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						Our Senior Staff Brad Piehl Brad Piehl has 25 years of environmental consulting experience. Brad’s specialty is in developing innovative approaches to landscape level assessments that result in prioritizing projects at the watershed and subwatershed level. He is considered a NEPA expert by several public agencies. He has also served as a facilitator and public involvement lead on many natural resource projects. He has managed projects at the regional, landscape, and project level, as well as, policy analysis for federal and state agencies and private clients. He works with clients to develop effective interdisciplinary approaches to problem solving for watershed and landscape-level issues typically dealing with natural resource issues. Education MS Forest Engineering, Forest Hydrology, Oregon State University BS Forest Resources, Forest Hydrology, University of Minnesota View Brad's Resume Jessica Wald Jessica has 20 years of experience in environmental consulting. Her expertise includes project and technical management/coordination of large complex interdisciplinary projects and public involvement. She has been the public involvement lead on many large natural resource management projects involving complex issues and diverse stakeholders. Jessica also has served as the technical manager of many natural resource projects that has provided her with technical familiarity with many environmental analyses such as; air quality, cultural resources, ecology, fisheries, forestry, geology, recreation, soils, threatened, endangered and sensitive species, vegetation, visuals, wetlands and wildlife. Education MS Water Resources Engineering, University of Colorado BS Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota View Jessica's Resume Abby Eurich Abby has 2 years of experience in forestry. She has done research into the effects of wildfire exclusion on watershed and forest function as well as resource management for wildfire risk reduction, since attaining her Bachelor of Science. Abby has worked on landscape-level assessments as well as smaller scale, seventh-level watershed analyses. Since starting work with JW Associates, Abby has contributed expertise to a number of projects pertaining to pre- and post-fire analysis and planning, and watershed assessment and restoration. She is an expert in watershed analysis using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology and is academically accomplished in forest ecology, hydrology, climate and atmospheric science, dendrochronology, and wildfire effects on landscapes and forest habitat. Education BS Geology/Geophysics, Yale University View Abby's Resume Laura Scotford Laura has 21 years of experience in forestry. She provides technical expertise in forest management, silviculture, botany, insects and diseases, and wildland fuels. She has developed silvicultural prescriptions for a wide variety of forest stand conditions, cultural treatments and management objectives. She has worked as a silviculturist for the US Forest Service and as a NEPA specialist for the Bureau of Land Management. She has provided silvicultural and fuels expertise for more than a dozen environmental assessments and impact statements. Ms. Scotford is knowledgeable in forest growth and yield modeling and has used the Forest Vegetation Simulator model along with a mountain pine beetle model extension to assess future stand development. Education MF Forest Engineering, Silviculture, Oregon State University BS Forestry, University of Michigan View Laura's Resume


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