Cathryn H. Greenberg,^1,*,** Kathleen E. Franzreb,^2,*** Tara L. Keyser,^1,**** Stanley J. Zarnoch,^3,***** Dean M. Simon,^4,****** Gordon S. Warburton<sup>5,*******

1</sup>1USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station Bent Creek Experimental Forest 1577 Brevard Rd. Ashev
²2USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station Department of Forestry Wildlife and Fisheries Univers
³3USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station Department of Forest Resources Clemson University Cle
⁴4North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission 8676 Will Hudson Road Lawndale, NC 28090, USA
⁵5North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission 783 Deepwoods Dr. Marion, NC 28752, USA

^*Corresponding author: kgreenberg@fs.fed.us; 828-667-5261 x 118
^**Cathryn (Katie) H. Greenberg is Project Leader and Research Ecologist with the USDA, Forest Service, Southern Research Station's Upland Hardwood Ecology and Management Research Work Unit. Her research focus includes (1) effects of forest management practices and natural disturbances on plant and animal communities, and (2) production of forest food resources, such as native fleshy fruit and hard mast, in relation to forest types and silvicultural disturbances.
^***Stanley J. Zarnoch is a mathematical statistician and research scientist in the USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Clemson, SC. He received his undergraduate degree in wildlife ecology and his master's and doctoral degrees in forest biometrics. He also held an assistant professor position in wildlife biometrics at Michigan State University. He has performed research on a wide diversity of topics which include wildlife population modeling, forest growth and yield, insect and diseases, plant physiology, and outdoor recreation.
^****Kathleen Franzreb has a long-standing interest in endangered species and wildlife management. She has worked as a wildlife biologist for the Bureau of Land Management and as an endangered species biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. For more than 20 years she worked for the US Forest Service Southern Research Station as a research wildlife biologist, specializing in endangered birds and neotropical migratory birds.
^*****Tara Keyser is a Research Forester with the USDA, Forest Service, Southern Research Station's Upland Hardwood Ecology and Management work unit. Her interests include modeling species composition following silvicultural disturbance, using disturbance-based silviculture to enhance structural and compositional diversity, and the influence of climate and structure on tree growth across environmental gradients in the southern Appalachian Mountains.
^******Dean Simon has worked for the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission for over 29 years as a Regional Wildlife Biologist and Forester in the upper Piedmont and mountains of Western North Carolina. He received a Bachelor's Degree in Forestry from Louisiana State University and a Master's Degree in Wildlife Biology from the University of Georgia studying fire ecology. He is a Certified Wildlife Biologist, Registered Forester, and a Certified Prescribed Burner. He was recognized as Wildlife Biologist of the Year by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission in 2007 and received the Management Excellence Award by the Southeastern Section of the Wildlife Society in 2008 for his work with prescribed burning, fire management, and fire ecology research in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.
^******* Gordon Warburton is the Mountain Ecoregion supervisor with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission and has worked for over 30 years in western North Carolina. His research and management interests include conservation planning over large landscapes for wildlife, effects of habitat treatments on wildlife populations, avain ecology, monitoring wildlife populations and bear biology and management. He promotes the need for, and importance of, active management for the restoration of critical wildlife habitats.