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.

Dave Lasky is the director of Fire Management for the Forest Stewards Guild and the module lead for the Gravitas Peak Wildland Fire Module, and he has spent 20 years in fire management. He has worked as a suppression firefighter with extensive experience in Colorado’s Front Range and its recent history of catastrophic fires in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI). Mr. Lasky has had a diverse career, from running Daylight Again Restoration Forestry, which used draft horses as the motive power source, to many years as an engine boss, and serving on Type 2 and 3 Incident Management Teams. He spent thre years as the lead for the Four Mile Fire Crew, working with landowners and state and federal partners to build fire resilient communities. A qualified burn boss and incident commander, Mr. Lasky now focuses on workforce development and social justice issues to increase the pace and scale of prescribed fire implementation.

Corrina Marshall is the Intermountain west regional coordinator with the Forest Stewards Guild. She project manages several next generation community wildfire protection plans that the Guild is developing. She has extensive experience in private working lands conservation across the West and Midwest. Her career spans the gap from prescribed fire and ecological restoration implementation projects to community engagement with federal, state, non-profit, and private partners.

Megan Matonis, PhD. is the Intermountain West regional manager with the Forest Stewards Guild. Having previously worked at the Rocky Mountain Research Station and with Colorado State Forest Service, Dr. Matonis has significant research and outreach experience in fire ecology, forest ecology, and fire management. Her dissertation research focuses on collaborative landscape-scale restoration of ponderosa pine and dry mixed-conifer forests along the Colorado Front Range and Uncompahgre Plateau. Notably, Dr. Matonis is a coauthor on a highly-regarded general technical report on restoration treatments in ponderosa pine forests.