Kathy Beland is a consulting forester and the Vermont Tree Farm program administrator at Vermont Woodlands Association. She owns and runs a forestry consulting business, Not Just Trees, Inc.,…

Raul “Rocci” Aguirre is the executive director of Adirondack Council, an advocacy organization dedicated to preserving the natural resources of Adirondack Park. He first started…

Doug Tallamy is an entomologist and conservationist who promotes biodiversity at a hyperlocal level through landscaping with native plants. He has taught entomology at University of Delaware…

Jessica Snyder is a state and federally licensed falconer who works in Woodstock, Vermont. Jessica has taught at New England Falconry for more than 10 years and has worked with birds of prey…

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…