Bob Zybach is a forester and forest scientist with a long career in the woods of the Pacific Northwest.  From the mid-1960s until the late 1980s he was in the reforestation industry, including 20 years as owner of a successful reforestation business.  For much of that time he served as Vice-President of a trade organization, Associated Reforestation Contractors, Inc., including a stint as editor of their 1500-circulation trade magazine, A.R.C Quarterly. During those years Bob personally planted more than 2 million trees, precommercially thinned more than 1,000 acres, and fell another 1,000 acres of timber and hardwoods; and his business successfully completed more than 80,000-acres of reforestation contracts, including tree planting, broadcast burning, precommercial thinning, animal control, and vegetation management.

Bob returned to school in the late 1980s, eventually gaining an undergraduate degree in Forestry (cultural resources management), a master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies (forest history), and a doctorate in Environmental Sciences (landscape fire ecology), all at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. During that time he wrote numerous reports, editorials, and articles and gave several presentations, many of which are available online on his business website: www.NWMapsCo.com.
 
In 1996, working in concert with Wayne Giesy and the Board of a Philomath, Oregon nonprofit educational organization (Western Oregon Timber Supporters), Bob helped develop and implement an Internet-based strategy for educating Oregon students and teachers about cultural and natural resources management in Oregon: Oregon Websites and Watersheds Project, Inc. (www.ORWW.org). By 2009, ORWW had been continuously online for more than 12 years, with an average of nearly 150,000 visitors a year and with more than 200,000 visitors during each of the previous two years. ORWW also receives about 2,000 visitors a month at its YouTube video channel: www.youtube.com/ORWWmedia.

Bob is a sixth-generation Oregonian with two grown sons in the Portland, Oregon area, and a grandson attending community college in Corvallis.  Much of his written and recorded work can be obtained online at: http://www.NWMapsCo.com/ZybachB/Curriculum_Vitae.htm