Dave is a regional Forest Resources Educator for Penn State Cooperative Extension and current Invitational Chair. Dave has been with Penn State in his current position since January 2002. His primary responsibility is to deliver educational programs to private forest landowners, forestry professionals, and youth.

He earned his Bachelor of Science degree from The College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse, NY in 1988 in the fields of forest resource management and forest biology and a Master of Forest Resources from Penn State University in 2007.

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 Association of Natural Resource Extension Professionals, the Pennsylvania Forestry Association, and serves as the Tree Farm Inspector Training Coordinator for the Pennsylvania Tree Farm Program.

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

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