Dave spent more than 40 years working in Pacific Northwest vegetation prior to retirement in 2021. He worked for 20 years as an Ecologist for the Olympic and Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forests on plant community classifications and fire history. For the next twenty-three years he worked as an Ecologist at the Pacific Northwest Research Station in Olympia on the ecology of Oregon white oak, whitebark pine, beargrass, western Washington prairies and silviculture. His experience with Pacific Northwest botany began in his native southwestern Idaho where he earned his B. S. in Biology at the College of Idaho. He continued on in eastern Washington earning his master’s degree in Botany at Washington State University, followed years later by his doctorate at the University of Washington with a dissertation on the effects of fire on acorn production in Oregon white oak. Along the way he had shorter stints studying Pinyon-Juniper woodlands in Nevada, and plant communities in the Blue Mountains and Hell’s Canyon in Oregon and Idaho. In retirement he is working on several papers including one on the prairies, savannas and woodlands of the Olympic Peninsula formerly maintained with fire by native people.