John Bailey is a professor of Silviculture and Fire Management in the College of Forestry at Oregon State University. He obtained his BS and MF degrees from Virginia Tech in the 1980s, then he worked for 6+ years with the Environmental Protection Agency in Corvallis, Oregon, on forest stressors. He completed a PhD degree at Oregon State University and joined the faculty at Northern Arizona University in 1996, where he worked in ponderosa pine silviculture, fuels management and ecological restoration. Professor Bailey returned to OSU in 2006 to continue research on fuels/fire management and sustainable forestry in drier fire-prone forest types, as well as multi-story management in mixed forest types for broad ecosystem objectives. His recent research and outreach focus is on landscape-scale wildfire risk and how to use sustainable forest management to minimize the adverse impacts of future wildfire in uncertain climatic times.

Daniel Leavell is an associate professor of practice in Forest and Fire Science at Oregon State University’s College of Forestry. As of last June, he was given the job of lead in developing a fire-based education, training, and experience program for the College. Mr. Leavell has worked in various locations throughout the northwest and Rocky Mountains as a forester, silviculturist, botanist, program manager and NF staff. He has worked from Florida to Alaska on wildfire, hurricane, flood, and other emergency incidents as a firefighter (held all NWCG operation section positions, safety officer, line EMT, field observer, situation unit leader, infrared interpreter, BAER team, and other positions), fire and emergency incident manager (Type 1 and 2 Operations Section Chief, Incident Commander Type 3), and forest/fire ecologist – for the Forest Service, States and various academic/state institutions (1973 to 2012).

Mr. Leavell has also been a private consultant in forestry and ecology (2010 to 2014), a volunteer fire chief for a NW Montana structure fire dept. (2006 to 2012), an assistant professor of practice and forest/fire extension agent for Oregon State University, College of Forestry Extension in Klamath and Lake County, Oregon (2014 to 2020), a volunteer firefighter/EMT for a county fire department in Klamath Falls (2015 to 2018). He was also severed in the Navy from 1969 to 1974 and earned BS and MS degrees in Forestry/Forest Science at Oregon State University (1977 and 1992 respectively) and a PhD from University of Montana in Landscape, Community, And Disturbance Ecology (2000).