FIRE MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP

**April 28- May 2, 2008**

**Tucson, Arizona**

**[AUTOBIOGRAPHIES]{.underline}**

**[MARK BEIGHLEY]{.underline}** - U.S. Department of the Interior,
Director for the Office of

> Wildland Fire Coordination, Washington D.C.
>
> Mark's Office is tasked with ensuring coordination and consistency in
> wildland fire policy and budget between the National Park Service, the
> U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the
> Bureau of Land Management. Mark came to Interior from the U.S. Forest
> Service, where he was formerly the Fire and Aviation Management
> Assistant Director for Planning and Budget.
>
> Mark began his natural resource career in 1974 as a summer employee
> for the Forest Service and has since worked in fire management for the
> Bureau of Land Management at the National Interagency Fire Center
> (NIFC), on four National Forests in California and Oregon, and at the
> BLM State Office/ FS Regional Office (SORO) in Portland, Oregon.
> During his career, Mark has held the positions of firefighter, Fire
> Engine Captain, Fuels Management Specialist, Fire Management Officer,
> Fire Management Analyst, and Applied Fire Ecologist.
>
> Mark grew up in Placerville, Calif. and is a graduate of Eastern
> Oregon State University.

**[DAVID L. BUNNELL]{.underline}** -- Retired, US Forest Service,
National Fire Use Program Manager, National Interagency Fire Center,
Boise, Idaho.

> Dave started his career in the Forest Service working as a Fire Guard,
> Biological Technician, and Forestry Technician on various districts in
> Regions 1 and 10. From 1968 to 1971, he worked as a Research
> Technician on a seasonal basis at the Northern Forest Fire Lab in
> Missoula, Montana. Dave became a full-time employee at the Lab working
> in wilderness fire planning, fire effects, and physical fuel
> properties from 1972 to 1978. He went on to the Lolo National Forest
> as a Forest Fuel Specialist in 1978, where he assisted in the early
> development of aerial ignition devices, prescribed fire planning, and
> economic risk considerations of prescribed fire applications. From
> 1984 to 1994, he was Fire Staff, Wildlife and Fisheries Staff, and
> Fire and Ecology Staff Officer on the Flathead National Forest,
> working in areas of interagency centralized dispatch and
> implementation of prescribed natural fire policy in the Bob Marshall,
> Great Bear, Scapegoat and Mission Mountain Wilderness areas.
>
> He became the National Fuel Specialist at National Interagency Fire
> Center in February 1995, with responsibilities in prescribed fire
> applications and fire policy implementation. He was the principle
> Forest Service author of the 1998 Fire Policy Implementation
> Procedures Reference Guide and worked with the five principle Federal
> Land Management Agencies on the new 1995 Fire Policy Interpretation
> and Implementation Guidebook. In 1999, he became the National Fire Use
> Program Manager with responsibilities in prescribed fire applications
> and wildland fire use until his retirement in 2004.
>
> He has remained semi active as a consultant responding to requests for
> assistance in prescribed fire insurance, large fire evaluation and
> strategy, wildland fire use and prescribed fire program reviews and
> fire management training.

Dave has a B.S. degree in Forestry from the University of Montana
(1969).

**[COLIN CAMPBELL]{.underline}** -- Deputy Superintendent, National Park
Service, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

> Prior to arriving in Yellowstone, Campbell served as the
> Superintendent of Padre Island National Seashore in Texas where
> management challenges included Oil and Gas exploration and extraction,
> as well as one of the National Park Service's marquee Endangered
> Species programs in the Kemp's ridley sea turtle recovery program.
>
> Colin began his National Park Service career twenty-eight years ago in
> Yosemite National Park. Campbell is no stranger to the Greater
> Yellowstone Ecosystem, having spent twelve years in Grand Teton
> National Park as a Law Enforcement Specialist, Chief Ranger and Acting
> Deputy Superintendent.
>
> His wife Janet is a Concessions Management Specialist for the NPS
> Intermountain Region. Colin and Janet have two daughters, Sarah, a
> recent graduate of the University of Wyoming, and Carolyn, who is in
> her junior year at Texas A&M.
>
> Campbell has a Bachelor of Science degree in Natural Resource
> Management from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

**[George Constantino-]{.underline}** Refuge Manager, Okefenokee
National Wildlife Refuge, SE Georgia.

> George has served as the project leader at number of refuges in the
> contiguous 48 states and in various leadership roles in Alaska. He
> will share with 2008 FML class the wisdom and lessons he learned
> serving as the Agency Administrator of the 2007 Georgia Bay/Bugaboo
> Fires -- one of the largest and most expensive fire the DOI has ever
> experienced.

**[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.

**[JAN EVERETT]{.underline}-** National Program Manager Human Resource
Specialist (HRSP), Missoula, Montana.

> Jan has had the opportunity to work at the District, Supervisor and
> Regional Office levels during her career with the Forest Service. She
> has worked in Human Resources related positions for 15 years mostly
> for Northern Region Fire, Aviation and Air. In 1999 she began serving
> as the Geographic Area HRSP Coordinator for the Northern Rockies
> Geographic Area and in 2002 she began managing the National HRSP
> Program. She also serves as co-coordinator on the National Fire and
> Aviation Management Workforce Committee and has recently established a
> Critical Incident Stress Management Peer Support Group for the
> Northern Region.
>
> Jan was raised in Eastern Montana and spent much of here time prior to
> working for the Forest Service on a family ranch where they raised
> cattle and horses. She now has a busy family life in Missoula with a
> daughter, two sons, and three grandchildren. In the winter months she
> takes advantage of the numerous ski areas in western Montana.

**[Mike Ferris]{.underline}** - Public Information Officer, National
Incident Management Organization (Boise Team), US Forest Service, Fire
and Aviation Management, National Headquarters

> Mike is currently the Public Information Officer for the National
> Incident Management Organization (NIMO) based out of NIFC in Boise,
> Idaho, but stationed in Portland, Oregon. Prior to that, he was the
> Public Affairs/Fire Staff Officer at the Columbia River Gorge National
> Scenic Area located in Hood River, Ore. for over 16 years. Mike has
> served in various public affairs positions and assignment in the
> Pacific Northwest Regional Office and on the Siskiyou National Forest.
> He was a long-standing, 15-year member on the Pacific Northwest
> National Incident Management Team 2 as the Public Information Officer.
> He has seen 37 national fire assignments, and four FEMA all-risk
> assignments including: World Trade Center logistical support; FEMA
> mission to assist NASA with the Space Shuttle Columbia recovery; FEMA
> mission to assist Hurricane Ivan recovery in Baldwin County, Alabama;
> and most recently FEMA mission to assist Hurricane Rita recovery in
> Beaumont, Texas. Mike began his Public Information Officer interest in
> 1985, and is presently an instructor on the Pacific Northwest Region
> training cadre for the Public Information Officer's S-203 and S-403
> classes, and the S-420 and S-520 Command and General Staff training.

**[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.

**[STEVE GAGE]{.underline}** -- Emergency Management Specialist, US
Forest Service, Fire and Aviation Management -- WO, Washington, DC.

> Steve's fire career started in 1969 as a seasonal firefighter for the
> Kern County Fire Department. In 1972, he became a member of the Fulton
> Hotshots on the Sequoia National Forest. After two seasons on the crew
> he accepted a full time appointment with the Kern County Fire
> Department. Steve has served as Fire Marshal, Hazardous Materials
> Officer and Chief Fire Investigator for the Department. He has a
> Lifetime Limited Teaching Credential and has taught Fire Technology at
> Bakersfield Community College, Command and Control classes at the
> National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, Maryland, Hazardous Materials for
> the University of California Extension program and is an
> instructor/evaluator for Advanced Incident Management at the National
> Advanced Resource Technology Center in Marana, Arizona. He has been a
> member of a National Incident Management Team since 1992 and Incident
> Commander on California Interagency Incident Management Team 3 from
> 2000 to 2002 when he stepped down to accept the position of Fire
> Chief. Steve retired from the Kern County Fire Department at the end
> of 2003 to make way for his son to join the department.
>
> He then took a job with the California Governor's Office of Emergency
> Services (OES), Fire and Rescue Branch as the Deputy Chief of
> Operations. At OES his primary responsibilities were to provide
> oversight for the Mutual Aid system within the state, manage a fleet
> of over 125 vehicles and work closely with the State Fire Marshal's
> Office managing the California Incident Command Certification System.
>
> When the Forest Service opened a new position as a liaison to FEMA's
> National Incident Management System (NIMS) Integration Center, Steve
> applied for and was appointed to this new position. The position
> provides a link for the wildland fire community and the other agencies
> in regards to NIMS. Steve is currently assigned to the senior steering
> committee charged with the review and revision of the NIMS and
> National Response Plan documents. He is also working with Wally
> Bennett's Northern Rockies IMT as a Deputy Incident Commander.
>
> Steve has an A.S. degree from Bakersfield College and is a graduate of
> the Executive Fire Officer program at the National Fire Academy in
> Emmitsburg, Maryland.

**[NANCY J. GIBSON]{.underline}** -- Administrative Officer, U.S. Forest
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.

**[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.

**[MICHAEL A. JOHNS]{.underline}** - Assistant United States 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}** -- Retired 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.

**[ED SINGLETON]{.underline}**- Albuquerque District Manager, Bureau of
Land Management, Albuquerque, New Mexico

> Serving as the Albuquerque District Manager Ed Singleton is
> responsible for the management and administration of nearly 3 million
> acres of Public Land in north and east-central New Mexico. He
> previously served as the District Manager in Vale and Lakeview Oregon
> and was a Budget Analyst involved in the formulation, implementation
> and analysis of agency program budgets for the Bureau of Land
> Management (BLM) in Washington D.C. During his 31 year Federal career,
> he has served in a variety of supervisory, fire management, and
> resource specialist positions. Prior to joining the BLM, he served as
> a Forestry Technician with the U.S. Forest Service and an Instructor
> at Texas Tech University.
>
> Ed grew up in Tularosa N.M. and is a 1969 graduate of Tularosa High
> School. His educational background includes a Bachelor degree from
> Western New Mexico University, a Masters Degree from Texas Tech
> University, and Post-graduate work at New Mexico State University.
>
> Ed was an active participant in Type I and Type II Incident Management
> Teams for 25 years and currently serves on Area, Regional, and
> National Multi-Agency Coordination Groups. He continues to be active
> in the Regional and National Training Programs in Fire Management. Ed
> currently serves as a National Serious Accident Investigation Team
> Leader and has served on numerous Regional and National Large Fire
> Cost Reviews as a Team Leader and Technical Specialist.

**[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.

**[LARRY SUTTON]{.underline}** - Fire Operations Risk Management, US
Forest Service, National Interagency Fire Center -- Washington Office,
Boise, Idaho.

Larry began his career on a District timber/fire crew on the Medicine
Bow National Forest in Wyoming in 1979. In 1983, Larry started working
for BLM, first on an engine crew in Montana and later as a Fire
Suppression Specialist in Alaska. In 1988, Larry started working in
dispatch, first in Initial Attack and later as Zone Dispatch Coordinator
for the Galena Zone in Alaska. In 1993, Larry moved to the Western Great
Basin Coordination Center in Reno, Nevada, first working as a Logistics
Coordinator, then as Assistant Center Manager and then as Center
Manager. In 1998, moved to NIFC and worked as the BLM Training Unit
Leader. In 2006, while remaining at NIFC, Larry began working with the
US Forest Service in Fire Operations Risk Management for the Washington
Office.

Larry maintains a variety of current incident qualifications in
Operations and Planning, as well as being a qualified Dispatch
Coordinator.

## [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 Walker]{.underline}** -- Deputy Regional Director for
Trust, Western Region, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Phoenix AZ

> Just prior to this assignment he was the Superintendent for the
> Mescalero Agency in New Mexico for three years. He has served at the
> local agency and in regional positions in Arizona and New Mexico his
> entire career beginning with his position as a soil scientist on the
> Fort Apache Reservation where he was introduced to wild land fire
> fighting. His last fire position was as the environmental specialist
> for the Southern States Interior BAER team.

**[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.

**ROBIN WEST** -- Refuge Manager, Kenai National Wildlife Refuge,
Soldotna, Alaska.

> Robin West was first exposed to wildland fire work at age 15 when he
> worked on mopping up fire lines as part of a county crew in Southwest
> Oregon. A few years later he was exposed to structural fire
> suppression and search and rescue activities while living in and
> working with the LaGrande City Fire Department. Upon moving to Alaska
> in 1978 Robin held biological and management positions with both the
> U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the State of Alaska. He was the
> Assistant Refuge Manager of Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge
> during the 1988 fire season when over a million acres burned.
> Currently, as Manager of Kenai National Wildlife Refuge (since 1995)
> Robin has gained experience as a line officer for fire planning,
> managing complex wildfire events, fire management training, use of
> prescribed fire, and wildland fire use management in wilderness areas.
>
> Robin attended Eastern Oregon State College, Oregon State University
> (BS -- Wildlife Science), and the University of Alaska -- Fairbanks.
> He lives near Soldotna with his wife Shannon and three children and
> enjoys travel, hiking, hunting, fishing, and wildlife viewing and
> photography.

**[TOM ZIMMERMAN]{.underline}** -- Program Manager, Wildland Fire
Management RD&A, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station,
Boise, Idaho.

Tom's work experience includes seasonal appointments with the U.S.
Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, followed with permanent
assignments as Forester, Fire Control Officer, District Fire Management
Officer, and State Fire Management Planning Specialist for the BLM;
Regional Fire Management Officer, Fire Technology Specialist, and Fire
Science and Ecological Applications Program Leader for the National Park
Service; and Regional Fire Director for the Forest Service. During these
assignments, Tom served at all administrative levels (field, state,
regional, and national offices). Tom moved to his current position with
the USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station in 2007. Program
responsibilities here include management and advancement of a Research,
Development, and Applications program focusing on decision support and
science delivery at the national level. He is also involved in national
training cadres in Advanced Incident Management, Area Command, and
Advanced Fire Use Applications.

> Tom has served on Type 2 and Type 1 Incident Management Teams and
> Interagency Fire Use Management Teams and is currently an Area
> Commander on a National Interagency Area Command Team.
>
> Tom received a B.S. degree in Forestry from the University of Montana,
> a M.S. degree in Fire Ecology from the University of Idaho, and a
> Ph.D. in Fire Science from Colorado State University.