Oak Silviculture and Fire

Dan Dey, Ph.D.

Research Forester, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station

Dan Dey, Ph.D. is a Research Forester for the USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, located in Columbia, MO. He is also Project Leader of a research unit that studies ecology and sustainable management of Central Hardwood Forest ecosystems. Dan’s personal research emphasis is the silviculture of eastern forests including documenting fire history in the eastern US and conducting studies in fire/forest ecology and silviculture to sustain fire-dependent forests and restore oak/pine woodlands and savannas. He received his Ph.D. in 1991 from the University of Missouri, and since then has worked as a research forester for the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, the Missouri Dept of Conservation, and the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station. Before becoming a scientist, Dan worked as a forester on the Ketchikan Ranger District, Tongass National Forest, and the Red River Ranger District, Nez Perce National Forest.

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Paul Priestley

Wildland Fuels Specialist, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa

Paul is an alumni of UW–Stevens Point graduating in 2017 with B.S. degree in Wildland Fire Science / Forest Ecosystem Restoration, and spent two years as the Fire Effects Officer with the UWSP Fire Crew. Since his time at University, Paul has worked for the US Forest Service on the Great Lakes Wildland Fire Module, The Nature Conservancy as a Prescribed Fire Coordinator, and currently for the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa as the Wildland Fuels Specialist.

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