Ryan Mandelbaum is a science writer, naturalist, and birder living in New York City. They write a monthly newsletter dedicated to birds and wildlife in the city and wrote the book Wild NYC, a…

Forester Ernest Carle is a graduate of University of Maine and worked at Georgia-Pacific, Domtar, and Woodland Pulp for most of his career, before transitioning to working with the…

Bill Hull is the founder of Hull Forest Products in Connecticut, a forestry and milling business that he incorporated in 1970. Starting out at the small sawmill in his father’s backyard,…

Brandon Wilson Radcliffe is an environmental educator and ecologist in Baltimore, Maryland. He is an instructor in the Urban Silviculture Training Program, an urban forestry and tree…

Liz Thompson is an ecologist and conservationist currently based in Vermont. Thompson worked to inventory and conserve land with The Nature Conservancy and Vermont Land Trust for most of her…

Joan Nichols is a consulting forester who has been working in Connecticut since 1983. Originally from New York City, Nichols graduated from SUNY-ESF with a degree in forest resources…

Sy Montgomery is a writer and a naturalist, best known for her award-winning books on animals and the natural world. She is the author of nearly 40 books for children and adults, including…

Matthew Largess is an arborist and old-growth forest enthusiast in Jamestown, Rhode Island. He studied forestry at Paul Smith’s College in the mid-1970s before leaving to work as a…

Jessica Pierce is a service forester at Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources in the Bureau of Forestry. She has been with the Department for 14 years and has worked…