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 and achieved CF – R in 2025

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