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The development of forests always includes contingent events: if an event happens, such as a fire, windstorm, or insect outbreak, the future of the forest will unfold differently than if the event did not happen (or if it happened in some other way at another time). This book would not be in front of you without the contingent event of Wally showing up as a young professor when I was an undergraduate at the School of Forestry at Northern Arizona University. Wally's engaging curiosity, interest in students, and active research program pulled my interests and future path into the domain of forest ecology. He continued to be a mentor through my grad student days at other universities, and most recently he led us through establishing the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute (modeled on NAU's Ecological Restoration Institute). It's been a good path.Thanks Wally.

Dan Binkley Fort Collins, Colorado