Dr. Andy Hudak is a research forester at the USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow, ID, USA. He obtained his Ph.D. in Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology from the University of Colorado in 1999. From 1999 to 2001, he was a postdoctoral research ecologist at the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station in Corvallis, OR, USA. Dr. Hudak’s research interests include landscape, vegetation, fire ecology, remote sensing of vegetation patterns and processes, forest and rangeland ecology and management, and empirical modeling of spatially explicit ecological data.