Virginia L. McDaniel,^1,*,** Tara L. Keyser,^2,*** Gabriel L. De Jong,^3,**** James M. Guldin<sup>1,*****

1</sup>Southern Research Station, 607 Spring St., Hot Springs, AR 71901
²Southern Research Station, 1577 Brevard Rd., Asheville, NC 28806
³The Nature Conservancy of Arkansas, 601 North University Ave. #2, Little Rock, AR 72205

^*Corresponding author: virginia.l.mcdaniel@usda.gov; 501-623-1180 ext. 112
^**Virginia L. McDaniel holds degrees in Biology from Grinnell College (BS) and Western Kentucky University (MS). She worked in several National Parks (Mammoth Cave NP, Zion NP, and Great Smoky Mountains NP), before joining the Southern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service in 2006. She is currently a forestry technician in the Center for Forest Restoration and Management and an ESA-certified Ecologist. She is involved with several fire ecology, botany, and forestry related research projects.
^***Tara Keyser is a Research Forester and Project Leader of the Upland Hardwood Ecology and Management Work Unit (USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station). She has a PhD in forest ecology and management from Colorado State University. Her research is focused on the response of upland hardwood and mixed pine/hardwood forests to disturbance.
^****Gabriel L. De Jong holds an MA in Plant Biology from the University of Texas at Austin. His research experience includes studying patterns of plant invasions, plant population dynamics of rare species and nonnative invasive species, and plant taxonomy. He currently works for The Nature Conservancy in Arkansas as an ecologist, where he manages terrestrial restoration projects, conducts vegetation and fire-effects monitoring, and contributes to statewide and regional conservation assessments.
^*****James M. Guldin holds an MS in Forest Science from Yale and a PhD in forest ecology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has studied stand dynamics and development in naturally regenerated even-aged and uneven-aged southern pine stands in the southern U.S. for the past four decades. Guldin is currently the Station Silviculturist and Director of the Center for Forest Restoration and Management for the Southern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service.