal Résumé, 10/21
Lawrence Reed Watson, Jr. is the executive director at Property and Environment Research Center. His research focuses on the implementation of market-based solutions to natural resource conflicts focusing particularly on public lands, water, and wildlife issues. With Terry Anderson and Brandon Scarborough, he co-authored Tapping Water Markets (RFF Press, 2012).
Watson holds a J.D. and M.A. in Environmental Economics from Duke University and a B.S. in Economics from Clemson University. Watson lives in Bozeman with his wife, son, and dog. He is an avid outdoorsman and enjoys trail running, skiing, and hunting. Source: www.perc.org/staff/reed-watson, 5/16.
Richard Watson is an international expert in electronic commerce. He has authored several books including Metamorphosis: A Guide to the World Wide Web & Electronic Commerce, Data Management: Databases and Organizations, and Electronic Commerce: The Strategic Perspective. His work has been translated into Portuguese, Chinese, German, and Dutch. Dr. Watson is a Professor of MIS in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. His research interests include electronic commerce, management of the information systems function, and national culture and MIS. He is the inaugural chair of the Academic Advisory Committee of ezgov.com, on the board of advisors of SelfhelpWeb.com, and Director of the Terry College’s Center for Information Systems Leadership. In ten years at the University of Georgia, Dr. Watson has been recognized eight times for the quality of his teaching. He has given invited presentations in more than a dozen countries for companies such as IBM, 3M, PowerGen, Telenor, and Apple. Source: The University of Georgia Continuing Education Course Description, 5/00.
Michael M. Weathers is the Chief of Enforcement for the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division. Michael began his career with the department in 1999 as a Conservation Enforcement Officer stationed in Chambers County. He has worked as a game warden across the state and has been the Chief of Enforcement since 2016. He has degrees in Criminal Justice and English from Jacksonville State University and lives in Shelby County with his wife Stephanie and their two children Addie and Jackson.
John Weir is currently a research associate on the faculty of the Natural Resource Ecology and Management Department at Oklahoma State University. Prior to that he was the superintendent of the OSU Research Range for 16 years. He teaches two prescribed fire courses, conducts fire ecology research and has extension responsibilities relating to prescribed fire training and prescribed burn associations. In the past 20 years he has conducted over 750 prescribed burns in vegetation ranging from shortgrass prairie to Oak-Pine forest in four states. He also has a book coming out in October titled Conducted Prescribed Fires: A Comprehensive Manual. It is being published through Texas A&M University Press. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/09.
Paul D. Wellborn: In 1962, my brother, Doug Wellborn, and I founded Wellborn Cabinet, Inc., in Ashland, Alabama. The company began in a small service station where we began manufacturing low-cost cabinetry for contract sales of government-financed housing. In 1986, I purchased the company to become sole owner and changed the marketing strategy to focus mostly on residential kitchen and bath dealers and distributors. The company is family owned and operated. My wife and 5 children all work for Wellborn Cabinet, Inc. Each bring success to the business. Wellborn offers 2,757 door style and finish combinations and the facility size has grown to 2 million square feet. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/08.
Gene Wengert has been active in the forest products industry for over 40 years and is well known for his ability to translate the complex into easily understood, practical operating procedures. He has managed a mill in Virginia and has taught practical hardwood sawing, edging, and trimming for 15 years. He has written numerous texts and magazine articles and columns (including monthly contributions to Southern Lumberman and to Sawmill and Woodlot Management). He is also the technical advisor to the Sawing and Drying Discussion Board at www.woodweb.com. Prior to starting The Wood Doctor’s Rx, LLC, Gene was an extension specialist at the University of Wisconsin and Virginia Tech for 25 years and with the US Forest Service for 15 years. Source: LSU AgCenter Research & Extension Continuing Education Course Description, 7/00.
Gregory William West graduated from Auburn University in 1973 with a B.S. in Forest Management. Greg is a self-employed consulting forester, Alabama Registered Forester #961, and a contract logger. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/17.
Ben Westfall is a Deer Outreach Specialist with the National Deer Association where he provides guidance to landowners and hunters on wildlife management, establishes and supports wildlife management cooperatives, assists with Chronis Wasting Disease outreach, and helps manage NDA’s education and certification programs. Ben originally comes from Missouri where he worked as the biologist for a private free-range deer management property before joining the NDA. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/21.
E. P. “Buck” Whatley, Jr. is a landowner, real estate developer, and retired Episcopal Priest in Hale County, Alabama. He and his son own and operate the Magnolia Restaurant, Greensboro. In 1989, he successfully organized fellow landowners under the title, “North Hale County Landowners Association”, a group representing 64,000 acres and successfully leased to ARCO and Victory Resources for methane/oil exploration and drilling. That same group was successful in having internet services brought to North Hale County, opposed and prevailed in an attempt to annex farm land into town limits – an action which would have raised taxes and provided few, if any, benefits – and today is working with part of same group in getting better deal from gas/oil leases. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/05.
Ernest Whatley was born and raised in Beauregard, Alabama. He is a retired dairy farmer who held the honor of having the highest producing herd of dairy cows in the state in 1989. He is married with three children, one of whom does woodworking and furniture, mostly out of Alabama wood. He runs a 4-wheeler track in Opelika in addition to leasing land to hunters. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/04.
Scott Whetstone is a lifelong resident of Elmore County, living in rural area outside of Tallassee called Friendship. He is a 25-year small business owner, along with being a father of three adult children and a Pawpaw to six with another on the way. He enjoys the outdoors and spending his extra time with the love of his life, Pam, taking trips to other southeastern states to unwind and enjoy the sights. He was part of a group of Elmore County residents to resist and vote down a property assessment trying to be passed through a special election on November 4, 2025. The success came with an astounding 93.4% of the voters opposing a new property assessment. It was a countywide group effort and showed that people can come together as concerned citizens. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/25.
Andy Whitaker is the Publisher and Editor of Wildlife Trends Journal based out of Montgomery, Alabama. He is a graduate of Troy University and has been the Owner of Wildlife Trends since it’s beginnings in 2001. Wildlife Trends is a bi-monthly publication offering research based wildlife management information to landowners and land mangers throughout the southeast. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/09.
Ben Whitaker received a B.S. in 2007 from Auburn University in forest management and is expected to complete a M.S. in 2009 from Auburn University in tree physiology and forestry. Forestry work experience includes an internship for the D. W. McMillan Trust located in Brewton, Alabama and various supporting roles for the Tree Physiology Laboratory directed by Dr. Lisa Samuelson at Auburn University. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/09.
Jaime White is Administration Officer of The Ridge Riding Club. Happily married for 13 years to Jason White (one of the 2 owners of The Ridge), mother of 2 children. Enjoys outdoor activities such as ATV riding, snow skiing, hiking, boating, and most recently gardening. Quiet times include a good cup of coffee and a great book. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/08.
Ira Jay Whitehead is a Supervisory Special Agent assigned to the Agriculture and Rural Crime Unit of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency. Jay has been with the unit since it was created in 2013. Prior to working in the unit, he was assigned to the Alabama Department of Public Safety’s Motor Carrier Unit. Sgt. Whitehead has been in law enforcement for approximately 24 years. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/15.
Dan Whiting is the Director of Communications for the National Alliance of Forest Owners. He previously served as Chief of Staff for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. Prior to this appointment, he served for 11 years on the staff of U.S. Senator Larry Craig, R-Idaho, advising him on natural resource policy, representing him in North Idaho, and working as his press secretary and then communications director. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/11.
Gregory N. Whitis is an Extension Aquaculture Specialist and Associate Professor in the School of Aquatic Sciences and Aquaculture at Auburn University. He has been at Auburn for thirty-three years. He works primarily with Alabama’s catfish industry out of the Alabama Fish Farming Center in Greensboro. He also assists recreational pond owners in west Alabama. He has earned degrees from Iowa State University and Auburn. Gregory is married and has two grown sons. He owns a Treasure Forest in Hale County.
Carl P. Wiedemann retired as General Manager of Forest Parks with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Carl has forestry degrees from Syracuse and Oregon State. He is “family forest owner” of an 83 acre woodlot in upstate New York since 1980. Carl is a member of the New York Forest Owners Association and the Society of American Foresters. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/12.
T. Bently Wigley is Manager of the Sustainable Forestry Research Program for the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, Inc. (NCASI), a non-profit research organization that addresses environmental issues of importance to the forest products industry. Through research and other activities, NCASI develops technical information that helps the forest products industry meet its environmental goals including the sustainable management of forests. Dr. Wigley has a B.S. in forestry and M.S. and Ph.D. in wildlife ecology, all from Mississippi State University. He also serves as an adjunct faculty member at several major land-grant universities in the South. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/13.
David Wilkinson is the General Manager of Southern Silviculture Operations for Manulife Forest Management (MFM), based out of Harpersville, Alabama. In his current role, he is responsible for reforestation, spraying, and fertilization across 2.2 million acres of industrial grade timberlands across the eastern U.S. He is a registered forester in the state of Alabama along with being a member of the Society of American Foresters. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/25.
George F. Will is one of the most widely recognized, and widely read, writers in the world. With more than 450 newspapers, his biweekly Newsweek column, and his appearances as a political commentator on ABC, Will may be the most influential writer in America.
Will began his syndicated column with The Writers Group on January 1, 1974, just four months after The Writers Group was founded by Ben Bradlee and Katharine Graham. Two years later Will started his back-page Newsweek column.
In 1977, he won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary, for his newspaper columns, and garnered awards for his Newsweek columns, including a finalist citation in the Essays and Criticism category of the 1979 National Magazine Awards competition. He was also the recipient of a 1978 National Headliners Award for his “consistently outstanding special features columns” appearing in Newsweek. A column on New York City’s finances earned him a 1980 Silurian Award for Editorial Writing. In January 1985, The Washington Journalism Review named Will “Best Writer, Any Subject.” He was named among the 25 most influential Washington journalists by the National Journal in 1997.
Today Will serves as a contributing analyst with ABC News and has been a regular member of ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday mornings since 1981.
Will was born in Champaign, Illinois, and was educated at Trinity College in Hartford, and Oxford and Princeton universities. Prior to entering journalism, Will taught political philosophy at Michigan State University and the University of Toronto, and served on the staff of U.S. Sen. Gordon Allott. Until becoming a columnist for Newsweek, Will was Washington editor of the National Review, a leading conservative journal of ideas and political commentary. Copyright 2007, Washington Post Writers Group, 1150 15th St., NW, Washington, D.C. 20071
Bob Williams has been a forester since the mid 1970s; he worked for ten years in the state of Washington. Now for the past twenty five years Bob has been a consultant forester helping several hundred landowners in southern New Jersey with the management of their private forests. He has worked extensively on trying to keep a forest policy that continues to permit forestry as a permitted land use. For several years Bob has been writing extensively for the advocacy of forest management. He is the owner and president of Pine Creek Forestry LLC. Our lands are primarily located in the Pinelands National Reserve. Bob is also working with New Jersey Audubon on the first reintroduction of wild quail from Georgia onto a private forest here in New Jersey. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/16.
Chris J. Williams is a Certified Public Accountant and Tax Manager for Jamison, Money, Farmer and Company, P.C. Chris specializes in preparing and reviewing tax returns for businesses, individuals, estates, trusts, and non-profit organizations with a special focus on Timber, Oil, and Gas Taxes. He is an expert advisor in general business consulting, income tax planning and estate planning. He acts as an advisor and mentor to many of the new professional accounting staff and assists in the management and maintenance of tax software. His educational background includes a B.S. in Commerce and Business Administration and an M.S. in Tax Accounting at the University of Alabama. Professional Affiliations include American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, The Alabama Society of Certified Public Accountants, the Alabama Forest Owners’ Association, and The National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts. Civic and Community Activities include Past Corporate Sponsor Chairman, DCH Help & Hope Funds annual Barbeque and Blue Jeans, Board member and former Treasurer, Children’s Hands on Museum of Tuscaloosa, Member and former Board Member, Kiwanis Club of Tuscaloosa, Member and Current Treasurer, Druid City Business League, and Current Treasurer, Verner Elementary School PTA. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/14.
EJ Williams is the Southeast Director of Sustainable Forest Partnerships for the American Bird Conservancy, an organization that works to conserve wild birds and their habitats. She is working to stop the decline of migratory birds and enable conservation throughout their life cycle. She served as an Assistant Regional Director for Migratory Birds of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. EJ also worked for The Longleaf Alliance, Georgia Wildlife Resources Division, and as state Partners in Flight Coordinator. EJ earned BS and MS degrees in Wildlife Biology from the University of Georgia, is a Certified Wildlife Biologist, and graduate of the National Conservation Leadership Institute. Source: https://abcbirds.org/about/staff/ , 03/25.
Ellen Williams is a retired secondary English teacher and author of a political novel, “Bedford, a World Vision.” She has done rather extensive speaking to historical organizations across the state. She is a political activist who generally opposes raising taxes and believes state government should be more accountable. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/04.
Mike Williams is Director of Strategy & Planning for the Westervelt Company, the parent of Westervelt Renewable Energy, LLC. Founded in 1884, Westervelt owns over 500,000 acres of land with interests in timber, lumber, minerals, real estate, ecological services, renewable energy, and forest recreation. Westervelt Renewable Energy focuses on conversion of renewable raw materials to produce electric power and solid wood fuel products. Mike is the Project Manager for the Aliceville Pellet Plant, serves on the board of directors for the U.S. Industrial Pellet Association and is an advisory board member for London-based Earth Capital Partners LLP Latin America Timber Investment Fund. Mike holds a BS degree from Morehead State University and is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/12.
Pete Williams is a writer, author and broadcaster who since 2013 has served as editor of Forest Landowner magazine. The Virginia native and University of Virginia graduate began his career as a USA Today sportswriter and is the author or co-author of 21 books, including Mark Verstegen’s landmark “Core Performance” fitness series and maverick marketer Mike Veeck’s “Fun is Good’ business motivational book. Williams specializes in helping busy professionals and families tell their stories in book form. An avid endurance sports athlete, Williams lives in Central Florida with his wife and two sons. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/15.
John L. Willis graduated with a Ph.D. in Forestry and Evolutionary Ecology from Michigan State University. John previously worked as an Assistant Professor of Silviculture and Forest Ecology in the Department of Forestry at Mississippi State University. Currently, Dr. Willis works as a Research Forester with the United States Forest Service in Auburn, Alabama. His research focuses on the direct and indirect effects of silvicultural manipulation on stand dynamics and ecosystem functioning. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/21.
Bart J. Wilson is Professor of Economics and Law and the Donald P. Kennedy Endowed Chair of Economics and Law at Chapman University. His research explores the origins of property and the human propensity to truck, barter, and exchange. He also studies how Adam Smith’s ideas in The Theory of Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations can inform the modern study and interpretation of economics. Another of his research programs compares social decision making in humans, apes, and monkeys. He is the author of The Property Species: Mine, Yours, and the Human Mind, published by Oxford University Press, and co-author of Humanomics: Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations for the Twenty-First Century, published by Cambridge University Press. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/21
Ed Wilson is educated in Forestry with a Bachelor of Science in Forest Resource Management and a Master of Science in Forestry Economics from West Virginia University and a Ph.D. in Industrial Forestry Operations from Virginia Tech. He is vice-president of Outdoor Underwriters, Inc. located in Columbia, South Carolina, and specializes in timber and landowner insurance programs. He has been involved with forestry and landowner liability programs since 1990. Source: Personal Résumé, 9/21.
Orman R. Wilson is a Certified Public Accountant with the firm, JamisonMoneyFarmer PC. He focuses on providing estate tax planning and compliance services primarily to trust clients. With more than 22 years of experience in public accounting, he also assists clients with corporate, partnership, and individual income tax return reporting, as well as complex issues surrounding tax reporting matters. Orman’s educational background includes a B.A. in Mathematical Statistics, a B.S. in Accounting and a Masters in Tax Accounting, all from the University of Alabama. He holds memberships in the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Alabama Society of Certified Public Accountants (ASCPA). Orman was the President of the Tuscaloosa Chapter of ASCPA, the President of the Tuscaloosa Estate Planning Council, Board member and Past President of the Big Brothers Big Sisters of West Alabama, a member and past president of the Tuscaloosa Exchange Club, and a Graduate of Leadership Tuscaloosa. Source: Personal Résumé, 2/24.
Josh Windham is an attorney at the Institute for Justice, a national public-interest law firm dedicated to the protection of constitutional rights, including private property rights. Josh is currently representing two Tennessee property owners in a constitutional challenge to a state law that allows wildlife officers to search their properties without a warrant.
Jan Witt is retired from owning a catering business and has 3 grown children. Her family owns a farm in St. Clair county. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/14.
Amanda Wood acquired a B.S. in Wildlife Management from the University of Georgia and a M.S. in Wildlife Science from Auburn University. Amanda owns Woodlands & Wildlife Consultants, LLC providing wildlife and timber consulting services to private landowners. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/04.
Grant Woods was raised in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri. Grant was schooled at Southwest Missouri State, University of Georgia, and Clemson University. For the past 15 years, Woods has directed a wildlife research and management consulting firm that serves corporate, university, agency, and private clients throughout the white-tailed deer’s range. Grant recently coauthored a book titled Deer Management 101 – Manage Your Way to Better Hunting. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/04.
Lois Cason Wooten was reared on her father’s farm in Dooly County, Georgia. The farm was engaged in tree farming, timber harvesting, and had a mill operation. Her father was also a merchant and owned a cotton gin. Lois attended local schools and graduated from the University of Georgia. She served as a trustee of the University of Georgia Foundation and is currently an emeritus trustee. Lois is married to Frank Wooten, who was president of Kaiser Agricultural Chemical Company and founder of G & C Fertilizer Company. Lois manages their farms, which are all in natural forests or planted pines. Lois is associated with Four Seasons Travel in Savannah, and she and Frank have one daughter and two grandchildren. Source: Personal Résumé, 2/04.
Robert C. Wright is a 1969 forestry graduate of the University of Tennessee. Bob worked as a service forester, area forester, and district forester with the Tennessee Division of Forestry until 1975. For a brief period Bob was employed as a farm and acreage real estate auctioneer (1975-76). Since then he has been employed by the Tennessee Division of Forestry as a staff forester working in forest products utilization and marketing. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/01.
Russell A. Wright: Rusty Wright received an undergraduate degree from University of North Carolina – Asheville, Masters from NC State. Rusty worked on fish interactions in the estuaries for his thesis research. For his PhD he attended the University of Wisconsin – Madison where he worked on largemouth bass growth and recruitment. After finishing the PhD, he spent some time in a post-doctoral research position at Ohio State until he joined the faculty in the Fisheries Department at Auburn University in 1997. His position is split 3 ways among extension, teaching, and research. As an Extension Specialist he provides information to the public about a variety of areas including fishing, recreational fish pond management, and aquatic natural resources in general. He teaches 2 courses and his research program involves projects in ponds, reservoirs, and the Mobile-Tensaw Delta. Faculty webpage: http://www.ag.auburn.edu/fish/directory/faculty/wright.php Source: Personal Résumé, 5/08.
Mark Wyatt is employed as a geologist in AmSouth’s Natural Resources and Real Estate Department in Mobile, Alabama where he manages over 1.5 million acres of mineral rights located primarily in the Southeastern U.S. for private landowners, corporations, estates, trusts and foundations. His responsibilities include the leasing, development and appraisal of mineral rights. He earned a Bachelors of Science degree in geology from the University of Alabama and has 27 years of experience in the mining and petroleum industry. He is a Certified Professional Geologist and licensed in the states of Alabama and Mississippi. He is a member of AIPG, AAPG, AAPL and the Society of Petroleum Engineers. Source: Personal Résumé, 02/03.
Michael Wydner grew up in south Alabama (Dothan), where hobbies included hunting, fishing and anything sports related. Michael is the son of Jerry Wydner, and nephew of John Wydner, both owners of Hunter Safety System. Michael has assumed the role of National Sales Manager with the company, and is responsible for all sales activity. HSS is currently sold at over 2,000 retailers throughout the US, Canada and Europe. Michael manages a team of 22 sales reps that call on this vast array of dealers. As is the case with most small companies, Michael may be negotiating terms with a Big Box retailer one day, and unloading trucks the next. “I cannot fully express how much I love my job, and love the industry in which I work. Every day presents new opportunities to swap hunting stories, share tips and tactics, as well as preach safety to our fellow hunters. Having the opportunity to make a difference in people’s lives is incredibly rewarding, and being able to do it in an industry which I’m passionate about is just the icing on the cake. I’ve been blessed in more ways than I deserve.” Source: Personal Résumé, 11/14.
G. Kenneth Xydias is a quantitative silviculturalist who joined Resource Management Service in 1989. He is responsible for creating economic models of timberland acquisitions and for making performance projections for forestland managed by Resource Management Service. He is also responsible for the technical aspects of timber inventory, as well as growth and yield systems and silvicultural technology transfer. Ken has written at least 15 scientific articles for a variety of publications, including The Consultant, Forest Science, USDA General Technical Reports, the B. W. Baruch Forest Science Institute of Clemson University, School of Forest Resources at the University of Florida and American Pulpwood Association Technical Papers. Ken was a division research forester with Continental Forest Investments and a technical services supervisor with Stone Forest Products before joining RMS. He holds a B.S. and M.S. from the State University College of Forestry in Syracuse, New York. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/01.
Weihuan Xu is the Principal Economist of Texas Forest Service. He has been working for Texas Forest Service since 1998 and coordinates the economic development and forest inventory and analysis program of the agency. He holds a Ph.D. in Forest Resource/Economics and M.A. in Economics from the University of Washington, and a Master in Forest Economics from Chinese Academy of Forestry. He was a research scientist at the Chinese Academy of Forestry in 1991-1993 and a forester in Anhui province of China in 1983-1988. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/03.
Bob Yates received a degree in Animal Science from Auburn University and worked as a researcher, a teacher, a 4-H agent and a farm journalist. Upon the death of his father in 1970, he returned to the family farm near Woodland, Alabama. His farm interests include timber, cattle and poultry. He farms 2,000 acres, owned and leased. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/02.
Noel S. Yoho is a forest ecologist with degrees in forest management, wildlife management and forest ecology from West Virginia University and The University of Tennessee. In 1985, following an eighteen-year career with International Paper Company, Mr. Yoho established a forest consulting business providing a range of services to forest landowners and specializing in herbicide technology, prescribed burning, and optimizing timber/wildlife productivity. He has authored numerous publications in these areas of expertise. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/04.
William Preston York, MBA, is the owner/operator of FlowMotion Trail Builders LLC, located in Anniston, Alabama. He has been a professional trail building contractor for over 6 years and is a licensed General Contractor in Alabama with a $1,000,000 bid limit, specializing in Recreational Trail Construction. During this period, Preston has performed Multi-Use trail design and construction of over 100 miles in 18 unique locations in 5 states. Preston specializes in National Interscholastic Cycling Association compliant trails, tight and technical, Flow trail, gravity trail, jump lines, rock armoring and alternate features, water crossings, Green, Blue and Black sweet single track. Source: https://trailbuilders.silkstart.com/companies/flowmotion-trail-builders-llc, 4/22.
Cetin Yuceer is an assistant professor in the Department of Forestry at Mississippi State University. He received his Ph.D. from the same institution in 2002. Part of his research focuses on interactions between pine beetles and other organisms to understand survival strategies of beetles. The research team’s long-term goal is to develop affordable and environmentally safe technologies for managing beetle populations. Source: Personal Résumé, 1/09.
Jim Zeigler has worked as an elder-care planner for senior citizens and veterans. He has a plan to turn the State Auditor’s office into a monitor of how our tax dollars are spent in Montgomery.
Zeigler was born in Sylacauga, Alabama, where his father, Bloise Zeigler, was longtime Mayor of the town of Oak Grove, and he served twice as Chairman of East Alabama Regional Planning Commission.
Jim Zeigler was led to Christ and baptized by pastor, William K. Weaver, who became the founding President of the University of Mobile. Zeigler earned a degree in Public Administration from the University of Alabama, where he was President of the Student Government Association. He served on the University of Alabama Athletic Committee along with Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant.
Zeigler served on the Alabama Public Service Commission and twice as delegate to the Republican National Convention. He is married to Jackie Zeigler, longtime Principal of award-winning Mary B. Austin Elementary School in Mobile. They have two teenage children: James Baldwin “Win” Zeigler and Mary Magdalene “Maggie” Zeigler. Source: http://auditor.alabama.gov/bioJim.aspx, 5/15.
Yanli Zhang received his Ph.D. in Forestry in 2006 from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Dr. Zhang has been assistant professor at the Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture of Stephen F. Austin State University since 2009. He teaches six GIS related courses: Surveying and Mapping, Introduction to GIS, GIS Application, GIS Database Management, GIS Programming, and GIS for Water Resources. His research mainly focuses on GIS and its application in water resources and GIS programming. Software he has developed includes: watershed management decision support system, soil erosion modeling tool, LiDAR data processing tool, plant pattern analysis tool, traverse computation tool, and several web GIS application sites. As the corresponding author or co-author, he has published eleven peer reviewed papers, one book chapter, one proceeding, and eight technical papers for The Forestry Source. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/14.
Douglas Ziebach is a procurement forester with Ziebach & Webb Timber Co., Inc. Ziebach grew up in the timber business with his father, a Registered Forester in Alabama who has been owning and actively working in a wood dealership since 1979. Ziebach was born in Mobile in 1969, but was raised in Monroeville, where he lives today. He is a 1995 graduate of Auburn University with a B.S. in Forest Resources. He is a Registered Forester in Alabama, and shares responsibility for procuring, supervising logging, & marketing privately owned timber in Central & South Alabama, & North West Florida.
Source: Personal Résumé, 4/04.