Thomas L. Schmidt, Research Forester, received a bachelor's degree in forest management and a master's degree in forestry/land-use planning from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He received his Ph.D. in agronomy/ ecology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He joined the Forest Service in 1992 and has been working with the North Central Forest Experiment Station's Forest Inventory and Analysis Unit since.
Ronald J. Piva, Forester, received a bachelor's degree in forest management from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He joined the Forest Service in 1985 and has been working with the North Central Forest Experiment Station's Forest Inventory and Analysis Unit since.