B.S.F. Majoring in Forest Resource Management – West Virginia University, 1981
Member of the Society of American Foresters (S.A.F.) since 1980
S.A.F. Certified Forester since 1996
Achieved Registered Professional Forester No. 665 – West Virginia, July 2005
Member of the Pennsylvania Council of Professional Foresters – May 2011
1984 forward – Self-Employed as an independent Consulting Forester under the name of Algrow Management Company, Inc.
Duties Include:
- Forest management and timber marketing (more than 700 sales)
- Client-need-based project design, management, and implementation
- Logging operation supervision
- Timber/land investment counseling
- Sale administration and timber appraising
1982 to 1984 – Staff Consulting Forester with Loyalhanna Watershed Association – Ligonier, PA
Duties Include:
- Landowner forest management advocate
- Expert testimony (Westmoreland, Somerset, and Fayette Counties)
- Timber stand evaluation and appraisal
- Timber marking and marketing
- Boundary line evaluation
- Trespass appraisal
- Comprehensive forest management planning
- Timberland investment counseling
- Logging operation planning and supervising
- Erosion and sedimentation control planning
- Contract Writing
- Landowner forestry education technical and educational writing
- Timber sale revenue managing
1981 to 1982 – Land Management Department Forester with Coastal Lumber Co. – Buckhannon, WV
Duties Include:
- Timber appraisals
- Timber Marking
- Boundary line maintenance and evaluation