John A. Litvaitis
Principal Investigator, will identify habitat deficiencies in contemporary forests and how landscape continuity may be used to stratify approaches to restore forest habitat diversity.

Mark J. Ducey
Co-PI, will assist in review of silvicultural methods used to enhance forest structural diversity and age distributions. Also will identify hypotheses and research questions in forest management as they relate to sustaining biodiversity.

Thomas D. Lee
Co-PI, assist with the approximation of baseline conditions and the role of historical land uses on contemporary forest composition.

Lauren F. Howard
Post-doctoral Associate, responsible for majority of literature review of baseline conditions and influence of historic land uses.