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: A-C, J-Q, R-Z 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Ted DeVos is a Forester, Wildlife Biologist and Co-owner of Bach and DeVos Forestry and Wildlife Services in Montgomery, Alabama. He serves as an appointed Commissioner on the Alabama Forestry Commission and as Vice-president of the Alabama Wildlife Federation. Bach and DeVos assists in management of forest and recreational properties throughout the southeast, especially in Alabama. Their newest venture is understory management with woodland grinders to clear thick undergrowth and saplings for hunting, forestry, wildlife management and aesthetics. He describes how this new piece of equipment can be used to benefit landowners in their wildlife habitat and woodland management. Source: Personal Résumé, updated 6/05. 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. 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.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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 and raised in Cleveland’s Cross Roads in Alabama. He got a B.A. and M.A. in International Relations (Soviet Union and Middle East specialty), a M.A. in National Security Studies (specialty in Soviet Union), and a M.A. in Strategic Studies. He was also a Distinguished Graduate of both USAF and USN War Colleges. East served thirty-six years with the U.S. Navy. He served as a Cryptologic Technician while an Enlisted man, received commission during the Vietnam conflict, and served as a Naval Flight Officer and Intelligence Specialist as an Officer. He served on various Navy aircraft carriers at sea, with shore duty overseas in Turkey, Germany, Spain, Morocco, Russia, Norway, Iceland, France, Italy, Greece, Japan and Singapore. East also served as Professor of Naval Operations and Soviet/Middle East area studies at both the USAF and USN War Colleges. He retired in 1992 with the rank of Captain (O-6). East began buying timberland tracts in 1962 and now manages sixteen tracts named “The Creeks Tree Farms” in Clay, Randolph, and Cleburne Counties in Alabama. He is married to Lou Holland East of Pensacola, Florida, and has three grown children, one of whom is also a career man in the U.S. Navy. Source: Source: Personal Résumé, 1/04. 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. Dr. Lori G. Eckhardt is an Assistant Professor of Forest Pathology and Entomology at Auburn University in the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences. Her research interests include the biology and ecology of Leptographium species and their 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, 9/07. 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. 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 co-owner of Hatcher and Eiland Forestry, LLC, which he and Robert Hatcher formed in 1987. Hatcher and Eiland Forestry 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. His affiliations include: Society of American Foresters, Alabama Forestry Association, Realtors Land Institute (Alabama Chapter President), and Accredited Land Consultant. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 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. 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. 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. 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 Forestry. 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 yellow lab, Bob, kayaking on the New River, running, traveling, and biking. Personal Resume, 2/08. 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. 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. 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, President of Chattahoochee Valley Forestry Services, Inc., Clayton, Alabama, received an AA degree from Brevard Community College, Melbourne, Florida, and a BSFR degree from the University of Georgia, Athens. Darrell has been active in the Society of American Foresters, the Alabama Forestry Planning Committee, and the Association of Consulting Foresters. He began his consulting forestry business in 1980. Source: Personal Résumé, 6/99. Eric D. Gee began his career as a Woods Supervisor at James M. Vardaman & Company, Jackson, Mississippi. He became the company's Montgomery, Alabama branch manager and supervised the planting of over 4,000 acres of private forestland and sold more than two-million dollars of land and timber. Eric currently serves as the Director, State & Environmental Affairs for the Southern Forest Products Association, based in Kenner, Louisiana. He is a member of the Society of American Foresters and is a Registered Forester in Alabama. He is a graduate of Auburn University with a BS in Forest Resources. Source: Personal Résumé, 8/00. 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: 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 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. 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. 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. John Greene is a forest economist with the USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He has 25 years experience studying the economics of nonindustrial private forestry, and the effect of federal and state taxes on the financial returns to forest management. He is a coauthor of Ag. Handbook 718, “Forest Landowners’ Guide to the Federal Income Tax.” 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, 6/01. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 has been Research Coordinator for the Longleaf Alliance for the last 10 years. His research interests include artificial regeneration of longleaf pine, including site preparation, herbaceous release, seedling quality, planting methods, and prescribed fire as a management tool. He is also studying restoration techniques for the reestablishment of native herbaceous communities in longleaf pine ecosystems. Mark received a B.S. in Forestry Management from the University of Missouri in 1992 and a M.S. in Forest Biology from Auburn University in 1995. Source: personal correspondence, 7/00; updated 9/05. Richard W. Hall is a vice president with Bank of America’s Timberland Services Group in Atlanta, GA. Mr. Hall has worked with the forest products sector throughout the world and is particularly knowledgeable about the Southern Cone of South America (Chile, Argentina, Uruguay Brazil). Mr. Hall holds a B.S. in forestry from Auburn University and a J.D./M.B.A from The University of Alabama. Mr. Hall is a licensed attorney in Georgia and Massachusetts and a registered forester in Georgia and Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé, 4/03. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Thomas G. Harris, professor at Warnell School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, received a BS degree in forestry from North Carolina State University and an MBA degree from The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania. His program areas are in Forest Business Management and Forest Resource Policy and his research areas include: timberland investments, timber supply and demand, forest industry structure, and strategic planning. Professor Harris directs the timber pricing service, Timber Mart-South. Source: University of Georgia Forestry Faculty Web Directory, 9/00. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 has worked for the Oil and Gas Board since 1980 as Regional Supervisor in Mobile since 1981. Dr. Hellmich graduated from the University of Alabama with BS in Geology in 1980. He has specialized in Petroleum since that time and specifically on field operations. He is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Alabama Geological Association and has participated in the US Aid for International Development Program with the Republic of Kazakhstan through the US State Dept. His office is located in Mobile, Alabama. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/08. 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. 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. 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. Craig Hill is native of Glencoe in Etowah County and comes to the Alabama Forestry Commission with over 28 years of law enforcement experience. For the last 21 years he has worked as a conservation officer, investigator, and supervisor with the Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries, Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, where he has been the Operations Chief for the past six years. Prior to joining Conservation, he worked as a patrol officer and investigator with the Gadsden Police Department. Source: Personal Résumé, 05/08. 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. 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. 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. 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 10 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. Source: Profiles of the Southern Regional Extension Forestry office staff 01/04. 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. 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. Kris Irwin is a faculty member at the Warnell School. His primary focus is instructional material design and development for K-12 teachers and forest landowners. Kris is the author of Science of Forestry Management, published in 2004 by the American Association for Vocational Instructional Materials located in Winterville, Georgia. This book is designed for high school students studying forestry in the agricultural education programs across the nation. Kris is also the instructional designer for the Forest*A*Syst website (www.forestasyst.org). Source: Personal Résumé, 6/08. Chris Isaacson currently serves as the
Executive Vice-President of the Alabama Forestry Association, a trade
organization representing one of Alabama’s largest manufacturing industries. AFA
membership includes Alabama’s pulp and paper mills, sawmills, wood panel
manufacturers, bioenergy producers, wood suppliers, foresters, loggers and
forest landowners from across the state. Michelle Isenberg has been in the forestry business since 1995. Her focus has been on the use of herbicides in all forestry practices. Recently, Michelle became a partner in Custom Air based in Mississippi. Her company, Custom Air, offers aerial and ground application, chemical distribution and a full turn-key program for landowners. Custom Air is able to provide the entire line of forestry herbicides to help meet the needs of landowners. Michelle resides in Alabama and works with both private landowners and industry. She received her education from the University of Missouri and studied Wildlife and Fisheries Biology. Source: Personal Résumé, 7/08. Robert L. Izlar is Director of the University of Georgia Center for Forest Business. Bob has been at UGA for six years and has 28 years of industrial forestry experience throughout the South and internationally. He is a Registered Forester in Georgia, a Fellow of the Society of American Foresters and a tree farmer. He serves as a Colonel is the United States Army Reserve. Source: Personal Résumé, 11/03. Biographical Information About Speakers/Instructors: A-C, J-Q, R-Z |
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