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   Marko Bey is Director of Operations, Contract Administrator and co-founder of the Lomakatsi Restoration Project, a community non-profit organization based in Ashland Oregon that implements forest and watershed restoration projects, and workforce training programs in the Klamath/Siskiyou bioregion. Marko is a restoration practitioner, prescription designer, and on the ground worker. He performs fuels management, silviculture, forest and watershed restoration for the past 16 years. Marko has recently begun to serves on the board of directors for the Alliance of Forest Workers and Harvesters. Marko is dedicated to true ecological restoration, workforce empowerment, and local community involvement. He has taught himself by hands on working on the ground as well as from knowledgeable ecologists, biologists, and indigenous peoples. During 2000-2001 alone, Lomakatsi Worked with over 225 community volunteers and 150 school children in watershed restoration and tree planting projects, and Established stewardship projects with over 25 landowners. Since then the geographic reach has increased; workforce has expanded in numbers and skill level; and training programs have increased in scope, numbers and complexity. Under Marko’s leadership, Lomakatsi has, among other things:
-Planted over 500,000 native trees and shrubs in impacted watersheds throughout Southwestern Oregon and in Northern California.
-Widely shared and implemented LRP "Ecological Principals for Fuels Reduction”
-Implemented Multi-Cultural Workforce Training Program in Ecological Restoration Practices.
-Influenced the creation of the Ashland Watershed Protection Project and contracted with the City to implement fuels reduction and other restoration projects;
-Worked with Colestin Valley residents to organize the Cottonwood Creek Watershed Association and implement watershed and restoration projects.
-Implemented Fuels Reduction on over 300 acres of forestlands in the Wildland Urban Interface of Southwestern Oregon by 2001.

Wayne Fitzpatrick received an AAS Degree in Forest Technology in 1975 and has been doing forest work ever since. He has worked with government agencies, co-ops, and private contractors in fighting fires, reforestation, silviculture, tree planting, and studying the growth patterns and habits. Wayne performed government tree planting inspection for the USFS, was a squad boss and lead sawyer for a 20-person fire fighting crew, led a 6-person silviculture crew, conducted planting, tree and vegetation surveys and unit layout, served on a helicopter crew for one season, and spent 15 seasons fighting fires across Northwest. For private contractors, he was a tree planting inspector over-seeing 30-person crews on government and private landowner contracts throughout the Northwest. Wayne worked with the Forestry Action Committee, a grassroots non-profit organization, for 7 years, with the Riparian Tree Planting Project, where he involved local landowners, offered advise on proper placement of different species, and gave presentations to school classes. Wayne currently works for Lomakatsi Restoration Project, in addition to providing worker training with Deep Roots Forestry in tree planting, tree and shrub identification, chainsaw use and selective thinning.

   Cece Headley started working in the woods as a tree-planter in 1978. She was a member of the Hoedads tree-planting cooperative throughout the 1980s. Today she’s a sole proprietor, performing activities such as timber stocking surveys, biophysical monitoring, and native grass seed collection for BLM and
USFS. She is a former board member of the National Network of Forest Practitioners and received her B.A. from Lewis and Clark College. Cece became involved with the Alliance because of her belief that workers can impact the conditions of their work by working together. One of her main objectives in working with the Alliance is a sense of duty to empower other forest workers and create opportunities for folks who see working in the forest as their life’s work. Cece’s most recent contract work includes: Stand exams; ODF Stand Level Inventory; Vegetation Surveys; Red Tree Vole Surveys; Spring Fungi Surveys; Forest Inventory and Analysis, and Vegetation Monitoring.

   Renee Stauffer lives in Orleans, CA. She is a member of the Karuk Tribe of California as well as the Karuk Indigenous Basketweavers, on the Board of the California Indian Basketweavers Association, a member of the National Network of Forest Practitioners, and has served on the steering committee of the Collaborative Learning Circle. Renee is on the board of directors of the Mid-Klamath Watershed Council. Renee currently works for the Hoopa Valley Tribe Forestry Division, Timber Department. As an advocate of healthy forests issues involving the forest and the resources have always been of great importance to her. She believes in caring for the delicate balance of the ecosystem that we as people need to strive for.

   Kenneth Baldwin is a California Registered Professional Forester with 40 years of forestry experience, the past 33 in the forests of northern California. He has been involved in land and resource management planning, fire and fuels management planning, timber sale planning and preparation, watershed and environmental analysis, fire damage appraisals, forest inventory and design, stocking and survival surveying, reforestation, fire control, trail maintenance, logging, lumber and veneer milling, forest recreation, forest research, forest worker training, forestry and environmental advocacy, and fisheries restoration. He worked as a seasonal employee for the U.S. Forest Service from 1964 to 1976 and after that as a contractor/consultant for the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Natural Resources Conservation Service, two Resource Conservation Districts, Trinity Resource Conservation & Development Council, Hayfork Watershed Research and Training Center, Institute for Sustainable Forestry, SmartWood, various religious and non-profit organizations, and private landowners.

   Carl Wilmsen has long had an interest in forests and forest issues. He studied forestry as an undergraduate and earned graduate degrees in geography with an emphasis on natural resources, forest ecology and management, and GIS. His current major research interest is how natural resource management practices shape, and are shaped by, the livelihood opportunities and activism of people of color, workers, and local community residents. He also studies public participation in community development, and participatory research methodology. During the 1990s he taught geography at the University of New Mexico, and consulted for New Mexico State University on sustainable agriculture and rural community development. He currently works at the University of California, Berkeley, as the director of the Community Forestry Research Fellowship (CFRF) Program. The CFRF Program funds graduate student-led participatory research on community forestry nation wide. He is currently active on the National Network of Forest Practitioner’s Cultural Diversity Working Group. Formerly Carl was on the National Advisory Council of the National Community Forestry Center and was a technical advisor to the Pacific West Community Forestry Center. He has also conducted oral history interviews on the national environmental movement and the environmental justice movement for the University of California’s Regional Oral History Office.