Contact Information:
Alabama Forest Owners' Association, Inc.
P. O. Box 361434
Birmingham, Alabama 35236
Phone: (205) 987-8811
Fax: (205) 987-9824
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Speakers/Instructors: listed alphabetically by last nameBiographical Information About Speakers/Instructors: D-I, J-Q, R-Z 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 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. 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. 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, 07/02. 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. Henry Barclay, III, is a CPA and managing partner with Lehmann,
Ullman and Barclay LLP in Birmingham, Alabama. A frequent seminar speaker, Henry has an
interest in timber and timberland issues spanning three decades. His practice takes him
throughout Alabama and major interests are to help landowners keep more of the proceeds
from their timberland and to preserve property from one generation to the next. He works
with individuals, families and companies to these ends. Henry is a past
president of the Alabama Forest Owners’ Association, a board member of Forest
Land Owners Tax Council and a board member and treasurer of the Forest History
Society. 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. Dr. Rebecca Barlow is an Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist in Forest Management and Economics where she develops programs and publications that assist landowners and forestry professionals in the area of forest management on private lands. A graduate of Mississippi State University, she has worked in the areas of applied forest economics and timber management on private forests since 1992. In addition to 12 years of forest industry experience, she has conducted research in the areas of forest aesthetics and benefit/cost analysis of managing forests for multiple uses, including joint production of wildlife habitat and timber. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/07. 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. Lehman H. Bass, an Opelika native, graduated from Auburn University in 1975 with a BS in Forestry Management. He was a procurement Forester for Georgia–Pacific, and for 12 years managed 76,000 acres for Evergreen Timberlands. Eventually, he established his consulting firm, Green South Land & Timber in 1996, where he serves as President. He has served on the board of directors of the Alabama Forestry Association, served as President of the Auburn University Forestry Alumni Association, and is now serving as Chairman of the Alabama Board of Registration for foresters, Chairman of the Southern Boards of Registration for Foresters. In addition, he is serving on the board of directors of the Land Trust of East Alabama and on the Alabama Forest Stewardship Committee. He is a Registered Forester in Alabama and Georgia, an SAF certified Forester, an ISA certified Arborist, a Member of the Association of Consulting Foresters, a certified burner in Alabama, and finally a licensed herbicide applicator in Alabama and Georgia. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/04. 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. 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. 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. 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.
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Tom Brickman has a forest management degree from Auburn University and 29 years experience as a practicing forester, real estate broker, and real estate appraiser. This experience includes the Peace Corps in Guatemala, procurement for a paper company and consulting forestry. Currently he is a partner with Cyprus Partners, a real estate development and land brokerage business located in Birmingham, Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/04. 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. 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 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. 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. 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. 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. L. Wes Burger is an Associate Professor of Wildlife Ecology in the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Mississippi State University. His research interests include bobwhite population ecology and response of early successional bird species to forest and agricultural management regimes. Click here for more details. 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. 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. 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. 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. Margaret Hage Byfield was raised on Pine Creek Ranch, a large cattle operation located in central Nevada where her family battled against the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management in what became the landmark case, Hage v. United States. In 1992, she helped start Stewards of the Range, a national property rights organization based in Idaho and Texas that defends the property rights of small landowners. She serves as Executive Director of Stewards of the Range, Vice President of Liberty Matters which publishes the weekly Liberty Matters News Service, and co-produce the recently released Taking Liberty web based program. Source: Personal Résumé, 5/05. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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). 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. Tony Chandler is the Fire Prevention/Law Enforcement Specialist for the Southwest Region of the Alabama Forestry Commission who operates out of Brewton, Alabama. In addition, he also led a Law Enforcement/Prevention Sweep in north Mobile County. Believing that the best defense in problem areas is a good offense, Chandler's record of long investigative hours, detailed investigative work, careful interviewing techniques, and determination to put an end to the 'arson sport' in some of these areas has made a definite impact. He recommended two witnesses to receive cash rewards under the Alabama Loggers' Council's REWARDS Program. Seeing the importance and value of fire prevention in the Wildland/Urban Interface, he works closely with the Southwest Alabama WUI Advisory Council. He made an impressive fire prevention presentation for the USDA Forest Service review team in the summer of 2004, focusing on law enforcement as a major fire prevention tool. Finally, he was actively involved in improving the quality of work of the AFC's law enforcement personnel, as well as the officers' image in court and public settings. He also helped in drafting new affidavits and new bail bond arrest tickets. Chandler began his career with the Commission in 1985 as a Forest Ranger II in Jefferson County. In 1986, he transferred to his home county, Crenshaw, where in March of 2002 he received a promotion to Forestry Specialist. In October of 2002, he was promoted to his current position as Forestry Project Specialist, which he works out of the regional office in Brewton. Source: Anderson, Stanley, and Elishia Ballentine. Alabama. Administrative. Alabama Forestry Commission. TREETopics. Sept. 2005. 19 Sept. 2006 http://www.forestry.state.al.us/publication/pdfs/TreeTopics-Sept05.pdf. 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. 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 Resource Development section of the Alabama Cooperative Extension System (ACES) since 1990. As a Tourism Specialist with ACES, his responsibilities involve 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. Dr. Chesnutt is a graduate of Auburn University, Lehigh University, and the University of Georgia. In addition to Auburn University, he has served as a faculty member at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, University of Alabama, and Marshall University. He has twenty-four years of teaching and practical experience in tourism and leisure services. He serves on the board of the Alabama Tourism Partnership and the Alabama Bureau of Tourism and Travel Advisory Board. Source: Personal Résumé, 01/04. Martin W. Christie is the founder and
President of Public Affairs Strategies, a public affairs consulting firm based
in Montgomery, Alabama. f "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. 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. 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 Resume, 8/06. Wayne K. Clatterbuck is Associate Professor at The University of Tennessee, Department of Forestry, Wildlife & Fisheries. His research interests are in forest stand dynamics focusing on the ecological changes in species composition, stand structure and development during forest succession and following forest disturbance. He has management experience with hardwood silviculture, particularly oak species, from obtaining regeneration to intermediate treatments and rehabilitating undesirable cutover stands. Dr. Clatterbuck is responsible for forest landowner education programs and the Tennessee Master Logger programs with the Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service. He received his Ph.D. from Mississippi State University in 1985. Source: Personal Résumé, 3/01. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Tamara L. Cushing is an assistant professor of forest management and economics at the University of Kentucky. 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. Source: Personal Résumé 10/08. 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. Biographical Information About Speakers/Instructors: D-I, J-Q, R-Z |
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