Rodney Cawston Author

Michael E. Marchand is a council member of the Confederated Tribes of Colville Reservation and president of the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians-Economic Development Corporation.

Kristiina A. Vogt is professor of ecosystem management at the University of Washington.

Rodney Cawston is an enrolled member of the Colville Confederated Tribes, he is the Chair of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville, previously he was the Tribal Relations Manager for WA DNR, PhC University of Washington Seattle in Holistic Management of Nature.

John D. Tovey is Director of Planning for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon, PhC in Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington Seattle, he was an NSF IGERT Fellow.

John McCoy is a Tulalip Tribal member, Senator in Washington's38th Legislative District, former General Manager of Quil Ceda village and White House Computer Technician.

Nancy Maryboy is a Cherokee/Navajo, President and Founder of the Indigenous Education Institute at Friday Harbor, Affiliated Professor at the University of Washington Seattle, PhD California Institute of Integral Studies in Indigenous Science (Astronomy) in San Francisco.

Calvin T. Mukumoto has a Forest Management and a U.W. Master of Business Administration from the Executive MBA Program. He has his own company "Mukumoto Associates" and provides forestry/business services in Indian Country and to minority small business owners.

Daniel J. Vogt is a Soils and Ecosystem Ecologist at the University of Washington Seattle, formerly a Soils and Ecosystem Ecologist and Director of the Greeley Analytical Laboratory at FES at Yale, formerly he was a co-founder and coordinator of the Forest Systems and Bioenergy program in SEFS at U.W.

Melody Starya Mobley is Cherokee and the first Black woman hired as a wildlife biologist by the U.S. Forest Service, as well as an independent consultant and author.