Hello! I am Dr. William E. Schlosser, known as Dr. Bill. I have been a professional natural resource manager since 1985 and have worked in the natural resources industry of the Pacific and Interior Northwest since 1975. I have extensive experience working with non-industrial private forestland owners, industrial forestland owners, tribal forestland managers, and government agencies in the administration of natural resource management projects. Although my advanced degrees are in natural resource economics, finance, environmental science and regional planning, I also possess advanced skills in geographic information systems (GIS), global positioning systems (GPS), geology, with forest and range management. I am a professional forester and member if the Society of American Foresters since 1985. 

I have developed international forestry experience including six years working and living in the Russian Far East and Siberia. While there I served as Chief Forester and then as Project Director for various USAID projects (Environmental Policy and Technology Project and the Russian Environmental Partnership Project). I was the Chief Operations Officer and General Director for the US–Russian joint venture JSC Forest Starma which managed a long-term lease of forestlands in the Russian Far East, marketed logs into Japan, South Korea and other Asian ports. As President and CEO of Pacific Rim Taiga, Inc., I conducted business in the USA and Russia from 1996-2000 administering and serving as forestry specialist for the US Forest Service, the Russian Federal Forest Service, private companies, and international organizations.  

Known to my students as “Dr. Bill” I am a recognized educator with 15 years of experience working with Universities (University of Idaho, Michigan State University, Washington State University). I have delivered over 200 seminars and short courses on a variety of forestry topics in the USA, Canada, and Russia. Attendees to my classes have been estimated at over 24,000 individuals. I currently teach undergraduate classes in natural resource ecology.  

I am honored to assemble a team of undergraduate and graduate students to create the Virtual Ecology experience at Kamiak Butte! This is where excellent discoveries are happening.