Michèle R. Slaton,^1,*,** Jeffrey G. Holmquist,^2,*** Marc Meyer,^3,**** Raymond Andrews,^4,***** Jacqueline Beidl<sup>5,******

1</sup>1USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, Remote Sensing Laboratory, 3237 Peacekeeper Way, Sui
²2White Mountain Research Center, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of Cali
³3USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, Regional Ecology Program, 351 Pacu Lane, Bishop, CA
⁴4Bishop Paiute Tribe, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer; current affiliations: Mono Lake Kutzadik
⁵5USDA Forest Service, Inyo National Forest, Heritage Program Manager and Tribal Liaison, 351 Pacu La

^*Corresponding author: michele.slaton@usda.gov; (760) 873-2498
^**Michèle Slaton is an ecologist with the US Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region Remote Sensing Lab. Her research interests include vegetation mapping, disturbance modeling, and forest health analysis for applications in land management. She received a PhD in Botany from the University of Wyoming.
^***Jeff Holmquist is a research scientist at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and is based at the White Mountain Research Center. He studies management-oriented community ecology in a wide range of habitats, often with an emphasis on invertebrates. He received his PhD in Biological Science from Florida State University and was previously an associate professor at the University of Puerto Rico.
^****Marc Meyer is an ecologist with the USDA Forest Service Region 5 Ecology Program and serves the Inyo, Sequoia, and Sierra National Forests. His work focuses on integrating science information into land management planning in the southern Sierra Nevada of California.
^*****Raymond Andrews is a member of the Mono Lake Kutzadika, traditional practitioner and artist, and former Tribal Historic Preservation Officer (THPO) for the Bishop Paiute Tribe. He promotes Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), takes responsibility to protect fragile cultural resources, is willing to share traditional ways/practices, and has a personal motto: “Tu I'hema besa mahunne (Take good care of everything).”
^******Jacqueline Beidl is a heritage program manager and tribal liaison with the Inyo National Forest in eastern California. She enjoys discovering meaningful connections between people and place and received an MA in Anthropology from New Mexico State University.