Work Area - States of Florida and Georgia

Primary Work Counties:
Florida - Madison, Taylor, Hamilton, Suwannee, Lafayette, Dixie, Columbia, Gilchrist, Levy, Baker, Union, Bradford, Alachua, Marion, Nassau, Duval, Clay, Putnam, St. Johns, Flagler, and Volusia.
Georgia - Echols, Clinch, Ware, Charlton, Brantley and Camden.

Born and raised in Alexandria, Louisiana Richard graduated from Louisiana State University in the winter of 1966 with a Bachelor of Science in Forestry. After graduation Richard was drafted and spent 2 years in the U. S. Army, one of which was spent in Vietnam. In 1968 Richard moved to Florida and worked for 17 years for St. Regis Paper Company as an Inventory Forester, Senior Technical Forester and Inventory Supervisor for multiple forests equaling approximately 800,000 acres. In 1985 St. Regis merged with Champion International Corporation and Richard moved into Land Planning and later became Manager of Resource Optimization for some 900,000 acres. In 2000 International Paper Company purchased Champion and Richard chose to take early retirement. In 2001 Richard joined NRPS. Richard has made the comment many times since joining NRPS that even though he has been in the forestry business for over 37 years, in the last 5 years with NRPS he has practiced more actual forestry and gets to see the results of his decisions on the ground. He still enjoys giving a helping hand in timber cruising as the needs arise.