Paul C. Rogers,^1,2,3,*,** Allison Jones,^4,*** James Catlin,^4,**** James Shuler,^5,***** Arthur Morris,^6,****** Michael Kuhns<sup>3,7,*******

1</sup>1Western Aspen Alliance
²2Ecology Center
³3Wildland Resources Department
⁴5Wild Utah Project 824 S 400 W, Suite B117 Salt Lake City, UT 84101
⁵6Wolf Creek Ranch Homeowners Association, Environmental Preservation and Ecodiversity Committee 3200
⁶7Utah Open Lands Conservation Association 2188 S. Highland Dr., Suite 203 Salt Lake City, UT 84106
⁷4Forestry Extension 5230 Old Main Hill Utah State University Logan, UT 84322

^*Corresponding author: p.rogers@usu.edu; 435-797-0194
^**Paul C. Rogers holds degrees in geography from Utah State University (USU; BS) and University of Wisconsin (MS) and in ecology (USU: PhD). Paul's research on aspen ecosystems has taken him around the region, as well as to northern Europe. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Wildland Resources, a USU Ecology Center Associate, and the Director of the Western Aspen Alliance.
^***Allison Jones received her MS at the University of Nevada, Reno, in Conservation Biology in 1996, and worked for ecological consulting firms in Colorado and Utah before coming to work as the staff Conservation Biologist at Wild Utah Project in 1999. Allison ascended to Director of the Wild Utah Project early in 2014.
^****James Catlin received his MS in regional land use planning at the University of Utah. He received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley, which focused on the use of Geographic Information Systems in land use planning. Jim founded the Wild Utah Project in 1996 to support the work of other Utah conservationists and worked for this organization until his retirement from Wild Utah Project in 2014.
^*****James D. Shuler, MD, is an Associate Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at the Jules Stein Eye Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA. He is currently the President of the Wolf Creek Ranch HOA where he resides full time with his wife, Casey. He founded EPEC (Environmental Preservation and Ecodiversity Committee) in 2010, which now has 7 active members with a passion for preserving and enhancing ecological diversity.
^******Arthur Morris holds an MS in Biology/ Ecology from USU, and a PhD in Natural Resources from the Ohio State University. He has researched wildlife and forest interactions in the Pacific Northwest, the Great Lakes region, and the Intermountain West, with particular emphasis on ecological restoration and riparian systems. Currently he works as the Conservation Stewardship Director for Utah Open Lands Conservation Association.
^*******Michael Kuhns is Head of the Wildland Resources Department at Utah State University. He also is USU's Forestry Extension Specialist. He has a PhD in tree physiology from Auburn University and has worked for the US Forest Service preparing timber sales on the Medicine Bow National Forest in Wyoming.