- ROGER C BALES: Professor, UC Merced; Director of the Sierra Nevada Research Institute
- ROBERT BARBEE: Retired Alaska Regional Director and Yellowstone NP Superintendent
- PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER: 39th President of the United States (press release)
- MAJORA CARTER: President of the Majora Carter Group
- MILTON CHEN: Senior Fellow and Executive Director Emeritus, The George Lucas Educational Foundation (Edutopia)
- RUTH COLEMAN: Director of the California State Parks
- JACK DANGERMOND PhD: Founder Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)
- JON JARVIS: Director, United States National Park Service
- SHELTON JOHNSON: National Park Service Interpretive Ranger
- THOMAS LOVEJOY PhD: Professor, George Mason University; Biodiversity Chair and former President, The Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment
- CHARLES O'REILLY III: Professor of Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business
- JULIA PARKER: National Park Service Cultural Demonstrator and Basket Weaver
- DAVID SIBBET: President & Founder of Grove Consultants International
- ROBERT STANTON: Senior Advisor to the Secretary in the Office of the Secretary and former National Park Service Director (1997-2001)
- KEN TICHELBAUT: Vice President, Center for Park Management
- KESHAV VARMA: Program Director, Global Tiger Initiative, World Bank
- JAN VAN WAGTENDONK PhD: Retired USGS and National Park Service fire ecologist and research forester
- EDWARD O. WILSON: Professor, Emeritus. Harvard University.
- UC MERCED PROFESSORS: Maurizio Forte, Lara Kueppers, Teenie Matlock, Anthony Westerling
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