Credentials

B.S.F. Majoring in Forest Resource ManagementWest 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

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