Advisory Board of Friends

Elizabeth Estill, Deputy Chief
U.S. Forest Service

Edgar Faust, Managing Partner
Emory River Land Company

Dr. Vic Ford, Research Director
Mead/Westvaco

David Hand, Area Wood Procurement Manager
Smurfit-Stone Container Corp.

Wade McMahan
Timber Consultants, Inc.

Steve Scott, State Forester
TN Dept. of Agriculture
Division of Forestry

Becky Youngblood, Area Manager
International Paper

Wildlife & Fisheries

Leon Bates, Urban Forester/Horticulturist
City of Florence, AL

Rex Boner, Vice-President
Southeast Representative
The Conservation Fund

Mike Butler, Executive Director
Tennessee Conservation League

Jay H. Exum, Vice-President
Glatting Jackson

Dr. Ron Masters, Director of Research
Tall Timbers Research Station

Gary Myers, Executive Director
TWRA, P.O. Box 40747

Rhedona Rose, Public Affairs Officer
TN Farm Bureau

Anne Zimmerman, Forest Supervisor
Cherokee National Forest

Forest Products

C.R. (Bob) Cunningham, President
White County Lumber C., Inc.

Candace Dinwiddie, Executive Director
Tennessee Forestry Association

Jeff Johnson, Vice President
Georgia-Pacific Corp.

John Kelley, Asst. Director for Research
Forest Inventory & Monitoring
USDA-Forest Service
Station Headquarters

Tom Midyett, Director
Tennessee Paper Council

Bill Williams, President
Rhyne Lumber Company

Past Board Members

Ken Arney, Deputy Regional Forester
State & Private Forestry
USDA Forest Service

Kevin Belt, Owner/Consulting Forester
Appalachian Forestry

Jim Carpenter
Consultant

Thomas Cunningham
South Area Superintendent
Westvaco Corporation

Hunter Fields, President
Fields-Ashby Lumber Co.

Jett Freeman
International Paper

Mr. Richard Harte, Jr.
Eaton Vance Management

Michael Heard, Asst. to the President
Research Extension Federal Program
1780 Land-Grant Administrator

Julius Johnson, Chief Executive Officer
TN Farm Bureau

Marty Marina
Tennessee Conservation League

Mike Martin, President
Forest Management, Inc.

Chuck Matheny
Central Region manager
Forest Resources Division
Westvaco Corporation

Dan Meyer
Hardwood Publishing

James E. Miller
Department of Wildlife & Fisheries
Mississippi State

Ann Murray, Executive Director
Tennessee Conseravtion League

Carlton Owen, Manager
The Environmental Edge, LLC

Larry Pitts, Forester
G.R. Wood Inc.

Bill Reeves, Chief
Fish Management Division, TWRA

Bob Rusk
Tennessee Mountain Mgmt.

Joe Savery, President
Mountain City Lumber Co.

Al Whitson, Jr., President
Whitson Lumber Company

John Yancy, Deputy Director
National Park Service
Southeast Region

Norman Davis, Lands Manager
Anderson-Tully Company

Bill Burris, Wood Procurement Manager
Weyerhaeuser

Mike Reardon, Vice-President
Industrial Wood Products
Georgia Pacific Corporation

Kevin P. Hoyt, Wood Procurement Manager
National Park Service
J.M. Huber Corp. P.O.
 Box 1104

Contact Information

Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries
274 Ellington Plant Sci. Bldg.
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-4563
Phone: 865-974-7126
Fax: 865-974-4714
fwf@utk.edu