Rick has been a practicing forester since 1978 and has had over 20 years of upper level management experience. In 1992 Rick ventured out into business for himself. With Rick's management, the business has grown and evolved from a one-person operation into Barnes & Associates as it is today. He continually looks for opportunities to improve and diversify the services offered by Barnes & Associates.

Rick works hard to hire high quality staff who have the attitude that quality is essential and hard work is a given. He strives to maintain a staff with the wide range of skills and expertise needed to manage complex and diverse natural resource projects.

Rick serves as manager for many of the projects undertaken by Barnes & Associates. He works to secure the resources needed for each project and monitors staff performance to assure the needs of the client are being met.

Rick has recently participated on multi-disciplinary forest certification teams to certify that forestlands are being managed according to the standards and guidelines of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative. He is also trained to certify family-owned tree farms under the standards of the American Tree Farm System.

In his spare time, Rick enjoys working and managing the family tree farm in Douglas County. He has utilized his many skills to purchase and improve the forest health and productivity of the property.

• Association of Consulting Foresters of America, member
• Society of American Foresters, current member, 2000 Chair for Oregon Chapter, 1998 Chair of the Umpqua Chapter
• Douglas Forest Protective Agency, Board member
• Oregon Tree Farm System, Umpqua District Chair
• Selection Committee, Oregon Tree Farm System, Tree Farmer of the Year
• Douglas County Woodland Advisory Committee, member
• Douglas County Extension Advisory Committee, member
• Oregon Small Woodlands Association, member

Jay has been involved in forest management since 1981. His experience spans Oregon and Washington from the slopes of the Cascades westward. Jay's responsibilities through the years have included reforestation, silviculture, logging administration, forest inventory and timber cruising.

At Barnes and Associates, Jay has built on his "field forestry" background and applied it in expanded ways: consulting with family forestland owners to understand their management objectives and craft appropriate prescriptions, leading interdisciplinary teams for federal Environmental Assessments, managing timber harvest projects including log marketing and follow-up reforestation, cruising and appraising timber, and writing technical reports and environmental documents.

Jay also manages the GIS department. He is responsible for data acquisition, analysis and mapping for GIS and GPS projects. As he sees it, the challenge is not just the technical side of running data queries or choosing the appropriate analysis tool. The other challenge is to creatively present the data in a clear, easy-to-understand fashion that allows the user to draw meaningful insights and conclusions.

• Society of American Foresters, member since 1983, Certified Forester in 1999, past Treasurer and Delegate-at-Large for Umpqua Chapter
• Douglas Forest Protective Association, past board member
• Ten Mile Lakes Basin Partnership, past member involved with implementing watershed enhancement projects
• Lower Umpqua School Tree Plant, past chair, including chair during 50th year event which won a National Arbor Day Award