Robert M. Skinner,^1,* Daniel Harrell,^2,** Cecil Frost,^3,*** Samuel D. Fuhlendorf<sup>4,****

1</sup>US Fish and Wildlife Service (retired), Marion, MT
²US Fish and Wildlife Service (retired), Roy, MT
³Landscape Fire Ecologist, Rougemont, NC
⁴Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK

^*Robert M Skinner (retired) served in the U.S. Department of the Interior as a Land Operations Officer in the Bureau of Indian Affairs on three Reservations in South Dakota and Montana and as a Wildlife Biologist in the Fish and Wildlife Service on three Refuges in Alaska and Montana. For 50 years, Robert has been thinking about how people can understandably and effectively guide natural processes for all flora and fauna.
^**Daniel Harrell (retired) spent his U.S. Fish and Wildlife career as a Wildlife Refuge Specialist on the Charles M Russell NWR. Based in the Missouri Breaks of Montana, Daniel designed, conducted, and analyzed tuning plant species research and monitoring surveys for 19 years. His research highlighted the relationships between tuning plant species and grazing/browsing by cattle and wild ungulates, and wildfire/prescribed burns.
^***Cecil Frost is a Landscape Fire Ecologist and Research Associate with the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Based in North Carolina, Cecil has spent the last three decades making maps of pre-European fire regimes and original vegetation for the National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, military lands, and The Nature Conservancy.
^****Samuel D Fuhlendorf is currently a Regents Professor and holds the Groendyke Chair in Wildlife Conservation at Oklahoma State University. Current research is generally focused on conservation of grassland landscapes and the wildlife that live on those lands. Specific areas focus on (1) understanding the role of disturbance-driven heterogeneity in the structure and function of grasslands, (2) integrating a landscape perspective into conservation of rangelands and wildlife, (3) fire ecology, (4) wildlife conservation, and (5) understanding how animals use landscapes. He currently teaches Applied Ecology and Conservation, Landscape Ecology, and Ecology of Fire Dependent Ecosystems.