FIRE MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP

**March 26-29, 2007**

**Tucson, Arizona**

**[AUTOBIOGRAPHIES]{.underline}**

# Pete Anderson - State Forester Firewarden, Nevada Division of Forestry

> Graduated from University of Nevada, Reno in 1975 with a BS degree in
> Agriculture, Renewable Natural Resources.
>
> During the summer of 1975 he worked as a seasonal Park Ranger USDI
> National Park Service in Zion NP, Utah and in 1976 at Mt. McKinley NP,
> Alaska participating on wildfire suppression and search and rescue
> teams. In 1977 he worked for private consulting firms as a natural
> resource specialist, focusing on NEPA documents, land use plans, and
> coordinated resource management plans.
>
> During the mid 1980's he owned and operated a landscape contracting
> and consulting firm focused on slope stabilization and disturbed site
> reclamation projects in the Tahoe Basin and designed and installed
> residential and commercial landscaping projects in western Nevada.
>
> Began his state service in 1992 with the Nevada Division of
> Environmental Protection in the Mine Reclamation and moved to the
> Nevada Division of Forestry in 1995 as the Forest Stewardship
> Coordinator. Then advanced to the Resource Program Coordinator; Deputy
> State Forester: and was appointed State Forester Firewarden
> responsible for all Division programs and operations July 1, 2004 by
> Governor Kenny Guinn.
>
> Pete is married with two children and has lived in Nevada for 37
> years.

**[MARK BEIGHLEY]{.underline}** - US Department of the Interior, Office
of Wildland Fire Coordination, Washington, D.C. (*Autobiography
information not available*)

# JIM BOYNTON -- Forest Supervisor, US Forest Service, Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forests, 

# 

#  Jim Boynton is the Forest Supervisor for the Okanogan and Wenatchee National Forests. He has been in this position since October 2003.

> Boynton earned a bachelor's degree in forestry in 1966 and a Master's
> in hydrology in 1968 from Utah State. He worked as a seasonal
> hydrology technician in the summer of 1967 on the Dixie National
> Forest in Utah, and joined the Forest Service permanently in 1968 on
> the Hiawatha National Forest in Michigan, where he was the forest
> hydrologist. He went to the Pacific Southwest Regional Office, then in
> San Francisco, CA, in 1970 as Regional water quality specialist. In
> 1976, he became the Region's watershed budget specialist.
>
> He became Deputy Supervisor of the Plumas National Forest in northern
> California in 1978, and also was the acting Supervisor of the Eldorado
> National Forest for part of 1984. He became Forest Supervisor on the
> Sierra National Forest in 1985 and worked in that position for 19
> years. He has also served twice as acting Deputy Regional Forester for
> Resources since then.
>
> Jim enjoys woodworking, waterfowl hunting, and being with his family.
> Jim and his wife, Pat, have four grown children and 14 grandchildren.

**[CURT BRAUN, PH.D.]{.underline}** -- Assistant Professor, Department
of Psychology, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho.

> Curt holds a Doctorate in Humans Factors Psychology and is a member of
> the Human Factors Faculty at the University of Idaho. His research
> focuses on wildland firefighter's safety and includes topics such as:
> Decision Making, Risk Taking, Personal Protection Equipment, and
> Information Presentation.
>
> Dr. Braun has worked actively with national, state, and local fire
> agencies to facilitate their efforts to develop viable safety
> programs. In recent years, he has investigated fatalities, and has
> addressed thee US Forest Service National Safety Office. Curt has
> unique insight into the challenges facing today's wildland
> firefighter.
>
> Curt has a M.S. in Psychology from the Idaho State University and a
> Ph. D. from the University of Central Florida.

**[BILL BREEDLOVE]{.underline}** -- Branch Chief, Fire Planning &
Budget, US Forest Service, Washington, DC.

Bill's professional work experience consists of five years employment in
industry and private consulting before starting his Forest Service
career in 1977. From 1977 to 1989, he worked on several Districts in the
Southeast. His first assignment had a prescribed burning program of
25,000 acres annually and an active suppression program. In addition to
fire management, other responsibilities have included wilderness,
outfitter and guide, wildlife, watershed, law enforcement, and
recreation management. From 1989 to the present, he has devoted his
career to interagency fire management and prescribed fire applications.
This has included management of the National Shared Resources at the
West Yellowstone Interagency Fire Center, fire planning; development of
the Bozeman Interagency Zone Dispatch Center; Chairing the Greater
Yellowstone Area Fire Management Advisory Group and the Region 1 South
Central Interagency Zone; participation in the Eastern Montana Type II
Incident Management Teams; and bringing wildland fire use programs on
line in the Absaroka Beartooth and Lee Metcalf Wilderness's.

Bill has a B.S. degree in Forest Resource Management from the University
of Georgia.

**[PAT BUCCELLO]{.underline}** -- Special Agent in Charge, National Park
Service, Washington, DC

> Pat began her NPS career as a seasonal backcountry ranger at Grand
> Canyon in 1978. She spent several years as a seasonal ranger, with
> winters in Everglades and the rest of the year at Grand Canyon. During
> this time, she fought fires in the piney woods of Southern Florida and
> the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. She served as the helitack manager
> at Grand Canyon for one winter season.
>
> Pat became a law enforcement park ranger at Grand Canyon as the first
> permanent female hired in that role (1981). She continued her career
> as a supervisory ranger at Sequoia-Kings Canyon, Yosemite, and Zion.
> During those years, Pat continued to go out on in-park and large out
> of park fires, serving as a squad boss, crew boss, resource unit
> leader, and medical unit leader.
>
> In 1990, Pat received her first NPS training in critical incident
> stress management (CISM). In 1992, Pat became the team leader of a 20
> person peer support team dispatched to Everglades to assist employees
> following Hurricane Andrew. The failures and successes of CISM during
> this event caused Pat to become more involved in the management of the
> CISM program. Pat has since been the CISM Program Manager for the past
> 12 years and has assisted many other local and Federal agencies,
> including the BLM, Army Corps, FLETC, and FWS, conduct training or
> develop their own programs. She produced a "Response to Line of Duty
> Death Guideline" for the NPS in 2006.
>
> In addition to managing the CISM program, Pat's principle job is
> managing the NPS Special Agent program service wide. This program is
> responsible for investigating major complex criminal and civil crimes.
>
> Pat's home is Bar Harbor, Maine, where he husband, David, is the Chief
> Ranger of Acadia National Park. She serves as the paramedic/crew chief
> of an island ambulance service, gardens, runs, and wakeboards in her
> free time. Pat, unfortunately, commutes back and forth from Maine to
> DC on a regular basis!
>
> Pat graduated from U.C. Berkeley with a degree in English.

**[DAVID L. BUNNELL]{.underline}** -- National Fire Use Program Manager,
(Retired) US Forest Service Charlo, Montana (*Autobiography information
not available*)

**[COLIN CAMPBELL]{.underline}** -- Deputy Superintendent, National Park
Service, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming (*Autobiography information
not available*)

**[NAN CHRISTIANSON]{.underline}** -- Staff Officer for the Forest
Service Northern & Intermountain Regions' State & Private Forestry
Programs, and the Bitterroot National Forest, Hamilton, Montana.

> Nan began her career with the Forest Service as a Geologist on the
> Idaho Panhandle National Forest. Since her original appointment, she
> has served in positions managing diverse programs including
> recreation, law enforcement, lands, environmental analysis,
> Wilderness, rural community assistance, public & legislative affairs,
> and marketing. The Bitterroot's Fire Season 2000 occurred during her
> tenure as the Stevensville District Ranger. Following the fire season,
> she served as the acting Deputy Forest Supervisor and coordinated much
> of the Forest's initial response to the wildfires. She now splits her
> time between a Forest-level Public Affairs position on the Bitterroot
> National Forest and a Marketing-Legislative Affairs Staff position in
> the Northern & Intermountain Regions' State & Private Forestry group.
>
> She received her undergraduate liberal arts/geology degree from Centre
> College of Kentucky and the University of Montana.
>
> Nan was raised in rural Kentucky, and spent much of her childhood
> summers on family camping trips in the United States and Canada that
> instilled a great love of wild places and natural resources. She has
> two active teenagers; family life revolves around horses, dogs,
> golfing, fishing, and river play, camping, and snowboarding.

**[TERRY C. DANIEL]{.underline}** -- Professor of Psychology & Natural
Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

In addition to faculty appointments at the University of Arizona,
Professor Daniel has served as a Visiting Research Fellow in
Environmental Planning and as an International Adjunct Professor in
Psychology at the University of Melbourne (Australia). Dr. Daniel is
currently serving as a member of the Committee on Valuing the Protection
of Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services for the Science Advisory Board of
the US Environmental Protection Agency. Dr. Daniel received the National
Environmental Education Gifford Pinchot Award for outstanding
contributions to natural resource management education in 1993. His
research into human perception and interaction with the natural
environment spans more than 30 years and is represented by more 100
published articles, chapters and monographs. Current research is
directed at understanding public perceptions of wildfire risk and risk
mitigation; including how environmental and safety information,
education and persuasion might encourage adoption and maintenance of
risk reducing behaviors. In this context Professor Daniel is the lead
editor for *People, Fire and Forests* (Oregon State University Press), a
collection of chapters by leading researchers synthesizing current
social science research relevant to wildland fire risk.

Professor Daniel received his PhD. in Psychology from the University of
New Mexico in 1969.

**[James Fletcher]{.underline}**- Superintendent, Department of
Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Southern California Agency

> Graduate from Cal State Fullerton with a BA in Business Administration
> in 1977. From 1978-1988 he worked for the State of California,
> department of Housing and Community Development. His Career began as a
> Graduate Student and progressed to third level management. The
> positions centered on the areas of housing, infrastructure and
> community development for rural counties, cities and Indian Tribes
> within the state of California.
>
> From 1988 to 1992 he was the Tribal Administrator for the Rincon Band
> of Mission Indians.
>
> From 1992 to 1997 he was the Director of Reservation Operations for
> the Morongo Band of Mission Indians. He also served as the Co-Chair of
> the Environment Protection Agency's National Tribal Operations
> Committee to develop Tribal Environmental programs in Indian Country.
>
> From 1997 to 2003 he was Project Officer in the Water and Cross Media
> Divisions for the EPA to assist US Tribes and Mexico along the US
> Mexican Border to develop and implement environmental programs and
> infrastructure in the border region.
>
> From 2003 to Present he currently works for the Department of
> Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Southern California Agency as the
> Superintendent. Currently he manages and oversees 30 Reservations
> consisting of about 300,000 acres of land with 29 Tribal Governments
> from Santa Barbara to the Mexican Border.
>
> In addition to the above to the above he is a tribal Member from the
> Pechanga Indian Reservation and also serves on the San Diego
> Foundation's Environmental Working Group which provides funds to NGO's
> and Indian Tribes in San Diego County for the protection of
> environment.

**[STEVE FRYE]{.underline}** -- Area Operations Manager, Montana DNR,
Northwestern Land Office, Kalispell, Montana.

> Steve began his career in the National Park Service in 1970, and has
> held a variety of positions from fire lookout to his present position
> as Chief Park Ranger in Glacier National Park. Steve's fire career
> began in 1966 as a member of a fire crew in northern Idaho. He has
> since served in a number of overhead positions, including six years as
> a Type I Operations Section Chief on one of the Northern Rockies Type
> I Incident Management Teams and is presently the Incident Commander on
> one of the Northern Rockies Team.

Steve graduated with a degree from the University of Minnesota and has
completed graduate work at the University of Minnesota and the
University of Montana.

**[NANCY J. GIBSON]{.underline}** -- Administrative Officer, National
Park Service, Klamath National Forest, Yreka, California.

> In 1978, Nancy began her career in Missoula, Montana working in a
> number of resource and administrative staff areas for the Regional
> Office in Region One. From 1984-1989, she worked in field and office
> positions at the Stevensville Ranger District of the Bitterroot
> National Forest. This provided her first indoctrination into the
> emerging Incident Command System and the 1988 fire siege which
> included neighborhood evacuations and increased appreciation of the
> role her firefighter husband had played on the District some years
> earlier. Though he moved on to other things, she continued to pursue
> varied experiences within the Forest Service, transferring to the
> Barlow Ranger District of the Mt. Hood National Forest in Region Six
> where she managed the District's GIS program, Senior/Youth/Volunteer
> programs, Heritage Resources, Information Management, and
> Administration.
>
> Nancy has spent nearly 15 years on the Klamath National Forest also
> assuming varied programs including Safety, Rural Development, and
> Administration as well as temporary staff assignments (2+ years each)
> in Planning & Environmental Coordination, and Public Affairs. Her
> first day on the job in the summer of 1992 presented a new role as
> Comptroller during the Panther Fire. That was a telling forecast for
> the number of on-Forest fire events in which Nancy coordinates
> pre-incident, incident, and post-incident business functions as
> Incident Business Advisor. She has served as lead trainer for the
> National IBA course as well as local S-260 Incident Business
> Management training, and is pleased to continue providing incident
> business leadership training for line officers.
>
> The 2006 fire season gave Nancy the opportunity to complete her line
> officer training requirements resulting in an Agency Administrator
> tour throughout the Happy Camp July/August Lighting event. She was
> also a member of the cost accountability review team for the Day and
> Perkins incidents on the Los Padres.

**[BOB GILMAN]{.underline}** -- Northern Rockies Fire Operations, Aerial
Fire Depot, Missoula, Montana.

Bob is currently serving as the Northern Rockies Fire operations
specialist. He has over 15 years experience as a Forest Service Line
Officer serving as District Ranger on the Pintler Ranger District,
Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest. He served as the Fire Staff for
the Clearwater/NezPerce National Forests in Idaho for one year. Bob
started his career as a fire management officer/range conservationist on
the Custer National Forest and has worked in Idaho, Oregon, Montana and
South Dakota.

Bob is currently on one of the National Area Command Teams. He was
Deputy IC on the Northern Rockies Type 1 IMT for 8 years. He has
experience in fire operations, logistics, dispatch, and MAC groups. He
served as the vice chair for the National IC group for 5 years. Bob has
been on the R-1 Fire Leadership Steering committee for 15 years.

Bob has a Bachelor of Science in Soil Science, Range Science, and Animal
Science from North Dakota State University and Montana State University.
He also completed the CEFM I and II continuing education fire
management.

**[HELEN HANKINS]{.underline}** -- Field Manager, Bureau of Land
Management, Elko Field Office, Elko, Nevada.

> During the past 30 years, Helen has worked on six BLM Districts in
> five States, and in the Division of Budget in the Washington Office
> for the Bureau of Land Management. For the past 12 years, Helen has
> served as a line officer in Alaska and Nevada.
>
> Helen began her fire career in 1974 with rookie training, and fire
> assignments to small pinyon-juniper fires in Southwestern Colorado. In
> the early 1990's, Helen worked in an agency administrator capacity
> with the Alaska Fire Service on fires in northwestern Alaska. Since
> 1995, Helen has been actively involved in the fire program on the Elko
> District. Currently this organization includes 3 outstations, 10
> engines, a hot shot crew (Type 1), a BIA hand crew (Type2), an
> interagency dispatch center, and helitack. Since the 1999 fire season,
> more than 1.3 million acres have burned on the Elko District requiring
> significant interface between Helen and Type 3, Type 2, and Type 1
> teams. In 2001, the Elko Field Office suppressed 93 percent of some
> 250 wildfires with initial attack, but also hosted five overhead Type
> 2 teams. The Elko Field Office has completed five major Burned Area
> Emergency Rehabilitation Plans since the 1999 fire season and is
> aggressively implementing those from the 2001 season at this time.
>
> Helen received a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from the
> University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1973. Her
> hobbies include international travel, back-packing, reading and
> weaving.

**[TOM HARBOUR]{.underline}** - Fire Director, Fire and Aviation
Management, US Forest Service,

Washington, DC.

> Tom began his professional Forest Service career in 1969 on the
> Stanislaus National Forest in California. He moved to the Apache
> National Forest in Arizona in 1973. He worked as a Forestry
> Technician, Engineer, and Forester until his transfer to Idaho to the
> Challis National Forest in 1978. While on the Challis National Forest
> he served as Fire Planner, Fire Management Officer, Forest Planner,
> Resource Officer, and District Ranger. In 1983 he moved to the Modoc
> National Forest, Northern California, where he served as District
> Ranger until 1990. In 1990 Tom moved to the Angeles National Forest,
> Southern California, where he was Forest Fire Management Officer for
> six years. In 1996 Tom moved to Missoula, Montana as Regional Deputy
> Director of Fire, Aviation, and Air in the Northern Rockies. In 1999
> Tom became Regional Fire and Aviation Director in the Intermountain
> Region of the Forest Service. He assumed his current duties in 2004.
>
> During his career, Tom has had extensive fire management experience.
> He served as a National Incident Commander 1989-1996. He served as a
> member of one of the National Area Command Teams. He served as a
> National Area Commander from 1999-2001.
>
> Tom has had articles published in several magazines. He graduated from
> the University of California Davis with a degree in Civil Engineering
> and from Washington State University with a degree in Forest
> Management.

**[MICK HOLM]{.underline}** - Superintendent, National Park Service,
Glacier National Park, Glacier MT

> Mick has served as Superintendent of Glacier NP since July 2002. He is
> a 32 year career veteran of the National Park Service with 22 of those
> years in park management. He began his career at Grant-Kohrs Ranch
> National Historic Site as a museum aid in 1975. In 1977 he transferred
> to Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site as a ranger
> intake historian. His career has also included: district interpreter
> Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area from 1979 to 1985, park
> manager at Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site from
> 1985 to 1992, deputy superintendent at Mammoth Cave National Park from
> 1992 to 2000, and superintendent at Carlsbad Caverns National Park
> from 2000 to July 2002. He was awarded the Interior Superior Service
> Award in 1984. Mick grew up in Montana and graduated from the
> University of Montana in 1973.

**[MICHAEL A. JOHNS]{.underline}** - Assistant US Attorney and Senior
Litigation Counsel, Phoenix, Arizona.

From 1969 to 1971, he worked for the Payson Ranger District, Tonto
National Forest, Helitack and Hotshot Crew Foreman, during which time he
also received a Bachelor of Science Degree, from the University of
Arizona in 1971. During 1972 -1973 he worked as a Law Clerk at the
United States Attorney Office, Phoenix AZ and in 1974 he received his
Juris Doctor from the Arizona State University College of Law.

Since his appointment October 11, 1974, he has been an Assistant U.S.
Attorney with the United States Attorney\'s Office in Phoenix,
representing federal agencies in litigation. His emphasis has been
public lands and resources litigation, including fire management,
mining, water rights, environmental, and wildlife cases. The practice
has been general, including Indian law, water law, personal injury,
property and Constitutional tort claims, medical malpractice defense,
commercial litigation, and a wide variety of other subjects. He has
taught Fire Law for over ten years.

His accolades include Deputy Civil Chief, 9/23/90, Civil Chief, 6/12/94,
Chief AUSA and Civil Chief, 3/17/ 96, First AUSA and Civil Chief,
7/6/97, Interim United States Attorney, First AUSA and Civil Chief,
11/1/97, First AUSA, 5/26/98 and Civil Chief, 12/3/01 and Senior
Litigation Counsel 3/5/06.

**[JAY PERKINS]{.underline}** - Chief, Fire, Fuels and Aviation
Management, US Forest Service, Klamath National Forest, Yreka,
California.

> Jay began his career as a temporary in 1972. His wildfire experiences
> on the Selway-Bitterroot (White Cap Wilderness) cemented his career
> direction. He worked two years in Chile as a Peace Corps Volunteer in
> a fire fighter training center. Upon his return in 1980, the Koonetai
> National Forest in Montana permanently hired him.
>
> Jay has worked on the Klamath National Forest since 1984. He worked on
> the Ukonom District as a District Fire Management Officer and District
> Timber Management Officer. Jay moved to the SO in 1988 to provide fire
> input to the Land Management Plan following the devastating 1987 fire
> event. He has worked on National and Regional Land Management Planning
> teams such as: the National LMP Prototype development team, the
> National Fire and LMP Steering Group and on two Supplemental EIS teams
> for the Northwest Forest Plan.
>
> He received his BS in Forest Management Science from Colorado State
> University where he also did post-graduate work in fire management. He
> is red carded as an Incident Commander Type 2, Planning Section Chief
> Type 2, Fire Behavior Analyst, and a T1 Fire Use Manager. Jay is
> currently IC/FUM1 for the California Fire Use Team.

**[RICHARD SCHWAB]{.underline}** - National Fire Rehab Coordinator,
National Park Service, National Interagency Fire Center, Boise, Idaho

> Rich has twenty-five years of service in the federal government. Upon
> graduating from Northern Arizona University in 1981 with a Bachelor of
> Science Degree in Forest Science, he started his career on the Nez
> Perce National Forest. Then beginning in 1985, he worked for twenty
> years with the Bureau of Indian Affairs on several Indian Reservations
> in the Southwest and at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise.
> He currently serves as the National Fire Rehab Coordinator for the
> National Park Service. His duties include the development of Burned
> Area Emergency Response (BAER) program guidelines and policies,
> approving national level plans, and providing technical assistance to
> field managers. He also coordinates the Rural Fire Assistance Grant
> Program and is the lead for revising the Park Service Fire Management
> Policies.

**[CONRAD SMITH]{.underline}** -- Professor, Communication and
Journalism Department, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming.

> Conrad worked in radio journalism in Ohio and as a television
> photographer in Washington State before starting his teaching career
> in 1977. He taught journalism at Idaho State, Colorado State and Ohio
> State Universities before accepting his current position. While
> working as a television photographer, he became interested in how
> events change when they are reported as news. As an outgrowth of that
> interest, he wrote a book published by Greenwood Press about how the
> media covered the Yellowstone fires, the Exxon Valdez oil spill and
> the "World Series" earthquake in California.
>
> Conrad has a B.S. in Physics and a M.A. in Cinema from Ohio State and
> a Ph.D. in Communication from Temple University.
>
> A bibliography of publications about journalists and news is available
> on request.

**[KIT SUTHERLAND]{.underline}** -- Coordinator, Bitterroot Resource
Conservation & Development Area Inc, Natural Resources Conservation
Service, Hamilton, Montana.

> Kit has worked as a Soil Conservationist and District Conservationist
> in six different locations in Montana with the NRCS. He has been the
> Coordinator of the Bitterroot RC&D since 1991 and was in that role
> during the Fire Season of 2000. Kit worked in cooperation with the IC
> Teams in the Bitterroot to help with the volunteer evacuation of
> livestock and personal possessions, and volunteer emergency
> implementation of defensible space around some private homes. In the
> rehabilitation efforts, Kit coordinated volunteer assistance and a
> national emergency grant to help with watershed recovery.
>
> He received undergraduate and Masters degrees from the University of
> Montana - School of Forestry.
>
> Kit was raised on the farm where he currently resides. In addition to
> raising a few head of cattle he enjoys fishing whenever he gets a
> chance. Kit is an empty nester with two kids in Pennsylvania and
> Oregon.

**[JOHN SZYMONIAK]{.underline}** -- National Fire Technology Transfer
Specialist, US Forest Service, Boise, Idaho.

> John is a member of a U.S. Forest Service Washington Office Research
> Development and Applications Unit headquartered at the National
> Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho. This unit is actively engaged
> in developing decision support tools for the wildland fire community.
> The WFSA and WFIP applications are one of the applications supported
> by the unit. Over the past 3 years he has been involved in training
> WFSA analysts and Agency Administrators around the country. He has
> also participated on numerous large fire WFSA's that have required
> Regional Forester and Chief certification. His position as a National
> Fire Technology Transfer Specialist provides a unique opportunity to
> be involved with emerging applications and knowledge.
>
> Prior to coming to his current position he spent over 20 years on the
> Wallowa-Whitman National Forests in Northeast Oregon. He worked in a
> variety of positions there from timber to fire. His last position at
> the Forest was as the Assistant Fire Staff Officer with responsibility
> for management of the hazardous fuels and air quality programs.

## 

## [THOMAS G. WAGNER]{.underline} - Forest Supervisor, US Forest Service, White Mountain National Forest, Laconia, New Hampshire.

> Tom worked in seasonal positions with the Bureau of Land Management in
> Nevada and Utah for four years. In 1980, he received a career
> appointment with the Forest Service as a Trainee Forester on the
> Targhee National Forest in Southeast Idaho adjacent to Yellowstone
> National Park. He worked in Recreation, Timber Management and Fire
> Suppression. Tom then moved to the Toiyabe National Forest in Carson
> City, Nevada to work in a newly created position in Forest Marketing
> and Partnership position.
>
> He served as a District Ranger for seven years (1991 - 1998) in the
> Bitterroot National Forest of Western Montana, and also served on
> detail as Acting Forest Supervisor on the Kootenai National Forest in
> 1998. In 1999, Tom moved to the Deputy Forest Supervisor position on
> the Superior National Forest of Northern Minnesota. In June of 2002,
> he accepted his current position as the Forest Supervisor for the
> White Mountain National Forest.
>
> Tom's wife, Joan is a Travel Consultant, his oldest son Dan is
> attending college in Minnesota, his youngest son Mike attends high
> school, and his daughter Kaitlin attends elementary school. He is
> active in various civic groups, youth sports coaching, and church
> organizations. His outside interests include raising children, hiking,
> skiing, hunting, a little golf and perpetual home improvements.
>
> Tom graduated from Rutgers University with a B.S. in Forest Management
> in 1978.

**[WILLIAM (TANDY BILL) WALKER]{.underline}** -- Superintendent, Bureau
of Indian Affairs, Mescalero Agency, Mescalero, NM

> William (Tandy Bill) Walker is a native Arizonan born in Yuma. He was
> raised in Toquepala, Peru. He has been a soil scientist and
> environmental protection officer on the Fort Apache Indian
> Reservation, the regional Environmental Officer and Trust Resource
> Protection Manager for the Southwest Region of the Bureau of Indian
> Affairs and is currently the Superintendent of the Mescalero Agency
> for the Mescalero Apache Tribe.

**[George A. Weldon]{.underline}** -- Deputy Director, Fire Aviation and
Air, US Forest Service, Northern Region, Missoula, Montana.

George worked three seasons beginning in 1972 on fire/fuels crews on the
Shasta Trinity National Forest in Northern California. From 1975-1979 he
was a smokejumper in Missoula, Montana. He worked on the Plains Ranger
District, Lolo National Forest, from 1975-1984 in Timber Management and
Planning. From 1984-1987 George was the Wilderness Resource
Assistant/Fire Management Officer on the Moose Creek Ranger District,
Nez Perce National Forest in Idaho. From 1987-1990 he was the Resource
Assistant/Fire Management Officer on the Beartooth Ranger District,
Custer National Forest in Redlodge, Montana. He was Deputy District
Ranger on the Sheridan Ranger District, Beaverhead National Forest in
Sheridan, Montana from 1990-1991. From 1991-2000 he was the District
Ranger on the Townsend Ranger District, Helena National Forest. He was
Deputy Forest Supervisor on the Lewis and Clark National Forest from
2000-2003 in Great Falls, Montana. From 2003 to 2005 he was the Forest
Supervisor on the Ashley National Forest in Vernal, Utah. In 2005, he
moved back to Missoula where he currently serves as the Deputy Director
for Fire, Aviation and Air in the Northern Regional Office.

He received his B.S. in Forest Resource Management from Humboldt State
University in 1977.