Biography

Dr. Jimmie Yeiser is from Utica, Kentucky. He received his Bachelors and Master's degrees from the University of Kentucky in Forest Management and Silviculture and a Doctor of Philosophy in Tree Improvement from Texas A&M University. Yeiser taught for the forestry department at University Arkansas from 1980 - 1998. He also was a research scientist with the University of Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station located on the UAM campus. During his time at UAM, Dr. Yeiser attained more than $2 million in research funding from chemical and forest industries and completed 42 research publications. Dr. Jimmie Yeiser, was a professor and the T.L.L. Temple Chair and Director of the Forest Resources Institute at Stephen F. Austin State University from 1998 – 2012. At Stephen F. Austin, Dr. Yeiser taught intensive silviculture to seniors and graduate students while conducting research in forest vegetation management, securing more than $4 million in research grants. Dr. Yeiser also performed coordinating research for eight chemical and forest industries and completing 188 research publications. In 2010 he became the Director of the Forest Resources Institute at SFA, which monitors forest health, trends and conditions in industrial, private non-industrial and public lands. In 2011-12, Dr. Yeiser was named the Regents Professor at Stephen F. Austin, the university’s highest honor. In 2012, he was named the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. Dr. Yeiser received the Research, Development, and Innovation Award from the Texas Forestry Association and was named a Fellow by the Society of American Foresters, the Society’s highest honor, recognizing outstanding service to forestry and the SAF in 2008. He is currently the chairman of the Texas Society of American Foresters and a member of the board of directors of the Texas Forestry Association.

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