He earned his Bachelor of Science degree from TheCollege of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse, NY in 1988 in the fields of forest resource management and forest biology.

Prior to coming to Penn State Dave worked various seasonal and temporary positions with the U.S. Forest Service in Montana, Vermont, and Pennsylvania as well as a seasonal position with Boise Cascade Corporation in southwestern Oregon.  Dave also spent a year working for the University of Kentucky on their teaching and research forest before accepting a position with the Virginia Department of Forestry in 1992 where he spent 8 years as a service forester.  Dave left Virginia in 2000 to take a position with Forecon, Inc. Consulting Foresters as a field forester managing approximately 35,000 acres in the eastern Catskill Mountains of New York State.

Dave is currently a member of the Society of American Foresters, the Pennsylvania Forestry Association, and serves as the Chairman of the State Tree Farm Committee.

Office Address:  Penn State Cooperative Extension, 420 Holmes Avenue, Willowbank Building, Room 322, Bellefonte, PA 16823

Phone:  814-355-4897        FAX (814) 355-6983

E-mail address:  drj11@psu.edu