Dr. Pete Bettinger is a professor of forestry at the University of Georgia, in Athens, Georgia (USA). His fields of expertise are harvest scheduling and forest landscape planning. He also is actively engaged in research that involves geographic information systems and global navigation satellite systems. Dr. Bettinger earned his PhD at Oregon State University, and his Bachelors and Masters degrees at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He has worked for the forest industry in the southern and westerns regions of the United States, and has recently co-authored three textbooks available from Academic Press: Forest Management and Planning, Introduction to Forestry and Natural Resources, and Forest Plans of North America.