William H. Richards,^1,*,** Roland Koeck,^2,*** Rolf Gersonde,^1,**** Gerhard Kuschnig,^3,***** Werner Fleck,^4,****** Eduard Hochbichler<sup>2,*******

1</sup>1Seattle Public Utilities Watershed Services Division 19901 Cedar Falls Rd SE North Bend, WA, 98045,
²2Institute of Silviculture Department of Forest and Soil Sciences University of Natural Resources an
³3Vienna Water Works, Grabnergasse 4–6 1060, Vienna, Austria
⁴4Municipal Department of Forestry and Agriculture of Vienna Volksgartenstrasse 3 1016, Vienna, Austr

^*Corresponding author: bill.richards@seattle.gov
^**Bill Richards is a Senior Environmental Analyst for Seattle Public Utilities and leads the upland forest restoration thinning program under the Cedar River Watershed Habitat Conservation Plan. He has worked on endangered wildlife issues in Pacific Northwest forests for 25 years, melding interests in wildlife biology, landscape ecology, and forest habitat management.
^***Roland Koeck is a Research Assistant at the Institute of Silviculture at the Department of Forest and Soil Sciences of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. He has worked for 21 years in the field of applied source water protection and has developed silvicultural management strategies which focus on the optimization of the drinking water protection functionality of forest ecosystems.
^****Rolf Gersonde is a Silviculturist at the City of Seattle where he works on forest restoration projects in mountain watersheds. He is engaged in forest ecology and management related research at the University of Washington where he is an Affiliate Assistant Professor at the School of Forest Resources.
^*****Gerhard Kuschnig is an Associate at the Vienna Water Works. He has worked for 17 years in the field of source water and catchment protection. Recently he has been the coordinator of projects with the European Regional Development Fund, including evaluating impacts of climate change on water supply.
^******Werner Fleck is responsible for forest planning and GIS at the Vienna Municipal Department 49, Forestry Office and Urban Agriculture. He manages their forest inventory and regeneration monitoring programs and develops forest management plans for the water protection forests of the City of Vienna.
^*******Eduard Hochbichler is Associate Professor for Silviculture at the Institute of Silviculture at the Department of Forest and Soil Sciences of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. His primary research interests include the development and implementation of multifunctional forest management concepts (e.g., management of drinking water resources in mountainous areas), management of broadleaved tree species, and continuous cover forests.