M. Lisa Floyd,^1,2,*,** William H. Romme,^3,*** David D. Hanna<sup>1,****

1</sup>Natural History Institute, Prescott, AZ 86301
²Environmental Studies Program, Prescott College, Prescott, AZ 86301
³Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523

^*Corresponding author: lfloyd-hanna@prescott.edu
^**M. Lisa Floyd is a professor emeritus of environmental studies at Prescott College and the director of science at the Natural History Institute in Prescott, Arizona. She received a BS in Biology and an MS in Botany from University of Hawai'i, and a PhD in Evolutionary Ecology from the University of Colorado. She has conducted research on reproductive biology and ecological process, including fire dynamics in southwestern forests and woodlands, for 35 years, including research that revolved around fire dynamics and landscape change in Mesa Verde National Park and other parks of the southwestern United States.
^***William H. Romme is professor emeritus of fire ecology and senior research ecologist in the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at Colorado State University. He received a BA in Chemistry from the University of New Mexico, and MS and PhD in Botany from the University of Wyoming. He has conducted research on vegetation dynamics and the role of fire and other disturbance processes in forests of the Yellowstone ecosystem and in several different forest and shrubland ecosystems of Colorado. He was a professor at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, for 19 years, during which time he worked closely with Dr. Lisa Floyd on the ecology and vegetation dynamics of piñon-juniper woodlands and shrublands of Mesa Verde National Park.
^****David Hanna is emeritus instructor of Environmental Studies at Prescott College. He received his BA in Natural History from Fort Lewis College and an MS from Antioch University. His research has applied GIS technology to numerous projects including vegetation mapping and fire histories in the southwestern United States with Drs. Romme and Floyd.